Ten Romanian tech startups to keep an eye on
Romania’s tech environment has been steadily growing to be an important part of the business world. There are more and more Romanian tech startups that turn into successful businesses, both locally and on a multi-national level.
Irina Marica · Journalist
· Updated · 4 min read
Romania’s tech environment has been steadily growing to be an important part of the business world. There are more and more Romanian tech startups that turn into successful businesses, both locally and on a multi-national level.
Here’s a list of 10 Romanian startups one should know of. To add more suggestions, please comment in the comments box below the article.
SafeDrive is a Romanian app that rewards drivers for not using the phone while driving. Once the driver exceeds 10 km per hour, the SafeDrive algorithm starts awarding him points and a Release button appears on the screen of his mobile phone. If the app user wants to use the phone for something else while driving, he has to push the Release button and thus lose all the points he made during that trip. The earned points can be used in the SafeDrive Marketplace, a shop with discounted products from partner companies. The app recently won gold at this year’s Edison Awards gala organized in New York.
DeviceHub.net is a Romanian startup which provides cloud services for the Internet of Things communication. It can be integrated with any kind of hardware and is specially designed for smart metering, fleet management, medical industry, home automation, IoT makers, automotive, wearables. Three Romanian entrepreneurs created this project, namely Ionut Cotoi, Constantin Craciun, and Cristina Bogateanu. This year, the startup received a EUR 80,000 funding from hub:raum Krakow, Deutsche Telekom’s Innovation Hub for the CEE region.
DeviceHub.net is the second Romanian start-up which received financing from hub:raum, after OmniPaste, which won a EUR 80,000 funding in 2013. Its founders are Adrian Nistor, Alexandru Calinoiu and Ciprian Stavar. The app allows users to easily transfer data across devices running Windows operating system or Android.
Young Romanians Ovidiu Naclad, Radu Oprea and Dragos Bardac have developed an app that allows users to create private photo albums and share them with friends. The Lifebox.mobi website was launched late last year and already attracted thousands of users. It works on phones, tablets or laptops and is available for iOS, Android, Windows Phone, and Blackberry. Last year, the app
