| Date | Title | Description |
| 17.06.2026 | Tryll launches AI gaming engine alpha and secures $600K pre-seed funding | Tryll, the company behind an on-device AI engine for video games, has raised a $600,000 pre-seed round from Early Game Ventures, reaching a valuation of $6 million. The funding will be used to further develop the product and expand the comp... |
| 15.06.2026 | Kinderpedia Bets on Localisation and Responsible AI to Transform Education | Kinderpedia secured EUR 2.2M to accelerate its international growth and privacy-first AI development. The platform now serves 2,000 schools across 40+ countries with over 500,000 connected users The company prioritises localisation, human-c... |
| 15.04.2026 | Startup Moldova Summit 2026 Showcases Global Ambition from Emerging Ecosystems | Moldova’s largest startup summit gathers 2,000+ participants, founders, investors, and tech leaders this April The event’s programme covers AI, DeepTech, scaling strategies, funding trends, and global market expansion The agenda features 60... |
| 26.11.2025 | Profluo Leverages Proprietary AI to Streamline Finance, Treasury, E-Invoicing, and More, Attracts EUR 850K | Profluo lands EUR 850K Seed Extension, led by BCR Seed Starter Its AI platform automates finance workflows, improving speed, accuracy, and compliance across jurisdictions The proprietary AI resolves document ambiguities, supports SAF-T, ViD... |
| 05.09.2025 | CEE Startup & Tech Weekly: AI Partnerships Driving the Region | Central and Eastern Europe ~
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The Recursive’s weekly roundup aims to cover key tech developments across Central and Eastern Europe, as well as the growing impact of CEE-born founders on the global stage. Take a look at the latest ne... |
| 02.09.2025 | MeetGeek Raises €1.6M to Transform Meetings with Agentic AI | Romania ~
Company:
MeetGeek secures a €1.6M funding round led by Early Game Ventures and Inspire Capital to scale its AI meeting assistant into a category-defining AI workspace.
📅 Founding year: 2021
🏭 Industry: AI / Productivity / Collabor... |
| 23.07.2025 | 10 Biggest Funding Rounds in Romania (H1 2025): DRUID AI Leading the Top | Romania ~
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Romanian top startups had a bit stronger start in 2025 than in 2024.
FintechOS took the biggest investment of 2024 title, while DRUID AI is taking the same place this year, with substantial Series C. We also see some fami... |
| 25.06.2025 | Vestbee’s Summer Pitch CEE 2025 Empowering Startups with Exposure and Investment Opportunities | Vestbee teams up with HubSpot and Early Game Ventures for Summer Pitch CEE 2025 Select startups from CEE can pitch to top investors for Pre-Seed to Series A funding Participants can count on exclusive discounts from Hotjar, HubSpot, Slack, ... |
| 11.03.2025 | Startup Moldova Summit 2025—Moldova’s Biggest Startup & VC Event—Returns This April | Startup Moldova Summit 2025 is Moldova’s biggest startup/VC gathering The date is April 16th, and the place is Mediacor in Chișinău The Summit’s agenda features global investors, founders, and experts, focusing on startup growth, talent, sc... |
| 04.02.2025 | Nou fond de investiții de 60 milioane EUR, lansat de patru români, pentru firme din România, Bulgaria și Croația | Firmele din România din diverse domenii vor putea obține finanțări prin BoldMind Fund I, un nou fond de investiții lansat de patru români, cu un capital de 60 de milioane EUR. |
| 08.11.2024 | SeedBlink Webinar’s Expert Guests Shared the VC’s View of Early-Stage Investments | SeedBlink held an insightful webinar dedicated to VC strategies, funding rounds, and the key traits investors look for in startups The event took place online via Zoom on November 7th 2024 The guest speakers were Cristian Munteanu of Early ... |
| 04.11.2024 | SeedBlink Invites VCs to Share their View of Early-Stage Investments | SeedBlink invites to a webinar on the VC outlook on investments in early-stage startups The event will take place online via Zoom The guest speakers are Cristian Munteanu of Early Game Ventures and Stoyan Nedin of Vitosha Venture Partners
O... |
| 12.06.2024 | Vestbee Calls Early-Stage Startups to Its New CEE Summer Pitch | Vestbee partners with top-tier partners for a new initiative to reward the most aspiring startups in CEE – Summer Pitch CEE The selected finalists will pitch before partner VCs; all participants will be rewarded with free credits and discou... |
| 09.05.2024 | Romanian Early Game Ventures Officially Launched €60M Fund II to Propel Tech Startups Across the Region | Romania ~
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In a nutshell Romanian Early Game Ventures launches its second investment fund, with the total value of €60M. EGV Fund II will invest in technology startups from Romania and the region.
Their background story
Early Game V... |
| 09.05.2024 | Romanian VC Early Game Ventures launches its second fund - €60 million | The new fund will invest exclusively in early-stage technology startups, continuing the thesis of the first Early Game fund. It will focus on areas such as cyber security, enterprise software, and AI applications.
The funds from which EGV I... |
| 08.05.2024 | start-up.ro Presents Its First Tigers Summit | start-up.ro calls Romanian tech and business tech pros and enthusiasts to the first edition of its Tigers Summit The event will take place on May 28th at Nayam Events in Bucharest Industry leaders will discuss the ongoing and future progres... |
| 29.02.2024 | Finanțări europene 2024: Două noi fonduri de investiții primesc 50 milioane EUR din PNRR-ul României, pentru finanțarea firmelor | Firmele mici și mijlocii (IMM) românești vor putea obține finanțări în schimbul unui pachet minoritar de acțiuni din afacere, prin două noi fonduri de investiții, care primesc capital total de 50 de milioane EUR din Planul Național de Redre... |
| 11.10.2023 | Почему я и мой стартап променяли США на Голландию? | Всем привет. Меня зовут Алекс, я уехал из России в 2015, по-серьезному жил в 3 странах (Швеция, Израиль, США), но в итоге выбрал Нидерланды для жизни и работы. Я переехал сюда по стартап-визе в 2022 году, развиваю свой небольшой стартап, ра... |
| 21.09.2023 | Growceanu Calls Active and Prospective Angels to Invest in Moonicorns 2023 | Growceanu Angel Investment organizes its first Invest in Moonicorns event The event is meant for active and prospective angel investors in Romania and the CEE region The date is October 27-28th, and the place is Timișoara, Romania
This Oct... |
| 26.07.2023 | Romanian startup Bunnyshell raises €3.5M in a late seed round, targeting €4M | Romanian startup Bunnyshell raises €3.5M in a late seed round, targeting €4M
26 July, 2023, 10:57
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Bunnyshell, a Romanian ent... |
| 24.04.2023 | Romanian Food Rescuers Bonapp.eco Overfunded on SeedBlink | Romanian food saving startup bonapp.eco raised EUR 400K through a SeedBlink campaign The campaign had to be prolonged due to the overwhelming demand The startup’s app connects users with food retailers, allowing the latter not to dispose of... |
| 12.04.2023 | Romanian Profluo receives €125k to develop its invoice processing solution | Romanian Profluo receives €125k to develop its invoice processing solution
12 April, 2023, 13:07
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The Bucharest-based Profluo, a sta... |
| 22.02.2023 | EUR 650K of Follow-On for Vatis Tech from Sparking Capital and Early Game Ventures | Bucharest-based speech-to-text transcription platform Vatis Tech receives another EUR 650K The round is co-led by repeated investors Sparking Capital and Early Game Ventures, joined by a group of angel investors from TechAngels The investor... |
| 10.01.2023 | Romanian speech recognition startup Vatis Tech raises €650k | Romanian speech recognition startup Vatis Tech raises €650k
10 January, 2023, 14:50
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The Bucharest-based high-accuracy and scalable ... |
| 30.11.2022 | Romanian management app ecosystem Licenseware raises €1M in a late seed round | Romanian management app ecosystem Licenseware raises €1M in a late seed round
30 November, 2022, 12:37
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| 03.10.2022 | Romanian deeptech OxidOS raises €1.2M in a seed funding | Romanian deeptech OxidOS raises €1.2M in a seed funding
03 October, 2022, 16:18
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The Bucharest-based deeptech startup OxidOS has rai... |
| 26.06.2022 | Romanian EdTech Kinderpedia Is Targeting Global Expansion and Monthly Revenues of over 100,000 EUR | Kinderpedia offers a cloud-based solution for integrated school management and communication
The Bucharest-based startup has raised over 2.7 million EUR to date
Kinderpedia has offices in Brazil, Portugal, Romania, Switzerland, the UAE, the... |
| 12.05.2022 | Hyperhuman Harnesses the Explosion of Online Fitness and Nabs EUR 550K for Further International Expansion | Romanian createch Hyperhuman raised EUR 550K with pre-commitment of EUR 400K from Sparking Capital and Early Game Ventures and the remaining 150K coming from their SeedBlink campaign The platform’s solution allows to speed up fitness video ... |
| 09.05.2022 | SummerSaaS 2022 by Flashpoint Invites CEE Startups to Pitch in front of Tier-1 VCs | Flashpoint’s SummerSaaS 2022 will take place on June 9 via Hopin Seed-stage startups from across five tracks – vertical SaaS, horizontal SaaS, developer tools, fintech, and new economy – are welcome to take part There will be a separate six... |
| 21.04.2022 | Romania’s Bunnyshell raises $4 million to expand US presence | Historically developers have been making codes on limited and outdated production replicas, resulting in multiple defects in staging and pre-production days. Addressing the issue, Romanian cloud infrastructure startup Bunnyshell is letting ... |
| 17.03.2022 | Bonapp.eco Lands EUR 800K and Expands Across Romania and CEE | Bonapp.eco, a Romanian food surplus management service, brought in EUR 800K The startup tackles the problem of food waste which accounts for a large portion of environmental damage, according to WWF The service is currently available in Buc... |
| 25.11.2021 | Cristian Munteanu of Early Games Ventures to startup founders: Never be a yes-man | Bucharest, Romania ~
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“Starting a startup is not for everybody,” says Cristian Munteanu, founder and managing partner of Early Game Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm launched in Romania in 2017. With Druid AI, Kinderpedi... |
| 21.10.2021 | Founder Institute launches the Eastern Europe Fall 2021 accelerator to help startups get traction and find funding | Bulgaria, Romania ~
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The Eastern Europe Founder Institute, one of the world’s largest pre-seed startup accelerators, announced the second edition of its flagship program, titled Eastern Europe Fall Virtual 2021. Admissions are open ... |
| 08.10.2021 | Kinderpedia raises €1.8M in а round led by Early Game Ventures to scale its education management platform | Bucharest, Romania ~
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Kinderpedia, the Romanian digital platform offering education management and communication solutions to schools and kindergartens, announced raising €1.8М in a new round led by Early Game Ventures (EGV) and joi... |
| 22.09.2021 | The SEE entrepreneurs started here: Politehnica University of Bucharest | Bucharest, Romania ~
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“An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.” – Benjamin Franklin
The value of education is immeasurable. Looking forward, choosing a university to pursue is one of the most influencing decisions for one... |
| 13.09.2021 | Sparking Capital and Early Game Team Up to Boost Vatis Tech’s Speech Recognition | Vatis Tech, a Romanian speech recognition startup that specializes in continental languages, raises EUR 200K in Seed Round. Vatis’ speech recognition accuracy reaches 94%+, exceeding Google. The startup’s technology is an API, i.e. effortle... |
| 13.08.2021 | The Romanian influencer marketplace is on a roll: FameUp raises €2.5M | Iasi, Romania ~
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FameUp, the start-up with a mobile platform for micro-influencers based in Romania, has just raised a seed round of €2.5M. Early Game Ventures Investment Fund, together with UiPath founder, Daniel Dines, and Marian ... |
| 08.06.2021 | Early Game and Fortech Finance Licenseware’s License Management Automation with EUR 120K | Romanian license management service Licenseware secures EUR 120K in Seed round. Their solution allows companies to automate manual license management processes. For now, Licenseware is only available for Oracle licenses. With the new invest... |
| 11.05.2021 | In search of the right VC and accelerator: a guide for SEE founders | Company:
Take a detailed look behind the numbers, approaches, and terms of some of the venture capital funds and accelerators in Romania, Serbia, Greece, and Bulgaria, which together make available more than €450M for investment in innovati... |
| 07.05.2021 | Bunnyshell, a Romanian cloud infrastructure startup, gets €1.1M funding | Bucharest, Romania ~
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Romania-based Bunnyshell, which provides a DevOps automation platform for SMEs has raised €1.1M in new funding round led by Early Game Ventures. This news comes after the company previously attracted €750,000 f... |
| 06.04.2021 | Un startup IT românesc a primit 150.000 euro să dezvolte un asistent pentru utilizatorii Google Meet, Zoom și Teams | Un startup românesc de tehnologie, care dezvoltă un asistent bazat pe inteligență artificială destinat utilizatorilor serviciilor de teleconferințe Google Meet, Teams și Zoom, a primit marți o finanțare de capital de risc de 150.000 de euro... |
| 12.03.2021 | City Exploration Platform Questo Raises USD 1.5mln of Investment | Sparking Capital and Early Game Ventures back Questo with USD 1.5mln. Questo managed to turn the downtime of tourism to its advantage. Questo will be available in more cities and become more facilitated for creators by the end of 2021.
Thi... |
| 18.02.2021 | Questo, a Romanian app for gamified city exploration, attracts €1.2M and will grow in the US and the UK | Bucharest, Romania ~
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Questo, a mobile platform for game-based city exploration, headquartered in Bucharest, has closed a €1.2M ($1.5M) round, led by Early Game Ventures and joined by Sparking Capital, both previous investors in the... |
| 01.02.2021 | Startup Cities in SEE: Who is Who in the Emerging Bucharest Ecosystem? | Bucharest, Romania ~
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A recent survey by BroadbandDeals.co.uk classifies Bucharest as the best city for remote working for 2020. Taking into account factors such as Internet speed, cost of living, and availability of jobs for remote... |
| 20.01.2021 | AI-Driven Fitness Platform Hyperhuman Earns €500K. | Romanian fitness startup Hyperhuman is building a platform for the production and dissemination of workout materials.
The platform uses AI to both recognize the exercises being performed, as well as to edit the videos and recommend workouts... |
| - | Only two months since launch, Food (waste) Fighters bonapp.eco haul in just shy of €1 million | Having officially launched in early November of last year, Romanian startup bonapp.eco has raised €800,000 in a seed funding round. Taking on the troublesome issue of food waste, the service connects users with local grocery stores, restaur... |
| - | Romanian fitness content platform that uses AI, Hyperhuman, raises 500.000 EUR | Hyperhuman allows trainers to create studio-quality video workouts in minutes by removing the complex process of video production and editing. In this streamlined process, trainers record short videos with the key moves and the AI engine do... |
| - | Early Game Ventures Fund I - annual revenues of €43 million for the startups | Some of the companies doubled their revenues in 2024 compared to the previous year, and most are present on several continents, thus proving that innovation has no borders.
Between 2018 and 2022, Early Game Ventures Fund I invested in 28 st... |
| - | Romanian startup Licenseware raises 500,000 euro from Early Game Ventures and Fortech Investments | "I’m happy to say that, over the past 6 months since the initial Pre-Seed investment, Licenseware has gained the right level of traction to raise another round. This has been a result of our team’s tremendous effort coupled with strong... |
| - | Romania’s Bunnyshell raises $4 million to expand US presence | Historically developers have been making codes on limited and outdated production replicas, resulting in multiple defects in staging and pre-production days. Addressing the issue, Romanian cloud infrastructure startup Bunnyshell is letting ... |
| - | Cristian Munteanu: Only People With Very Superficial Knowledge Of The Industry Think We Can Replicate The Silicon Valley In CEE | Trending Topics has started a series of interviews with venture capital, private equity, and angel investors from Central and Eastern Europe, to better understand their mindset, strategies, and put together a well-rounded picture of the ind... |
| - | Report: €900M of funding was invested in CEE startups in 2Q 2021 | Vestbee, the biggest matchmaking platform for startups, VC funds, accelerators, and corporates in Central & Eastern Europe, recently published its VC Funding In CEE Report- 2Q 2021. According to the report, there are over 190 disclosed ... |
| - | Sparking Capital and Early Game Team Up to Boost Vatis Tech’s Speech Recognition | Earlier this month, Romanian speech recognition platform Vatis Tech announced the conclusion of their Seed round of investment. The startup raised over EUR 200K from well-known Romanian VCs Sparking Capital (which recently invested in Brigh... |
| - | Romanian SaaS Bunnyshell Raises €4M to Revolutionize Software Production | Bunnyshell, the Romanian Enterprise SaaS startup, is seeking to raise €4 million in Late Seed Capital to scale its sales efforts to Fortune 100 firms and beyond. Already securing €3.5 million from investors like Early Game Ventures, Roca X,... |
| - | Cristian Munteanu, Early Game Ventures: Top 5 promising Romanian startups | We collect the choices of investors and investment funds in Romania and we present them to understand the best startups from our country.
We talked with Cristian Munteanu, Managing Partner at Early Game Ventures, one of the largest and most... |
