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Nucleo Ventures
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Nucleo Ventures (formerly Fortech Ventures) backs early-stage teams that combine corporate experience, engineering excellence, and deep market insight to build product-led companies that can disrupt traditional industries. The firm invests in founders who understand real industry pain because they have lived it from inside corporations, engineering teams, and complex enterprise environments, helping them move faster from concept to market-ready product and then from early traction to scalable go-to-market, follow-on financing, and strategic exit optionality. Focusing on vertical software in markets ready for transformation — specifically Health, Manufacturing, Energy, Finance, and Defence — Nucleo targets globally relevant companies built from Romania and CEE with strong technical moats and clear commercial urgency. The firm's €34M fund (with a €23.5M institutional cornerstone from ADR Nord-Vest) aims to finance 46 companies over four years, capitalising on CEE's 3× capital efficiency advantage versus Western counterparts and converting the region's deep technical talent into globally ambitious businesses.
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“Romania and Central and Eastern Europe have exceptional technical talent, yet many founders continue to face a shortage of the early-stage capital needed to grow their businesses. Through this fund, we aim to help bridge that gap and support the creation of companies capable of competing globally. We want the North-West Region to become a natural destination for entrepreneurs seeking access to funding, talent, and growth opportunities in international markets.”
“Through this initiative, we aim to build more than an investment fund. We are building a regional infrastructure for entrepreneurship and innovation that provides founders with the resources they need to turn ideas and technical expertise into companies with real economic impact. Our objective is to contribute to the development of an entrepreneurial ecosystem capable of creating businesses that can compete at both European and global levels.”
Recent investments
| Company | Round | Size | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| SaleSqueze | Seed | $2m | 2024-06-12 |
| Bright Spaces | Seed | $2m | 2023-12-04 |
| Prime Dash | Seed | $590k | 2023-11-02 |
| AiVA | Seed | — | 2021-10-01 |
| UpLyft | Series A | — | 2022-07-01 |
| Synaptiq | Pre-seed | — | — |
Frequent co-investors
| VC firm | Deals together |
|---|---|
| Seedblink | 2 |
| Superangels | 1 |
| Robin Capital | 1 |
| Underline Ventures | 1 |
| Growceanu Angel Investment | 1 |
| Sparking Capital | 1 |
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