GapMinder is a Venture Capital Fund, targeting IT Software and Services start-ups in Romania and Central Eastern Europe. We sit at the heart of the fastest growing European country with a distinctive technological ecosystem being the third global market for quality and speed of Internet connectivity. In a dynamic and growing start-up ecosystem, we are committed to support passionate and thoughtful founders to become global entrepreneurs and to rewrite the place of Romania in the global tech arena.

Early Game Ventures (EGV) invests in startups that jumpstart new industries in the emerging markets of Europe. Our philosophy is quite straightforward: we invest at the earliest stages in companies whose founders have vested interests, are coachable and address big markets. If the opportunity is real, we prefer to be the first institutional investor in such startups.

Catalyst Romania, one of the leading technology-focused venture capital firms in Romania, launched its first EUR 15 million fund in 2012, as the first fund of its type designed for Romania. Managed by a local team based in Bucharest, the fund will continue to make early growth capital investments in SMEs based in Romania and other countries in the region. Our team of highly qualified experts, with entrepreneurial and financial background, become active business partners of the portfolio companies.

Black Sea Capital specialized in mergers, takeovers, management or leveraged buyouts, divestitures, turnaround management and strategy advisory. As a boutique VC firm, we support the founders to get where they want and need to be. Success means not only getting acquired, financing or something like that, but also providing capital effectively to people doing the real work and, most importantly, bringing thoroughness, collaboration and substantial value-add post-investment.

Keez is a full-service accounting firm.Keez works with artificial intelligence-supported digitization and digitization elements as well as technologies used by global companies such as Google, Oracle, Facebook, Netflix, and Microsoft.