Ciprian Candea

Owner | CEO at Ropardo SRL

📍 Sibiu, Sibiu, Romania🔄 Updated October 2026💼 2 investments📅 13 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2013
Operator-angel🌍 Romania
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2013
The Romanian based business angel network for financing tech startups. TechAngels is facilitating the development of tech businesses from South-Eastern Europe through investment, expertise and connections. We help entrepreneurs shape up their pitch deck, evaluate their business and put them in contact with the most fitted investors from our network, in order to improve their success rate.
Investor
2013
TechAngels is an independent non-profit association established in 2013 with the objective to promote entrepreneurship and investments in tech industry in Romania and South-Eastern Europe. It is an open group of investors with proven track record in businesses as corporate experts in management, finance, HR, product development, business development, marketing and entrepreneurs and founders of successful Romanian startups, willing to provide a return to people starting their journey as either tech founders, or Angel investors. At this moment the group is formed by 70 angel investors with diverse portfolios and with experience in mentoring and coaching start-up teams from many industries. Investment decisions are made individually or in group during regular pitch sessions organized directly or via participation in other specialized events. TechAngels is also open to form partnerships with similar Business Angel associations from Europe as well as with other organizations such as universities, accelerators and venture capital funds sharing same objectives. During 2019 the group committed around 6 million Euro to the development of tech start-ups in Romania. Those interested to join are invited to fill in the forms available on the website.
Experience · 4 entries
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2015
Happy Day Cibinium
Owner
Dec 2015
2013
Investor
2013
The Romanian based business angel network for financing tech startups. TechAngels is facilitating the development of tech businesses from South-Eastern Europe through investment, expertise and connections. We help entrepreneurs shape up their pitch deck, evaluate their business and put them in contact with the most fitted investors from our network, in order to improve their success rate.
Investor
2013
TechAngels is an independent non-profit association established in 2013 with the objective to promote entrepreneurship and investments in tech industry in Romania and South-Eastern Europe. It is an open group of investors with proven track record in businesses as corporate experts in management, finance, HR, product development, business development, marketing and entrepreneurs and founders of successful Romanian startups, willing to provide a return to people starting their journey as either tech founders, or Angel investors. At this moment the group is formed by 70 angel investors with diverse portfolios and with experience in mentoring and coaching start-up teams from many industries. Investment decisions are made individually or in group during regular pitch sessions organized directly or via participation in other specialized events. TechAngels is also open to form partnerships with similar Business Angel associations from Europe as well as with other organizations such as universities, accelerators and venture capital funds sharing same objectives. During 2019 the group committed around 6 million Euro to the development of tech start-ups in Romania. Those interested to join are invited to fill in the forms available on the website.
1999
Owner | CEO
1999
ROPARDO is an independent leading software engineering company providing customers with key competitive advantages - Innovation, Quality, Timely delivery, since 1994. With the latest tools and agile methods, we create beautiful highly performing products and platforms as well as user-friendly mobile, cloud or web applications. Ropardo custom software development services cover the complete development life cycle to build a solution from the ground, migrate an existent product to a new platform or re-engineer an existing solution using modern technology. We master Cloud, big-data, web & mobile apps, Agile and DevOps to build commercially efficient software that enables users to transform your vision into actions. Our top solutions are mainly based on technologies such as: • Java and J2EE • Microsoft (C++, C#, ASP.NET, MVC), • PHP • JavaScript frameworks (i.e. AngularJS, KendoUI) • Mobile (iOS, Android, Windows Phone, Hybrid) • Liferay Ropardo uses agile methods to increase speed-to-market and deliver more frequent releases. Well-grounded in the Agile state of mind, our engineers are flexible in responding to any challenge. Yet, we have been here and successful before the Agile era, so trust us for classic approaches. Today’s world is changing fast so innovation is part of our culture and the key competitive advantage we provide our customers with in terms of skilled people, current technology trends, strong procedures, and R&D passion. With a deep understanding of industry’s needs, our team of consultants, developers and QA have accommodated specific requirements in, but not limited to Manufacturing, Healthcare, Tourism, e-Commerce, Public Administration, Automotive, Logistic, Financial Services and Banking. Future-proof software engineering is ensured by the natural intertwine of intuitive thorough UI/UX and robust, scalable technology platforms for today’s users to stay connected to their environment.