The future of cities EGV recently invested in Neobility, the brainchild of Mihai Rotaru, who exited Clever Taxi to Daimler not so long ago. Here is how we looked at this deal and what made us buy into Neobility’s vision. We live in crowded cities. And each week, an estimated 1.3 million people from rural areas move into cities, increasing urbanization…
Digital infrastructure for the retail industry EGV recently invested in Tokinomo in a Seed round with large participation from angels. This is a short piece on what clicked for us and why we decided to invest. Tokinomo defines itself as a customer engagement platform that increases sales in stores and hypermarkets through customer interaction. The platform consists of…
Reasonable predictions and unreasonable hopes for the local startup scene I should say this from the very beginning: I have wild expectations for 2020. Money from investors will flow, advisors will advise left and right, founders will start throngs of startups, and valuations will inflate by the hour. But we are in the late stages…
Looking back to what happened last year in tech and venture capital In February 2019, I published an article titled 10 Startup Predictions for 2019 in Romania. At the end of that piece, I was promising to come back to the blog post at the end of the year and laugh at how bad I was…
The future of biometric derivatives Early Game Ventures (EGV) invested in Adiem, a newly established Romanian company, which develops technologies based on heart rate variability (HRV) and biometric derivatives. In the wake of launching their app (official launch is scheduled for November 15th, 2019), here is how we looked at Adiem and why we decided to invest…
The future of cloud management Our fund recently led a Seed Round of €750,000 in Bunnyshell, a company that wants to change the world by making the cloud accessible to anyone. This is how we looked at this deal and why we full-heartedly decided to invest. The cloud craze has long passed. Most of the companies…
Early Game Ventures (earlygame.vc) announces a financing round worth 750,000 Euros in Bunnyshell, a Romanian startup that develops technologies for cloud infrastructure management. A Romanian business angel also participated in the investment while the law firm DLA Piper Dinu provided the legal assistance of the transaction. Boanță, Gîdei, and Asociaţii S.C.A represented the startup. “Today,…
