Bucharest startup directory
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AI Expo Europe 2026
Eastern Europe's largest AI conference at Radisson Blu Bucharest with 100+ speakers, 59+ international exhibitors, and 81+ workshops; covers AI applications across education, healthcare, legal, urbanism, art, and the future of work.
Bitdefender
Bitdefender is a Bucharest-founded global cybersecurity company providing advanced threat prevention, detection, and response solutions for consumers, enterprises, and managed service providers. Founded in 2001 by Florin Talpes, the company has grown into one of the world's leading cybersecurity vendors, protecting over 500 million systems across 170+ countries with technologies spanning endpoint protection, network security, cloud workload security, and extended detection and response (XDR). Bitdefender's threat research labs are among the most respected in the industry, and the company licenses its detection technology to numerous other security vendors. With over 1,800 employees, Bitdefender is Romania's largest and most globally recognized technology company.
Blackshell
Cybersecurity platform for SMEs offering Stingray (compliance-focused corporate VPN) and Bluefin (threat detection and vulnerability management), targeting ISO 27001, SOC 2 and NIS 2 compliance. Raised about EUR 3M.
Catalyst Solutions
Catalyst Solutions is a Bucharest-based recruitment, employer-branding and events company founded in 2005. It produces several of Romania's largest technology and careers events, including the DevTalks conference series in Bucharest and Cluj-Napoca, the DevCon IT conference, the DevHacks hackathon and the Angajatori de TOP career fair, alongside the Top Talents Romania and Most Desired Employers research programmes. Its events connect Romanian engineering talent with local and international employers.
CEE Fintech Week Bucharest 2026
A week-long fintech, blockchain, and AI gathering across multiple Bucharest venues, positioned as a Central and Eastern Europe fintech hub event with an awards gala. Useful for fintech founders targeting the CEE market and regional investors.
Codecamp
Romanian organiser of the Codecamp conference series, running developer-focused conferences and masterclasses since 2008 across multiple cities including Bucharest, Cluj-Napoca, Iași and Timișoara. Programmes cover software development, software architecture, artificial intelligence and engineering leadership for the local IT community.
Dan Lupu
Venture Partner at Earlybird focused on Central and Eastern Europe. He co-built the Earlybird Digital East franchise (now Bek Ventures) that produced the UiPath and Trendyol outcomes, and continues to bridge Earlybird with the CEE founder ecosystem.
DefCamp 2026
DefCamp is the largest cybersecurity and hacking conference in Central and Eastern Europe, held at the Palace of the Parliament in Bucharest, with hands-on workshops running November 16-18. The 16th edition features world-class keynotes, live hacking competitions in the Hacking Village, and expert panels on AI threats, supply-chain security, and cloud security. It unites security researchers, professionals, and enthusiasts from across the region for networking and knowledge-sharing.
DesignVerse
Bucharest-based AI platform that provides a context layer for enterprise software development, generating production-ready applications aligned to a company's existing design systems, architecture standards, and internal documentation. Upgraded EUROCONTROL's legacy software in six weeks instead of six months. Raised $5.5M seed from Begin Capital and Gapminder VC.
DevTalks Romania 2026
The largest tech conference in Central & Eastern Europe at Romexpo Pavilion B1, with 14 stages on AI, machine learning, cloud, DevOps, cybersecurity, quantum, and dev leadership; 100,000+ developers, tech leaders, and IT decision-makers.
Druid AI
Druid AI is a Bucharest-born conversational AI company building enterprise-grade virtual employees that combine intent-based dialogue, knowledge grounding, and deep integration into business systems of record such as SAP, Salesforce, Microsoft Dynamics, and UiPath. The platform is aimed at large organizations that want to stand up internal and external chat- and voice-based assistants without stitching together LLM wrappers, retrieval plumbing, and orchestration logic from scratch, and it competes in the same category as Kore.ai and Cognigy from a Romanian R&D base. Druid has raised over USD 50 million in growth capital led by TCV and is one of the clearest examples of a second-generation Romanian enterprise software company riding the UiPath-trained talent pool into the agentic-AI era. It also illustrates how Bucharest's RPA heritage flows naturally into conversational and agentic automation.
Early Game Ventures
Early Game Ventures is a Bucharest-based venture capital firm that launched its first fund in 2019 focused on Romanian tech startups, achieving a reported 45% IRR on Fund I with 4 exits from 28 portfolio companies including Bunnyshell and Profluo. In April 2024 the firm launched Fund II targeting €60 million to invest in early-stage startups across CEE — primarily Romania (60–70%), with the remainder across Europe — at ticket sizes up to €6 million. Focus sectors include SaaS, AI, cybersecurity, fintech, and deep tech.
FintechOS
FintechOS is a Bucharest-founded technology infrastructure company that provides a low-code platform enabling banks, insurers, and financial institutions to rapidly build and launch digital financial products without replacing their legacy core systems. The platform accelerates digital transformation for incumbents by offering pre-built components for lending, onboarding, insurance, and wealth management that can be customized and deployed in weeks rather than months. FintechOS has raised over $60 million from investors including Draper Esprit and Earlybird, and serves financial institutions across Europe and Asia. It is one of Romania's most prominent B2B fintech companies and a key example of how the country's engineering talent is being applied to modernize global financial services infrastructure.
FlowX.ai
FlowX.ai is a Romanian enterprise software company focused on modernizing legacy systems without forcing large institutions to replace their core infrastructure all at once. Its platform helps banks, insurers, and other complex enterprises build modern digital customer experiences on top of old back-office systems by abstracting integration complexity and accelerating delivery cycles. That makes the company relevant in one of the hardest areas of enterprise transformation: organizations that urgently need better digital products, but cannot afford multi-year core-system replacement programs. FlowX.ai therefore sits in a high-value layer between legacy infrastructure and modern application experience. In the European ecosystem, it demonstrates the depth of engineering talent emerging from Romania in areas that require architectural sophistication, enterprise sales discipline, and credibility with regulated industries. The company is also a useful bridge in the directory between legacy-enterprise modernization and newer fintech infrastructure players, showing how incumbents can adopt faster, more software-native operating models without rebuilding from zero.
GapMinder Ventures
GapMinder Ventures is a Bucharest-based early-stage VC firm investing in B2B deep tech and SaaS startups from Romania and Southeast Europe, with portfolio companies including Druid.AI, FintechOS, TypingDNA, and Cyscale. Its second fund, GapMinder Fund II, targets €80 million — described as the largest VC fund with a primary Romania focus — and deploys first tickets up to €2.5 million in seed and late-seed stage companies across fintech, cybersecurity, enterprise automation, and data analytics. The fund targets founders from Romania, Moldova, Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, and Bulgaria.
GoTech World 2026
GoTech World (formerly Internet & Mobile World) is the leading B2B expo-conference in Central and Eastern Europe, held at Romexpo's B1 Pavilion in Bucharest. The two-day event spreads 100+ exhibitors and top international and local speakers across multiple stages covering AI, cybersecurity, digital marketing, smart cities, and software development, drawing around 15,000 business professionals. A major selling and networking venue for B2B and enterprise-tech startups.
How to Web 2026
Romania's flagship technology and startup conference connecting CEE founders with international investors and corporates. Features a startup pitch competition, product workshops, and strong focus on the emerging Central and Eastern European tech ecosystem.
iCEE.fest (Interactive CEE) 2026
Central and Eastern Europe's digital industry festival covering digital marketing, e-commerce, and content creation. Brings 1,000+ marketing and growth professionals to Bucharest with strong representation from regional tech companies and agencies. Tickets from EUR 100.
Sacha Dragic
Founder and majority owner of Superbet (operating as Super), a technology-driven sports-betting and gaming group he started in Romania in 2008 that has since expanded across Europe and into Latin America. He backs Romanian technology and entrepreneurship initiatives through the group and its ventures.
Startup Grind Bucharest 2026
Monthly fireside-chat series with Bucharest-based and visiting founders, organized as part of the global Startup Grind network. October edition features a larger annual event with multiple speakers, pitch practice, and investor networking. Free to EUR 20.
