startups, accelerators/incubators, events, and established companies doesn’t matter as long as at least one of these entities or co-founders is Romanian. The location can be in Romania or abroad.

Romanian Startups' Facebook group came to be around May 2012, being established by David Nagy – a young Romanian entrepreneur. During some discussions there the idea of a startups directory emerged. Mircea Goia – a Romanian technologist and web developer living in United States – bought the domain name RomanianStartups.com (along others related) and started to draw the wireframe of the website. This happened around June 2012.

After researching the platform on which the website should be built, he decided to use an open source one (which runs on LAMP). A Romanian team was hired by Mircea to design the look and feel of the website based on the wireframe he put together. After several months of reiteration and bringing new developers on-board the website launched in private beta around the 1st of March 2013. Since then, Mircea has contacted Romanian startups, accelerators/incubators, events and their founders inviting them to be part of this initiative of showing the world the Romanian technology/Internet startup scene.

More than 200 entities (startups, accelerators/incubators, events) and over 345 founders have joined RomanianStartups.com and they continue to join.