Industry4cast by KFactory hosts Cristian Negrutiu, investor and Partner at Sparking Capital, with deep experience in B2B - particularly in the supply-chain space. The conversation is about investments in technology and the rising investor interest in Industry 4.0.
Sparking Capital is one of the early-stage VCs that backed KFactory in its first round - so this episode plays as both an investor view of Industry 4.0 and an inside look at why the round happened. Cristian unpacks how a B2B-focused investor reads the operational software space, what makes a company worth backing, and what the trajectory looks like for a Romanian Industry 4.0 platform aiming at international markets.
The thesis Sparking Capital has been articulating - that B2B and supply-chain software is where the durable Romanian technology companies will be built - is on full display, and it is the same thesis that produced the KFactory platform's earliest backing.
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Episode was recorded in Romanian. The summary above is an English translation of the original conversation.