Due to the uncertainty that follows the Coronavirus pandemic, many startup founders worry that early-stage investments will be impossible to attract for the foreseeable future. I have a more optimistic view – investments will not freeze and investors are still willing to support startups that are not sensitive to an economic downturn. In this interview,…
The fair way to handle your payroll in times of crisis. Making decisions that impact the lives of your co-founders and your employees is not easy. But, as CEO of an early-stage startup, you have no one to look up to and no one to hide behind. When winter is coming, you are the only…
About the agritech startups that we would like to meet When it comes to tech agriculture startups, they typically need a longer time to mature. It’s difficult to simulate crops in the lab and iterate in short cycles as it happens in other industries. That’s why we believe it may be a good idea to…
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 Romanian startups. 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’re in the late stages of a bubble….
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…
In the second half of November 2019, Oana Coșman, editor at start-up.ro, and I sat down for a straightforward talk about the current Romanian market for startups looking for investment. We went through the process of investment and the right steps to follow as a founder. We discussed trendy buzzwords in the startup industry, our…
