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YOU ALREADY ACCOMPLISHED A LOT WITH ALL
THIS. BUT I UNDERSTAND THERE’S MUCH MORE
YOU’RE WORKING ON. HOW ADVANCED IS YOUR
INVESTMENT FUND?
it should be in place. I have learned during the COVID pandemic
that things do not always happen as we want them to happen.
I learned that I must accept what comes and to use my talents
and resources where they are needed.
We are in phase A. We are now building a network with private
investors, Venture Capital (VC) funds and family offices from the
UAE and we are matching them with companies, either startups
or scale ups, for them to have amazing businesses together. We
organized a pitching competition in Dubai in March this year.
I started my business without any money. I asked myself how I
can do it. I worked a lot with partnerships to enable me to scale
up. Otherwise, I would have needed a huge marketing budget
to organize conferences all over the world or to bring it into the
media, the press, TV and radio – we were everywhere with no
budget – only because I knew that we have such an amazing
mission.
YOU ALREADY HARVEST YOUR SUCCESS. THE
AWARD MENTIONED IN THE BEGINNING WAS NOT
THE ONLY RECOGNITION YOU GOT?
Our business club was elected as a good practice in “Women in
Business Interact”, an inter-regional project. It was a project on
the Danube region, encompassing nine countries along the
Danube river. For me it was a huge accomplishment because
there were countries attending such as Germany, Austria,
Croatia, with a more advanced economy and entrepreneurial
culture.
This was my challenge at age 26 when I started this. I know very
well money is a resource, a tool. That’s why I want the investment
fund to be the fourth pillar of activity. We are helping companies
to receive funding from private investors. We first support
to build the business plan, train them how to pitch, we stay at
the negotiation table between the investor and the company.
The next step is the investment fund.
WHEN DO YOU EXPECT TO HAVE
ESTABLISHED IT?
My bold goal is to have it in the next two years. It depends on
other projects because we started a lot of things. In a few years
Our concept to integrate Romania into the European business
culture was elected as good practice a successful network of
women entrepreneurs internationally. For two years I was board
advisor in this project in nine countries across Europe. It can be
used as a blueprint for other countries.
Romania has so much to offer. It starts with how we market our
country. It determines the way people see us. I would love to give
this message to Romanian people to go everywhere with their
heads up because we are coming from such an amazing culture
with champions in many, many fields. But it starts with us, how
we present ourselves in the world is how the world sees us.
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