Interact Media
Interact Media LLC was established in 2010 by Tudor Darie (9%), Dumitru Ciorici (9%), Vasile Galușca (9%), and Sergiu Galușca (3%), with New Media Grup holding 70% of the share capital. New Media Grup, founded in 2008 by the same business partners, aimed to become a leader in Internet media, launching the online advertising agency AdCenter as its first venture. Throughout the years, Interact Media developed three major platforms: UNIMEDIA.info, EA.md, and AGORA.md. In April 2021, Interact Media LLC sold the ea.md platform to Seolitte, a digital marketing and services company.
The company underwent several organizational restructurings over time. From an initial structure where editorial staff made up 90% of employees, the company evolved to encompass four strategic departments: Editorial, Multimedia Production, Sales, and Strategic Development & Projects. In November 2021, ownership changed when Vasile and Sergiu Galușca acquired all shares held by Tudor Darie and Dumitru Ciorici, becoming majority shareholders. Additionally, key management figures - editor-in-chief Victoria Dumbravă (Amarandei) and company director Irina Ghelbur - became associates, each acquiring a 10% stake in the share capital. In 2023, Interact Media LLC established an Operational Board comprising associates Vasile Galușca, Irina Ghelbur, Victoria Amarandei, editor-in-chief Anastasia Antoceanu, and a community member.
Key Facts
| Business Form | Commercial / For-profit |
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| Legal Form | Limited Liability Company (LLC) |
| Business Sectors | Advertising, Software development and consulting, Other computing-related activities, Publishing books, brochures, leaflets and other publications, Printing of newspapers |
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Facts
| Founding Year | 2010 |
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| Founder | Tudor Darie Tudor Darie is an entrepreneur with diverse business interests. He began his career in 2002 as president of the Young Journalist Center. In 2007, he co-founded New Media Grup, which he managed for three years. From 2010 to 2012, he worked as Prime Minister Vlad Filat's consultant on information technologies. He was also one of the founders of the news portal Unimedia.info. From 2013 to 2017, he worked as director of Interact Media LLC, which he co-founded. From 2016 to 2022, he was director of New Media Grup. In 2018, he relocated to Bucharest, where he founded Fagura - the first crowdfunding lending marketplace in Romania and Moldova, a FinTech startup for alternative investments and consumer loans. His business portfolio also includes ventures in IT services (Sensmedia), digital marketing (Adcenter), and e-commerce (ZAP). Dumitru Ciorici Dumitru Ciorici is a journalist and media entrepreneur. In 2005, he and Tudor Darie launched uni.md, which later evolved into unimedia.info. He managed the portal's editorial operations from 2010 to 2014, before stepping away from the business. Between 2005-2007, he served as financial manager at Lunatic Productions and from 2006 to 2008 as president of Moldova's Young Journalist Center. From 2010 to 2015, he was a director at New Media Grup, which he co-founded. He served as editorial director at Agora.md in 2014-2015 and as a senior consultant at Thomson Reuters Foundation in 2020-2022. Since 2008, he has maintained his blog at dumitruciorici.com and runs a Telegram channel that aggregates news. From 2018 to present, he has been the development director at Fagura, the venture founded by Tudor Darie. Vasile Galușca Vasile Galușca currently serves as the director of strategic development at the Agora.md portal and is the majority owner of Interact Media LLC, which launched the portal. He is an entrepreneur and former director of Lunatic Productions, and from 2007 to 2012 served as development director at New Media Group. According to his LinkedIn profile, he managed Memo Express from 2013 to 2019, followed by a three-year tenure as administrator of the logistics and courier company Muvi Express. Since 2024, he has also managed Laziar Dev LLC, a trading company. Sergiu Galușca Vasile Galușca's brother, Sergiu Galușca, is a wine entrepreneur who has been instrumental in establishing several major wine projects in the country. He built his own business, Unicorn Winery, and currently manages multiple wine projects throughout the country. Victoria Amarandei (Dumbravă) Victoria Amarandei (Dumbravă) graduated in journalism in 2007. According to her LinkedIn profile, in the same year she joined the Unimedia portal, also founded by Interact Media LLC, as an editor, where she worked until 2010. From 2010 to 2013, she was an editor at Publika.md, after which she returned to Unimedia as a senior editor. In 2014, she joined Agora.md as editor-in-chief, alongside Dumitru Ciorici and Tudor Darie, where she developed the editorial team and defined the editorial policy. Since December 2023, she has been the administrator of Interact Media LLC. |
| Employees | 20 |
| Contact | str. Calea Ieșilor, 10B, et. 4 MD-2025 mun. Chișinău Republica Moldova office@interakt.md +373 22 999 332 https://agora.md/ |
| Tax / ID Number | 1010600000671 |
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| Advertising (in % of total funding) | Missing Data |
| Active Transparency | company/channel informs proactively and comprehensively about its ownership, data is constantly updated and easily verifiable | |
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| Meta Data | Advertising and market share data are not available. | |
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