Sparking Capital
sparkingcapital.com Direct investor
Sparking Capital is an early-stage venture capital fund based in Romania, investing in pre-seed and seed software and IT startups in Europe, with a focus on AI and machine learning. It provides capital, mentorship, and network access to help startups scale internationally.
Sparking Capital is a venture capital firm headquartered in Bucharest, Romania. It invests directly in companies, from pre-seed to seed, in AI, cybersecurity, future of Work and business Process Automation. Its stated cheque size is € 300K-1500K.
“We are sector agnostic, with a focus on companies where AI and machine learning are core to the product — not as a badge, but as the engine behind a defensible business model.”
— Sparking Capital, own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Type
- Venture capital
- Invests in
- RO, EU
- Sectors
- AI, Cybersecurity, Future of Work, Business Process Automation, Fintech, E-commerce tools, Supply Chain
- Cheque size
- € 300K-1500K
Team, as Sparking Capital publishes it
- Vlad Panait Managing Partner and Founder
- Cristian Negrutiu General Partner and Founder
- Vlad Sarca General Partner
Names and roles exactly as listed on sparkingcapital.com. Nothing else about these people is recorded.
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page Sparking Capital publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://www.sparkingcapital.com/name, is_investor, layer, type, hq_country, hq_city, invests_in_geographies, stage_min, stage_max, sectors, cheque_size, thesis_quote, thesis_quote_page, description, status, confidence
- https://www.sparkingcapital.com/team/vlad-panait/people
- https://www.sparkingcapital.com/team/cristian-negrutiu/people
- https://www.sparkingcapital.com/team/vlad-sarca/people
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Record 728 · added 2026-08-28 · link last verified 2026-09-06 · confidence high
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