Sebastian Florian
Founder, editor in chief of Startups&TheCity.
Building Peace from Cluj to the World: Kai Brand Jacobsen’s Legacy with PATRIR
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...
Boon startup: Revolutionizing Peer-to-Peer Marketplace for Social Good
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...
EIT Health Morning Health Talks #2/2024, Romania: Open Innovation in Healthcare with industry leaders
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...
Rubik Garage Accelerator is empowering European Startups to expand in the US Market
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 –...
Cluj-Napoca is accelerating healthcare innovation in Romania: 12 new startups & 12 bright insights
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...
Unchain Fintech Festival: the Davos summit for digital banking in the CEE region
The Unchain Fintech Festival's 2023 edition which took place in Oradea's fortress, located in NW Romania, was hailed as the Davos summit for digital banking in the CEE region by its organizers and received...
The story behind the success of Cluj’s biggest hackathon: a journey of community and...
The inaugural Cluj Hackathon, the first hackathon in Romania focused on Artificial Intelligence, and Generative AI took place between June 16-18, 2023, at the Bosch Engineering Center Cluj. More than 115 participants, organized into...
Morning Health Talks: best practices in fostering collaboration between startups and hospitals
On the 25th of May 2023, FreshBlood HealthTech, the local representative of EIT Health in Romania organized in Cluj-Napoca an event part of their Morning Health Talks series, having as main theme “Hospitals and...
Techsylvania 2023: Uniting visionaries, innovators and industry leaders in the heart of Transylvania
Techsylvania, the premier technology conference, is set to return for its highly anticipated 2023 edition. From 7 to 8th of June, the event will bring together the brightest minds in the tech industry for...
LevelUP, the first Health & Life Sciences startup accelerator in Romania, kicks of in...
INNO, the North-West of Romania Regional Development Agency’s department responsible for regional innovation and attracting investors, launches the first accelerator in Romania exclusively dedicated to startups in the fields of health and life sciences,...
Bucharest-based Veridion secures $6 million to further develop their AIs tracking 80M businesses
Veridion (formerly known as Soleadify) announces a $6 million late seed round to expand to US and further develop their proprietary AIs that are specifically trained to understand the global business landscape, enabling their...
Digital Health & Wellness Summit @ 4YFN – MWC Barcelona, 27 Feb – 2...
The Digital Health & Wellness Summit (DHWS) will be back in Barcelona as part of 4YFN & MWC, 27 February - 2 March 2023.
For almost 10 years, the DHWS has featured the best...