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…
Bucharest, July 26, 2019 BookVitals (www.bookvitals.com), the application dedicated to non-fiction literature readers, received an investment of 475,000 euro. Early Game Ventures led the round with the participation of a group of angel investors. The law firm DLA Piper Dinu provided the legal assistance of the transaction. BookVitals proposes a generous idea: remember what you…
Future of payments I am proud to announce Early Game Venture’s investment in SymphoPay, the middleware platform that adds marketing capabilities and analytics to all existing POS devices turning them into actual computers. Here is how we think of the future of payments and why we led SymphoPay’s €650,000 ($750,000) seed round. Technology is reshaping both retail…
An early-stage investor’s perspective on what will happen on the tech stage in Romania this year Several factors are working together towards creating a favorable context for launching a startup in Romania. Firstly, is the recent abundance of VC and PE money: four funds launched in ‘17 and ‘18 and another one or two are…
Not all revenue is good (enough) revenue This article will be part of a series where we’ll elaborate on concepts that have less coverage on the local VC market. Examples of such concepts are “quality of revenue”, “venture returns”, “vested interests”. We, at EGV, hope this behind-the-scenes look will help founders be better prepared to…
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