Cristian Dascalu

European Startup Network (ESN) is the common voice for European startups, unifying 22 European national startup associations. We endeavour to foster a startup-friendly ecosystem so that European startups can grow and thrive more successfully in the EU. Currently, we are active in the EU co-funded projects including Corship (https://www.corship.eu/), UpskillingLab 4.0 (https://www.upskillinglab.eu/), the Next Generation Internet (NGI) TETRA project (https://www.ngi.eu/ngi-projects/tetra/).

DIANA is the Defence Innovation Accelerator for the North Atlantic, a NATO organisation with a mission to locate and accelerate dual-use innovation across the Alliance. DIANA provides technology developers with the resources, networks and expertise to address critical defence and security challenges, to create a more peaceful and resilient future. For more information about our challenges, accelerator programme, first cohort of innovators, and our network across the Alliance, please visit our website. We appreciate your interest in DIANA. For hiring questions, please get in touch with the hiring manager on the post. While we strive to answer questions where possible, we are not able to provide personalised support via LinkedIn for innovator applications.

European Startup Network (ESN) is the common voice for European startups, unifying 22 European national startup associations. We endeavour to foster a startup-friendly ecosystem so that European startups can grow and thrive more successfully in the EU. Currently, we are active in the EU co-funded projects including Corship (https://www.corship.eu/), UpskillingLab 4.0 (https://www.upskillinglab.eu/), the Next Generation Internet (NGI) TETRA project (https://www.ngi.eu/ngi-projects/tetra/).

The Executive Agency for Higher Education, Research and Innovation Funding (UEFISCDI) is a public body of the Central Administration under the ultimate authority of Ministry of National Education (MEN), in Romania. Its mission is to promote quality and leadership for higher education, research, development and innovation. UEFISCDI plays both the role of higher education funding council, and research and innovation council. In this respect, it acts as executive agency for the advisory councils of the MEN with responsibilities in the fields of higher education, research, development and innovation. UEFISCDI provides advice for policies in areas of competences. Active regional and international, UEFISCDI implements forward-looking projects targeting higher education, science and innovation, professions and skills, research infrastructures, food and rural development. It has been innovating in foresight methods, real time argumentative Delphi, horizon scanning and big data. Bucharest Dialogue linked to the forwiki 2.0 platform, is one of our brands. The agency encourage the global development of Futures Studies and Foresight, particularly in Central & Eastern Europe and Black Sea being awarded by World Futures Studies Federation (WFSF) with “WFSF Award for Futures Institutions 2014 for a great inspiration to other institutions coming into the futures studies field particularly those who decide to become institutional members of WFSF.”

Techcelerator aims to find the most creative, innovative and prolific startups and enroll them in our 10 weeks acceleration program for tech products, to help them reach market fit through a dedicated pre-seed and/or seed investment rounds. We have offices in Bucharest and Cluj Napoca, where the acceleration will happen throughout the year. We also energize the startup ecosystem in Romania by accelerating the growth of the most remarkable founders and their highest potential ventures to conquer the global market. We fuel them with: *investment, *top educational content, *latest marketing attack tools, *access to active angels, *access to industry advisors and *connection to world top startup events and networks.

Gap Minder is a 45 Mil $ Venture Capital Fund targeting IT Software and Services start-ups in Romania and Central Eastern Europe. We sit at the heart of the fastest growing European economy with a distinctive technological ecosystem being the third global market for quality and speed of Internet connectivity. In a dynamic and growing start-up ecosystem, we are committed to support passionate and thoughtful founders to become global entrepreneurs and to rewrite the place of Romania and Central Eastern Europe in the global tech arena. Innovation, People, Impact. These are the 3 pillars of our investment vision. We are growing disruptive technologies, daring ideas and strong leaders and we value creativity, value creation and the potential of the businesses to impact markets. We are creating a major hub for innovation and entrepreneurship for Romania which will help us positioning among the leaders in European Innovation. We focus on Seed and Series A stages.