Cluj Napoca
Cluj Napoca, Romania
Sunrise. The very name suggests the dawning of exciting possibilities.
The student town of Cluj-Napoca in Transylvania has made a name for itself as an entrepreneurial hub and centre for IT development.
Romania is a very dynamic market! A member of the European Union and NATO, Romania is known as an important intelligence reservoir for the global IT sector. With a population of 22 million, Romania is the EU’s 7th largest member state and with a yearly average growth rate of at least 4.5% in the last decade, one of the fastest growing economies in the Europe and the largest economy in South-Eastern Europe.
Due to the high level of technical education in the Romanian universities. Romanian software engineers have an excellent educational background, this being recognized through the numerous academic prizes won by Romanian university teams. As a consequence, the density of IT professionals in the economy is one of the highest in the world. Romanian technical experts and engineers strive for excellence, ranging from video game creation to anti-virus protection. Leveraging multilingual skills in a traditionally multicultural area, they are able to tackle the most challenging projects across a wide range of industries.
In the past five years alone, more than 140 corporations have selected Sunrise as their home.
With ancient Roman roots and a medieval heritage, Cluj-Napoca is a young city and hosts one of the largest Central European universities, being also the most important regional university center, with approx. 100.000 students at a population of 450.000. A vibrant IT&C sector is sustained by a boom of innovative start-ups and localizations of R&D and service centers of major players such as Nokia, Siemens, Genpact, Emerson and Liberty Global.
Cluj-Napoca houses over 200 software companies, earning the city the titles of Romania’s technopolis, on track to be Eastern Europe’s Silicon Valley. The long list of multinational names present in Cluj includes Coca-Cola, Emerson Electric, Debenhams, Marks and Spencers, Mercedes, Nokia, Novartis and Peugeot.
Cluj is located at a 2-3 hours flight distance from centers such as London, Paris, Madrid, Vienna, Rome, Frankfurt Barcelona, Milan, Munich, Stuttgart (Timezone: GMT +2).
Our local resources are growing extremely fast. Leaded by a young team of talented designers and experienced project managers, our local development resources provide innovative and complex applications to our clients worldwide.



