Over €2 billion grant funding in Q1 2025 for investments in start-ups
The authorities are preparing to launch more than 15 separate funding lines, with allocations ranging from €50,000 to more than €57M.
The authorities are preparing to launch more than 15 separate funding lines, with allocations ranging from €50,000 to more than €57M.
The total value of the investment amounted to RON 7.788.593,26, of which 70% represents European funds, which was successfully attracted by the REI Grup team.
InvestALIM results: out of a total of 37 companies - eight are projects successfully managed by the REI team.
The Modernisation Fund, Regional Programmes, Rural Development - Agriculture and Start-up Nation 2024 receive the largest allocations. Financial support ranges from €20,000 to over €57 million.
The Ministry of Finance is preparing a new state aid scheme for investments, similar to GD 807/2014: annual budget is estimated at €150 million.

The World Bank has significantly downgraded its economic growth projections for Romania this year, lowering expectations to 0.5% from the 1.3% forecast issued at the start of 2026.
Foraj Sonde Videle has announced the acquisition of Raffles Energy, a British holding company that owns two Romanian energy companies active in natural gas and electricity production.
Econergy Renewable Energy has secured approximately €31 million in project financing from Kommunalkredit Austria to develop its 60 MW photovoltaic project in southeastern Romania.
Romanian software company Arobs Transilvania Software has completed the merger by absorption of five subsidiaries - Arobs Development & Engineering, Berg Computers, Nordlogic Software, Infobest Romania, and Centrul de Soft GPS.
The European retail sector faced a cooling period in February 2026, with the latest Eurostat data revealing a divergence between a stabilising Union and a sharply declining Romanian market.