Vlad Nistor
Angel Investor at CoinFlux
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.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
High School Mathematics & Information Technology, High School Mathematics & Information Technology at Gheorghe Sincai High SchoolBSc Business Administration and Management, BSc Business Administration and Management at Brunel University of LondonHigh School, High School at Mexico Senior High School
English, Romanian, German
Github Skills (38)
nodejs-client10
socketcluster9
nodejs-library9
pubsub7
nodejs7
javascript7
websocket7
ethereum7
blockchain7
scalable7
docker7
rust6
xrp6
ripple6
cron6
Programming languages (6)
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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