In the winter of 1997, an 18-year-old Kai Brand Jacobsen set foot in Cluj-Napoca for the first time. What was meant to be a brief visit to meet Denisa — whom he had met at an international summer school in Norway — turned into the beginning of a lifelong connection to the city and Romania. Cluj, as Jacobsen fondly...
Founded this fall in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, Boon is a pioneering peer-to-peer marketplace that goes beyond conventional secondhand selling by integrating social impact into every transaction.
Created by entrepreneur Stefan Szakal, Boon enables employees within companies to buy and sell secondhand goods, with all proceeds directed to a charity of the seller’s choosing. This unique approach combines commerce, charity, and sustainability,...
On Thursday, 19 September 2024, Morning Health Talks #2 was organized by FreshBlood HealthTech, the local representative of EIT Health in Romania, an event that brought together healthcare innovators, entrepreneurs, and experts in a hybrid format in Cluj-Napoca and online. The event focused on real-world case studies, best practices, and lessons learned in healthcare innovation.
The EIT Health Morning Health...
Rubik Hub, part of the North-East Regional Development Agency of Romania, in collaboration with strategic partners including Fortech Investments, Google for Startups, WIT Angels Club (Silicon Valley), AmCham Romania, proudly introduces "Rubik Garage – Scale to USA", a groundbreaking equity-free and fee-free acceleration program designed exclusively for European founders seeking to expand into the US market.
Applications are now open...
On September 18th 2023, the inaugural edition of the LevelUP Health & Life Sciences Accelerator program in Cluj-Napoca culminated in an impressive Demo Day, marking the successful conclusion of a pioneering initiative for health and life sciences startups in Romania.
Over a span of six intensive months, 50 industry experts actively engaged in mentoring, contributing over 500 hours of invaluable...