Starting from Romania
Cristi Badea
Co-founder MavenHut European Entrepreneurship @ Stanford Engineering
March 9 2015
Which is the most popular Windows
application?
source: sippycupmom.com
Solitaire Arena
Nov 2012 Facebook, iOS, android
20M installs
Solitaire Arena
Who plays this game?
source: wikipedia
MavenHut
4 games 30 employees
top 5 Facebook game developers
source: goista.com
Bucharest
4me to listen to our story
Life before MavenHut
MavenHut early days
MavenHut now it’s getting serious
MavenHut today
MavenHut main challenge
Talent
Expertise
Think big
Romania
Romania
the country between Germany and Russia
A few active VC
No angel investors
Extremely tough to raise capital
Huge R&D centers
IT entrepreneurship early stage
Exits: Avangate & LiveRail (2014)