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Romania Regional Finalists

Best Accelerator/Incubator Program

Commons Accel

Description

Top accelerator led by authentic business leaders, independent and equity-free, onnecting smart projects to top mentors & industry experts. We invest directly in startups or help them get funded through our partners.

Future Makers

Description

we find, create and expand solutions for the future supporting youth, entrepreneurs and policy makers for a better tomorrow. We run various incubators, accelerators and youth programs as well as global conversation platforms about future trends, sustainability and innovation.

StepFWD

Description

Grow your prototype into a profitable business with your diverse team in our 8 weeks pre-acceleration program.

Best VC

SeedBlink

Founded in late 2019, SeedBlink is the fastest growing investing platform specialized in sourcing, vetting, financing, and scaling European tech start-ups.

Roca X

We are a project aimed at disruptive businesses at the beginning of the road: young entrepreneurs with revolutionary ideas in the technology area, in the MVP or prototype stage, with the vision of having an impact in society and with the passion to turn this desire into reality.

Grai Ventures

Description

A digital media and venture building studio. We partner with entrepreneurs and corporations to validate, build, and scale new products and businesses.

Founder of the Year

Andrei Tiu

Description

Commercial Digital Marketing Strategist and Entrepreneur, with a highly active 10-year career both in the UK and EU (including Romania), supporting multiple projects on a strategic digital & inbound marketing implementation level, enabling scale-up and rapid growth. Currently, I am a devoted Chartered Marketing Practitioner, Director & CMO of the London & Bucharest-based Digital Marketing Agency Marketiu, founder of the European Marketing Innovation & Entrepreneurship conference DigiCon (https://digicon-maarketing.com), founder of the online learning hub The Marketing Uni (https://themarketinguni.com), #1 Bestselling Digital Marketing Author, and Host for “The Marketing Innovation” Podcast

Bogdan Nicoara

Description

I am an entrepreneur with 13 years of experience in tech. In 2019 I co-founded and became the CEO of Bright Spaces, the end-to-end digital leasing solution for commercial properties. Ive been involved in more than 250 web & mobile projects for different brands like Samsung, Kinder, Shell, Sodexo, Cinema City, FAN Courier, Beko, Arctic, eJobs, Otter, and many more.

Cristina Cerga

Description

I am 31 years old. Born in Chiinu, Republic of Moldova. Studied Arts & Music in High school. In 2007 I moved to Romania. I’ve got a bachelor degree in Philosophy and European International Relations & Master degree in International Business Management. In 2014 founded my first company. THE HURRICANE – we create and develop customer designed experiences & solutions for brands, institutions and artists. In 2020, I created, invested and developed my new creative business in product design and production – WOOBA.

Best Newcomer

Verdoo

Description

Verdoo is transforming online shopping into a carbon-neutral experience.

Brunch

Description

Brunch is a feedback tool for live websites that brings everyone involved with building better websites in one place. It’s like pointing your finger at an element on a live website.

Innoship

Description

Innoship optimizes the interactions between retailers and carriers, streamlining the costs of courier services by up to 25% and increasing delivery performance by up to 15% through a dynamic allocation of the orders according to the criteria selected by the retailer

Diversity Role Model of the Year

Diana Ciobanete

Description

I am a startup enthusiast working in Acceleration and Investments, looking to help the startup ecosystem grow. For the past 4 years I’ve been developing and managing multiple Romanian accelerators, including University Accelerators with the scope of empowering students to follow their passion at an early stage in their life. I am also passionate about finding the right start-ups to invest in, the ones that can make a change and help the world go in the right direction.

Anca Daciana Goron

Description

Anca Daciana Goron is a business strategist, A.I. expert, Smart City Consultant and advocate for social causes. She is a dreamer and doer aiming at impacting the world in a positive way. During her over 15 years of business and IT&C experience, she complimented her work with study and research activities in the field of A.I. She holds a PhD in Artificial Intelligence, a MSc and BSc in Computer Science and Data Technology. Her passion for art and fashion drove her to become a mentor and strategic investor in an edgy hats and clothing label, Rep Lepara Inc., focused on promoting the African heritage through bold designs.

Andra Bria

Description

I am a digital product developer, a founder and an activist working at the intersection of design, technology and social justice. (andrabria.xyz) I have a MA in social policy and equality studies and through my work I attempt to build and help others build technology for an equitable future for all. I am the founder of Craft Product School, a product development school for more inclusive and ethical technologies. I have over 7 years experience in working with international brands, as well as advising early stage startups on how to communicate and innovate. My public recognitions include nominations at competitions such as Golden Drum Europe, Central European Startup Awards or Facebook.

Bianca Muntean

Bianca Muntean is the Cluster Manager of Gold Labeled Transilvania IT with over 20 years of experience in ecosystem building. She is a member of the European Cluster Expert Group, DG Grow, European Commission and has an active participation in different Consultative Councils dealing with digital transformation. Bianca was awarded the EU Cluster Manager of the Year title for 2019 and she is involved in engaging cross-sectoral collaborations all over Europe. Bianca is also recipient of the Open Innovation Award in 2017 granted by the European Commission, The Open Innovation Strategy and Policy Group. In her capacity as Transilvania IT Cluster Manager she founded and now coordinates the fully operational Transilvania Digital Innovation Hub.

Irina Nicoleta Scarlat

Description

Im a builder, product marketer, people & projects manager, passionate learner, avid reader, amateur horseback rider, curious traveller, annoying wife & mom. Im currently the Chief Growth Officer of Bitpanda, Austrias first unicorn. Prior to that, I spent 3 years with Revolut in multiple roles, including building Revoluts growth machine and leading the global growth department. I previously built and led Ubers marketing team in Romania, scaling the market to 1 million users. Entrepreneur-at-heart, I had a marketing agency working with tech startups, as well as an NGO doing entrepreneurship education programs for the youth. Im a global citizen that has been living, working and studying in 8 countries across Europe and the US.

Best Coworking Space

Impact Hub Bucharest

Description

Since 2012, Impact Hub Bucharest is the first co-working space in Romania, with a growing community of more than 2000 members in central locations in Bucharest and present globally in over 100 locations in over 50 countries.

ClujHub

Description

Cluj Napoca’s favourite coworking space. Entrepreneurship, freelancing, investors, creativity, good time.

Cowork Timisoara

Description

The perfect place for startups, freelancers and small companies

Ecosystem Hero of the Year

Diana Florescu

Founding partner at Grai Ventures, a Romania-based venture building studio partnering with entrepreneurs and corporations to validate, build and scale new startups. Non-Executive director and board member at Wolves Summit, one of the largest startup tech conferences in Europe. * Former Global Head of Marketing at Startupbootcamp, the largest network of accelerators * Coordinated 20+ accelerators across 15 countries * Ex-Head of Marketing, Rainmaking building commercial engagements between Fortune 500 companies and startups in the UK, Nordics, and USA * Ex-Programme Manager Qatar SportsTech, Doha * Lloyd’s Banking People’s Choice Award 2016 *Master’s Degree in Entrepreneurship from UCL

Andrei Tiu

Commercial Digital Marketing Strategist and Entrepreneur, with a highly active 10-year career both in the UK and EU (including Romania), supporting multiple projects on a strategic digital & inbound marketing implementation level, enabling scale-up and rapid growth. Currently, I am a devoted Chartered Marketing Practitioner, Director & CMO of the London & Bucharest-based Digital Marketing Agency Marketiu, founder of the European Marketing Innovation & Entrepreneurship conference DigiCon (https://digicon-maarketing.com), founder of the online learning hub The Marketing Uni (https://themarketinguni.com), #1 Bestselling Digital Marketing Author, and Host for “The Marketing Innovation” Podcast

Mihai Guran

Description

With +20 years in corporations, completed by scaling from 3 to 30M the global Enterprise business for a Romanian brand (Bitdefender), Mihai dedicated to scaling tech companies and set up his own consultancy company. He had over 20 startups and grownups as customers over the past years, many of which had multi-million VC funding. Mihai also co-founded RepsMate, a salestech startup aiming at becoming a unicorn, advises at board level VoxiKids and Ringhel, and is also mentoring every month startups in tech incubators or accelerators such as Techcelerator, Ingenius Hub, Commons Accel, How-to-Web and Launch. Since 2019 he is also Angel investor, elected as VP of TechAngels Romania, building on his blend of his tech and MBA background.

Startup of the Year

Bright Spaces

Description

Bright Spaces helps landlords showcase their spaces virtually, manage their leads from one central point and speed up the leasing process. Tenants can visit spaces digitally, choose from different fitouts, discover a buildings main points of interest and ask for personalized offers.

Tokinomo

Description

Tokinomo is a disruptive in-store marketing solution designed for FMCG brands and grocery retailers. Using a unique combination of technologies, sensors, motion, light, and sound, Tokinomo robots bring products to life on the shelf by giving them a voice and a personality

Medicai

Description

Medicai is a web based platform that enables online collaboration on patient data and diagnostic imaging for medical teams and their patients