Lucian Todea

Co-Founder & COO

2017 - Current

World’s First High Throughput Blockchain Platform Implementing Adaptive State Sharding and Secure Proof of Stake. The advent of secure public blockchains through Bitcoin and later Ethereum, has brought forth a notable degree of interest and capital influx, providing the premise for a global wave of permissionless innovation. Yet despite lofty promises, creating a decentralized, secure and scalable public blockchain has proved to be a strenuous task. Hence we present Elrond, a novel architecture which goes beyond the state of the art by introducing a genuine state sharding scheme for practical scalability, eliminating energy and computational waste while ensuring distributed fairness through a Secure Proof of Stake (SPoS) consensus. Having a strong focus on security, Elrond’s network ensures mathematically verifiable resistance to known security problems like Sybil attack, Rogue-key attack, Nothing at Stake attack and others. In an ecosystem that strives for interconnectivity, our solution for smart contracts offers an EVM compliant engine to ensure interoperability by design. Preliminary simulations show that Elrond exceeds Visa’s average throughput and achieves an improvement of three orders of magnitude or 1000x compared to the existing viable approaches, while drastically reducing the costs of bootstrapping and storage to ensure long term sustainability. More info at: Official Website: www.elrond.network Whitepaper: https://elrond.network/files/Elrond_Whitepaper_EN.pdf Email address: contact@elrond.network

Limited Partner

2022

Limited Partner

2021

Limited Partner

2020

Founder and CEO

2001

Soft32.com is an online software platform that facilitates the distribution and sales of apps for Windows, Mac and Mobile. Founded in 2001, Soft32 has an online catalogue of over 100.000 programs reviewed and rated by a team of expert editors in 5 languages: English, Spanish, German, French and Portuguese. Soft32 network attracts now more than 10 million visitors per month, from all over the world, becoming one of the top web destinations in the world.

Investor

2016

TypingDNA (Techstars NYC'18 Company) is offering typing biometrics solutions for securing devices and web applications such as LMS (Learning Management Systems), PSP (Payment Service Providers), corporate apps, and consumer apps that want to reduce fraud and improve security by using multi-factor authentication. Apps can now use TypingDNA to enable passive two-factor authentication whenever 2FA is required. This translates in happier users and negative churn. In 2019, TypingDNA has raised $1.5M in seed round funding from European venture firm GapMinder Venture Partners, as well as several international investors from U.S., U.K., and European Union. In 2020, TypingDNA raised $7 million, including Google, to authenticate people based on their typing style. Gradient Ventures, which is Google’s nearly three-year-old, AI-focused venture group, led the round; it was joined by the company’s previous backers, including Techstars Ventures and GapMinder Venture Partners, a venture outfit based in Amsterdam.

Founder and CEO

2003

ITNT is one of the most successful entrepreneurial tech initiatives in Romania, named by ZF.ro the fastest growing technology company in 2014 in Romania. ITNT is the company behind Soft32.com and Travelgator.com. ITNT achieved the following milestones: - "Deloitte Technology Fast 50 in Central and Eastern Europe - 2014" - 4th place - "Deloitte Technology Fast 500 in EMEA - 2014" - 115th place - "Top Fastest-growing Private companies in Europe" - Inc. 5000 Europe 2015 After only 3 years of existence, ITNT has become one of the leading companies of its kind in Romania according to The Romanian Business Yearbook - The Biggest Players In Economy (editions 2006-2012).

Investor

2013 - 2024

SmartBill is the most used Romanian invoicing and accounting SaaS platform, counting more than 50k clients (as of May 2018). After my initial investment, they managed to raise in 2016 a 1 million € B-round from 3TS Capital Partners and Gecad Group. In 2019, Norwegian software group Visma, with a market value estimated at EUR 8 billion, has bought 50% of Romanian online invoicing services provider SmartBill.

Partner

2017 - 2023

mobilPay facilitates the procedures for offline, online and mobile payments. With mobilPay Wallet, the safety and simplicity of payments knows a new definition and businesses experience a new era of development. In an era governed by the mobility and simplification of all activities, in which shopping and paying bills must become less time consuming, mobilPay Wallet is embedding experience, technology and innovation.

Investor

2019 - 2019

Homefresh is one of the pioneer meal kit delivery services in Romania, which aims to help people prepare fresh, delicious and fast recipes at home by providing kits with ingredients in just the right proportions. The initiative was born out of our own desire of having access to such a service. Going against busy schedules and an increasingly opaque food market, we wanted to still be able to prepare freshly home meals and be mindful about the ingredients we put in them. Homefresh crafts an experience for every client, from the box with ingredients, to the witty recipes and the house-delivery, making it easier for friends and family to share a heart-warming and delicious dinner together, even when time is scarce. Homefresh is about freshness, ingenuity, connections and community. It is about all the genuine things that make life truly delicious. http://www.homefresh.ro/