Brainient, the Romanian startup developing a platform to support video advertising, announced earlier today that they closed another funding round, raising $1.8m from a collection of investors. The main investor is Prague-based Credo Ventures. Atlas Venture, Estag Capital and existing investors Serry Coutu and 500 Startups have also Read on →
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Romanian startup, Brainient, raises $1.8m and plans to open a new office in New York
Christopher Grew thinks Eastern Europe’s got a lot of web potential
During Seedcamp Week 2010 we also had the opportunity to interview another one of our main speakers: Christopher Grew, partner at Orrick. Chris told us that he thinks Eastern Europe has got a lot of web business potential and that he is looking forward to meeting Eastern Europe entrepreneurs at How To Web 2010. During his presentation at the conference, Chris Grew will explain to you how to ensure that you and your technology business are suitable for investment in a few easy steps.
Romanian entrepreneur Emi Gal featured in Financial Times
Romanian 24-year-old entrepreneur, Emi Gal – the founder of the Seedcamp Week 2009 winner, Brainient – was featured in Financial Times in an article written by Bob Sherwood. Financial Times presents Brainient as a forefront of an emerging trend for young, ambitious entrepreneurs from Eastern Europe countries that choose more and more often to locate their start-up in the UK.
Promising EE start-ups are coming to London
The article‘s main goal is that of proving that more and more Eastern Europe startups are turning to United Kingdom in order to help their business grow faster and to have access to London’s network of investors and advisers. Alex van Someren, UKTI global entrepreneur programme dealmaker, stated for Financial times that “there is a notable pipeline of promising start-ups coming to London from countries such as Estonia, Poland, Hungary, Slovenia, Romania and Lithuania“. The article presents UK as a financial hub having a great concentration of financial expertise and institutional investors and as a great opportunity for technology startups in Eastern Europe.
So Financial Times seems to agree that Eastern Europe’s got web talent, right?!
Brainient – Romania’s video management startup
Seems like Romanian startups have taken over Seedcamp. First it was uberVU in 2008 elected as one of the 6 winners of Seedcamp Week. The next year, in 2009, it was Brainient-, the Romanian video management start-up, who was one of the 6 Seedcamp winners. We are already looking forward to seeing what Romanian entrepreneurs have prepared for this year’s Seedcamp competition.
Make more money with your video content
As far as Brainient is concerned, it offers video management and enhancement tools which allow video providers to monetize their content. Through Brainient’s open-source video management
platform, Veevid, publishers can easily upload and manage their content. With Brainient’s optimization application, LayeredBrain, publishers have access to affiliate marketing, in-video advertising, user interactivity, and video analytics.
The entrepreneur behind Brainient is Emi Gal – Romanian entrepreneur, blogger and internet consultant who is, according to his blog, “trying to change the world”. Besides Brainient, Emi is also actively involved with various other technology & internet startups and he is also a speaker and lecturer at various entrepreneurship and internet events.