{"id":8660,"date":"2017-01-24T15:37:32","date_gmt":"2017-01-24T13:37:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gpec.ro\/blog\/?p=8660"},"modified":"2017-01-26T17:20:34","modified_gmt":"2017-01-26T15:20:34","slug":"start-up-hubs-in-bucharest-vc-funding-is-scarce-and-mentoring-is-not-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gpec.ro\/blog\/en\/start-up-hubs-in-bucharest-vc-funding-is-scarce-and-mentoring-is-not-available","title":{"rendered":"Start-up hubs: in Bucharest, VC funding is scarce, and mentoring is not available"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fcbkbttn_like \"><div class=\"fb-like fb-like-button_count\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.gpec.ro\/blog\/en\/start-up-hubs-in-bucharest-vc-funding-is-scarce-and-mentoring-is-not-available\" data-colorscheme=\"light\" data-layout=\"button_count\" data-action=\"like\"  data-size=\"small\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><p>The capital of Romania is still looking to improve in terms of becoming an attractive start-up hub. Bucharest offers low costs, a good talent pool, and some acceleration programs. But VC funding is scarce, and mentoring is not available, says <a href=\"http:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2017\/01\/21\/a-quick-tour-of-eastern-europes-startup-hubs\/\" target=\"_blank\">Venturebeat.com<\/a>.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gpec.ro\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/top-eastern-european-startups.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-8661 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gpec.ro\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/top-eastern-european-startups.jpg\" alt=\"top-eastern-european-startups\" width=\"542\" height=\"425\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gpec.ro\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/top-eastern-european-startups.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.gpec.ro\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/top-eastern-european-startups-300x235.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 542px) 100vw, 542px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Among its notable scaleups, there is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.avangate.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Avangate<\/a>, which provides eCommerce solutions and raised $7.5 million before being acquired by Francisco Partners VC in 2013. Online recruitment platform <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ejobs.ro\/\">eJobs<\/a> and online real-estate platform <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imobiliare.ro\/\">Imobiliare.ro<\/a> were both acquired by Ringier in 2015 and 2016 respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Other local startups include <a href=\"http:\/\/typingdna.com\/\">TypingDNA<\/a>, a typing biometrics company, 3D printing platform <a href=\"https:\/\/www.symme3d.com\/\">Symme3D<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/axosuits.com\/\">Axosuits<\/a>, which makes medical exoskeletons for people with disabilities.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read more at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2017\/01\/21\/a-quick-tour-of-eastern-europes-startup-hubs\/\" target=\"_blank\">Venturebeat.com<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fcbkbttn_like \"><div class=\"fb-like fb-like-button_count\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.gpec.ro\/blog\/en\/start-up-hubs-in-bucharest-vc-funding-is-scarce-and-mentoring-is-not-available\" data-colorscheme=\"light\" data-layout=\"button_count\" data-action=\"like\"  data-size=\"small\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><p>The capital of Romania is still looking to improve in terms of becoming an attractive start-up hub. Bucharest offers low costs, a good talent pool, and some acceleration programs. But VC funding is scarce, and mentoring is not available, says Venturebeat.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[477],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-central-eastern-europe-e-commerce"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gpec.ro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gpec.ro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gpec.ro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gpec.ro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gpec.ro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8660"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.gpec.ro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8708,"href":"https:\/\/www.gpec.ro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8660\/revisions\/8708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gpec.ro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gpec.ro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gpec.ro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}