Press Release London, 23rd February 2021 Miniclip, a world leader of market-defining mobile titles, announced today a strategic investment through which it has become the majority shareholder in Green Horse Games. Founded in 2013 by George Lemnaru, Green Horse Games is the studio behind the highly successful Football Rivals. This deal provides the perfect opportunity[…]

Catalyst Romania Launches Fund II with backing of 3TS Capital Partners, EIF and private investors We are delighted to announce that Catalyst Romania, sponsored by 3TS Capital Partners, had the first closing of its 2nd-generation technology focused venture capital fund for Romania and the neighboring countries. It builds on the success of Catalyst Romania Fund I and[…]

By Marius Ghenea, Partner Catalyst Romania Entrepreneur turned Business Angel turned Venture Capitalist Fresh out of university I started my first company together with two colleagues. Our garage style startup grew to become the regional leader in its vertical in South Eastern Europe and we successfully exited it 8 years later. A couple of other[…]

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[…]

  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[…]

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[…]

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[…]

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[…]

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,[…]

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[…]

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: 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[…]

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,[…]