Marius Istrate

Investor at 3VC

Bucharest, Bucharest

Overview

Marius Istrate is the Chairman of the Board at TechAngels Romania and a Venture Partner at 3VC. He has a successful track record as an investor, having supported companies like Pythagora and Genezio, and has expertise in areas such as embedded systems and telecommunications. Throughout his career, Marius has demonstrated a keen ability to invest in and advise successful startups, with notable achievements including backing companies like Colossyan and FLOWX.AI. He holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree from Universitatea Transilvania din Brașov and is actively involved in the tech investment landscape.

Work Experience

TechAngels Romania

Chairman of the Board
2023 - Current
TechAngels was created in 2013 to fill the need of having a common “meeting place” between early stage technology startups and the investors looking for investment opportunities. The group has two main directives: to educate and support young entrepreneurs through investments, access to acceleration programs and a sum of various other resources needed to grow their business, and to encourage potential business angels to take their first steps in this area of expertise. For whoever is taking into consideration becoming a technology business angel investor, being part of TechAngels is the best solution: as a member of the group, you have access to a considerable number of startups looking for funding, you can benefit from the investment-focused workshops, shared experiences from the other members, and you can make your first investments – either as a private investor or as a syndicate partner – with guidance from the most experienced technology business angels.

It Just Works, Inc.

Investor and Adviser
2024

Pythagora (YC W24)

Investor and Adviser
2024

Dev tool that builds apps from scratch by talking to users

Raised $4,500,000.00 from Moonfire Ventures, Zeno Partners, Kulveer Taggar, 500 Emerging Europe, Rebel Fund, SQ Capital, Y Combinator, Richard Aberman, Inovo.vc and UpHonest Capital.

pythagora.ai

Colossyan

Investor and Adviser
2024

Colossyan specializes in AI video for workplace learning, empowering users to generate videos from text through AI technology.

Raised $28,179,350.00 from Lakestar, LAUNCHub Ventures, Marius Istrate, Oktogon Ventures, Emerge, Day One Capital, LAUNCHub Ventures, Day One Capital, Emerge and APX.

colossyan.com