Ringhel won MY-GATEWAY startup competition, the EU funded project which aims to boost entrepreneurship in Central and Eastern Europe. The event was part of the Startup Europe Summit 2019, organized this year by the Romanian Presidency of the Council of the European Union, in Cluj-Napoca, on March 21-22.
Mihai Dârzan, CEO Ringhel, presented his company plans and the platform GeFEE they have developed. GeFEE is the ERP and CRM software for power and gas markets, empowering companies to boost their business. As Mihai said, Ringhel has already convinced the Romanian market and 50% of active electricity suppliers and 20% of gas suppliers use GeFEE platform and in 2018 they expanded their business on Serbian market. Ringhel’s objective is to enter other European countries and become one of the most outstanding choices for ERP & CRM in Europe and in USA for the power and gas markets.
For this competition there were selected 17 innovative seed-stage startups to come and pitch in front of top-notch jury members:
- Ivo Spiegel, co-founder Tech.eu
- Cristian Munteanu | Early Game Ventures
- Vojtech Horna | Index Ventures
- Bogdan Iordache | Gecad Ventures
- Felix Huber | Stripe
- Cristian Dascălu | Gapminder
- Márton Medveczky | BuranVC
The announcement of the pitching competition winner was chaired by the Mayor of Cluj-Napoca, Emil Boc, together with Maria-Manuela Catrina, Ministry of Communication and Information Society and Laura Mihăilă, Head of Marketing at BCR.
About Startup Europe Summit
Startup Europe Summit is an event that aims to bring together all important key players of the startup ecosystem. By linking up policy makers and startups who belong to the technology and innovation field, aspires to creating a better environment for entrepreneurs and the organizations that support entrepreneurship.
About MY-GATEWAY project
MY-GATEWAY is an EU-funded project that unites different organizations to do the same with the country focus of Slovenia, Czech Republic and Romania. MY-GATEWAY regularly organizes contests for startups to pitch at events. To learn more about the competition, click HERE.