Catalyst Romania

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Bucharest, Romania

Total investments

7

Average round size

2M

Portfolio companies

7

Rounds per year

0.44

Lead investments

1

Stages of investment
Private EquityEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
E-CommerceInternetSoftwareRetailInformation TechnologyHuman ResourcesRecruitingEducationMarketingEmployment

Summary

Catalyst Romania appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2007. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Bucharest. The fund was located in Europe if to be more exact in Romania.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight SmartDreamers, Elefant.ro. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - Romania. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Employment, Small and Medium Businesses. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund.

The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. The top activity for fund was in 2016.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. Despite the Catalyst Romania, startups are often financed by Marius Ghenea, Malin-Iulian Stefanescu, 3TS Capital Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Gecad Ventures, Gapminder VC, Axxess Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Marius Ghenea.

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Investor highlights

Industry generalist
Yes
Industry focus
GeneralistMedia/ContentEdtechB2B/EnterpriseEcommerce Show 9 more
Stage focus
SeedSeries ASeries B
Geo focus
AlbaniaBosnia and HerzegovinaBulgariaCroatiaCyprus Show 6 more
Check size
1M — 3M

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Investments analytics

Last fund

Fund size
EUR 50000000

Analytics

Total investments
7
Lead investments
1
Rounds per year
0.44
Investments by industry
  • Software (4)
  • E-Commerce (3)
  • Internet (2)
  • Information Technology (2)
  • Retail (1)
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Investments by region
  • Romania (6)
  • Serbia (1)
Peak activity year
2022

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
11
Group Appearance index
0.57

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Adservio 11 May 2022 Software, Information Technology, EdTech, Education Seed 2M Iasi, Iasi, Romania

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