Start-ups of 2023

Meet the teams that took part in our latest Future Makers edition in 2023. Congrats to all the teams!

Country: Romania

Vertical: Open Innovation

Founder: Robert Marian

ROCCO is a Sales & Marketing platform for quick-service restaurants. 60% of restaurants fail in 1st year and 80% fail by year 5. ROCCO aims to change that by helping restaurants, cafes and more operate almost on the level of an e-commerce platform.

Robert Marian

founder

Country: Romania

Vertical: Open Innovation

Founder: Patricea Ganea

Idea Cugito is revolutionizing the approach of creating a business plan through its educational platform. Traditional business planning methods often lack a visual and interactive element, making it challenging for entrepreneurs to effectively organize their ideas and map out the implementation process. Idea Cugito aims to change that by offering a revolutionary vision-board feature that allows users to visually plan, track, and manage all the crucial details of their startup journey.

Patricea Ganea

Founder

Country: Romania

Vertical: Open Innovation

Founder: Cosmin Gheorghilă

ERDA increases the customer satisfaction rate of online stores, without scaling the customer service department, through an AI solution that transforms any chatbot into a much smarter and more empathetic one, trained with your business data. No ramp-up or development needed.

Cosmin Gheorghilă

Founder

Country: Serbia

Vertical: Open Innovation

Founders: Radomir Djokovic & Jovana Djekovic

Remote Santa makes employee gifting easy, meaningful, and fun while encouraging coworkers to build stronger relationships by getting to know each other. The platform is solving "ghost colleague" problem and has main focus on remote teams. Remove the distance by playing games, sending gifts, and having fun at virtual parties.

Jovana Djekovic

Co-founder

Country: Romania

Vertical: Health

Founder: Vlad Gavrilaș

Introducing Happy Mind Better Life, a mobile app that provides personalized and evidence-based self-help interventions to support people with mental health issues. Powered by Artificial Intelligence, the app also offers a direct connection to mental health specialists for professional help whenever needed. Happy Mind Better Life allows users to track their progress, set goals, and access a variety of resources to manage their mental health. With a comprehensive solution that combines the benefits of AI with access to professional support, Happy Mind Better Life is your go-to mobile app for improving your mental well-being.

Vlad Gavrilaș

Founder

Country: Hungary

Vertical: Health

Founder: Alexandra Hably

Quantified Health is a SaaS platform (web+mobile) that helps the longitudinal analysis of lab test results data, for both providers and patients.

Alexandra Hably

Founder

Country: Romania

Vertical: Open Innovation

Founders: Larisa Moldovan & Oana Durcău

Triliada helps high school students make more informed decisions about their desired college by connecting them with students and professionals who are already at the point where they aspire to be. Through its platform, Triliada provides teenagers with: discussions with students from various faculties, summary information about study opportunities in Romania, vocational tests to help them get to know themselves, Q&A events showcasing student life, challenges and games to identify the right college.

Larisa Moldovan & Oana Durcău

Co-founders

Country: Romania

Vertical: Open Innovation

Founder: Cristina Drăgan

EUXIN GREEN was founded in 2021, as a result of the high concern and interest in environmental protection, to offer high-quality consulting services and help companies reduce their impact on the environment, as well as fulfill their legal obligations. EUXIN GREEN offers a wide range of tailor-made environmental services, including environmental impact assessment, the development of waste management plans, the development of strategies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, taking over the position of environmental manager, reporting to OIREPs and intermediation of contracts with authorized collectors and OIREP, declarations to the Environmental Fund, the County Agency for Environmental Protection and the National Agency for Environmental Protection, RetuRO SGR, preparation of technical documentation and submission of files for registration in the National Registers, as well as environmental consultancy, acting as integral part of our parteners business.

Cristina Drăgan

Founder

Country: Romania

Vertical: Health

Founder: Raoul Crișan

InnerPortum's mission is to provide AI-driven, tailored mental health plans that blend scientific knowledge, spiritual wisdom, and practical advice, empowering individuals to transform their lives and achieve balance and harmony.

Raoul Crișan

Founder

Country: Hungary

Vertical: Open Innovation

Founder: Szabolcs Dinga

Veteményem.hu is a complex system for hobby gardeners. It consists of a step-by-step guide which leads through the process of vegetables growing, and a marketplace which recommends the best products for the garden.

Szabolcs Dinga

Founder

Country: Romania

Vertical: Health

Founder: Roxana Halati

SoberProtect is a digital solution designed to support people on their journey to recovering from addiction. Through scientifically backed techniques such as trigger management, sobriety tracking, and creating strong support systems, we aim to shift the narrative around addiction, combat stigma, and guide users toward lasting sobriety.

Roxana Halati

Founder

Country: Romania

Vertical: Open Innovation

Founder: Sabin Emilian Prunău

Atlas of Sports is the ultimate platform for alternative sports. Born in the city, raised for adventure. Whether in the mountains, the wilderness, in remote destinations or in the countryside, Atlas of Sports is one click away to inspire and empower alternative athletes push their limits - to seek new routes, new lines or new distances and to follow their passions! Atlas of Sports gives people the chance to rediscover the world and nature through alternative sports. It makes it more accessible to people to find out the options they have. Be it in advance, while planning a trip, or somewhere in the mountains, in the middle of a storm, Atlas of Sports gives you precious info about the mountain infrastructure we all need.

Sabin Emilian Prunău

Founder

Country: Romania

Vertical: Health

Founder: Teofil Sturzoiu

SilverCare helps strengthen social relationships and the quality of life of the elderly with a solution through which loved ones can offer them opportunities to connect during trips, artistic performances, assistance and care, or many other options. The application brings together in an accessible and easy-to-use interface a series of services aimed at segments of the elderly population. Considering the growing elderly population, especially in Europe, the product has great potential to contribute to improving their lives, allowing them to spend their free time in an active and socializing way, but also to benefit from support and care services.

Teofil Sturzoiu

Founder

Country: Romania

Vertical: Health

Founder: Georgia Bucea

BRINOS offers every parent of a child with neurodevelopmental disorders an accessible and cheap way to quality therapy sessions. We create an at-home monitoring platform, approved by specialists that leverages artificial intelligence and gamification in order to make sure that the child makes the necessary improvements to access public education at the right age.

Georgia Bucea

Founder

Country: Serbia

Vertical: Open Innovation

Founders: Vladimir Lazarevic, Zorana Dulovic, Sofija Durovic

HireClass represents a hybrid between a hiring company and an educational platform in the IT industry, based on free education designed in collaboration with companies aiming for employment. The revenue model is based on payment by companies for successfully hired candidates.

Vladimir Lazarevic

Co-founder

Country: Romania

Vertical: Health

Founders: Maria Drăgoi, Tim Palade

AlerGică solves allergy management when eating out for alergic people and people with special diets, by creating a platform that filters restaurant menu dishes based on allergens.

Maria Drăgoi

Co-founder

Country: Romania

Vertical: Health

Founder: Sandu Alexandru Daniel

Quid pro Quo Negotium will hold a portfolio of different brands. The first child of the mother company is Sanovita Performance Kinetics (S&P Kinetics) which has as its main mission to help people become more active, healthy and happy by facilitating access to quality personal training sessions, while also offering some of the best manual therapy services for physical and mental recovery.

Sandu Alexandru Daniel

Founder

Country: Romania

Vertical: Open Innovation

Founder: Carmen Stanciu

Flower ordering just got smarter - PetalAI brings convenience, customization and AI together.

Carmen Stanciu

Founder

Country: Romania

Vertical: Health

Founders: Vlad Ungureanu & Valentin Bârhala

Full Time Humans aims to make self-awareness as natural as breathing. We address the lack of emotional education & self-awareness: understanding our emotions, identifying them in real-time and talking about them. We acknowledged that we, as humans, tend to immediately react rather than intentionally respond to what happens to us. This gets amplified by our speedy lives, technological overwhelm and recent global events. As a response, we’re building a simple & easy to use self-awareness app mainly focused on tracking our daily emotions and enthusiasm level. This develops the habit of documenting our emotions in a fun way through smart micro-journaling, helping us to identify our stressors & triggers. Imagine a DuoLingo for emotional language with frameworks, tools and exercises to help you build good habits.

Vlad Ungureanu

Co-founder

Country: Serbia

Vertical: Open Innovation

Founder: Danilo Stojanovic

teambuilder is a comprehensive online platform that connects companies with curated, team-building activities from multiple providers, while also offering an easy-to-use interface for activity providers to showcase and market their services to potential clients. We make browsing activities much easier for companies while also giving a chance to providing companies to get more client.

Danilo Stojanovic

Founder

Country: Romania

Stage: Beginners

Founders: Cătălina Bolozan & Olga Soroka

Affective Club is a hybrid organisation, part think-tank, part consultancy, part community mental health service creating scientifically rigorous solutions for better mental health and wellbeing. It explores mental health in relation to: • the digital turn - through programmes of digital wellbeing that equip youngsters and their carers with the tools needed to engage with the internet in a healthier, non-destructive way • the ecological turn - through climate wellbeing programmes which teach individuals and communities how to become resilient and self-sustainable • the democratic divide - through civic wellbeing programmes which strengthen critical thinking and the power of micro-communities.

Country: Romania

Vertical: Health

Founder: Ionuț Ungureanu

Dadsaround is a hub for healing and growth, where divorced dads in Romania (and in Europe, in a future development phase) find shelter and inspiration to brave out of preconceived ideas and reach their true potential of fatherhood. A multi-level content platform where education comes in a participative form and is based on scientific data. It involves an active community where divorced dads find the tools and the understanding that can help them rekindle their role in the parenting of their children.

Ionuț Ungureanu

Founder

Country: Romania

Vertical: Open Innovation

Founder: Áron Ecsenyi

eDI project introduced a new vehicle architecture to reconcile these expectations by closing the gap between cars and diwheels in terms of safety and performance, while maintaining affordability and increasing maneuverability. This architecture reduces the weight and number of parts of the vehicle which allows it to be cheaper to manufacture than conventional 4-wheeled cars used for daily commuting. eDI project represents a significant advance beyond the state-of-the-art in city transport and reduces parking lots. Engineering profession and road legal regulations focus on the optimization of components of traditional 4-wheeled cars. In contrast, the ground-breaking concept of eDI offers several advantages over them: It will be the co-creation of the cheapest, lightest and least energy-consuming enclosed EV with higher maneuverability, performance and braking features than cars and motorcycles.

Áron Ecsenyi

Founder

Country: Romania

Vertical: Health

Founders: Mihnea Stoian

LifeLink is the innovative startup that acts as a lifeline for individuals facing health challenges, empowering them to monitor their biometric data, alerting their loved ones in times of emergencies, and supporting those striving for a longer and healthier life. Through a blend of verified information, a vibrant community, and a direct connection between experts and patients, LifeLink paves the way for a truly captivating journey towards improved well-being.

Country: Romania

Vertical: Open Innovation

Founders: Roxana Huțanu & Andrei Huțanu

Contribute to a dream with your time or talent or capital. Anyone can add value to the entrepreneurial world. Through Infrared, we’re creating infrared to help investable pre-series A companies to promote their investment opportunity. Mentors, advisors and angels can join the journey by contributing with their time, skills or capital to accelerate growth in exchange for equity. We're building infrared for underrepresented founders. Infrared is looking at diverse teams that are closing the gender gap, initially in European countries. This way, founders have instant access to the resources they need. We're aiming to onboard angels that can bring money, wisdom and services. Unlike crowdfunding platforms, each startup will have a smaller boat of investors. This essential mix will speed up the company's growth up to series A.

Country: Romania

Vertical: Open Innovation

Founders: Roman Grădinaru

3D Printing is about Connecting People/Customers with 3D Printing Service Providers using an website as a Marketplace. Customers pay and receive 3d printed parts. 3D Service Providers offer 3d printing services and technical support.

Roman Grădinaru

Founder

Country: Romania

Vertical: Health

Founders: Dan Iulian Santa

Elpida Research INC is a new effective cancer treatment using natural ingredients.

Country: Romania

Vertical: Health

Founders: Cristina Văduva

White Cloud is an online platform aimed at medical students and residents in Romania, a group of dedicated learners often challenged by the sheer volume of academic material and the lack of structured, interactive learning methods. Its mission is to empower these students, who are immersed in a six-year curriculum with extensive subject matter, by providing them with accessible, structured, and interactive digital tools and resources. We recognize that the traditional Romanian education system often lacks these modern and engaging learning methods, which are particularly needed due to the intensity and duration of medical studies.

Cristina Văduva

Founder

What other participants say: