Vlad Nistor
Angel Investor at Self-employed
Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Summary
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Top SchoolVlad Nistor is an angel investor and founder with 11 years of experience at the intersection of fintech, macro-driven investing, and startups. He founded and ran Romania’s largest digital currency exchange from 2015–2018, scaling it to 19,000 clients and hundreds of thousands of transactions while retaining hands-on engineering and operations responsibility. Earlier roles in pension fund and asset management gave him deep expertise in fixed income, portfolio construction, and CEE/Western European macroeconomics across funds managing €400–500M. Based in Cluj-Napoca, he evaluates and backs projects with an investor’s eye for product-market fit and risk-adjusted return, often gravitating toward crypto and startup teams that combine strong technical execution with sound macro awareness. Outside investing he has governance experience from board-level work in civil society, reflecting a practical blend of strategic leadership and civic engagement.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Gheorghe Sincai High SchoolBSc, BSc at Brunel UniversityHigh School, High School at Mexico Senior High School
English, Romanian, German
Github Skills (53)
nodejs-client10
kraken9
coingecko9
client-library9
socketcluster9
sdk9
xrp8
api8
blockchain8
nodejs-library8
nodejs8
api-client8
ethereum7
ripple7
currency-exchange-rates6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
vnistor/backend-exchanger
Mar 2015 - Mar 2015
Contributions:4 PRs, 983 pushes, 5 branches in 28 days
vnistor/api-exchanger
Mar 2015 - Mar 2015
Contributions:122 pushes in 6 days
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