Early Game Ventures
Primaverii 19-21, 2nd Floor, Suite 24, Bucharest, Bucuresti, 011972, Romania
Overview
Early Game Ventures (EGV) is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in startups in Europe's emerging markets. Their philosophy is quite straightforward: they invest at the earliest stages in companies whose founders have vested interests, are coachable, and address big markets. If the opportunity is real, they prefer to be the first institutional investor in such startups.
- Total investments
- 32
- Lead investments
- 19
- Investments · 12mo
- 4
- Active investors
- 6
Sector focus
- Venture Capital
Investment portfolio
- Tryll
Led · Seed · Jun 2026
Tryll builds a software layer that lets game studios run AI models directly on players’ devices using local GPU processing, positioned as an alternative to cloud-based AI or in-house engineering. The company aims to make integration faster and less resource-intensive — claiming a Tryll plugin can produce a working version in about a week versus months for cloud-based solutions. Tryll’s founders come from game development backgrounds and have worked on high-profile titles across the industry. Management believes that improvements in consumer GPUs and open-source large language models enable local AI in games to scale. The market for AI in gaming is cited in the article as growing from $3.3 billion in 2024 to over $51 billion by 2033. Financially, Tryll has just completed a $600,000 pre-seed round led by Early Game Ventures, with proceeds earmarked for product development and go-to-market expansion.
- Naratix
Led · Seed · Jun 2026
Naratix is building a structured product data platform that transforms raw and incomplete product information from online stores and marketplaces into standardized, enriched product data at scale. The company aims to build the largest structured product database in Europe and has a stated objective of indexing 1 billion products. Naratix offers native integrations with enterprise eCommerce platforms such as VTEX, Mirakl, and Shopware, enabling service to marketplaces, enterprise retailers, and global brands. As of the announcement it operates in over 30 countries across four continents and counts more than 10 enterprise clients. The company was co-founded in 2023 and plans near-term market consolidation across several European and Southeast Asian countries and medium-term expansion into the United States. Naratix recently raised a €1 million Seed round to accelerate growth and recruit specialists for its global expansion plans.
- Kinderpedia
Participated · Equity · Feb 2026
Founded in 2017, Kinderpedia offers a cloud-based platform that centralises school administration, tuition management, classroom activity planning, student progress tracking and real-time parent engagement. The product embeds privacy-first AI to automate routine tasks and translate communications across multiple languages, tackling the fragmented systems and heavy paperwork that burden educators. Operated as a B2B SaaS model, it is already used by more than 500,000 teachers, parents and education leaders in over 40 countries, helping educators save an average of nine hours per week. The company positions itself against competitors such as ClassDojo, Brightwheel and Toddle by integrating both operational and communication tools in a single interface. Future plans include accelerating expansion across Central & Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Africa, strengthening Arabic-language support and enhancing its AI capabilities. Total funding disclosed to date is €4.5 million, and the new capital will support team growth and product development aimed at sustained international scale.
- Meetgeek
Led · Equity · Sep 2025
MeetGeek builds an agentic AI meeting assistant that actively participates in meetings, turning conversations into structured data and executable action items. The product integrates with CRMs, project management tools, and workflows, and the company is evolving toward an autonomous, multi-agent AI workspace. MeetGeek serves over 4,000 companies across 100+ countries and differentiates from passive transcription rivals by executing tasks rather than only recording. It operates on a SaaS subscription model and reports ARR of $2M+, with 3x growth over the past 12 months. Founded in 2021, the team plans to scale product capabilities and expand multi-agent AI to become a category-defining AI workspace. The recent funding will be used to accelerate product development and integrations across enterprise stacks. Meetgeek builds an automated meeting assistant that records, transcribes and summarizes calls, highlighting action points, concerns, conclusions and other insights. The platform integrates with Zoom, Google Meet, and Microsoft Teams and supports multiple languages including Romanian. It is used by sales teams, recruiters, consultants and for internal meetings or teaching, and is already impacting the daily operations of more than 500 businesses across the US and EU. Over the last year the company has invested heavily in product development and customer discovery, working with hundreds of organizations. Automatically generated summaries, call insights and automated workflows save recordings and highlights into CRMs, ATSs and task tools to improve meeting efficiency. The company is actively hiring digital marketers, business developers and software engineers as it aims to redefine meeting culture and scale adoption. Meetgeek.ai builds an AI assistant that joins Google Meet, Microsoft Teams and Zoom meetings to produce transcripts, meeting minutes and highlighted insights such as conclusions, concerns and assigned tasks. The robot is available 24/7, participates in meetings and emails participants the transcripts and minutes, while managers can access an analytics section with data and practical advice to improve meetings. The service is available on the company's website and includes a free monthly plan. Meetgeek targets industries such as legal, IT, consulting and finance, and is positioned for use in board meetings where objective minutes are important. The startup was founded by Iulian Gheorghe, Raluca Trofin and Dan Huru; CEO Dan Huru holds a PhD in artificial intelligence and has over ten years of software engineering experience. The company positions its product as a way to increase meeting efficiency and says demand rose amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
- PlaySafe ID
Led · Seed · May 2025
PlaySafe ID is a privacy-first platform that issues anonymised, game-agnostic digital IDs to prove users are real and have not been caught cheating or abusing children. The service is designed to be portable across games and platforms, enabling developers and communities to enforce fair play without compromising player anonymity. The company says its ID layer allows penalties to follow offenders across PlaySafe-protected titles. PlaySafe ID plans rapid expansion and strategic platform integrations, and is currently in integration talks with several major gaming platforms. The company targets 250,000+ users in the coming months. PlaySafe ID is based in London and raised $1.12M in a pre-seed round to fund growth and team expansion.