Venture Capital Investments

We advise on the complete spectrum of venture capital work, including equity investments, growth and venture debt, fund formation and corporate venturing. We have extensive experience with the transaction terms of the market, its structures, trends and start-ups and we have adapted all this knowledge to the requirements of Romanian law and its market expectations.

Our clients range from high-growth companies, angel investors and institutional venture capital investors to incubators, accelerators and funding platforms.

We provide comprehensive legal advice and assistance from the initial start-up phase through the full series of equity funding rounds, the growth or venture debt raises and finally to exit, and including M&A transactions and IPOs.

We have particular expertise in fintech, robotics, cyber security, edtech, healthtech and life sciences.

We work collaboratively with other practice areas in our firm including intellectual property, data protection and employment who provide support and assistance during all phases of a transaction.

• Advised gaming start-up Machinations.io on a 3.3 million USD Series A Financing.
• Advised Cyscale software developer and VC Fund GapMinder on a 3M EUR Seed funding round.
• Advised Catalyst Romania Fund II on its investment in the EUR 2M equity funding round of EdTech platform Adservio.
• Advised Druid AI-driven on the USD 15 Million  Series A Financing, the largest funding round in Romania to date in 2022.
• Advised Undelucram.ro, a one-stop-shop online recruitment platform dedicated to both candidates and employers, on the 340,000 EUR Seed Funding Round, led by GapMinder and Seedblink. 
• Advised XVision, a MedTech start-up developing Artificial Intelligence algorithms for medical imaging, on a 1M EUR Seed Funding Round.
• Advised Catalyst Romania Fund II, one of the most important VC funds in the region, on their participation as lead investor in the EUR 1.7 million A funding round of Code of Talent, an award-winning SaaS platform.
• Advised Catalyst Romania Fund II, one of the most important VC funds in the region, on their participation as lead investor in the EUR 3 M Series A funding round of SeedBlink, the most active Romanian crowd funding platform.
• Advised GapMinder, a VC Fund financed via Competitiveness Operational Programme 2014 – 2020 and co-financed by the European Fund for Regional Development, on its investment in Druid AI-driven chatbots, a company specialized in conversational technology.
• Advised GapMinder, a VC Fund financed via Competitiveness Operational Programme 2014 – 2020 and co-financed by the European Fund for Regional Development, on its investment in the Romanian self-improvement start-up Deepstash.
• Advised GapMinder (a VC Fund, targeting IT Software and Services start-ups in Romania and Central Eastern Europe) and DayOne Capital (an early-stage technology investor, managing privately financed funds) on their joint investment in AI driven start-up Soleadify.
• Advised GapMinder, a VC Fund financed via Competitiveness Operational Programme 2014 – 2020 and co-financed by the European Fund for Regional Development, on the investment in Cartloop.
• Advised CODA Intelligence, a technology startup operating in the area of cyber security, on a 800,000 EUR Seed Funding Round, led by Early Game Ventures and Roca X. 
• Advised Beez, a cash-back platform that uses gamification to create healthy financial habits, on a 1.2 milion Euro Seed Funding Round, led by GapMinder and Roca X.
• Advised GapMinder, a VC Fund financed via Competitiveness Operational Programme 2014 – 2020 and co-financed by the European Fund for Regional Development, on its investment in the USD 7M Series A funding round of the A.I. based typing biometrics technology provider Typing DNA.
• Advised GapMinder, a VC Fund financed via Competitiveness Operational Programme 2014 – 2020 and co-financed by the European Fund for Regional Development, on its investment in Frisbo.
• Advised GapMinder, a VC Fund financed via Competitiveness Operational Programme 2014 – 2020 and co-financed by the European Fund for Regional Development, on the EUR 650,000 investment in MEDIjobs.
• Advised GapMinder, a VC Fund financed via Competitiveness Operational Programme 2014 – 2020 and co-financed by the European Fund for Regional Development, on its investment in Fintech OS.
• Advised GapMinder, a VC Fund financed via Competitiveness Operational Programme 2014 – 2020 and co-financed by the European Fund for Regional Development, on the investment in SmartDreamers.
• Advised GapMinder, a VC Fund financed via Competitiveness Operational Programme 2014 – 2020 and co-financed by the European Fund for Regional Development, on the investment in Typing DNA.