For Release: 15 of June, 2015 JEREMIE-financed and 3TS backed Catalyst Romania invests over €1 million in cloud software business 123ContactForm Catalyst Romania, the leading private equity growth and venture capital fund dedicated to Romania, whichsupports SMEs in Technology-Media-Telecom (TMT) sector, has acquired a minority stake in123ContactForm (www.123contactform.com), a Timisoara headquartered business which provides web forms[…]

For Release: 10 March 2016 Catalyst Romania Fund and Gecad Group invest over €1 million in Smart Bill, the leading cloud invoicing company in Romania More than 2 billion euro are invoiced yearly through SmartBill Catalyst Romania, the leading private equity growth and venture capital fund in Romania, financed by Jeremie programme, announced a joint investment[…]

For Release: 5 April 2016 Catalyst Romania invests €1 M in Marketizator, the leading Conversion Optimization platform in the SEE region Catalyst Romania, the leading private equity growth and venture capital fund dedicated to Romania, which supports SMEs in Technology-Media-Telecom (TMT) sector invests 1 million Euro in Romanian Technology Start-up Marketizator, which is specialized in conversion[…]

Leading eCommerce Company in Romania Successfully Closes Major Milestone Bucharest, Romania – August, 2016: Elefant.ro, one of the leading eCommerce companies in Romania announced today that it has raised €5.5 million new round of funding led by Axxess Capital Emerging Europe Accession Fund, one of the leading growth capital investors in Romania. Existing investor Catalyst Romania,[…]

Catalyst Romania, the leading private equity growth and venture capital fund dedicated to Romania, has announced that its portfolio company Vector Watch has been acquired by Fitbit. Catalyst Romania invested in Vector Watch in 2015 and provided hands on support in Company’s development. Launched by Andreai Pitis, Founder and CTO, Vector Watch combined engineering talent[…]

Catalyst Romania, the leading private equity growth and venture capital fund dedicated to Romania, has announced that its portfolio company SmartBill has been acquired by the Norwergian Group Visma. Catalyst Romania invested in SmartBill in 2016 and provided hands on support in Company’s development. Launched by Ioana Hasan, Radu Hasan and Mircea Capatina in 2007, SmartBill[…]

By Marius Ghenea, Partner Catalyst Romania These days, I see two approaches to the Corona crisis which are clearly polarized in many countries. In the social, political and also business environment, there are some people in the decision-making positions who seem to think about everything as if times were normal and taking measures accordingly. Luckily,[…]

by Marius Ghenea, Partner 3TS SmartBill, one of the companies in the Catalyst Romania portfolio, has recently launched a very useful tool for analyzing the evolution of activities of SMEs in Romania in the context of the COVID-19 crisis – the “SmartBill Barometer”. How and why did we initiate this project? We started from the[…]

  By George Lemnaru, CEO Green Horse Games   April and May were busy times for most game developers, and for us at Green Horse Games this period was especially exciting as we started scaling our new game Football Rivals. Monetizing solely through in-app-purchases, we are looking for a great Q2 in terms of results[…]

Press Release Bucharest, December 2nd, 2020 Catalyst Romania, backed by 3TS Capital Partners, is deploying a second venture capital fund targeting TMT companies, following an initial closing with institutional and private investors. Catalyst Romania Fund II, with a target fund size of EUR 40-50m, has been established as a result of being selected through European[…]