Pre-seed & seed investments

Where sparks become global ventures

We back early-stage founders with capital, commitment, and hands-on expertise — from your first product to your first international market.

€ 300K-1500K

Ticket per deal

RO & EU

Main focus

AI

Vertical agnostic

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The story

Early-stage capital for Europe’s most ambitious founders

Sparking Capital is an early stage fund backing entrepreneurs with unique industry insights, powerful vision, passion, courage and excellence in the execution of their plans.

We spark the growth of the startups we invest in, working side by side with their founders, to become great companies that create long lasting competitive advantages.

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.

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What we offer
The investors

The next billion-dollar company is being built right now — in an unexpected place, by an unlikely founder. We intend to be there first.

Focuses

Industries we invest in

We are industry agnostic with a preference for:

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Cybersecurity

Future of Work

Business Process Automation

Fintech

E-commerce tools

Supply Chain

Value added

More than capital.
Everything you need to scale.

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01

Smart money investments

We invest in early stage startups (pre-seed or seed). Our first investment ticket is up to 1,5 millions Euro per funding round, and up to 5-6 millions cumulatively per startup.

02

Business Network

We are connecting and engaging Startups with our business network to help them sharpen their strategic approach, value creation and capturing model, acquire customers, strengthen unit economics and rise future financing rounds.

03

Mentorship

We leverage our multifunctional expertise gained as entrepreneurs and board members in multinational corporations, as well as out network, to embark our fonder’s ventures on a fast growth journey.

Scaling up internationally

We facilitate international scale up through our national and European network of VCs.

The investors

Former founders & executives. Current investors. Always builders.

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Vlad Panait

Managing Partner and Founder

Cristian Negrutiu

General Partner and Founder

Vlad Sarca

General Partner

The Spark files

We back founders who have a spark.

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RobosizeME

$2M to automate what Big Hotels still do by hand

Stephen Burke

Stephen Burke spent years inside hospitality operations and saw the same problem everywhere — hotel teams buried in manual, repetitive back-office work that software should have solved a decade ago. He built RobosizeME to fix that. Today, one US hotel chain saved over $1M in labor costs in a single year. Payback period: under 12 months.

Pluria

$2M to turn any café, hotel lounge, or coworking hub into your team's office

Andrei Crețu & Gabriela Drăghia

Andrei took client calls from his dressing room. Gabriela worked from her car in the basement. Neither wanted a permanent office — they wanted a choice. They built Pluria to give that choice to every distributed team. Today, 150 companies across Europe and Latin America book workspaces from a single app.

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Blog

News & Media
  • 25 Feb 2026

RobosizeME Raises $2M Seed Round Led by SeedTwo Capital to Bring AI Workflow Automation to the Global Hotel Industry
  • 26 Oct 2021

EUVC #31, Vlad Sarca, Sparking Capital, Cristian Munteanu, Early Game Ventures
  • 24 Sep 2021

Vlad Panait, Founder of Sparking Capital: “Investment is still needed, and the success stories that have appeared will generate and facilitate a certain effervescence in this system”

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Portfolio

Companies we believed in
before the world did.

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We finance European pre-seed and seed Software /IT start-ups with at least a MVP launched. Our first investment tickets range from 250k Euro to 1,5 millions Euro.

Sparking Capital Fund II is a venture capital fund with investment by the Recovery Equity Fund of Funds Romania, a mandate financed through Romania’s National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR) and managed by the European Investment Fund (EIF).

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