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Top 20 Angel Investors in Croatia in November 2024

Last updated: Nov 2024 A list of 20 angel investors that invest in startups based in Croatia. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in companies from Croatia. We update this investor list every month.

Top 20 Angel Investors in Croatia in November 2024

Investor	Croatia investments
Luca Ascani	6
Taavet Hinrikus	5
David Rowan	2
Mihovil Barancic	2
John Lilic	1
Stefan Thomas	1
Chris Schagen	1
Nenad Bakić	1
Mekin Maheshwari	1
Igor Anić	1
Girish Mathrubootham	1
Ivan Topčić	1
Chris Larsen	1
Megan Kaspar	1
Mate Rimac	1
Marko Kovac	1
Hrvoje Zlatar	1
Aprameya Radhakrishna	1
Ankur Singla	1
Vijay Sharma	1

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Luca is founder and CEO of Lambda Alpha, an investment company focused on early stage investment. Its portfolio includes Bear, the Apple Design Award winner notes app, Fintechs as Lendable and Emma App in London, Mansa in Paris and ScalaPay as well as autonomous robots Gideon Brothers and automated pasta restaurant Cala. Recent investmentsincludes Dishpatch, Airbank and RVVUP. Luca started his entrepreneurial career aged 20 when he launched BuyCentral.it, the first Italian shopping comparison site, in 2000. It was sold to Lycos in 2004. In 2002 he founded ADVance which became the leading digital agency in Italy, subsequently sold to NetBooster. In 2004 he cofounded GoAdv, later rebranded Populis, one of the largest vertical digital publishing groups in Europe and Brazil, listed on the Paris Alternext stock exchange. In 2011 Populis was named the fastest growing company in Ireland and part of the top ten in Europe by Deloitte. In 2012 and 2013 he has brought the TechCrunch conference to Italy with the aim of connecting the Italian industry with international investors. For this same purpose he was co-hosting the 2017 Founders Forum in Rome.From 2010 Luca was in the board of IlSecoloXIX, an Italian north west leading newspaper, then acquired by LaStampa in 2014 and he was in the board of the new group, ITEDI, until it was acquired by Gruppo Espresso in 2017.

Investment focus

FinTech, Software, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
France, Italy, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Fence — Fence is a SaaS platform to automate debt facility operations like reporting and payments between lenders and borrowers.
Jet HR — Jet HR makes managing people incredibly simple: payroll, benefits, devices, compliance and much more. We re-thought the HR function, removing anything that is cumbersome and simplifying any action on employees. We are funded by the best Italian VCs (Exor Ventures, Italian Founders Fund and 6 more) and by the best Italian founders (founders ofCasavo, Satispay, Scalapay, Bending Spoons, Musixmatch, Talent Garden, Oyster HR, etc).
qomodo — Qomodo: La piattaforma BNPL innovativa. Rate a tasso zero, approvazioni veloci, transazioni sicure. Rivoluzionaria nell'acquisto per aziende e consumatori.

Taavet Hinrikus is co-founder and CEO of TransferWise. Prior to starting TransferWise, Taavet was Skype’s director of strategy until 2008, starting as its first-ever employee. One of the World Economic Forum's Tech Pioneers, Taavet is an adviser to Prime Minister of Estonia on the digital agenda. He’s also a mentor and angel investor; hisinvestments include Tweetdeck, Mendeley, OMGPOP, Property Partner, Sunrise, Improbable and Mapillary.

Investment focus

FinTech, Software, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Series B
United Kingdom, United States, Estonia

Portfolio highlights

Meatable — Meatable is a food production company that produces real and guilt-free meat. With one cell, they are revolutionizing the meat industry's impact on climate change and animal welfare. At the same time they increase food security, without compromising the culinary experience of eating tasty, real meat. They aim to satisfy the world'sappetite for meat without harming people, animals, and the planet.It was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Delft, South Holland, The Netherlands.
Open Cosmos — Driven by the vision of making space accessible to anyone, Open Cosmos provides simple and affordable space missions.Open Cosmos went from design to delivery of qb01, their first nanosatellite, in only four months, followed by a launch and deployment in LEO early April 2017. They are currently working with innovative payload developers towardsin-orbit demonstration and constellation deployment to enable services ranging from remote sensing to maritime domain awareness and machine-to-machine communications.
Unearthly Materials — Unearthly Materials is a transformative materials company focused on delivering practical room-temperature superconductors and powering the century of superconductivity.

David Rowan is editor of the UK edition of WIRED magazine, which won 2009 Launch of the David Rowan is Editor of the WIRED UK, the technology and trends magazine covering online brands, gadgets and the culture that surrounds them. David has reported on technology for The Times and Channel 4 News, the latter requiring him to illustrate the newiPod Video from the set of a porn shoot. He's also written for The Sunday Times and Telegraph Magazines, and edited the Guardian's on-line content. David has curated an exhibition of British creative talent at the Government's Cabinet Forum conference. He has also addressed the TEDs, and frequently contributes on Newsnight and the Today programme. He also writes a monthly column for GQ. David is in touch with many of the world's leading trend-setters and spotters. In presentations he looks at how the net is disrupting almost every sector, how apps change consumer behaviour and why 'social commerce' is killing traditional marketing. He reveals the 10 trends that will change your market in the next decade - and what you should be doing now to protect yourself.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom, Germany, Croatia

Portfolio highlights

EWOR — EWOR is a platform dedicated to transforming aspiring entrepreneurs into successful startup founders through world-class education, mentorship, and investment opportunities.
Climate X — Climate X combines climate science and econometrics to deliver precise climate risk data without any black boxes.
Rhizocore Technologies — We develop high-performance strains of locally-sourced mycorrhizal fungi to improve tree growth, tree health and tree resiliency. We offer a sustainable solution to increase forest yields whilst improving the ability of trees to sequester carbon.

Mihovil Barancic

Investment focus

Ticketing, Web Hosting, Developer APIs
Seed, Angel
Croatia, United States

Portfolio highlights

Entrio — Entrio is the only fully automated, self-service ticketing platform in the region, offering both quick and digital ticket sales, but also a network of soon over 80 physical, partner outlets enabling each and every person on the market to easily buy a ticket for their favourite event. Meaning everything through the same central platform, providingtotal control and maximum responsiveness to event organizers.Compliance with local laws and regulations, understanding the market, integration with media channels and being extremely supportive of both organizers and buyers, enabled us to gain trust and form great relationships with most of the key players in the market.
WhoAPI — WhoAPI Inc. is a software company that has been developing APIs since 2011. Whois API, Domain Availability API, Screenshot API and others.

John Lilic is an early Bitcoin and Ethereum adopter and an early ConsenSys employee who spent six years with the company helping it grow to an international leader in the blockchain ecosystem. He is now running his own dedicated family office out of Switzerland while also serving as an investor and product development advisor at Polygon. John isalso a co-founder and treasurer at Code to Inspire, a 501c3 non profit dedicated to teaching Afghan girls how to code.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Information Technology, Internet
Seed, Angel, Series A
India, France, Croatia

Portfolio highlights

TheGepek — The Gepek is a new platform for package delivery based on a carpooling model. It’s intended exclusively for the carriage of packages, not people!It helps flattening COVID curve by lowering social contacts as one person can manage multiple contactless deliveries. Of course it gives opportunity for extra profit and flexible time management - inperiod of economic crisis new revenue could always help! Also, it’s really convenient for fast cross country package delivery (way cheaper and faster than classic postal services).Platform has security features to ensure safe delivery like driver ratings and identity check through social platform login. All drivers below average rates are excluded from the platform!
Noble XYZ — Noble is changing how stablecoins and other real world assets are issued on blockchains by combining minimalistic, high security architecture with the cross-chain efficiencies of the IBC protocol.
Superchain Network — The Open Index Protocol - By collecting and customising data in minutes, Superchain serves as the layer on top of which builders create applications, faster

Stefan Thomas wants to live in a world where currency moves as frictionlessly as information. As CTO of Ripple, he is helping to build an Internet protocol that does just that. Stefan is one of the co-creators of the Interledger Protocol (ILP).Prior to Ripple, he developed vast experience in digital currencies, being both the founder of,WeUseCoins.com, the largest website for novice Bitcoin users,and the creator of BitcoinJS, a software package used by a wide range of Bitcoin businesses all over the world. Now, at Ripple Labs, his overarching motivation is to weave a global value web by making it easy for developers - from individual entrepreneurs to financial institutions - to build extremely efficient money transfer systems using the Ripple protocol, and, in the end, a world in which exchanging value is as frictionless, free and fast as exchanging information.

Investment focus

Internet, Software, Apps
Seed, Series B
United States, Croatia

Portfolio highlights

Cinnamon — The one-stop shop to design, develop and deploy your next digital project.
Coil — Coil specializes in providing web content monetization solutions. Its monetization model offers an alternative to the status quo of paid advertisements and selling the public’s attention to the highest bidders. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
Puma Browser — Puma is a mobile browser and wallet for the Web3 ecosystem. Private by design. Today, we enable seamless payments for creators, app & game developers via Coil and ILP protocol and access to HNS & ENS domains. Long term, our goal is to give 1b people access to Web3 world, DeFi, the peer to peer and ownership based economy.

I help developer tech entrepreneurs beginning from crazy idea, through MVP stage, product market fit, go-to-market fit, up to go-to-market scaling. Also I help you get your first 1000 leads. Before, I was the CMO at Contentful and helped it grow from $0m to $50m in ARR, and before that founded 3 companies, including Wooga (exit to Playtika),Linklift, and Mundwerk.I obsess about being customer-centric and customer-driven in building your organization. And I am the curmodgeon who tells you things you need to (but probably don't want to) hear.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Germany, United States, France

Portfolio highlights

DGG — RapidCompact by DGG is the leading solution to make 3D content fit all target platforms, freeing up each creative team's' time by automating the creation of high-quality, optimized 3D assets for Web, mobile, AR and XR use. Customers include retailers, public institutions, tech companies, XR studios, and more.
PartyKit — PartyKit is an open source deployment platform for AI agents.
Growblocks — Growblocks builds your full SaaS bowtie - letting you see your full funnel, plan & monitor performance across your Go-To-Market engine.

Nenad Bakić

Investment focus

Robotics, Software, Machine Learning
Series A
Croatia

Portfolio highlights

Gideon Brothers — Gideon Brothers develops autonomous, mobile, collaborative and modular robots for unstructured, indoor, human industrial environments. They are one of the largest robotics engineering companies in Central and Southeastern Europe. Founded in 2017, the company is headquartered in Zagreb, Croatia.

Mekin Maheshwari - Advisor @ Mentr

Investment focus

Apps, Service Industry, SaaS
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
India, United States, Croatia

Portfolio highlights

Dr. Paws — Dr. Paws is a brand specializing in premium pet care products. It offers solutions designed to enhance the health and well-being of pets.
ofScale — ofScale operates as a distribution-as-a-service platform.
Billion Hearts — Did you sign-up for our beta launch?

Igor Anić

Investment focus

Software, Developer Tools, Cloud Infrastructure
Pre-Seed
Croatia

Portfolio highlights

Mantil — Serverless development kit for Go and AWS Lambda

Girish Mathrubootham is the CEO and Founder at Freshworks. Girish Mathrubootham attended University of Madras.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Angel
India, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

HuddleUp — HuddleUp is an AI-based team culture platform empowering Managers to boost team engagement & productivity using conversational AI, personalised learnings & peer connections. Build engaged, high-performing remote teams with HuddleUp. Book a demo now!
NocoDB — NocoDB is an open-source Airtable alternative that transforms existing databases into a smart spreadsheet. The company was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.
PickYourTrail — Personalize your holiday packages online. International trips in 3 easy steps, at best rates guaranteed. Experience a hassle-free vacation.

Ivan Topčić

Investment focus

Robotics, Software, Machine Learning
Series A
Croatia

Portfolio highlights

Gideon Brothers — Gideon Brothers develops autonomous, mobile, collaborative and modular robots for unstructured, indoor, human industrial environments. They are one of the largest robotics engineering companies in Central and Southeastern Europe. Founded in 2017, the company is headquartered in Zagreb, Croatia.

Chris Larsen is the Executive Chairman and co-founder of Ripple. Previously, Larsen served the company as its CEO and Chairman of the Board of Directors. Prior to Ripple, Chris co-founded and served as CEO of Prosper, a peer-to-peer lending marketplace, and E-LOAN, a publicly traded online lender. During his tenure at E-LOAN, he pioneered the openaccess to credit scores movement by making E-LOAN the first company to show consumers their FICO scores. Chris serves at the Board and Advisory levels at numerous companies and organizations including: Betable, CreditKarma, and Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC).

Investment focus

Information Technology, Payments, Software
Seed
United States, Croatia

Portfolio highlights

Proper — Proper provides expert property management bookkeeping for property managers, asset managers, and anyone in the world of property. (213 kB)
Cinnamon — The one-stop shop to design, develop and deploy your next digital project.
Puma Browser — Puma is a mobile browser and wallet for the Web3 ecosystem. Private by design. Today, we enable seamless payments for creators, app & game developers via Coil and ILP protocol and access to HNS & ENS domains. Long term, our goal is to give 1b people access to Web3 world, DeFi, the peer to peer and ownership based economy.

Megan Kaspar is the Co-Founder & Managing Director of Magnetic. She previously worked at MKE as a Managing Partner. Megan Kaspar attended the University of California, Los Angeles.

Investment focus

Publishing, Marketplace, Digital Media
Seed, Pre-Seed
Croatia, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

CYBR Magazine — Buy issues of CYBR Magazine the futurist magazine curating futurism, technology and techwear.
Tribute Brand — 51K Followers, 2 Following, 227 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from TRIBUTE BRAND (@tribute_brand)
Trustless Media — A new kind of production hub where ideas people care about actually come to life.

Mate Rimac (1988) is Croatian inventor, entrepreneur, founder and CEO of Rimac Automobili and Greyp Bikes.Rimac Automobili Ltd. is a high-technology company from Croatia founded in 2009 which focuses on the development and production of high-performance electric vehicles, powertrains and battery systems. The company’s CEO Mate Rimac was committedto building the next-generation of supercars, which began when Mate converted his old BMW to a race EV. The car officially homologated as a “Rimac Automobili e-M3” is holding 5 FIA and Guinness World records for acceleration. Rimac Automobili is the company behind the idea and production of the ConceptOne, their first vehicle which was the world’s first electric hypercar with more than 1000 HP, an exceptional supercar with a new propulsion system as well as the revolutionary approach to vehicle dynamics - All Wheel Torque Vectoring (AWTV). The majority of its components are developed and manufactured in-house. In collaboration with FIA Formula E the ConceptOne is used as the official zero-emission race director’s car during Formula E events.

Investment focus

Software, Fitness, Web Development
Seed, Pre-Seed
Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Portfolio highlights

Rolla — Rolla helps beginners and fitness enthusiasts to improve their overall health & fitness. Take the next step and reach your goals with features tailored to your preferences and fitness level.
Codemap — Hire no-code, automation and technology experts & agencies vetted by Codemap. Build software faster with minimal or NO coding - launch in days or weeks. Learn no-code and automate processes to supercharge your business.

Marko Kovac is the Founder and Chief Product Strategist at Repsly

Investment focus

Software, Developer Tools, Cloud Infrastructure
Pre-Seed
Croatia

Portfolio highlights

Mantil — Serverless development kit for Go and AWS Lambda

Hrvoje Zlatar

Investment focus

Software, Developer Tools, Cloud Infrastructure
Pre-Seed
Croatia

Portfolio highlights

Mantil — Serverless development kit for Go and AWS Lambda

Aprameya loves singing romantic songs and is the quintessential dreamer who doesn’t fear to experiment. He used to be the Head of Business Development for PDS at Jones Lang LaSalle India where he spent almost 3 years post his graduation from IIM Ahmedabad. He has worked at Infosys and has an Electronics engineering degree from NITK Surthkal andif all this has made you think he’s a geek, ask his close friends and they would say otherwise!

Investment focus

Internet, Software, Apps
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
India, Croatia, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

GoodGudi — GoodGudi is a Lifestyle retail shopping destination. Our Stores sell Travel Accessories, Fashion Accessories, Home Improvement products, Toys and Cosmetics
Basil — Lunch has never been so fun! India's first stainless steel & leakproof bento lunch boxes and insulated water bottles! Designed for today's kids and the child in you!
Evolved Foods — Want create site? Find Free WordPress Themes and plugins. Did you find apk for android? You can find new Free Android Games and apps.

Ankur Singla

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Retail, Consumer
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
India, Croatia

Portfolio highlights

iService — iService, an electronic device repairing startup.The rates for service repair are between what is offered at authorized repair outlets of gadget companies and at local gadget repair shops.
Qwk, The Convenience App — Urban life is demanding, Convenience is broken. Qwk makes convenience accessible to everyone right at their disposal.
Life & Pursuits — Life & Pursuits offers a wide range of Internationally Certified Organic Beauty & Wellness Products. Our products are certified by USDA and India Organic. Shop online for 100% Safe and effective Wellness and Personal Care Products.

Vijay Sharma

Investment focus

Electronics, Service Industry, Telecommunications
Seed
Croatia

Portfolio highlights

Arcjet — Arcjet helps developers protect their apps in just a few lines of code. Implement rate limiting, bot protection, email validation, and defense against common attacks.
iService — iService, an electronic device repairing startup.The rates for service repair are between what is offered at authorized repair outlets of gadget companies and at local gadget repair shops.
iService — iService provides gadget repairs and services for smartphones and laptops at customer homes and its four brick-and-mortar service centres.

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