‘Surreal dream’: Romanian startup makes Wall Street splash

Pedestrians walk past the offices of Romanian technology company UiPath in Bucharest. The first listing on the New York Stock Exchange of a company of Romanian origin was the culmination of ‘a surreal dream’, UiPath wrote on Twitter. — AFP

BUCHAREST: Born in the small Bucharest apartment of a once aspiring writer, software firm UiPath has grown into a US$40bil (RM163.78bil) tech star after becoming Romania’s first Wall Street-listed company.

Although Romania is often described as the “Silicon Valley” of Eastern Europe and the startup scene is flourishing, no home-grown company has established itself on the global scene quite like this.