startup summit moldova 2023

Held on March 17 in the vibrant city of Chisinau, the 2023 edition of the Startup Moldova Summit stands as a testament to Moldova’s burgeoning tech and entrepreneurial spirit. Organized by the esteemed Startup Moldova Foundation, the summit convened a remarkable blend of startup founders, visionary investors, and industry shapers from both local and international arenas. Participants delved into illuminating discussions, hands-on workshops, and networking sessions that fostered collaboration and innovation. As we reflect on the event’s highlights and successes, it’s clear that the future of tech entrepreneurship in Moldova is brighter than ever.

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About the event

The biggest tech startups event in Moldova

At Startup Moldova Summit 2023, we aimed to foster relationships and networking within the Moldovan community, while also facilitating connections with international resources: investors, community builders, partners, and mentors. Moldova has a growing base of tech startups. The Startup Moldova Summit 2023 served as the platform where we showcased these startups and connected them to opportunities for growth and scale.

320+

Offline participants

6700+

People joining us online

58+

Co-founders of startups

19

Countries physically represented

20+

VCs and investors on spot

50

one-to-one meetings with investors

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Event moderators

Meet our event moderators

Tal Catran

Moderator & Keynote speaker, Startups & Accelerators GURU

Tal is a prominent figure in the global innovation ecosystem, a GURU on building accelerators, hubs, and tech incubators. He founded 20 startup accelerators worldwide since 2012, having conducted over 70 cohorts, graduating more than 1,000 startups.

Tal Catran

Moderator & Keynote speaker, Startups & Accelerators GURU

Natalia Bejan

Moderator, Executive Director at Startup

Moldova

Natalia is the executive director at Startup Moldova, with executive background in 2 tech startups in China and the Czech Republic. Currently, Natalia is focusing on the development and promotion of the Moldovan technological startup ecosystem.

Natalia Bejan

Moderator, Executive Director at Startup

Moldova

Cătălina Plinschi

Moderator, Community Manager at Startup Moldova

Cătălina is the Community Manager at Startup Moldova. She is the go-to person to know and connect with individual Moldovan tech startups, identifying their needs and connecting them to the local and international resources available.

Cătălina Plinschi

Moderator, Community Manager at Startup Moldova

Speakers

Meet our speakers

Ornela Ramasauskaite

Founder and CEO, artXchange Global

Ornela is an International Marketing & Communication Strategist with 15+ years of experience in pharmaceuticals, education, and ArtTech. Ornela was appointed twice as the top Chief Marketing Officers in the region (LiMA) and is a former public advisor to the Prime Minister of Lithuania.

Ornela Ramasauskaite

Founder and CEO, artXchange Global

Sasha

Vidiborskiy

Partner, Atomico

Sasha Vidiborskiy is a Partner at Atomico, based in London. He focuses on enterprise software, including blockchain/web3, developer tools and AI/ML applications, among others. He has worked on Atomico’s new investments in Arculus and Qatalog, and led our investment in Mondoo.

Sasha

Vidiborskiy

Partner, Atomico

Natalia Donțu

Administrator, Moldova Innovation Technology Park

Natalia is appointed by the Government to lead Moldova Innovation Technology Park (MITP) – the most important initiative to develop the local IT industry and to increase its competitiveness at the regional level.

Natalia Donțu

Administrator, Moldova Innovation Technology Park

Naomi Balaban

Head of Marketing, StartupBlink

Naomi is the Marketing Manager of StartupBlink, the most comprehensive startup ecosystem map and research center. In 2022, Naomi was the lead writer of the Global Startup Ecosystem Report and helped analyze the startup ecosystems of 100 countries and 1000 cities.

Naomi Balaban

Head of Marketing, StartupBlink

Dumitru Ciorici

Chief Business Development Officer at Fagura

Dumitru is the Chief Business Development Officer at Fagura, Moldovan fintech startup, which managed to close a 780k EUR crowdfunding campaign on Seedrs.

Dumitru Ciorici

Chief Business Development Officer at Fagura

Mircea Vadan

Managing Partner at Activize

Mircea and his team activities are related to startup scouting, acceleration programs, fundraising support and angel investing; while being active in organisations as Activize, Transylvania Angels Network, Cluj Startups, FreshBlood.Health, Spherik Accelerator and RoStartup.

Mircea Vadan

Managing Partner at Activize

Mary Nemciuc

CEO and Founder at Technovato

Mary is a highly experienced tech professional focusing on growing talent initiatives. She has managed over 600 initiatives, connecting entrepreneurs, universities, and corporates to spotlight creativity and innovation in the tech scene.

Mary Nemciuc

CEO and Founder at Technovato

Olga Melniciuc

Managing Director & Co-founder at investitii.md

Olga is the Managing Director and Co-founder at Investitii.MD, a strategic and operational boutique consultancy company active in the field of business financing. Olga is also sharing the role of partner and mentor at XY Partners, a Moldovan startup acceleration program.

Olga Melniciuc

Managing Director & Co-founder at investitii.md

Denis Filatov

Investment Director at Horizon Capital

At Horizon Capital, Denis is responsible for sourcing new deals and portfolio management of companies in Retail and IT sectors.

Denis Filatov

Investment Director at Horizon Capital

Călin Calancea

CEO at Enabld

Călin is the CEO at Enabld, a one-stop-shop Communications Platform enabling Communication service providers to build their own-branded CPaaS solutions and provide omnichannel communications services through one single interface. In 2022, Enabld raised 1.400.000 USD.

Călin Calancea

CEO at Enabld

Karolina Mroskova

General Partner at Credo Ventures

Karolina Mrozkova is the General Partner at Credo Ventures, a venture capital firm, based in Prague, Czech Republic, and focusing on pre-seed and seed, investing with first tickets up to 5M EUR.

Karolina Mroskova

General Partner at Credo Ventures

Mike Butcher

Editor-in-Chief, TechCrunch

Mike Butcher is Editor-at-large of TechCrunch. He has written for UK national newspapers and magazines and been named one of the most influential people in European technology by Wired UK.

Mike Butcher

Editor-in-Chief, TechCrunch

Nikolai Manolov

Founedr at XOR.ai

Nik is a former rocket scientist turned artificial intelligence expert who built XOR’s first platform and oversees product development today.

Nikolai Manolov

Founedr at XOR.ai

Adriane Thrash

Growth Partner at Ventures Thrive

Adriane is the Growth Partner at Ventures Thrive. She is also the Growth Program Lead at Ventures Thrive; an Angel Investor; Funding & Growing European Deeptech Startups; especially interested in AgTech, Bio/MedTech, Climate, EdTech, PropTech, Silver Economy, DLT, Impact.

Adriane Thrash

Growth Partner at Ventures Thrive

Emil Chichioi

CEO and Founder at Bloomcoding

Emil is the founder and CEO at Bloomcoding – a Moldovan startup – a digital coding school for kids bringing VR/AR tech into live online lessons. In 2022 the team closed 2 rounds of investments, raising a total amount of 1.1 mil EUR.

Emil Chichioi

CEO and Founder at Bloomcoding

Traian Chivriga

CEO and fondator at XY Partners

Traian is a business specialist who helps register and grow business from scratch with a portfolio of dozens of mentored companies.

Traian Chivriga

CEO and fondator at XY Partners

Rotaru Aliona

Executive Director of Dreamups Innovation

Aliona is an activist and feminist, promoting innovation and entrepreneurship as a career choice.

Rotaru Aliona

Executive Director of Dreamups Innovation

Argyrios Spyridis

CEO, Anthology Ventures

Argyrios Spyridis

CEO, Anthology Ventures

Răzvan Suta

Business Development at Startup Wise Guys

Razvan is the former co-founder of Polisensio, and shaper of the startup ecosystem in Aalborg Denmark, as Managing Director and Board Member of Kickstart Aalborg. For the past 3 years, he has worked with Startup Wise Guys, his mandate includes business development activities in the CEE, CIS regions and Africa and managing acceleration programs.

Răzvan Suta

Business Development at Startup Wise Guys

Dmitri Namașco

CEO Mozaic

Dmitri is a business consultant aimed to help tech startups to raise their first capital from angel investors.

Dmitri Namașco

CEO Mozaic

Oxana Paladiciuc Ungureanu

Manager at FinTech Hub

Oxana has great experience in business support infrastructure development in Moldova, including clustering, and internationalization. Currently she is focusing on unveiling the fintech industry ecosystem and support its’ enhancement.

Oxana Paladiciuc Ungureanu

Manager at FinTech Hub

Karol Lasota

Principal at Inovo VC

Karol is the principal at Inovo VC. Ex-startup founder and operator. He has a tech M&A and VC background, he participated in over ten investments and M&A deals totalling over $150M.

Karol Lasota

Principal at Inovo VC

Cerbușca Viorica

Founder at Yep Moldova

Viorica is a startups tamer and inspirer. She organized over 100 startup events counting more than 10 000 participants and worked with over 500 ideas. Viorica promotes design thinking in schools and universities and manages the first creative hub in Chisinau.

Cerbușca Viorica

Founder at Yep Moldova

Anya Abchiche

Executive Manager at Business Angels Moldova

Anya Abchiche is the Executive Manager of Business Angels Moldova – a network of private investors, ready to invest capital, time and expertise in various startups and teams.

Anya Abchiche

Executive Manager at Business Angels Moldova

Stan Andrei

VP Product Strategy & Finance at INDEX

Andi is the person in charge for product strategy, research and development at INDEX – a global platform of programmers and software engineers recruitment.

Stan Andrei

VP Product Strategy & Finance at INDEX

Rumen Iliev

Partner at Launchub

Rumen Iliev is a partner at LAUNCHUB Ventures, a €74M early-stage venture fund focused on investing in tech startups across Southeast Europe since 2012. As a generalist, Rumen has led deals in various domains and is passionate about working with ambitious founders to help them achieve their goals.

Rumen Iliev

Partner at Launchub

Ahmad Sufian Bayram

EMEA Regional Manager at Techstars

Andi is the person in charge for product strategy, research and development at INDEX – a global platform of programmers and software engineers recruitment.

Ahmad Sufian Bayram

EMEA Regional Manager at Techstars

Marin Ghenciu

Deputy director at ODA

Marin Ghenciu is the Deptuty Director of the Organization for Entrepreneurship Development

Marin Ghenciu

Deputy director at ODA

Xenia Muntean

CEO and Co-Founder of Planable

Xenia is the CEO and Co-Founder of Planable, a content review and marketing collaboration platform used by over 5,000 teams behind brands such as Hyundai, Christian Louboutin, Viber, and United Nations.

Xenia Muntean

CEO and Co-Founder of Planable

Maria Terentiev

Analyst, EBRD SME Finance & Development Group

SME Finance & Development Group

Maria Terentiev

Analyst, EBRD SME Finance & Development Group

Dumitru Alaiba

Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Economic Development and Digitalization.

Dumitru Alaiba is a Moldovan economist and politician. He currently serves as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economic Development and Digitalization in the Recean Cabinet.

Dumitru Alaiba

Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Economic Development and Digitalization.

Karin Borovic

Head of Development Cooperation, Deputy HoM, Embassy of Sweden

Karin Borovic is the Head of Development Cooperation, Deputy Head of Mission at the

Embassy of Sweden

Karin Borovic

Head of Development Cooperation, Deputy HoM, Embassy of Sweden

Roman Știrbu

CEO at Simpals

Roman Știrbu is the CEO at Simpals, which is one of the top-ranked companies in the Moldovan market in the field of online advertising, Internet services and 3D animation.

Roman Știrbu

CEO at Simpals

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Startups attending list

Viar.live allows any 360 ̊ enthusiasts and business owners to create and share amazing VR experiences with ease

Market place for psychological support

SAAS solution for dental clinics

Bloomcoding is reinventing online coding education for children, by teaching kids how to code through Virtual and Augmented Reality experiences.

Empowering Communication Service Providers to offer smart and cost-effective business communications services

XOR builds modern communication software for recruiting and HR to hire and retain talent more efficiently.

P2P credit platform

Donkey.io makes code deployments simple and fun, regardless of the location you are delivering your software solution to.

A WEB 3.0 platform where for tokenizing real assets in agriculture using Blockchain, NFT and Metaverse technologies.

Selftalk is a behavioural health app that helps tech employees deal with anxiety, stress, depression, and negative inner conversation.

A set of white label delivery solutions that features the whole package of software required to set up and run your own delivery business

A platform for event pages management with tools for events promotion, tickets sale and community building

Brizy is a multiplatform website builder that anyone can use.

SONR Music is a compact disc-shaped 100% waterproof audio player.

A platform that brings together specialists from the NEW MEDIA ART area for promoting and re-imagining new products.

A non-standard platform for learning English based on the Oxford English course.

Stilio is web platform and booking app designed for Beauty industry, an online digital solution for making online appointments to beauty salons and specialists.

Watznow offers a quick way to share videos with people around you or anywhere in the world with an interactive map.

FastBoss is Integrated mobile-first CRM-like tools with embedded Virtual Assistant for salesmen and business owners

AI-assisted productivity management platform that reduces bias in performance improvement and creates a habit of feedback.

Influence.md is a platform that connects brands with digital storytellers, influencers, and content creators in order to personalize their brand story.

Blockchain Analytics & Crypto Investigation.

Baby Medy inspire hope and contribute to the health and well-being of parents and their kids by providing the best care through medicine and modern technology.