Teodor Cataniciu is a social entrepreneur and founder of Restart Network, a non-profit organization on a mission to accelerate diversity and inclusion in the European tech industry through a model they call the Crowdsourced School: connecting a community to build people together.
While in college, he built a social enterprise with an annual budget of over a quarter million euros and rallied some of the world’s most iconic tech companies to support his “Crowdsourced School”. His work has gained international attention, in the Netherlands he was named one of the Best Entrepreneurs Under 35 by the Dutch Financial Times and he has been selected as one of Romania’s 30 Under 30 by Forbes Magazine.
Restart Network is a non-profit organization on a mission to accelerate diversity and inclusion in the European tech industry through a model we call the Crowdsourced School: connecting a community to build people together. We transform the lives of students from refugee, low-income, and minority in tech backgrounds, like women, who embark on an intense one-year journey into web development and personal growth to start a career in the tech industry and have a positive impact in Europe.