Radu Ionescu

The mission of Climb Again is for every child and young person with special needs to develop independent life skills, increase self-confidence and social integration, through a mix of climbing therapy sessions, physio therapy, learning through games and independence workshops.

Sailo is a global boat rentals and yacht charters online platform where people can search and book over 30,000 boats worldwide.

I've invested as an angel directly in more than 40 startups. For all direct investment I also acted as strategic advisor. I currently invest through US syndicates.

Some of the investments (alphabetically):
- Blayze (online coaching marketplace) ACQUIRED
- Bundle Marketplace (anonymous mortgage shopping marketplace) SHUT DOWN
- Capbase (digital governance platform for startups) ACQUIRED
- Deep Sentinel (ML based home security cameras)
- Directimo (proptech)
- Elo.health… Show more

I've invested as an angel directly in more than 40 startups. For all direct investment I also acted as strategic advisor. I currently invest through US syndicates.

Some of the investments (alphabetically):
- Blayze (online coaching marketplace) ACQUIRED
- Bundle Marketplace (anonymous mortgage shopping marketplace) SHUT DOWN
- Capbase (digital governance platform for startups) ACQUIRED
- Deep Sentinel (ML based home security cameras)
- Directimo (proptech)
- Elo.health (data driven nutrition service)
- EyeRate (customer engagement platform)
- Fantasmo.io (hyper-accurate positioning service) ACQUIRED
- Fluent (learn languages by browsing the web) SHUT DOWN
- Freedrum.rocks (aidrums hardware + software to play drums anytime, anywhere)
- Gauge (online bidding for vehicle sales)
- Giggster (film-friendly locations marketplace)
- Hipsto (Unlocking Data Insights with Artificial Intelligence Text Technology) SHUT DOWN
- Indieflow (business management platform for the music industry)
- Katalyst.fit (home training hardware + software for full body workout) SHUT DOWN
- Kernal Biologics (mRNA therapeutics)
- MilkRun (grocery marketplace) SHUT DOWN
- Noops (plant based snacks) SHUT DOWN
- nothing.tech (consumer tech)
- Nutrisense (a personalized, AI powered, nutrition coach)
- Onramp Invest ACQUIRED
- Oasis (AI voice-to-video)
- SkillBank (edutech) SHUT DOWN
- Orreco (bio-analytics for athletes)
- Preventure ACQUIRED
- Sailo (boat rental marketplace)
- StoryBook App (helping parents put kids to sleep)
- Strive (data-driven insights from athletes wearables)
- Suavei (AI threat management for IoT) SHUT DOWN
- Tailored.to (personal shopping assistant) SHUT DOWN
- The Crafter's Box (crafts DIY marketplace) Show less

Unlocking Data Insights with Artificial Intelligence Text Technology

Dentsu Aegis Network Romania operates through the following brands:
- Carat (media)
- Vizeum (media)
- Amplifi (media buying)
- Posterscope (Out-of-Home media)
- AMNET (programmatic)
- iProspect (performance marketing)
- Kinecto - linked by Isobar (digital marketing)

Launched and managed the Romanian operations of iProspect, the world's leading digital performance marketing agency.

Working for the leading business magazine of the time in Romania: Biz.
In parallel was an important part of starting the online publishing division of the group, directly involved in launching and supervising the business portal bizcity.ro with a dedicated team of 4 journalists and up to 10 salesmen for the website building and online presence services.

Started from a junior position - translating articles from Financial Times and Wall Street Journal - and ended as one of the key business journalists for the core section of the financial newspaper.