Featured
Speakers
Dmitri Liberman
COO @ Port
Dmitri is the COO at Port, driving mobility transformation through e-hubs. With over 10 years of leadership at Uber, Bolt, and Delivery Hero, he's scaled businesses and led strategic growth. Dmitri also invests in emerging tech, focusing on innovation in the U.S., Israel, and Europe.
Bogdan Batog
Software Engineer
Bogdan Batog co-founded Sailo.com and was the first engineering hire at Stellar Health, where he played a pivotal role from prototype to Series B and beyond. Bogdan is known for his contribution to a key dividend distribution algorithm dubbed the “billion-dollar algorithm” by Paradigm Research.
Siim Teller
Managing Partner @ Lemonade Stand
Siim Teller is an experienced startup investor and advisor, having spent over 20 years helping build companies, including Skype. His expertise lies in driving growth, marketing, and sales, with a recent focus on the B2B sector.
Sorin Sfetcu
Industry Manager @ Google
Experienced digital marketing professional with a strong background in performance marketing, analytics, and education, having trained over 3,000 individuals. Extensive experience across B2C and B2B sectors, including telecom, banking, and e-commerce, with proficiency in Adobe and Google tech stacks
Oana Acostachioaiei
Lead Product Marketing Manager @ Bitdefender
Oana Acostachioaiei is a marketing communications expert with over 15 years of experience in FMCG and IT sectors, specializing in brand building, product marketing, and media strategy.
Costin Busuioc
Product Manager @ Snyk
Costin Busioc is an experienced Product Manager at Snyk, where he is instrumental in developing security products tailored to developers. His expertise spans across multiple facets of developer-centric technologies, focusing on enhancing user experience while promoting secure development practices.
Dusan Zabrodsky
Investment Partner @ Rockaway Capital
Dušan has been with Rockaway since 2014, focusing on Mall Group, Heureka, and various startups. His deep expertise in scaling startups and transforming large portfolio companies drives his investment strategy. Prior to Rockaway, Dušan consulted for international startups on market expansion and hel
Matt
LeMay
Product Leader, Member @ Product Land
Matt LeMay is a product leader, consultant, and author. He empowers product teams to maximize their impact on business-critical revenue and growth goals by streamlining processes, simplifying strategies, and minimizing busywork. Matt is currently open to advisory, consulting, and fractional leadersh
Nico
Schoenenberger
Early Stage Investor @ 10X Founders
Nico joined 10x Founders as its first employee and enjoys spending time with the founders building early-stage B2B SaaS and fintech. After working in private equity, corporates and consulting, he discovered his real passion for the early-stage venture world.
Iulia
Porneala
Product Advisor @ MyGenie
Iulia is passionate about product management, solving problems and bringing people together. Customer-centric and entrepreneurial-minded product leader, she has a proven track of success in 0 to 1 setups. Iulia is driven by customer excellence and innovation, and high-quality results.
Eva
Arh
Venture Capital Investor @ 3VC
Eva Arh is a venture capital investor. Prior to 3VC, she was a startup consultant in Austria’s biggest high-tech incubator INITS, supporting early-stage tech companies with business modelling, fundraising and business development. She has been also part of management teams at tech startups.
Els
Aerts
Co-Founder @ AGConsult
Els helps companies better understand their customers and generates improved online experiences for them, relying on User Research and solid data. Over time, Els has moderated over 3,500 Usability tests for companies such as AtlasCopco, Orange, Daikin, Yoast, and Bridgestone.
David
Peterson
Partner @ Angular Ventures
David is a Partner at Angular Ventures. Before joining Angular, David was employee #16 at Airtable, where he led growth and partnerships – developing full-stack GTM strategies for Airtable’s many use cases and building relationships with product, channel and startup ecosystem partners.
Csongor
Biás
Managing Director @ Startup Hungary
Csongor Biás is the Managing Director of Startup Hungary, spearheading efforts to invigorate the local startup ecosystem. Before this role, he founded two coworking spaces and gained experience with venture capital firms and accelerators. He also contributed to launching Vacuumlab's operations in HU
Bojan
Stojkovski
Editor-in-Chief @ IT Logs
Bojan is a versatile reporter, currently exploring AI, defense tech and fintech, but always open to covering diverse and exciting topics in the Western Balkans countries. Currently Editor in Chief at IT Logs, his work has been featured in magazines, journals, and outlets such as Foreign Policy, WSJ.
Alexander
Agureev
VC @ Northzone
Alex focuses on growth-stage companies across enterprise, fintech, and infrastructure & developers both in Europe and on the East Coast. He is particularly interested in verticalized solutions that cater to underserved market niches and have the potential to disrupt sleepy market incumbents.
Adelina
Peltea
CMO @ Usercentrics
Adelina is a SaaS and Product-Led Growth expert with 12 years of experience in leadership positions in Europe and Asia. She focuses particularly on the SMB market, leading marketing, growth, and operations for subscription-based businesses in AI, fintech, big data, commerce, and business.
Stefan Walter
Co-Founder & Managing Partner @ Cavalry Ventures
Stefan holds degrees in finance / tax law and business administration and supports founders in areas such as funding/ fundraising strategy, financial modeling and investor communications..
Staffan Helgesson
General Partner @ Creandum
Staffan is a General Partner with early-stage VC at CREANDUM, always looking for amazing entrepreneurs with the ambition to disrupt global industries. He has invested in Bolt, Epidemic, Spotify, Monta, Enode, Twaice, just to name a few.
Remus Radvan
Head of Venture Strategy @ Wayra UK
Remus helps high-growth ventures scale by investing capital and facilitating commercial and distribution opportunities with corporates. He is part of the teaching staff of the venture capital module at UCL, offering future entrepreneurs and VCs a hands-on and insightful experience about the venture
Neetika Bansal
Head of Payments & Network Engineering @ Stripe
Neetika leads the Payments Engineering team at Stripe, being an extremely well versed professional focusing on technology and products.
Ioana Teleanu
Senior Product Designer, AI @ Miro
Ioana is a design leader & speaker focused on the AI space, being also the creator of a thriving UX community of over 220k people. Her first AI designed product, Clipboard AI, won Time magazine's Best Invention of 2023 award.
Felix Martinez
Principal @ Seedcamp
Felix is Principal at one of the global top-performing seed funds, expert in evaluating & supporting the best early-stage startups in Europe.
Carmen Alfonso Rico
Founder @ Cocoa
A lawyer and economist, Carmen is a VC turned Angel at Cocoa with previous experience in Series A fund Blossom, having done 20+ angel investments.
April Dunford
Founder @ Ambient Strategy
April Dunford is a globally-recognized positioning expert, speaker, and author. She works with B2B tech companies helping them tighten and fine-tune their positioning, and build a killer sales pitch that drives revenue.
Ioan
Istrate
Advisor to the Minister @ Ministry of Research, Innovation and Digitalization
With over 10 years of work experience in various fields, ranging from consulting and entrepreneurship to policy and social impact, his core competencies include new business development, analytical skills, and geopolitics.
Andreea
Plesea
Co-Founder @ Druid AI
Andreea has a PhD in Business computer studies with a focus on artificial intelligence- semantic web and 9+ years of experience in developing custom software for B2B systems and management.
Cezara
Panait
Government Affairs & Public Policy Country Lead for Romania @ Google
Young professional in EU digital policy and human rights lawyer with comprehensive knowledge of legal, policy and regulatory issues, acquired in both public and private sectors.
Ana
Crețu
Co-Founder InnovX-BCR @ BCR
Co-Founder and Board of Advisors member of InnovX-BCR business accelerator, assisting startups to architect, accelerate, and expand from idea to hypergrowth, by means of leveraging the infrastructure, knowledge, resources and test environments of BCR.
Robin
Haak
General Partner @ Robin Capital
With a varied career portfolio, Robin has acted as an entrepreneur, operating executive, investor, and advisor to a broad spectrum of private and public companies. These include Algolia, Aircall, Axel Springer, and many more.
Liviu
Dragan
CEO and Founder @ DRUID AI
An experienced founder, Liviu is the founder and CEO of DruidAI, a Bucharest-based AI-focused startup building conversational AI solutions, who has just announced a $30m series B round. In the past, Liviu has founded, scaled, and sold Totalsoft.
Stejara
Pircan
Senior VP Commercial @ eMAG
With more than 15 years of experience in ecommerce and retail, Stejara is a Senior VP at Emag, one of the largest ecommerce players in Eastern Europe, with operations in Romania, Bulgaria and Hungary, and a turnover of almost $2bln per year.
Florin
Tufan
CEO @ Veridion
Florin and his team are building Veridion, the world's largest and most accurate data catalog for business information, with more than 5bln data points. With clients in the US, Canada, and Europe, Veridion is an upcoming leader in the firmographic vertical.
Alin
Stanciu
Partener @ Catalyst Romania
Alin is a Partner at Catalyst Romania based in Bucharest, where he focuses on investments in software, e-commerce and media/telecom.
Jordan
Bocskov
Partner @ Fiedler Capital
Entrepreneur turned investor, with a keen eye on evolving business in CEE.
Voicu
Oprean
CEO & Founder @ AROBS Transilvania Software
Entrepreneur focused on building software solution in travel, automotive, GPS, Navigation and Mobile with extensive experience in outsourcing for automotive, travel and hospitality industry.
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.
Ana Maria
Andronic
Founder @ Andronic x Partners
Accomplished Romanian attorney, former judge, with a native entrepreneurial drive and with dual qualifications in International Intellectual Property and Internet Law in the US and continental European jurisdiction. Also, founder of Venture Connect.
Stefan
Tzalov
Investment Manager @ European Investment Fund
Investment Manager - Climate / Infrastructure / VC Fund investments at European Investment Fund
Camelia Dragoi
Senior Mandate Manager @ European Investment Fund
Mandate Manager of four equity funds of funds (mandates) with total capital over EUR 550m investing in Romania.
Lidia Capmare
Director of EUNAT Department @ BRD - Groupe Société générale
Mihaela
Pascu
Product Director @ BRD - Groupe Société générale
Cristian
Buzatu
Digital Product Manager @ BRD - Groupe Societe Generale
Innovation promoter, open minded and adept of lifelong learning. 18 years experience in banking management positions
Sonia
Damian
Head of Platform @ Crew Capital
Head of Platform at Crew Capital - a community-driven venture capital firm, founded by Daniel Dines (co-founder UiPath) & Brandon Deer (CSO UiPath), investing in entrepreneurs building category-defining B2B technology companies.
Nikola
Pavesic
Director of Startups @ Infobip
The director of startups at Infobip, a company that is a global leader in omnichannel engagement powering a broad range of messaging channels, tools and solutions for advanced customer engagement, authentication and security.
David Achim
Executive Director @ Make IT in Oradea
Passionate about startups, innovation, entrepreneurship, digital marketing, and education, with a focus on building strong teams and communities, in order to create impactful and valuable initiatives.
Ilya
Leyrikh
Product Lead @ wise
In 8 years, he aided Wise's growth from a 5-team startup to managing 10B EUR x-border transactions, saving 150M EUR monthly. Built cards from scratch, now leading FinCrime, Support, and Finance product teams.
Cristina
Riesen
Board Member European Innovation Council @ European Innovation Council
Founder of Educreators, a for-purpose organization suporting transformative innovation in education. Board Member of the European Innovation Council, Europe’s flagship innovation programme to identify, develop and scale up breakthrough technologies innovations.
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.
Cristian
Anastasiu
CEO & Co-Founder @ SERA
SERA is an AgTech company that offers a cultivation management & data analytics platform for greenhouses using machine learning. He previously worked as a Solution Architect at Oracle and a Data Science Consultant at AWS. At AWS, Cristian saw firsthand how transformative technology can be.
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.
Ondrej
Bartos
General Partner @ Credo Ventures
Founded Credo Ventures in 2009, with investments in UiPath, PriceFX, Productboard and more, Ondrej is an early stage investor, focused on high-growth CEE teams.
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.
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.
Neha
Tanna
Venture Partner @ equation cap
Highly experienced digital health professional, Neha joined the investment team at the fund of funds equation, deploying an innovative technology- and evidence-driven investment model.
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.
Ton
Wesseling
Growth Expert
Evidence-based growth expert & international speaker on Conversion Optimization. Ton is the brain behind the A/B testing mastery course at CXL Institute & Legend of Experimentation 2023 award winner.
Alexandru
Ivana
Product Manager @ Adobe
Product manager thriving in a dynamic environment, collaborating with multiple geographically dispersed teams within Adobe Analytics' vast enterprise B2B and B2C big data ecosystem, catering to the needs of valued customers.
Rick
Hao
Partner @ Speedinvest
Rick manages the firm’s investments in all Deep Tech sectors, having led their rounds in Pimloc, PoroTech, Breathe Battery Technologies, Solvo, Cylib, planqc and others.
Randy
Silver
Product Management & Leadership Coach @ Out of Owls
Randy’s held a variety of roles at start-ups, scale-ups and enterprises, across many sectors - including utilities, the arts, online education, media, retail, and financial services.
Alexander
Theuma
Founder @ SaaStock
Alex started SaaStock in 2015, currently the biggest B2B SaaS Conference in Europe with five major conferences a year in five countries and many more local events.
Ivan
Ivanković
Co-founder & COO @ Fonoa
Prior to co-founding the Croatian-Irish startup Fonoa, the first to develop a cloud platform for the automation of tax calculations on a global level, Ivan led Southwestern European operations at Uber.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Christopher
Osborne
Vice President of Product @ DeepL
Christopher has extensive experience in scaling high performance product organizations and grew the German AI language translation unicorn DeepL to 1bn users.
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.
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.
Julija (JJ)
Jegorova
Founder @ Black Unicorn PR
JJ is a seasoned PR Pro with 13 years of international experience. She founded Black Unicorn PR, focusing on European tech startups and scaleups.
Zachary
Gleicher
Applied Product Manager @ Google DeepMind
Zach focuses on foundation models in Google products, and has been in the Google DeepMind Applied team for over 6 years. His team is responsible for taking DeepMind’s AI research and applying it across all of Google.
Andy
Carvell
Partner @ Phiture
Full-Stack Marketer and Mobile Expert with 20 years experience in the mobile industry and a deep interest in technology, strategy and execution of ideas.
Florin
Tufan
Co-Founder & CEO @ Veridion
Data enthusiast and the source of truth on company data, for data teams. Florin is the Co-Founder of Veridion, former Soleadify, which has currently raised $6M in investment.
Stephane
Gantchev
Partner @ LAUNCHub
Former IT and Telco guy, now a VC at one of the leading Early Stage funds in Southeastern Europe, looking to invest in the best startups in the digital space from the region.
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
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.
Darren Chait
Head of Growth Marketing @ Calendly
Savvy growth marketer, ex-founder, and recent author, Darren leverages his work culture passion into our day-to-day products
Irina Haivas
Partner @ Atomico
Irina is a Partner with Atomico based in London, where she focuses on investments in AI, software and infrastructure.
Ioan Iacob
Founder & CEO @ FLOWX.AI
Ioan is the founder and CEO of FLOWX.AI, a revolutionary AI Application Modernization Platform, which raised in May 2023 the largest Series A globally in the industry in the last two years to bring AI to the enterprise at scale.
Claudiu Cioba
Founder & CEO @ Videowise
Experienced product designer turned founder, Claudiu is now leading the ultimate video platform designed for Shopify brands to engage consumers with interactive shoppable video experiences.
Joe Leech
Trusted Adviser & Executive Coach
Joe works with CEOs at start-ups, high growth to IPO to public company to the big exit; helping define what it means to be a leader, how to create impact, how to grow alongside the business and how to change the world all while enjoying every part of that journey.
Daphne Tideman
Growth Advisor & Consultant @ Daphne Tideman | Growth Advisor & Consultant, Growth Waves
Daphne is helping Founders and Head of Growths navigate various challenges - from scaling channels to finding product-market-fit. Frequent workshop trainer at well-known brands, like TikTok and ING.
Janna Bastow
CEO & Co-Founder @ Prodpad
Janna founded ProdPad in 2012, a widely-used product software for roadmaps and product backlogs, and co-founded Mind the Product, global series of events and a community of 300.000 product people.
Diane
Wiredu
Founder @ Lion Words
Messaging expert and founder of Lion Words, Diane helps scaling SaaS and B2B businesses achieve message-market fit. So they can stand out from the crowd, market more effectively, and sell more.
Stephanie Musat
Senior Staff Product Manager @ Warner Bros. Discovery
Seasoned PM, with more than 10 years experience in large scale direct-to-consumer media organizations, like CNN, Refinery29 and Complex Networks
David
Bizer
Director @ Key Search
As a talent, recruitment, and team culture expert, David has collaborated with 100s of emerging startups throughout Europe to scale their human capital since he began this journey in 2010.
Maya Zlatanova
CEO & Co-Founder @ FindMeCure
Clinical research expert and renowned pharma industry speaker, building on her experience as CEO of FindMeCure, patient navigation platform, and TrialHub, data-intelligence platform for clinical trials.
Ruxandra Pui
Founder & CPO @ Digitail
Founder & CPO of Digitail, a Romanian startup with the mission to give veterinarians the ability to provide smarter, more effective, and personalized treatment to pets, which has recently raised $11M in an Atomico-led round.
Ryan
Singer
Product Builder, Advisor, Author @ Shape Up
20+ years in product building and pioneering design & development processes, 17+ years as ex-Head of Strategy at Basecamp - now on a mission to get tech teams unstuck, and build by the principles of Shape Up.
Adriana Spulber
Head of Communications @ Underline Ventures
Adriana has been part of or around startups for more than a decade. After failing at a startup, she joined How to Web to rephrase how a tech conference should communicate. and later Pago fintech as their marketing manager, where she is now growing a b2c payments' product.
Ciprian Sorin Vlad
I am an entrepreneur with over 18 years of experience in business management, marketing, sales and branding, passionate about sailing and business innovation. In my work, I focus on long term strategies, growth plans and unique product development.
Dario de Wet
Principal @ Anthemis
Dario is a Investment Principal at Anthemis exploring venture tech and fund investments - previously co-developing a first-of-its-kind fund to support media founders in financially empowering creators across industries that have traditionally done the opposite.
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.
Liviu Cadariu
Program Direct @ StepFWD
Program Direct at StepFWD, Co-Founder at WeForReal I believe that in everything you do you should respect people and cut through the bullshit, all while enjoying a balanced and happy life.
Oana Cosman
Editor-in-Chief @ Green Start-up.ro
Editor-in-Chief @green.start-up.ro & Online Editor @start-up.ro
Paul Nica
Head of Staff @ Financial Supervisory Authority
My professional experience reflects my on-going interest in the field of Financial Markets, with a core focus on asset-management regulation (private-equity, venture capital, hedge-funds and UCITS). I am also interested in financial innovation, Fintech and the Oil and Gas Industry.
Sebastian Gabor
Founder @ Digitail
Founder of Digitail, Romanian startup with the mission is to give veterinarians the ability to provide smarter, more effective, and personalized treatment to pets, that has recently raised $11M in an Atomico-led round.
Radu Negulescu
Founder & CEO @ Sessions
Serial entrepreneur, starting his first company at 16 while still in high school. Before Sessions, he built one of Romania’s biggest system integrators: Trencadis.
Zosia Wanat
Senior CEE Correspondent @ Sifted
Zosia Wanat is a Sifted senior reporter covering startups in central and eastern Europe. Previously she worked for POLITICO and MLex in Brussels as a policy reporter and for the Financial Times as a reporter in London, Paris, and Warsaw.
Mike Reiner
General Partner @ Acrobator
Early-stage investor in B2B data-intensive startups. Invested in around 40 companies, co-founded several ventures/networks, and primarily interested in machine learning or Saas type of companies.
Rebeca Avram
Marketing Assistant & Community Manager @ Make IT in Oradea
Marketing Assistant & Community Manager la Make IT in Oradea
Andrei Roth
Commercial Pricing Director @ UiPath
Leading cross-department and cross-geography strategic projects in UiPath. Part of a brilliant team of professionals that aim to improve current aspects and also to look forward and prepare the company for upcoming challengers.
Rafaela Voiculescu
Engineering Manager @ Google
Mihaela Paun
Senior Vice President of Sales & Marketing, Consumer Solutions Group @ Bitdefender
Accomplished marketing executive with an innovative and results-driven approach, focused on leveraging marketing transformation in digital marketing and sales
Konstantina Tagkopoulou
Account Manager Startups & Scaleups @ Amazon Web Services
Konstantina has been with the AWS startup team for almost 3 years now; Working closely with startups and scale-ups & supporting them in successfully building and scaling their business on AWS.
Zurab Dzidziguri
Specialist of Strategic Development @ Georgia's Innovation & Technology Agency
Specialist in Strategical Development, he has been helping Georgia's Innovation & Technology Agency for over 5 years to grow into the industry, to evolve constantly, and to grow the innovation & technology community of Georgia to reach its professional potential.
Liviu Herman
Chief Product Officer @ Tazz
Experience in Product Management, with a high focus in putting together people, technology and processes to achieve business and organizational success.
Vlad Gliga
Co-founder & CEO @ Rubik Hub
Founder of Startup Programs such as Rubik Hub and The Climate Vertical, with over 6 years experience, Business modelling specialist, Community & Ecosystem builder.
Sebastian Florian
Founder & Editor in Chief @ Startups&TheCity
Founder and Editor in Chief @ Startups&TheCity, Co-Founder @ Made in Cluj, Co-Founder & Product Manager @ Pibliwide. Provides services such as Brand Consulting, Writing, Product Marketing, Lead Generation, Digital Marketing, Social Media Marketing, Content Strategy, Content Mark.
Sebastian Gabor
Founder @ Digitail
Founder @ Digitail, solving the gap between the ever-growing expectations of millennial pet parents (? 39%) and the experience offered by veterinarians with their current tools. Co-Founder @ Code for Romania, ex-Founder & CEO @ Gambit IT.
Dan Calugareanu
Partner @ Early Game Ventures
Investor and adviser in early-stage technology companies, skilled in Negotiation, Business Planning, E-commerce, Business Development, and Entrepreneurship.
Matthew Roberts
Startup Partner @ Stripe
Ioana Frincu
Technology Advisor @ Hellen's Rock
Technology strategy expert, with a proven track record in Software Product Management, Product Strategy, and Business Development. She has been working both in corporate and startup environments in Strategy, Operations, and Business Analysis.
Alin Merches
CEO & Co-founder @ Mobiversal
Serial entrepreneur for 20+ years, co-founded multiple startups and tech companies, involved in 3 exits so far (the latest one, last year), passionate and strong advocate of Romanian startups ecosystem and ethics in business
Michal
Rokosz
Partner @ Inovo Venture Partners
VC Investor, currently Partner at Inovo Venture Partners. Previously, he was COO at Booksy.
Elena Vrabie
Country Lead @ The Recursive
Country Lead at The Recursive with over +10 years of experience as a storyteller based in Bucharest, Romania. She is forging connections among the regional pioneers, and propelling CEE into the global spotlight as the dynamic tech hub that it is.
Nicoleta Cherciu
Partner Digital and Technology Law @ Sirbu & Vornicu Law
Tech-savvy lawyer and researcher. She is currently Partner at Sirbu & Vornicu Law where she leads the Digital and Technology Law practice where she advises companies, including start-ups, on IT law, IP law, data protection, cybersecurity, and corporate law matters.
Bogdan Apostol
CEO @ Nestor
Founder and CEO of Nestor, the People Intelligence Platform that helps organizations engage, develop, and retain talent in the new hybrid world. Bogdan is a YC alumni and a deep believer in customer-driven development.
Cristian Patachia
Development & Innovation Manager @ Orange Romania
Experienced manager with over 15 years of experience in the telecom industry, covering an extensive spectrum of technology, business development, and innovation management
Todor Breshkov
Founding Partner @ LAUNCHub
Investment banker turned early-stage investor, co-founder of the leading VC fund in South Eastern Europe.
David Cruz e Silva
Founder & Host @ The European VC
David is Europe's LP dealmaker, aka founder of The European VC - the go-to podcast and connector of the European venture industry.
Razvan Suta
Business Development @ Startup Wise Guys
Business Strategist at SWG for more than 2 years, leading change and innovative paths for new startups to arise.
Zornitsa Zheleva
Investment Analyst @ Lakestar
Investment Analyst, Zornitsa is responsible for supporting the investment process in areas of Life Sciences and Healthcare, Real Estate, and Financial Institutions
Nicoleta Prostean
Representative for Romania @ Vienna Business Agency
Passionate about technology and digital transformations, I help businesses expand to Austria/DACH. With an extensive background in IT & Management Consulting, Business Development & Strategy, Deep Tech Start-ups, in Automotive, IT&C, Retail and Energy.
Viorel Peca
Head of Unit of Transition and Business Acceleration Services @ European Innovation Council
Head of Unit Innovation, Viorel ensures that Europe is best positioned to capitalize on emerging industrial opportunities.
Radu Ionescu
Director of Product Management @ Mastercard
Expert in agile development, helping companies of all kinds in various areas such as product creation, Customer Management, Business Development & Payments Optimization.
Radu Bozga
Associate @ Notion Capital
Young & ambitionate investor at Notion Capital, having proved outstanding strategic skills at Notion Capital, UIPath, and Global Founders Capital.
Kart Siilats
Partner @ Mojo.capital
Private equity and venture capital research professional with investment banking background and finance-focused MBA degree
Kamen Bankovski
Principal @ Vitosha Venture Partners
Kamen is a master in strategic planning, financial management, and operational diligence, having mentored multiple startups in the Eastern European region.
Ioana Serban
Fractional CMO for B2B startups & Founder @ Techmakers
Ioana brings 15+ years of experience in B2B international marketing and business development for tech companies, mostly SMEs and startups
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
Dana Mustatea
Growth Marketing Project Manager @ UiPath
Dana's responsibility is growing the B2B Online Profile of UiPath by handling the peer reviews project across seven platforms.
Cleo Sham
Partner @ Stride.vc
Renowned investor, with 13+ years of experience in striving for the best outcomes for projects that flourish the quality of life.
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.
Matei Dumitrescu
General Partner @ RocaX
10-year+ experience in investments, venture capital and startup acceleration programs.
Mihnea Craciun
Managing Director @ Endeavor Romania
Self-taught entrepreneur contributing to innovation growth in all areas by helping startup founders scale their businesses.
Mihai Sfintescu
Investment Jury Member @ European Innovation Council
Mihai Sfintescu has 23 years of successful track record in private equity, venture capital & investment banking (M&A)
Alexandra Balkova
General Partner & Head of Portfolio @ Startup Wise Guys
As Partner and Head of Portfolio, Alexandra is currently managing 300+ companies from 40+ countries invested by Startup Wise Guys
Dag Ainsoo
General Partner @ Startup Wise Guys
General Partner in Startup Wise Guys, one of the largest early stage investors in Europe, having invested in more than 300 companies from over 40 countries. Former startup founder and angel investor.
Stéphane Ouaki
Head of Department @ European Innovation Council (EIC)
Head of Department - European Innovation Council (EIC) in the newly established European Innovation Council and SMEs Executive Agency
Ana Oarga
Co-Founder & Product Strategist @ Just Mad
Product Strategy Consultant, helping product teams calibrate their growth compass and find their true north.
Ivaylo Simov
Co-Founder & Managing Partner @ Eleven Ventures
The Co-founder and Managing Partner of Eleven - the most active early-stage investment fund in Southeastern Europe with more than 150 investments.
Ivan Kovalyov
VP of Product @ Payhawk
Engineer turned Product Manager, now leading product managers and product organizations. Ivan wore different hats: founding member, Manager, and now VP at a Series B organization.
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.
Miruna Dragomir
CMO @ Planable
Seasoned Growth Marketer, having enabled a 70X growth in revenue at Planable, during her time here and continues going up. Miruna was previously part of Uber’s Marketing Team and Oracle
Robert Katai
Product Marketer @ Creatopy
Product Marketing Manager & the host of one of the most popular podcasts in Romania called “Katai”. His work was featured on TechCrunch, AdWeek, Entrepreneur, Marketing Pros, and his blog on robertkatai.com.
Martin Olczyk
Managing Partner @ Techstars
Global early-stage investor in +50 startups, former technology investment banker, entrepreneur, and founder of four companies.
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.
Andrea Cordas
Partner @ Hellen's Rock
Partner at a single-family office Hellen's Rock, where she manages both direct and indirect venture capital investments. Her background is in venture building and digital transformation.
Ivan Brezak Brkan
Director of Developer Content @ Infobip
Director of Developer Content at Infobip, Ivan is also the Founder and Editor of Netokracija, the ‘Techcrunch of the Balkans’, acquired by the Croatian unicorn Infobip in 2022.
Matthew Selheimer
SVP Marketing @ Bitdefender
Sales-focused marketing leader with a strong technical background, having built high-performing marketing teams for cybersecurity and IT management software businesses ranging from early-stage to $2B+ in revenue at both PE-backed and public companies.
Kirsten Connell
First Cheque Fund @ Octopus Ventures
Kirsten leads the pre-seed fund at Octopus Venture focused on B2B SaaS, FinTech, and Digital Health across Europe. She has spent the best part of the last decade working alongside some of Europe’s most exciting high-growth startups.
Julia Steier
Product Manager @ Google
Data-driven Product Manager with a background in computer science, a passion for design, and the desire to build products that matter.
Juliana Jackson
Growth Product Manager @ CXL
Product leader obsessed with data analytics and user behaviour. Host @ Standard Deviation Podcast and Women Techmakers Ambassador.
Radu Georgescu
Chairman of The Advisory Board @ Seedblink
Serial Entrepreneur and Venture Capitalist, with over 30 years of experience in founding and developing companies.
Raluca Bujoreanu
Product Leader @ Zalando
Strategic Product Leader, solving customer and business problems through technology and building innovative, effective digital experiences.
Karol Lasota
Principal @ Inovo Venture Partners
Ex-founder and operator of VC-backed B2B marketplace and deep tech startups now joined the VC side.
Bogdan Ripa
VP of Product Management @ UiPath
Entrepreneur at heart & startup co-founder, currently expanding UiPath's product suite as the Vice President of Product.
Gilles De Clerck
Founder & Growth Strategist @ Ablaze Growth Studio
Leading European Growth Expert, skilled in getting, keeping and monetizing customers.
Rumen Iliev
Partner @ LAUNCHub Ventures
South-East Europe seed-stage investor, passionate about entrepreneurship, technology investments and social impact.
Bruce McCarthy
Founder @ Product Culture
World's #1 Product Roadmaps Expert, Author of "Product Roadmaps Relaunched", Serial Entrepreneur & Leader of Product Teams.
Andrei Dudoiu
Managing Partner & President @ Seedblink
Founded the first equity crowdfunding platform in the region which helped 60 innovative startups to get total funding rounds of more than EUR 75.1 mil. Over 20 years of banking experience.
Ivan
Burazin
Chief Developer Experience Officer @ Infobip
The Co-Founder of Shift, the biggest dev conference in SEE, acquired by Infobip & Codeanywhere, the first cross-platform Cloud IDE
Lucia
Collara
Product Expert
Product Teams Development Expert, Product Director, Lecturer at TAG Innovation School, Product Tank Co-Organizer, with over 10 years of experience in overseeing tech, product design and product management departments.
Eden
Bidani
Conversion Copywriter @ Green Light Copy
Conversion Copywriting & Acquisition Expert, helping SaaS and tech companies acquire more customers, more profitably.
Alexandra
Lung
Chief Product Officer @ uptime
Product leader, mentor & coach, top 25 PLG influencer 2021, with 14+ years of diverse global experience, working in start-ups, scale-ups, and enterprise.
Michal Bas
Principal @ Venture Friends
Responsible for navigating the fund's activity in the CEE region. Previously at TDJ Pitango Ventures and PFR Ventures.
Gergana Stoitchkova
Investment Associate @ Eleven Ventures
Investor in health tech and fintech, informal education, tech innovations, human biology and sustainability.
Alin Stanciu
Managing Partner @ Catalyst
Serial entrepreneur with 10+ year-long track record experience of successful investments in Retail, Ecommerce, Media and Telecom.
Eugen
Potolog
CRO Strategist @ UX Studio
Highly technical CRO strategist with 12 years of experience in User Experience (UX), Conversion Rate Optimisation (CRO) and Digital Analytics.
Raluca
Radu
Founder @ MTH Digital
E-commerce digital marketing specialist with over 17 years of experience, Country Manager of ANSWEAR and ex-Country Manager of Naspers Romania.
Christoph
Auer-Welsbach
Co-Founder @ Kaizo
Hybrid Workforce Leader, Deep Tech Investor, Founder & Product Manager with a strong background in finance, strategy, AI, blockchain & Web3.
Erin
Staples
Developer Relations & Community Expert
Experience in building healthy communities at their intersection with product, seasoned with marketing coordination and strategic planning
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.
Sultan
Seitbekov
Lead Product Manager @ Miro
User-focused and data-driven Product Leader with experience in building startups, high-performing product teams and products from scratch.
James
Mayes
Co-Founder & former CEO @ Mind the Product
Expert in building high-performance tech teams & product-led growth. Initiator of the biggest product community in the world.
Alexandru
Iliescu
Co-Founder @ Mondly
Language learning innovator. EY Entrepreneur of the Year in Technology and Innovation 2018.
Mike
Butcher
Editor at Large @ TechCrunch
Journalist, Co-Founder of Pathfounder; The Europas Awards, TechForUK, TechVets, Techfugees and TechHub.
Mike
Korba
CCO & Co-Founder @ User.com
Marketing Automation Expert, helping teams implement and use marketing automation technologies successfully.
Vassil
Terziev
Managing Partner @ Eleven Ventures
Successful Investor & Founder, Founding Board Member of Endeavor Bulgaria and the Bulgarian Innovation Hub, Co-Founder of Telerik Academy and CampusX.
Andrii
Degeler
Head of Media @ TNW
Covering all things tech since 2007 for Tech.eu, Engadget, The Next Web, Ars Technica UK, the Kyiv Post & more.
Mick
Halsband
VC Founder @ Lunar Ventures
Tech leader turned early-stage deep tech investor, backing technical founders building the technology giants of the future.
George
Lemnaru
CEO @ Green Horse Games
Serial entrepreneur with 15+ years of experience in creating and scaling community-based social games.
Sergiu Negut
Co-Founder, EVP & Board Member @ FintechOS
Business advocate — Adviser, Board Member, Angel Investor, Manager, across different industries.
Lavinia Neagoe
Senior Engineering Manager @ Fitbit
Senior Engineering Manager & Bucharest Technology Site Lead at Fitbit, with 15 years of experience in leading global engineering teams
Michal
Bas
Principal
@ Venture Friends
"He's responsible for navigating the fund's activity in the CEE region. Previously at TDJ Pitango Ventures (Polish-Israeli VC fund) and PFR Ventures (CEE's largest Fund-of-Funds, operating in the VC space)."
Georgia
Diaconescu
Product Marketing Manager
@ Meta
Product Marketing specialist with over 10 years experience & extensive background in value proposition development & product adoption. Passionate about supercharging start-ups in their growth journey & all things metaverse.
Catalin
Dediu
Vice President of Analyst Relations
@ FintechOS
Seasoned in consultancy, analytics, operations, strategy, through FintechOS, Catalin Dediu brings to the banking system the possibility of smarter, profitable products and personalized experiences.
Daria
Gherghelas
Investment Analyst
@ Speedinvest
Engineer turned investor. Looking for pre-seed and seed stage companies with a focus on health and all things CEE.
Julien Coustaury
Managing Partner @ Fil Rouge
20 years of experience in manufacturing and services, much of it at the CEO level.
Horia Velicu
Head of Innovation Lab
@ BRD – Groupe Société Générale
Over 20 years experience in banking and consulting with focus on financial markets and machine learning.
Hristo Borisov
Co-Founder & CEO @ Payhawk
Builder of the first Bulgarian unicorn & one of the fastest-growing companies in Europe
Alexandru Popescu
Managing Partner @ Cleverage VC
Highly experienced professional and investor, specialised in growth, M&A, marketing, operations, sales.
Vlad Sarca
Partner @ Sparking Capital
Serial entrepreneur and investor. Made 2 exits from his previous businesses. Expanded one of his businesses in over 10 European countries and the Middle East.
Cathy White
Founder & Director @ CEW Communications
Startup & Venture Communications Specialist focused on PR, content creation, and social media.
Andy Budd
Founder @ Clearleft
Design leader, international conference speaker, agency founder and coach.
Mirela Mus
Founder @ Product People
Technical and creative product leader, with experience in mobility, digital health, travel, marketplaces, fintech, IoT.
Adrian Erimescu
Co-Founder & Angel Investor @ Growceanu
Tech entrepreneur with 20+ years experience in developing business systems. Co-founder Imobiliare.ro, Growceanu Angel Investing and Faber.community.
Iulian Circiumaru
Managing Partner @ V7 Capital
Experienced strategy consultant in CEE; serial startup cofounder, including one exit and non-profit projects
Cristian Negrutiu
Partner @ Sparking Capital
Entrepreneur, Investor, Mentor and Consultant, Associate Professor at Bucharest University of Economic Studies
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)
Kaan Eren
Principal @ 500 Emerging Europe
Early-stage VC under the broader 500 startups network. Investor in Agave Games, Altogic, Ango, Arf, Cypher Games, Datapad, Freeflow, Gesund, Integrated Finance, Layer, Permify, Refine, Synnada, the Village, Kalder, Ddosify, The Swarm, Lonca, Kubeark & Frantic Games
Razvan Tudor
Vicepresident B2B2C @ Bitdefender
Product Manager with solid background in agile methodologies and roots in UI experience and design. 15+ years experience in managing large, cross-functional, distributed teams.
Matt Lerner
Founder @ Startup Core Strengths
Europe #1 Growth Expert, creator of Startup Core Strengths — one of the best growth programs for startups worldwide.
Bogdan Axinia
Managing Director eMAG Ventures @ eMAG Group
Senior leader with 16 years of experience in tech companies, currently working as advisor with C-level executives and their teams to drive business growth through technology.
Anca Albu
CEO @ Swiss ICT Investors Club
Diverse professional background in business development, strategy, operations, and marketing.
Jacek
Łubiński
Partner @ Market One Capital
VC investment professional with computer science background. Focused on Marketplaces (SaaS based) and B2B Software.
Elina Halatcheva
Managing Partner @ BrightCap Ventures
Strong experience in finance, VC and PE in fintech, femtech, real estate. Co-founder of a B2B procurement start-up.
Mircea Vadan
Managing Partner @ Transylvania Angels Network
He's driven to help tech startups. Support programs expert with a focus on early-stage tech products, customer development and product-market fit.
Cosmin Ochisor
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 - Deepstash, Soleadify, Machinations, Frisbo, Innoship.
Cristian Tamas
Co-Founder & CMO @ TypingDNA
Digital marketing expert on a mission to make online authentication effortless with typing based biometrics.
Kamil Mieczakowski
Partner @ Notion Capital
Kamil enjoys figuring out what makes the world go round and exploring the new, the exciting, and the innovative. He is the Principal at Notion Capital. Additionally, Kamil has had 4 past jobs including Vice President at Notion Capital.
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.
Claudiu Murariu
Co-Founder & CEO @ InnerTrends
500 Startups Alumnus, product expert creating top-notch on-boarding processes. Passionate about data algorithms designed to offer deep insights into customer success.
Dorin Boerescu
CEO @ 2Performant
Serial entrepreneur in the digital marketing space with exit experience.
Matei Pavel
Co-Founder @ T-Me Studios
Entrepreneur & occasional Angel Investor. Big fan of edtech, data companies and B2C mobile apps.
Romeo Mann
Founder @ MAN.digital
Sales and marketing expert working with software houses and software consulting companies and B2B SaaS in CEE.
Andra Zaharia
Content Marketer @ The Content Habit
Content marketing specialist for cybersecurity companies, with over 10 years of experience, helping them drive organic growth.
Dragos Nicolaescu
Founder @ Visionary Business Consultants
Angel investor and consultant for startups with over 25 years of experience in business and management.
Mihai Guran
Founder, Managing Partner @ ATNNOVATE
Vice-President of TechAngels Romania. Founder, mentor to startups and angel investor.
Borys Musielak
Founding Partner
@ Smok Ventures
Early-stage investor in CEE, previously engineer turned entrepreneur.
Bogdan Iordache
General Partner @ Underline Ventures
Bogdan is the 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.
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.
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.
René Schöb
Partner, Head of Tax & Legal
@ KPMG Romania
Head of Tax & Legal at KPMG Romania and coordinator of the KPMG Romania Startup Grow Pad Program.
Irina
Obushtarova
Co-Founder & CEO @ The Recursive
Entrepreneur and journalist, helping innovative ventures from Emerging Europe scale internationally.
Marius Istrate
Chairman of the Board @ Techangels Romania
Investor, Growth Adviser, UiPath Alumnus, Venture Partner at 3VC
Mada
Seghete
Co-Founder & CSO @ Branch.io
Co-Founder of the mobile linking platform Branch since 2014, Mada has been leading their marketing and evangelism efforts globally, as well as many of Branch's award-winning global culture initiatives, post a Series F round and $4 billion valuation.
Alexandru
Burciu
Tech Venture Partner @ Fortech Investments
Deep-Tech Angel Investor, ensuring software development management of deep-tech products.
Anca
Bundaru
Product Marketing Management Lead @ Bitdefender
Product Marketing professional and a startup consultant, relatively obsessed with technology.
Alexandru
Bogdan
CEO @ ROCA X
CEO at ROCA X, Strategist, Investor, Growth Marketer, Experience Designer
Adriana Iordan
VP of Product and Marketing @ SeedBlink
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.
Xenia Muntean
CEO & Co-Founder @ Planable
Marketer turned tech entrepreneur, building the future of content collaboration, in a startup that thrives in a busy niche. Forbes 30U30, Webby Awards judge, and Techstars alumna.
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.
Rumen
Iliev
Partner @ LAUNCHub Ventures
South East Europe seed stage investor, passionate about entrepreneurship, technology investments and social impact.
Malin
Stefanescu
President
@ TechAngels
Early stage business angel, investments including Symphopay, SmartDreamers and TypingDNA.
Cristian
Munteanu
Founder & Managing Partner @ Early Game Ventures
VC with a background as a tech entrepreneur in Romania and the US (Seattle and Silicon Valley).
Dan Lupu
Partner @ Earlybird Venture Capital
Investor in technology companies such as UiPath, FintechOS, Photoneo, Minit, Sessions. Computer science and business background.
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.
Ondrej Bartos
General Partner @ Credo Ventures
Early stage investor, with investments in UiPath, PriceFX, Productboard and many more.
Vlad Andriescu
Editor-in-Chief @ Start-up.ro
The editor-in-chief of start-up.ro —the coolest place to find out about the most interesting startups. He has 10 years of experience in the media landscape and he's constantly looking for founders who are not afraid of making mistakes and changing the world.
Alan Clayton
Global Roaming Mentor @ SOSV
Acceleration specialist, mentor at HAX, Food-X, Chinaccelerator RebelBio and IndieBio accelerators. Previously 5x founder.
Bogdan Lucaciu
CTO
@ Adore me
Expert in organisation design, team performance and engagement, open source, building disruptive products
Monica Obogeanu
Startup Programs Manager @ Orange
Manager of the Orange Fab Romania program, facilitating collaborations between innovative startups and Orange.
Dan Oros
Head of Marketing @ Google
Leading the B2B acquisition marketing projects in the CEE and helping companies and startups grow their business online.
Cristian Dascalu
Partner @ GapMinder Venture Partners
Fund partner actively investing & accelerating startups in Eastern Europe. Also co-founder of Techcelerator and owner of ClujHub co-working space.
Mihai Rotaru
Founder @ Neobility
Serial entrepreneur with previous sucessful exit of CleverTaxi to MyTaxi (currently Free Now). Self-taught transportation and mobility expert.
Enis
Hulli
General Partner @ 500 Startups Istanbul
Investor and advisor in early-stage technology companies and the host of cc:, a podcast on growth journeys.
Irina
Scarlat
Chief Growth Officer @ Bitpanda
Full-stack product marketer and experienced project manager, previously leading the marketing efforts of Uber in Romania. Entrepreneur at heart.
Valentin
Radu
Founder & CEO @ Omniconvert
Go-to-Market Expert, Founder at Omniconvert CVO Academy, and Co-host at The eCommerce Growth Stories
Bob
Moesta
Founder, President & CEO @ Re-Wired Group
Pioneer of Jobs To Be Done Theory, expert on developing & launching new products
Carlos Espinal
Managing Partner @ Seedcamp
Top European Investor, with a funding history of 9 unicorns and thought leader at Seedcamp Podcast.
Vladimir
Oane
Founder & CEO @ Deepstash
Serial entrepreneur of technology-driven businesses with previous exit experience of uberVU to Hootsuite.