Sparking Capital

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Sparking Capital is an early stage Venture Capital fund backing entrepreneurs with unique industry insights, powerful vision, passion, courage and excellence in the execution of their plans.

Sparking Capital focuses on pre-seed & seed investments. We are industry agnostic but have a preference for investments in consumer internet, marketing-tech, supply chain-tech, fin-tech, property-tech, circular economy-tech startups with differentiating value propositions, disruptive business models which have the potential to become national champions and/or scale up fast internationally.

We spark the growth of the startups we invest in, side by side with their founders, to become great companies that create long lasting competitive advantages.

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Location

Romania, Bucharest

Employees

1-10

Founded date

2017

Investment Type

Venture Capital

Investment Stage

Pre-Seed; Seed; Series A

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Apr 16, 2022	Investor Profile: Vlad Sarca, Partner at Sparking Capital	Vlad Sarca is Partner in Sparking Capital, an equity investment fund that finances early-stage startups (pre-seed and seed) in fields like consumer internet, marketing-tech, fin-tech, supply-chain tech, property-tech, travel-tech, circular ...
Apr 16, 2022	ZF IT Generation. Investor Watch. Vlad Sarca, partener, Sparking Capital	„În toate investiţiile de tip «follow on» ne-am crescut tichetul, aceasta este şi teza de investiţie a fondului nostru – să investim un tichet iniţial în prima rundă de finanţare în care participăm şi după aceea să investim o sumă mai mare ...
Apr 16, 2022	Hyperhuman is raising a 0.7M € investment round led by Sparking Capital	The smart video content company for the health & fitness industry aims to boost its global expansion and enable organizations to produce quality video content at scale Hyperhuman is the omnichannel content platform that empowers digita...
Apr 16, 2022	EUVC #31, Vlad Sarca, Sparking Capital, Cristian Munteanu, Early Game Ventures	In this episode we dive deep on the wonderful Romanian ecosystem as we try to understand if Romania really is going to repeat the UI Path-success or if they were a one-trick unicorn-pony. We’re talking to two of the country’s favourite sons...
	ProductLead becomes Agency Partner of TikTok	Starting March 2021, ProductLead, an integrated technology for marketing content creation, has become Agency Partner of TikTok. This partnership will allow the Romanian company access to multiple TikTok advertising tools from advanced targe...
	Romanian Start-Up On Performance Optimization For The Manufacturing Industry To Get EUR 215,000 Funding	KFactory, the first digital platform focused on performance increasing and productivity optimization for manufacturing companies, developed by a Romanian startup, will receive 215,000 Euro funding for the development and the implementation ...
	Forbes Romania about Sparking Capital’s newest investment	Evertoys, o companie inovatoare pe piata de jucarii din Romania, semneaza un contract de investitie de tip seed cu Sparking Capital, un fond cu capital de risc de tip Business Angel, specializat in sustinerea startup-urilor din diferite ver...
	SymphoPay anunta o noua runda de finantare condusa de Early Game Ventures	SymphoPay, platforma de integrare a platilor cu cardul la POS, anunta o noua runda de finantare in valoare de 650.000 Euro condusa de fondul Early Game Ventures. La runda au participat GECAD Ventures, Sparking Capital si business angels iar...
	Sustainability VC: Trends among key players in the SEE	Sustainability VC refers to the investments directed towards assets that bring sustainability impact. With VCs’ power to influence entire generations of early-stage companies, how are investors in the SEE enabling the opportunity to tackle ...
	Bright Spaces raises EUR1.5m in seed funding round	Bright Spaces has raised EUR1.5 million in a seed funding round led by French VC Axeleo Capital, with participation from Pi Labs, Sparking Capital, Growceanu and a group of international angels. Bright Spaces’ solution allows future tenant...
	Sustainability investment: Where profitability meets sustainable goals, with Sparking Capital VC fund	Bucharest, Romania ~ Venture capital has an essential role in advancing the technologies that will transform our society for the better. Through directing investment and knowledge transfer towards solutions that address wicked challenges s...
	Hyperhuman raises 500k EUR to build a digital publishing and content monetisation platform.	The round of investment was led by EGV and joined by Sparking Capital and Simple Capital. Hyperhuman allows trainers to create studio-quality video workouts in minutes by removing the complex process of video production and editing. In this...
	RO digital marketing firm gets EUR 600,000 funding from local and foreign funds	Romanian-based ProductLead, an innovative integrated digital platform for marketing content creation, has received EUR 600.000 funding for further development and expansion across European markets. The financing was coordinated by Romanian...
	ProductLead devine Facebook Marketing Partner fiind primul din România la această categorie	Platforma ProductLead a fost evaluată și analizată în ceea ce privește capabilitatea, expertiza și portofoliul de cazuri de succes, demonstrând faptul că paradigma de Creative as a Service este un ingredient cheie pentru scalarea și maximiz...
	Local EcoTree innovation designed for the circular economy, to receive 215,000 Euros funding	EcoTree, an innovative digital platform designed for the field of circular economy, waste recycling and developed by a Romanian start-up, will receive EUR 215,000 for development and implementation. The financing is coordinated by Sparking ...
	Sparking Capital si Techinfluence semneaza un contract de investitie de tip seed	Techinfluence, o companie de pe piata de marketing digital si social media din Romania, semneaza un contract de in- vestitie de tip seed cu Sparking Capital, un fond cu capital de risc de tip Business Angel, specializat in sustinerea startu...
	Symphopay și Kapsch vin în sprijinul comercianților ce doresc extinderea punctelor de prezență cu soluții integrate de tip self-service	Symphopay împreună cu subsidiara locală a grupului austriac Kapsch și mai multe bănci partenere , au dezvoltat o soluție integrată ce poate fi implementată în aproape orice scenariu de business care presupune plata neasistată a serviciilor/...
	Bucharest-based Questo raises €300K to grow its gamified tours fit for a post-COVID world	Alex Govoreanu, Founder & CEO ” We created Questo with the mission to transform every city from the world in a playground and change the way tourists and locals are exploring it. We we lucky to come across Sparking Capital which trusted...
	SeedBlink te face actionar in Netflix-ul pentru jucarii	Evertoys transforma modul in care familiile obtin jucariile pentru copiii lor: in loc sa le cumpere, acum pot plati doar un abonament pentru folosire. Un pret lunar recurent da acces familiilor la o intreaga “biblioteca” de jucarii din care...
	8 investors tell us the story behind the Romanian startup boom	With record funding levels and three unicorns to show, local investors are buoyant about Romania’s prospects heading into 2021. We caught up with eight of them recently, and heard how the country’s technical talent pool, broadband access an...
	Sparking Capital sponsorizeaza faza nationala a Central European Startup Awards	Sparking Capital sponsorizeaza faza nationala a Central European Startup Awards (CESA), una dintre cele mai importante competitii din regiune dedicate startup-urilor, organizata cu scopul de a inspira, de a sarbatori, de a oferi recunoaster...
	Instant Space Lures Capital To Build A Booking Platform For Event Facilities	Instant Space has announced the closing of an investment round led by Early Game Ventures in which Sparking Capital and a business angel participated. The legal assistance of the transaction was provided by the law firm DLA Piper. Instant ...
	Micro VCs: exploring the emerging trend in Romanian seed investments	Let us begin with a quick recap of what happened in the Romanian startup ecosystem in 2020 – we saw 59 funding rounds taking place that amounted to €30.39M, according to How to Web’s Romanian Venture Report, thus facing a 6.18% growth, comp...
	Vlad Panait, Founder of Sparking Capital: “Investment is still needed, and the success stories that have appeared will generate and facilitate a certain effervescence in this system”	Despite the pandemic, the start-up ecosystem has continued to grow. And directly proportional to their increase, both the number of funding granted and the amount of funding has increased. Read more on: forbes.ro
	Netflix-ul romanesc si pentru jucarii si Carturesti, proiect comun pentru acces facil la jucarii	Romanii de la Evertoys, un Netflix pentru jucarii, si Carturesti, una dintre cele mai cunoscute retele de librarii de la noi, au semnat un parteneriat prin care isi doresc sa ofere acces mai usor la jucarii. Incepand cu 1 iunie, ziua copil...
	De Ziua Copilului, Carturesti va oficializa parteneriatul cu Evertoys	Incepand cu 1 iunie, ziua copilului, se lanseaza oficial parteneriatul intre Carturesti si Evertoys, o amplificare si completare reciproca a serviciilor si produselor oferite parintilor. Prin colaborarea intre cele doua companii romanesti, ...
	Sparking Capital and Early Game Team Up to Boost Vatis Tech’s Speech Recognition	Earlier this month, Romanian speech recognition platform Vatis Tech announced the conclusion of their Seed round of investment. The startup raised over EUR 200K from well-known Romanian VCs Sparking Capital (which recently invested in Brigh...
	Romanian fintech Bankata.ro raises EUR 180,000 funding for development	Bankata.ro, a fintech platform that aggregates and compares financial products, raised EUR 180,000 in funding to develop and implement its business plan. The investment is coordinated by Sparking Capital, as Lead Investor, in partnership wi...
	Romanian startup Questo raises $1.5 million new round to take on the urban entertainment industry with its city exploration games	Questo, the platform for city exploration games, raises a new $1.5M round of funding in an investment round led by Early Game Ventures with Sparking Capital’s participation. Questo offers city exploration games that enable tourists and loc...
	Vrem sa ajungem la un fond de investitii de 2 mil. euro. Din 100 de start-up-uri, alegem unul in care sa investim.	Cristian Negruţiu, partner al Sparking Capital, fond de investiţii din IT, spune că un investitor poate primi de 3,5 ori suma investită într-un timp de şase ani, iar din 100 de start-up-uri pe care fondul le evaluează alege zece, din care d...
	Inovatia locala Bright Spaces primeste finantare de 185.000 de Euro pentru dezvoltare si implementare	Comunicat de presa, Bucuresti, 14 noiembrie 2019 – Bright Spaces, o solutie inovatoare adresata domeniului property tech si dezvoltata de un start-up romanesc, a primit finantare de 185.000 Euro pentru dezvoltare si implementare. Finantarea...

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Feb 25, 2026	RobosizeME Raises $2M in Seed Funding	RobosizeME, an Olomouc, Czech Republic startup designing workflow automation purpose-built to remove the repetitive, manual work from hotel operations, raised $2M in Seed funding. The round was led by SeedTwo Capital, with participation fro...
Mar 11, 2025	Startup Moldova Summit 2025—Moldova’s Biggest Startup & VC Event—Returns This April	Startup Moldova Summit 2025 is Moldova’s biggest startup/VC gathering The date is April 16th, and the place is Mediacor in Chișinău The Summit’s agenda features global investors, founders, and experts, focusing on startup growth, talent, sc...
Dec 25, 2023	Bright Spaces Comes to SeedBlink with a EUR 2M Ambition	Bright Spaces, the Bucharest-based provider of real estate 3D visualization and custom space planning solutions, is campaigning on SeedBlink The startup’s existing investors have pre-committed EUR 1.8M out of the planned EUR 2M The company’...
Feb 22, 2023	EUR 650K of Follow-On for Vatis Tech from Sparking Capital and Early Game Ventures	Bucharest-based speech-to-text transcription platform Vatis Tech receives another EUR 650K The round is co-led by repeated investors Sparking Capital and Early Game Ventures, joined by a group of angel investors from TechAngels The investor...
Jan 10, 2023	Romanian speech recognition startup Vatis Tech raises €650k	Romanian speech recognition startup Vatis Tech raises €650k 10 January, 2023, 14:50 Mariia Denysiuk --> --> --> -->--> --> --> --> --> --> --> --> --> The Bucharest-based high-accuracy and scalable ...
Dec 26, 2022	The Idyllic CEE Startup Ecosystem	SMOK Venures’ Borys Musielak’s posts – one AI-generated and one handwritten – have caused a discussion about certain practices in the CEE startup ecosystem Naturally, both VCs and founders may have unpleasant experiences from time to time a...
Nov 28, 2022	ASF Licenses SeedBlink Under ECSPR Outstandingly Speedy	Romanian investment crowdfunding platform SeedBlink got licensed under the ECSPR in accordance with European Law Being governed by the license adds to the platform’s credibility and transparency and brings forth SeedBlink’s pan-European amb...
Oct 19, 2022	Sparking Capital Cements Leading Position in Romania	Romanian VC fund Sparking Capital is now officially recognized as an alternative investment fund and an alternative investment fund administrator In practice, it doesn’t change anything for the fund’s current and potential portfolio compani...
Jun 27, 2022	A New Episode in Bright Spaces’ Rapid Progress: Solidifying in the UK	Romanian real estate visualization solution provider Bright Spaces sets up an office in London This step is meant to bring Brights Spaces closer to its existing and potential UK clients legally, socially, and culturally The company CEO Bogd...
May 12, 2022	Hyperhuman Harnesses the Explosion of Online Fitness and Nabs EUR 550K for Further International Expansion	Romanian createch Hyperhuman raised EUR 550K with pre-commitment of EUR 400K from Sparking Capital and Early Game Ventures and the remaining 150K coming from their SeedBlink campaign The platform’s solution allows to speed up fitness video ...
Feb 25, 2022	KFactory Plans Expansion to DACH, Supported by New Investors	KFactory, a Romanian Industry 4.0 solution provider, raises EUR 600K in Seed The round is shared by Romanian funds Fortech Investments (lead), Sparking Capital (the startup’s long-time supporter), and SIF Transilvania The company plans to e...
Dec 9, 2021	Seed of EUR 500K to Ensure EcoTree’s Steady Growth	Romanian sustainability startup EcoTree nabs EUR 500K in Seed round EcoTree’s solution connects companies that produce waste with those that collect and recycle it The solution has many additional features that makes it a one stop shop for ...
Nov 4, 2021	EcoTree raises $500K to digitize waste management in Romania	Bucharest, Romania ~ Company: Confirming the growing interest in the circular economy and recycling among local businesses and investors, Romanian startup EcoTree, the cloud software solution for waste management stakeholders, announced rai...
Sep 27, 2021	KFactory’s New Green Virtual Engineer to Reduce Carbon Footprint	Green Virtual Engineer by KFactory is available starting this Autumn. The solution evaluates a factory’s green efficiency. It aims to help manufacturers comply with the EU’s Fit for 55 carbon emission reduction programme. This August, Roma...
Sep 13, 2021	Sparking Capital and Early Game Team Up to Boost Vatis Tech’s Speech Recognition	Vatis Tech, a Romanian speech recognition startup that specializes in continental languages, raises EUR 200K in Seed Round. Vatis’ speech recognition accuracy reaches 94%+, exceeding Google. The startup’s technology is an API, i.e. effortle...
Aug 31, 2021	Bright Spaces Lands EUR 1.5M in Seed to Facilitate Commercial Real Estate for Landlords and Clients	Romanian proptech Bright Spaces raises an impressive EUR 1.5M from international investors. The startup’s 3D visualizations of commercial real estate allow potential tenants to look at a property without putting their health to risk. With t...
Aug 26, 2021	Sustainability VC: Trends among key players in the SEE	Company: Sustainability VC refers to the investments directed towards assets that bring sustainability impact. With VCs’ power to influence entire generations of early-stage companies, how are investors in the SEE enabling the opportunity t...
Aug 19, 2021	Manufacturers get an ally to reduce carbon emissions: The AI-based Green Virtual Engineer	Bucharest, Romania ~ Company: KFactory, a digital SaaS automation platform for manufacturing companies, has just announced they will be launching the Green Virtual Engineer in autumn. The tool will enable factories to monitor carbon footpri...
Aug 16, 2021	Sustainability investment: Where profitability meets sustainable goals, with Sparking Capital VC fund	Bucharest, Romania ~ Company: Venture capital has an essential role in advancing the technologies that will transform our society for the better. Through directing investment and knowledge transfer towards solutions that address wicked chal...
May 27, 2021	How to get sustainable finance as a green startup in the SEE	Bucharest, Romania ~ Company: Whether you are cooking up a sustainable business idea, building a prototype for your cleantech startup, or looking to grow, you must know your funding options. If you’re looking for sustainable finance program...
May 12, 2021	Romanian Content Automation Company ProductLead Lands EUR 600K in Seed Round	ProductLead, a Romanian startup for content automation, raises EUR 600K in Seed Round. The company’s AI claims to outdo any human creative team by offering infinite content ideas to clients. The new investment will be used to consolidate th...
May 11, 2021	In search of the right VC and accelerator: a guide for SEE founders	Company: Take a detailed look behind the numbers, approaches, and terms of some of the venture capital funds and accelerators in Romania, Serbia, Greece, and Bulgaria, which together make available more than €450M for investment in innovati...
Apr 26, 2021	Romania-based marketing content creation automation platform ProductLead lands €600,000	Constanta, Romania-based marketing content creation platform has raised €600,000 to automate content creation. The financing was led by Sparking Capital, and saw participation from Bulgarian fund Eleven Ventures and Swedish fund Founders Br...
Mar 12, 2021	City Exploration Platform Questo Raises USD 1.5mln of Investment	Sparking Capital and Early Game Ventures back Questo with USD 1.5mln. Questo managed to turn the downtime of tourism to its advantage. Questo will be available in more cities and become more facilitated for creators by the end of 2021. Thi...
Feb 18, 2021	Questo, a Romanian app for gamified city exploration, attracts €1.2M and will grow in the US and the UK	Bucharest, Romania ~ Company: Questo, a mobile platform for game-based city exploration, headquartered in Bucharest, has closed a €1.2M ($1.5M) round, led by Early Game Ventures and joined by Sparking Capital, both previous investors in the...
Feb 1, 2021	Startup Cities in SEE: Who is Who in the Emerging Bucharest Ecosystem?	Bucharest, Romania ~ Company: A recent survey by BroadbandDeals.co.uk classifies Bucharest as the best city for remote working for 2020. Taking into account factors such as Internet speed, cost of living, and availability of jobs for remote...
Jan 23, 2021	8 investors tell us the story behind the Romanian startup boom	With record funding levels and three unicorns to show, local investors are buoyant about Romania’s prospects heading into 2021. We caught up with eight of them recently, and heard how the country’s technical talent pool, broadband access an...
Oct 9, 2020	EU-Startups Podcast / Episode 7: European Investors pitching their VC firm/focus to you	For the 7th episode of the EU-Startups Podcast we invited European venture capital investors to come on air and to pitch their VC firm and investment focus. For further information, the links to those firms can be found in the show notes be...
	Noi finanțări pentru startup-uri românești, prin fondul de investiții Sparking Capital	Românii de la Sparking Capital au obținut acordul de autorizare în calitate de fond de investiții alternativ, din partea Autorității de Supraveghere Financiară (ASF), și își propun să mai facă 4-5 investiții noi în startup-uri și o proiecți...
	Vlad Sarca, Sparking Capital: Top 5 promising Romanian startups	In this series we talked with investors and VC funds from Romania to discover their startup recommendations. What are the most promising startups from the Romanian ecosystem? Sparking Capital is an investment fund with interest in early sta...
	Romania-based marketing content creation automation platform ProductLead lands €600,000	Constanta, Romania-based marketing content creation platform has raised €600,000 to automate content creation. The financing was led by Sparking Capital, and saw participation from Bulgarian fund Eleven Ventures and Swedish fund Founders Br...
	Romanian fitness content platform that uses AI, Hyperhuman, raises 500.000 EUR	Hyperhuman allows trainers to create studio-quality video workouts in minutes by removing the complex process of video production and editing. In this streamlined process, trainers record short videos with the key moves and the AI engine do...

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FAQ about Sparking Capital

When was Sparking Capital founded?

Sparking Capital was founded in 2017.

What is the latest news about Sparking Capital?

Parsers VC has 32 news items about Sparking Capital, among them “Investor Profile: Vlad Sarca, Partner at Sparking Capital” (Apr 16, 2022) and “ZF IT Generation. Investor Watch. Vlad Sarca, partener, Sparking Capital” (Apr 16, 2022).

What has the press written about Sparking Capital?

Parsers VC has collected 33 articles mentioning Sparking Capital, among them “RobosizeME Raises $2M in Seed Funding” (Feb 25, 2026) and “Startup Moldova Summit 2025—Moldova’s Biggest Startup & VC Event—Returns This April” (Mar 11, 2025).

Is Sparking Capital still active?

Yes, Sparking Capital is active; its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Feb 25, 2026.