Oana Craioveanu is co-founder and Managing Director of Impact Hub Bucharest. She established it in 2012 as Romania's first coworking space, and it has grown into a community of more than 5,000 members. Over 14 years, she has designed and delivered more than 55 acceleration and incubation programmes. These have supported over 1,200 start-ups and helped founders access €5.5 million in funding. She co-initiated Startarium, Romania's largest entrepreneurship education platform. She also co-initiated Innoteque, a conference that brings together business, research and government to work on the country's innovation ecosystem.
Oana is the EIT Food Hub national contact point for Romania. She mentors Romanian women founders in the Empowering Women in Agrifood (EWA) programme. As a World Bank consultant (2023–2025), she co-authored the ‘Enabling the Enablers’ report on organisations that support innovation. She has also advised Romania's Ministry of Research, Innovation and Digitalisation.
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