Lucian Todea

Technology entrepreneur and angel investor, with more than 20 years of experience in Internet and tech related businesses, Lucian Todea is a technology industry executive with significant operational, business development, general management, leadership and international experience.

Lucian took the first step towards entrepreneurship in 2001, when, the 21 years old student launched its first website that later became known as Soft32.com, one of the most popular download platforms in the world. After one year, in 2002, Lucian decided to drop The Bucharest University of Economic Studies where he was specializing in Finance, Insurance, Banking and Stock Exchange in order to focus on building and expanding the Soft32 platform.

At its peak, Soft32 listed more than 150 000 apps and was visited by more than 10M users each month. As a result, ITNT, the company behind Soft32, was acknowledged in 2014 as one of the fastest growing tech startups in Europe and EMEA.

He was involved in several other tech startups activating in mobile payments, gaming, travel or mobile advertising.

As an angel investor he invested in several companies: Smartbill - the most used Romanian invoicing and accounting SaaS platform; TypingDNA (Techstars NYC'18 Company) offering typing biometrics and 2FA solutions for securing devices and web applications; Homefresh, the pioneer meal kit delivery service.

Mentor, advisor and member of: MVP Academy, MVP Angels, TechAngels, VentureConnect, StartupSpotlight (How to Web), InnovationLabs, etc.