Tag: Investment

Why we invested in Tokinomo

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…

Startups Looking for Investment: Straight Answers to Straight Questions

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…

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Early Game Ventures invests in cloud technology developed by Bunnyshell

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,…

BookVitals raises €475,000 — Early Game Ventures led the round

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…

Why we invested in Watto

Future of transportation Early Game Ventures invested in Watto, the company building a network of ultra-fast charging stations for electric vehicles in Central and Southern Europe. We plan to follow up on our investment and grow Watto into a technological backbone of the new electro-mobility industry — a perfect illustration of our Infrastructure for innovation thesis. What we see now happening…

10 startup predictions for 2019 in Romania

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…