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.

Gecad Ventures invests in hi-tech companies from CEE with meaningful prospects of scaling internationally, including verticals like Cybersecurity, Fintech, AI/ML, AR & VR and IoT.

We are a “glocal” team with operational expertise. We strive to make the entrepreneurs’ ambition for expansion a reality. We partner with strong entrepreneurs who have a vision for their businesses to become regional and national champions. We apply our operational expertise and network in addition to deployed capital, in order to unlock growth for SMEs with high potential to become success stories. We look for businesses in high growth sectors such as consumer, niche healthcare, technology and B2B services with EBITDA of 500k+ EUR, in which we can invest between 5 to 15 million EUR.

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.