Alexandru Lapusan is the CEO and Founding Partner of Zitec a Romanian software company specialised in online products and applications development. Alex is coming to Startup Grind Bucharest to talk about his journey from a team of 3 and EUR 3000, to over 100 employees and EUR 5 Mil. Alex is also an investor and he will talk about the startups he invested in, from San Francisco, New York, London, Amsterdam and Romania, and about Zipongo.com, a startup that his team has been supporting since 2011 which has successfully ended a first round of financing coordinated by investment funds Excel Venture Management and Rally Ventures. Up to this moment, Zipongo has finally received financing over USD 10 million. Recently, Zitec decided to invest in Citinite (Great Britain), which is focusing on providing marketing and research instruments to event organizers all over the world, and cosQuare Netherlands, which will create an international community of online shopping. Zitec is also investing in the comic book publishing house HAC!BD