Partner at Early Game Ventures
Check size: €500K-€2M initial investments, with up to €6M per company, as published by Early Game Ventures.
Dan Calugareanu invests or supports investment decisions through Early Game Ventures's published strategy: Lead early rounds in European technology companies, backing contrarian founders who commit fully to solving painful problems.
Show the painful problem, contrarian insight, technical or product advantage, early market pull and the milestone a €500K-€2M first check will fund.
Founders willing to put everything on the line for a painful problem, with technical depth, commercial urgency and a path to global scale.
The published strategy centers on European technology companies from pre-seed through Series A; later-stage or nontechnology opportunities are less aligned.