About late product releases and late fundraising Back in the days when I started BASE jumping*, I learned something that blew my mind. Unlike the many rules in skydiving, in BASE jumping, all was simple: “No matter what happens, do something!” “What do you mean? What should I do if my parachute opens the wrong…
Mixed feelings in Startupland Our society seems to be split at this moment, with the general sentiment swinging from one extreme to the other: from unsubstantiated optimism to irrational pessimism. A behavior that increases the confusion we all swim in. On the one hand, the media started to obsessively talk about an economic crisis. Nothing…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
