Our mission and vision

Venture Booster is a startup support organization with the mission to help the most promising tech startups from the Romanian ecosystem, and more generally from Eastern European countries, to increase the scaleup success chances and become competitive in the overall European landscape. Based on the experience of its founder in risk finance, Venture Booster aims to support startups get the adequate mix of dilutive and non-dilutive financing allowing to achieve their ambitious goals. To make our support available at a larger scale, we are developing a platform representing a dashboard and canvas for startup founders to project their trajectories in the crowded, while allowing investors and large companies to identify “raising stars” corresponding to their focus and strategic goals.
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Startup Support

Our core mission is to help tech startups from Eastern European ecosystem be ready to face the requirements expressed by their future investors and clients. To that respect the foundations of our work consist, for the startups that go through out stringent pre-selection process, to develop a sound development strategy and plan. We guide startups towards their technology development and business objectives by facilitating access to the network and critical resources needed in the process. By offering a personalized support, we help startups accelerate the growth process and avoid the typical pitfalls faced by peers by leveraging a strong expertise in supporting ambitious entrepreneurs and promising companies.
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Dilutive funding

We help tech startups go through the investment readiness process, perform their due diligence and get prepared to meet investors. We help the carefully align all the elements on their roadmap and present a clear Business Plan to potential investors. Through our collaborations with investors, not only we help startups raise the capital they need, but we also help investors to syndicate for the most promising startups in their portfolios. Our ambition is to become a co-investment platform helping the most promising startups efficiently access the capital they need, while offering interesting deals to our investment partners.
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Non-dilutive funding

To put all chances on their side, we help startups access the right mix of public funding available at the national and European levels according to their growth stage. We focus in particular on the access to funding for innovation and research projects and help startups define clearly the scope of such projects, clearly present the concepts and identify the adequate partners to achieve their goals. We support tech startups through all the steps of the preparation process, from the assessment of their readiness and maturity of their projects to the submission of the applications.
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Our Team

Ioana

Ioana

Founder
Ioana has worked for the last 17 years in the field banking. She has a wide expertise in working with all types of customer profiles, from large organizations to NGOs. Currently Ioana is specialized in financial risk, focusing on the recovery of companies impacted by the crisis.

Our EU projects

EMPOWERED by NEIA brings together a team of stakeholders from 7 EU countries (2 Regional Innovation/Development Agencies and 5 Business Support Organizations – incubators and accelerators) with he ambition to engage in a process of peer mutual learning and cooperation and support Clean Tech for Sustainable Development. Based on an in-depth analysis of strengths, weaknesses, challenges and gaps in the ecosystems they represent, the EMPOWERED by NEIA team members strive to bring together the members of the innovation ecosystems they represent as active stakeholders in bottom-up policy-making activities tailored to their needs. Through an Entrepreneurial Discovery process, we aim to stimulate a participative process that will allow to identify the best innovation opportunities in each ecosystem and align them with the ones of the peers. The results of the Entrepreneurial Discovery run locally by each partner will represent the foundation of Action Plans, elaborated according to the European Entrepreneurial Region approach, to strengthen the collaboration between the Regional European Innovation Ecosystems. These plans will be back up with collaboration and project ideas for which public and private funding will be sought.

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon Europe Coordination and Support actions programme under the grant agreement number 101134912.

HARD2SCALE

The EU-funded HARD2SCALE project empowers digital and deep-tech start-ups to deliver transformative solutions for energy-intensive and hard-to-abate sectors. By building a cross-border accelerator, HARD2SCALE connects 40 start-ups with top investors, corporates, and innovation hubs in Finland and France. The project unites partners from both emerging and leading EU innovation ecosystems, offering tailored support (from tech development to market access). Through co-designed services and local stakeholder engagement, HARD2SCALE opens new pathways for green transition, helping start-ups scale faster and smarter. Inspired by Europe’s most successful hyperscalers, this initiative turns early-stage innovation into real-world impact for a more sustainable industrial future.

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon Europe Coordination and Support actions programme under the grant agreement number 101193674.