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Sparking Capital

Piata Charles De Gaulle 15 Bl. CHARLES DE GAULLE PLAZA Et. 3 Ap. BIR. 327, Bucuresti, Sectorul 1, Romania

Overview

Sparking Capital is an early stage micro fund backing entrepreneurs with unique industry insights, powerful vision, passion, courage and excellence in the execution of their plans. Sparking Capital focuses on pre-seed & seed investments. We are industry agnostic but have a preference for investments in consumer internet, marketing-tech, supply chain-tech, fin-tech, property-tech, circular economy-tech startups with differentiating value propositions, disruptive business models which have the potential to become national champions and/or scale up fast internationally.

Total investments
12
Lead investments
6
Investments · 12mo
2
Active investors
3
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Investment portfolio

  • Pluria

    Led · Equity · May 2026

    Pluria operates an app-based flexible workspace network that allows employees to book desks, meeting rooms, and private spaces on-demand across more than 1,000 locations in 150 cities and 20 countries. The company was founded in Romania by Andrei Crețu and Gabriela Drăghia and currently works with teams in Colombia, Mexico, Argentina, Spain, and Romania. In Romania Pluria is present in 15 cities and has more than 60 spaces in Bucharest. Key product initiatives include Pluria for Teams, a self-serve team product, and Pluria Intelligence, a data layer that converts workspace usage into insights for people, facilities, and leadership teams. The company emphasizes replacing multiple contracts with a single access solution for distributed teams and improving visibility into where teams meet. Financially, Pluria has raised $2 million in the latest round and has secured more than $6 million in total funding.

  • RobosizeME

    Participated · Seed · Feb 2026

    RobosizeME develops a managed-service automation platform that integrates with hotel property-management, reservation, point-of-sale and financial systems to deploy 24/7 "digital workers." These automations take over high-volume tasks such as OTA commission reconciliation, payment routing, rate loading and guest-profile management, reducing errors and freeing staff for guest-facing work. One U.S. hotel chain saved more than $1 million in labor costs within a year of implementation, illustrating the product’s rapid ROI. The company’s client roster includes Design Hotels, The Dorchester Collection, GHA, Kempinski, Loews Hotels, Louvre Hotels Group and Radisson Hotel Group. RobosizeME holds ISO 27001, GDPR and PCI-DSS certifications, underscoring its commitment to security and compliance. Backed by the newly raised seed capital, the team plans to accelerate deployment and scale its impact across the $580 billion global hospitality market by embedding AI directly into existing hotel workflows.

  • Vatis Tech

    Led · Seed · Feb 2023

    Vatis Tech builds a speech-to-text transcription platform that emphasizes high accuracy for Romanian and English by training models on multiple domain-specific datasets (media, medical, phone calls, legal, ads, noisy audio). The company reports Romanian-language accuracy above 95% across several domains and roughly 90% average accuracy for general English speech. Its platform has transcribed over 3.1 million notes and serves clients in media, government and banking, including Unicredit and Klarmedia. The team trains models on both public datasets and client-specific data to improve robustness for particular use cases. Planned product work focuses on developing domain-specific transcription models (priority: economic field, also law and medicine) and area-specific solutions such as call-center models. Investors cite the team’s rapid product development and client traction as the rationale for continued support. Vatis Tech builds an AI-powered online speech recognition platform and API that supports multiple languages and industry verticals. The company aims to enable users to create custom speech recognition models with minimal resources using its infrastructure. It focuses on European languages—including French, Italian, German, Dutch and Polish—and started with Romanian. Vatis Tech’s algorithms are specialized for sectors such as media, finance, technology and medical, and can be deployed in the cloud or on premise. The service is available online and developers can integrate the API with dedicated support and pricing. In tests reported by the company, Vatis Tech’s transcription accuracy exceeded 94%, compared with competitors’ 84%, and it has recently closed a funding round of over €200K.

  • Hyperhuman

    Led · Seed · Mar 2022

    Hyperhuman, founded in 2020 by Bogdan Predusca, Dan Nica, and David Teodorescu, offers an AI platform that transforms video recordings into reusable content blocks so creators can assemble full-length workouts in minutes. The company claims a '10x multiplication factor'—professionals uploaded 25 hours of raw video and generated over 186 hours of workouts using the platform. Distribution features include the Hyperhuman Club app and a Wix app that connects content to Wix's 200+ million users (including 4.5+ million paying professionals and businesses). Planned product developments include an API to publish interactive content (promised within about one month) and licensing functionality to help creators monetize and license videos. Hyperhuman's main clientele is in North America, the UK, and Australia, and the team plans to use the new funding to grow presence in those regions by hiring local commercial representatives. Hyperhuman has built an intelligent platform that combines machine learning, object recognition, and AI-driven video editing to streamline production and dissemination of workout materials. Its engine recognizes exercises, extracts metadata, edits videos into reusable content blocks, and recommends personalized workouts to users. The company packages this technology inside a marketplace designed to help trainers create, repurpose, and monetize video workouts without complex production. Hyperhuman is currently in private beta for a selected group of trainers and plans to launch the product by spring. Founders include CEO Bogdan Paul Predusca, former Fitbit product/design leaders Bogdan and David Teodorescu, and Dan Nica, a former fintech product manager and prior fitness startup cofounder. The platform continuously feeds new content back into its proprietary AI to improve speed and personalization, and the team says it will always offer a free version for trainers. Hyperhuman recently raised €500K to extend its video AI technology and acquire an initial user base.

  • KFactory

    Participated · Seed · Feb 2022

    KFactory is a Romanian Industry 4.0 company founded in 2017 by Vlad Cazan and Adrian Dima that delivers 'cognitive manufacturing' via SaaS. Its flagship product is a Team of Virtual Engineers (VEs) — modular SaaS solutions for Production, Maintenance, Supply Chain, Quality and Commercial efficiency. In September the company added a Green VE to help factories monitor and reduce carbon emissions in line with the EU Fit for 55 programme. KFactory says its VE suite can apply to any facilities that consume resources and emit carbon, though it currently focuses on factories. The company grew its number of customers by 500% in 2021 and plans further product development, including an e-learning platform soon to be launched in English, German and Romanian. KFactory intends to expand geographically into the DACH region and hire sales, development and German customer-success teams while broadening its offering into logistics, retail, construction and field services.

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