Akis
Bratsos

Principal @ Lakestar

Akis focuses on investment opportunities in enterprise software and digital health. Based out of Lakestar's London office, Akis has been involved in Lakestar's investments in Builder.ai, Neko Health, Nelly, Validio, Pitch, Accurx and Tesseract among others.

Allen
Taylor

Managing Partner @ Endeavor Catalyst

Based in Northern California, Allen is part of the global leadership team at Endeavor, a mission-driven organization focused on supporting high-growth companies in emerging and underserved markets.

Bakhrom
Ibragimov

Partner CEE @ Molten Ventures

Bakhrom managed commitments of €500m over three VC funds at EBRD and since 2022 he invests in Europe’s tech leaders from Series A to the growth stage at Molten Ventures.

Karolina
Mrozkova

General Partner @ Credo Ventures

At Credo, Karolina loves connecting with ambitious and talented founders from the CEE region, sharing common history, humor and culture, while being able to provide help, perspective of a Series A investor and a bridge to North America.

Ondrej
Bartos

General Partner
@ Credo Ventures

Early stage investor, with investments in UiPath, PriceFX, Productboard and many more.

Ertan
Can

Founding Partner @ Multiple Capital

As the founding partner of one of Europe's top Fund of Funds pioneering micro-VC and Seed fund investing, Ertan backed more than 31 early stage VC funds.

Andrei
Pitis

Founder & CEO
@ Simple Capital

Entrepreneur, investor, advisor with 4 successful international exits, Andrei is an Open Source veteran, ex-VP Product at Fitbit, Founder of Vector Watch, investor in Clever Taxi.

György
Simo

Managing Partner @ Day One Capital

One of Hungary's best known faces in the IT-focused angel investor community, bringing invaluable local market knowledge and investor experience

Stephan
Wirries

Partner @ Ventech VC

A software engineer at heart, investing for more than a decade in EU startups with a focus on new digital business models and next generation software applications. Among others, led investments in Prewave, 4stop & Passion.io.

Marius
Ghenea

Managing Partner
@ Catalyst Romania

Manages the first Romanian VC Fund, Catalyst Romania I, with successful investments and exits e.g., SmartBill to Visma, GreenHorseGames to Tencent, VectorWatch to FitBit, and Catalyst Romania II, the first 2nd generation Romanian VC Fund, with 50 million euros for SEE countries.

Ilinca
Paun

Founder @ Bravva Angels

Founder of Bravva Angels - a community of business angels, investing in early-stage startups by female founders and mixed teams. Coach & Professor at the Entrepreneurship Academy, shaping the young business minds of today.

Dan
Lupu

Partner
@ Earlybird Venture Capital

Investor in technology companies such as UiPath, FintechOS, Photoneo, Minit, Sessions. Computer science and business background.

Svetozar
Georgiev

General Partner @ Eleven Ventures

Svetozar joined Eleven as partner after 14 years in leadership roles as co-founder of Telerik, Telerik Academy and Campus X, Chair of BESCO and Vice Chair of Teach for Bulgaria Foundation.

Marius
Istrate

Chairman of the Board
@ Techangels Romania

Investor, Growth Adviser, UiPath Alumnus, Venture Partner at 3VC

Andrew
Davies

Chief Marketing Officer @ Paddle

Andrew currently serves as CMO for Paddle, the complete payments infrastructure serving over 4,000 software companies that has raised over $295m and acquired ProfitWell.

Elena
Mazhuha

Investment Director @ Flyer One Ventures

As the first employee at F1V, Elena is sourcing Seed to Series A deals, led 15+ investments and built their Comms team to support the portfolio with PR and biz dev.

Alex
George

Principal @ Point Nine Capital

Alex is a Principal at Point Nine, a seed fund focused on B2B SaaS/B2B marketplaces and an earlier backer of companies like Algolia, Contentful, Revolut, Typeform, Loom, and more.

Apostolos
Apostolakis

Co-Founder & Partner
@ Venture Friends

Apostolos is an entrepreneur turned investor in the technology sector. He was a cofounder at e-shop.gr, e-food.gr, (acquired by Delivery Hero), Doctoranytime and an early investor in Beat (acquired by Freenow)

Dan
Mihaescu

Founding Partner
@ GapMinder Venture Partners

Investor and adviser in early-stage technology companies. Recently invested in some of the newest high-growth tech startups from CEE - FintechOS, TypingDNA, DruidAI, Cartloop.

Felix
Martinez

Principal @ Seedcamp

Principal at one of the global top-performing seed funds, expert in evaluating & supporting the best early-stage startups in Europe

Gloria
Bäuerlein

Founding Partner @ Puzzle Ventures

VC turned operator and angel investor, Gloria raised her own €21.5M fund in 2022, one of the first in Europe to be led by a female solo GP, focusing on B2B SaaS and fintech companies across Europe.

Karol
Szubstarski

Partner @ OTB Ventures

Venture investor with over a decade long experience in both, traditional and corporate VC firms. Always on the lookout for top founders that dare to distort reality with deep tech solutions.

Andreas Munk Holm

Founder & Host @ The European VC

Andreas is Europe's LP hypeman, aka founder of The European VC - the go-to podcast and connector of the European venture industry.

Jacek
Łubiński

Partner @ Market One Capital

VC investment professional with computer science background. Focused on Marketplaces (SaaS based) and B2B Software.

Alexandru
Seran

Investor @ Hellen's Rock

VC investments at Hellen’s Rock, with a focus on FinTech / Financial Services, with 10+ years experience in Fixed Income Investments, Management Consulting, and most recently ran Romanian operations of a high-growth CEE FinTech scale-up.

Diana
Koziarska

Founding Partner @ SMOK Ventures

Founding Partner at SMOK Ventures, US fund investing 100k-1M in CEE startups, focusing on early stage software and gaming companies.

Martin Olczyk

Managing Partner @ Techstars

Global early-stage investor in +50 startups, former technology investment banker, entrepreneur, and founder of four companies.

Marvin
Liao

Partner & Board Member
@ Gamegroove Capital

Investor and adviser in technology companies, formerly a Partner at venture capital fund 500 Startups, running the SF based accelerator program.

Alan
Clayton

Global Roaming Mentor @ SOSV

Acceleration specialist, mentor at HAX, Food-X, Chinaccelerator RebelBio and IndieBio accelerators. Previously 5x founder.

Bogdan Iordache

General Partner @ Underline Ventures

Bogdan is the Solo General Partner of Underline Ventures, a venture capital firm that partners at the earliest stages with Eastern European founders building high-growth startups with global ambitions.

Claude
Ritter

Managing Partner @ Cavalry Ventures

Claude co-founded the European early-stage venture capital fund back in 2016, currently focusing on pre-seed and seed stages with EUR 260+ million in assets under management.

Irina
Haivas

Partner @ Atomico

Irina is a Partner with Atomico based in London, where she focuses on investments in AI, software and infrastructure.

Márk
Pálfalvi

Principal @ PortfoLion Capital Partners

Mark is an early-stage technology investor at Portfolion Capital Partners, a USD 500 million Europe-focused VC fund manager firm.

Zuzanna
Czapinska

Investment Manager @ HV Capital

Zuzanna is an early-stage investor at HV Capital, one of the leading European VC funds. She focuses on fintech & software infrastructure investments across Europe.

Andrew
Michael

Host @ CHURN.FM

Andrew Michael is a SaaS leader with a deep focus on retention-led growth. With over 14 years of experience spanning marketing and product development, he has co-founded multiple venture-backed startups and played key roles in hyper-growth companies like Hotjar.

Robin
Wauters

Founder @ Tech.eu

Top European tech journalist, Robin has been the Founding Editor of the region's premier information portal and market intelligence platform, Tech.eu since October 2013.

Borys
Musielak

Founding Partner
@ Smok Ventures

Early-stage investor in CEE, previously engineer turned entrepreneur.

Robert
Hegedues

FOUNDING PARTNER @ FIEDLER CAPITAL

Robert started doing pre-seed investments in 2014, following a decade-long career in Management Consulting across Europe, Middle-East and Asia, and he was instrumental in getting companies such as Bitrise & SEON off the ground as their first investor.

Andrei
Dudoiu

Co-Founder & CEO
@ SeedBlink

Founded the first equity crowdfunding platform in the region which helped 12 innovative startups to get total funding rounds of more than EUR 3.5 mil. Over 20 years of banking experience.

Iulian
Circiumaru

Managing Partner
@ V7 Capital

Experienced strategy consultant in CEE; serial startup cofounder, including one exit and non-profit projects

Jordan
Bocskov

Partner @ Fiedler Capital

Entrepreneur turned investor, with a keen eye on evolving business in CEE.

Staffan
Helgesson

General Partner @ Creandum

General Partner with early stage VC at Creandum looking for amazing entreprenurs with the ambition to disrupt global industries. Investor in Bolt, Epidemic, Spotify, Monta, Enode, Twaice, Neo4j, Trade Republic, Kahoot, iZettle, small Giant Games, and many more.

Stefan
Tzalov

Investment Manager
@ European Investment Fund

Investment Manager - Climate / Infrastructure / VC Fund investments at European Investment Fund

Valentin Filip

VP Product Investments @ Fortech Investments

Enthusiastic leader and critical thinker, Valentin is always focused on taking the next step towards business understanding and development.

Alexandru
Burciu

Tech Venture Partner @ Fortech Investments

Deep-Tech Angel Investor, ensuring software development management of deep-tech products.

Dragoi Camelia

Senior Mandate Manager @ EUROPEAN INVESTMENT FUND

Camelia is the mandate Manager of four equity funds of funds (mandates) with total capital over EUR 550m investing in Romania.

Jakub Krikava

Associate @ Credo Ventures

Excited about technologically complex early-stage startups and non-obvious propositions. Previously Tech Advisor to the Deputy Minister of Defence, BCG, Public Policy research.

Oguzhan Ozer

Principal @ Earlybird Digital East Fund

Digital East Fund (DEF) is one of the leading early-stage focused venture capital investors in Europe, investing in tech startups with global ambitions and roots in Emerging Europe with over $600m committed capital across active funds. DEF team’s investment track record includes some of the multi-billion dollar successes emerging from the region, including UiPath, Payhawk, Peak, and Trendyol.

Elina Halatcheva

Managing Partner @ BrightCap Ventures

Elina is a co-founding General Partner with a diverse entrepreneurial, finance and investment background from New York, London and Sofia.

Radu Stoicoviciu

Partner @ Early Game Ventures

Experienced professional in the area of transactions. Involved in over 200 deals in Romania and other South-East European countries. Strong experience in working for entrepreneurs considering to divest their businesses.

Alexandru Chifu

Investment Associate @ Fortech Investments

He is a generalist with a passion for venture capital, startups and innovation.

Konstantinos Lafkas

Partner @ Uni.Fund VC

Experienced Chief Officer with a demonstrated history of working in different domains; food, energy, retail, B2B and production industry.

Oleksandr Bulatnikov

VC Associate @ Presto Ventures

Advisor and investor in B2B, SaaS, Marketplaces, and Web 3.0. Previous experience at EY as transactions & corporate finance consultant.

Ioana David

Managing Director @ Cleverage Venture Capital

Ioana is managing director of Cleverage VC, the only community in Central and Eastern Europe dedicated to investing in health tech startups. She has extensive deal experience gained in roles at Big 4 companies and in the private healthcare sector.

Andrew Gray

Investment Manager @ Tilia Impact Ventures

Andrew is an ex strategy consultant, Cambridge MBA, and tech-for-good entrepreneur with international COO/CFO experience in early stage tech companies.

Dora Trachana

Junior Partner @ Uni.Fund VC

Apart from being passionate about technology trends, coaching teams and meeting new people and new products, she is pursuing her PhD in Startup Growth and Fund Performance.

Jahid Sakhi

Investor @ Fiedler Capital

He is part of the investor team at Fiedler Capital investing in early-stage startups across Europe, with a particular focus on the vibrant startup ecosystem in the CEE & Baltics.

Jan Korous

Investment Analyst @ Tilia Impact Ventures

Jan represents Tilia Impact Ventures, an early-stage VC investment fund focusing on companies whose business model goes hand-in-hand with positive social or environmental change. Jan has a background in finance, economics & law and is on a mission to find & support the next generation of impact founders.

Dora Szokolovszky

Investment Manager @ Euroventures

Dora is an Investment Manager at Euroventures, one of the longest-established independent venture capital firms in Central Eastern Europe.

Adrian Gheorghe

Partner Development Manager @ Microsoft

With 13+ years of experience in sales, business management, B2B, supplier management, and team management, he brings a wealth of skills and a proven track record of driving growth and forging partnerships across industries.

Ivana Dominkovic

Investor @ Hedosophia

Ivana is an investor at Hedosophia, which is a global investment firm supporting category defining Internet and technology companies

Cristian Stoica

Founder @ AQUASoft

Cristian is a passionate computer scientist with business executive, product development, startups an AI experience.

Merve Zabci

General Partner @ Logo Ventures

Merve is a general partner at Logo Ventures, which is an early-stage (pre-seed through Series A) VC fund and partners with Eastern European & Baltic (incl. Turkish) founders. Their platform acts as a launchpad and accelerate transition from local markets to global markets.

Eva Arh

Partner @ 3VC

Eva is a VC investor at 3VC. Previously, she worked with founders at a high-tech incubator, leading activities related to fundraising & internationalisation. She also served as a CFO and Investor Relations manager in tech startups.

Jan Nykl

Associate @ Presto Ventures

Jan is at Presto Ventures, a Prague-based pre-seed and seed fund. Having studied at HEC Paris, he is most passionate about fintech, deeptech, and cybersecurity.

Mark Palfalvi

Principal @ PortfoLion Capital Partners

Márk is a principal and joined PortfoLion in 2019. Mark focuses on early stage investing in various verticals from Seed to Series B stages. He is particularly interested in FinTech, but has experience in Cybersecurity, Supply Chain Technology and HealthTech as well.

Oleksandr Bulatnikov

VC Associate @ Presto Ventures

Oleksandr is an advisor and investor in B2B, SaaS, Marketplaces, and Web 3.0. Previous experience at EY as transactions & corporate finance consultant.

Georgi Mitov

Managing partner @ BrightCap Ventures

With over 20 years of experience in the software industry, Georgi is a seasoned venture capitalist and software/aviation expert at BrightCap Ventures, a Sofia-based VC firm that invests in early-stage startups in Eastern Europe. He leads the firm's strategy, operations, and portfolio management, leveraging his extensive background in software development, product design and marketing, and aviation.

Dimitar Korsakov

Investment manager @ BrightCap Ventures

Dimitar Korsakov is the Investment Manager at BrightCap Ventures. He attended University of Bath.

Christina Boseva

Investment Manager @ Impetus Capital OOD

IMPETUS Capital invests in strong founding teams oriented towards building rapidly growing innovative companies that expand worldwide. Current focus is on Future of Mobility, Commerce, Supply chains and eSpace. Impetus is an investor behind Shelly Group, Discordia and StoriedData. Prior to joining IMPETUS, Christina worked on major CEE and Bulgarian M&A projects, including due diligence and valuation assignments as a Senior Strategy and Transactions consultant for EY.

Jan Szumada

Investment Analyst @ Warsaw Equity Group

Jan is an analyst at WEG – a leading VC/PE fund from Poland investing in European B2B automation and Climate Tech startups. He is particularly interested in investments in AI and data management companies.

Sonia Fedorovici

Partner & Head of Legal @ ROCA X Management SRL

Sonia Fedorovici is a General Partner and the Head of Legal at Roca X, the largest privately funded Venture Capital Fund in Romania. Under her guidance the fund’s management team became the first Romanian management team to be registered under the European Venture Capital Regulation.

Jakub Kuberski

Partner @ Enterprise Investors

Jakub Kuberski concentrates on the technology and financial services sectors. His most important projects to date include intive, Unilink, PragmaGO and Software Mind. Prior to joining EI, Jakub worked at Kulczyk Investments in Warsaw.

Rafał Bator

Partner @ Enterprise Investors

Rafał Bator specializes in technology investments. Among the most important projects are 3S, AVG Technologies and intive. Before joining the Enterprise Investors team, Rafał Bator worked at Prokom Software Systems and Optimus, two of the most important IT companies in Poland at that time, and Price Waterhouse Cooper (now PWC).

Madalina Sergentu

Executive Director @ Nomura International Plc

Madalina is an executive director at Nomura, a global financial services group with an integrated network spanning over 30 countries and regions.

Jan Kasper

Managing Partner and Co-Founder @ ZAKA VC

Jan is a serial entrepreneur from the year 1988. He owns and co-owns more than 47 companies, which are active in 9 industries, with revenue of 560 million EUR and 600+ employees. He is experienced in communication, the energy sector, car dealership, leisure & hospitality, real estate, development, and IT.

Gabriel Pana

Founder @ Traction Keys

Gabriel is the Founder of Traction Keys, uinkits, and Co-Founder of White Pipe. He is a UiPath Alumnus and also an avid investor in start-ups and businesses, starting a few of his own with 4 successful ones.

Jan Buza

Investment Manager @ ZAKA VC

Jan worked with high-growth companies primarily in Saas, Real Estate and co-founded two LegalTech companies. He is helping ZAKA with deal assessment. Studied CEMS in Prague and Bergen.

Galyna Isakiv

Head of Portfolio & Operations @ SID Venture Partners

Startup evangelist and strategist with 11+ years in management and communications. As Head of Portfolio & Operations at SID Venture Partners, Galyna is shaping the development strategy for entrepreneurs by bringing her expertise in operations and networking to help fund the Future.

Tomas Pacinda

Partner @ KAYA VC

Investing and supporting courageous tech entrepreneurs in early stage since 2015. He is particularly interested in financial services, retail and real estate.

Karel Zheng

Investor @ KAYA VC

He initially joined KAYA in 2018 after his internship at BCG while still studying Math at University. During these two years as an analyst, he had a chance to go on a secondment with Twisto, one of the portfolio companies (exited to Zip.co), where he was helping with “smarter” growth.

Karol Lasota

Principal @ Inovo.vc

Principal at Inovo.vc. Founder & operator turned VC. Before joining Inovo, he co-founded a B2B marketplace, raised a seed round, scaled it to 15 people and over 100 enterprise customers. Also was COO at Oxla (data infrastructure) and Climatica (AI climate insurtech) startups. Before that, boring Excel & Powerpoint guy, who participated in over 10 investments and M&A deals totalling over $100M.

Arda Kirkagac

Associate @ Earlybird Digital East Fund

Digital East Fund (DEF) is one of the leading early-stage focused venture capital investors in Europe, investing in tech startups with global ambitions and roots in Emerging Europe with over $600m committed capital across active funds. DEF team’s investment track record includes some of the multi-billion dollar successes emerging from the region, including UiPath, Payhawk, Peak, and Trendyol.

Dimitrios Matsakis

Partner @ P.L.A.N. Eurasia srl

Dimitris is a cross-border angel investor and tech team advisor, leveraging hands-on international business experience in more than 50 countries. Three times co-founder and consultant to 40+ innovation-driven teams.

Linda Võeras

Early Stage Investor @ Karma Ventures

Linda is a deep tech investor looking at early stage (late seed / series A) companies across Europe, with a background in B2B focussed executive search (mainly deep tech and enterprise software) and consulting.

Alex Zaharia

Consultant @ L Capital/ Renovata & Co

Alex Zaharia is a consultant at Renovata & Company, focusing on the intersection of human capital, business strategy investments and technology. Renovata have three subsidiaries: Renovata Search, having placed C-suite executives for companies like Spotify, Omio, Babbel and FintechOS. L Capital - Private equity investment vehicle. Investments include Klarna, Mirakl, Elemica and Informatica. The firm also does pre-deal due diligence for funds like Nordic, Permira and EQT.

Max Gurvits

Managing Partner @ Vitosha Venture Partners

A former entrepreneur and current investor, Max is a Managing Partner of Sofia-based venture capital fund, Vitosha Venture Partners.

Druta Vlad

Associate @ ANDRONIC SI ASOCIATII-SOCIETATE CIVILA DE AVOCATI

Vedran Blagus

Principal @ South Central Ventures

Henrik Néninger

Associate @ Lead Ventures

Prior to joining Lead Ventures, he strengthened BCG’s Budapest office for two years and gained experience in corporate financial consulting at Navigator Investments in Budapest.

Lili Lenard

Investment Analyst @ PortfoLion Zrt

Lili is an Investment Analyst at PortfoLion Zrt, the venture capital and private equity arm of OTP Bank.

Angéla Kopf

Associate @ Lead Ventures

Angéla is an associate at Lead Ventures. Prior to that, she worked as an M&A Project Expert at MOL Group supporting the overall project management of group-level Mergers & Acquisitions projects in various industries.

Jan Krahulik

Partner Angels fund @ DEPO VENTURES

Jan is a partner angels fund at Depo Ventures.

Malin-Iulian Stefanescu

Vice President @ TechAngels

Malin became the president of TechAngels in 2019 and as of today he invested in 14 startups, had 2 exits and led TechAngels to a continuous growth.

Ionut Negrescu

CEO @ Software Mind

Ionut is a dedicated professional, specialised in building and operating teams delivering quality IT services for large scale customers.

Tony Nysten

Principal @ OpenOcean

Tony joined OpenOcean from Tesi, having worked with later stage venture investments into disruptive tech companies.

Meltem Tumer

Investment Manager @ INVENTRAM

Meltem is the Investment Manager at INVENTRAM, a hi-tech investment company of Koç Group.

Simeon Iliev

Investment Associate @ MFG Invest