Our partners at Endeavor Romania are organizing a second 🚀 scaleup cohort. They are giving access to a global network of entrepreneurs and a tailored action plan🚀 .It is also important to say that the actual captured value of any such programme is proportional to the involvement of foundersthe, quality of their inquiries, transparency and followups, so plan accordingly.Apply by July 1st...

It has been a long journey since I have approached the colleagues at The Recursive with a wild idea to scale regionally a small research I designed to better understand in fund raising the behavior of High-Net-Worth-Individuals. That seed has sprouted, evolved and I am proud to have supported alongside my colleagues in ROCA Investments the creation of Мoney in Motion: Understanding...

🚀 ROCA X is proud to be a partner of the 9th CASSINI Hackathon Romania organized by MyidEA a unique opportunity to develop digital solutions for public health using EU space technologies and AI.💡 Participants will benefit from expert mentoring, access to real satellite data, prizes totaling over €10,000 and funding opportunities up to €300.000.🧠 Join us and tackle challenges...

High level 📈 “numbers DON’T speak for themselves” and tend to hide many problems that the ecosystem has and eludes us from working in the right directions to solve them.In this article I propose a new perspective on the How to Web hashtag#VentureReport...

de Alexandru Bogdan Approximately 2 weeks have passed since the How to Web team published the 2024 edition of the #VentureReport. It is the second edition when the scope is CEE and the first one in partnership with Infobip . We, at ROCA X , are grateful for the efforts made by industry representatives to make this report a reality and we have supported this initiative from the beginning by...

The spring and warm weather really boosted morale and idea seed germination into projects over this intensive weekend at the Innovation Labs Romania hackaton in hashtag#Bucharest where I joined the jury on behalf of ROCA XCongrats to the qualifying teams as they have an extreemly enriching journey aheadhashtag#makeitreal...

🚀 I started this year with an invitation from Oana Coșman and start-up.ro for a relaxed chat about the key takeaways from 2024 and hopes for 2025.Some important points:✓ Economic challenges impact the entire ecosystem, and Europe is adapting to these shifts more slowly than the US—at a time when speed is more critical than ever. The first PitchBook report for 2024 shows a 5% YoY decline...

I attended the kick-off of Climate Change Summit 2024 where I had the pleasure to contribute to the selection and evaluation of the 12 finalists of the hashtag#CCSAwards.I was impressed by the fact that on the very hashtag#green stage of the Romanian Opera House, Ursula von der Leyen delivered a dedicated digital message for the event from which 2 ideas sticked to me:– the contribution of...

The How To Web 2024 madness week kicked off today with a new type of event dedicated to hashtag#TechTransfer.. There have been some interesting insights:1. on how to start and boost this critical process for a healthy innovation environment from Łukasz Marć, PhD and Pawel Bochniarz2. on the risk appetite driving the US innovation from Frances Simowitz3. from EIT we have learned that founders...

2 energetic days BRAND MINDS 2024. The star has been as I was expecting Martin Lindstrom , with its insights on our subconscious and how we can aim as marketers to win the hearts of our customers, but also how as customers we can become more aware on what’s happening to us!Adam Grant also gave some tricks on how to become more creative as a team, while David Sinclair and Fady Chreih teased...