Top 25 Artificial intelligence Startup Investors in Croatia in May 2026
Top 25 Artificial intelligence Startup Investors in Croatia in May 2026
| Investor | Artificial intelligence Croatia investments |
|---|---|
| Luca Ascani | 6 |
| HCVC | 6 |
| Taavet Hinrikus | 5 |
| Fil Rouge Capital (FRC) | 5 |
| South Central Ventures | 3 |
| J&T Ventures | 3 |
| Prologis Ventures | 2 |
| LocalGlobe | 2 |
| Koch Disruptive Technologies | 2 |
| Rite-Hite | 2 |
| Pentland Ventures | 2 |
| David Rowan | 2 |
| Sjuul AltCryptoGems | 1 |
| Nenad Bakić | 1 |
| Iced | 1 |
| Peaksjah | 1 |
| Eric Cryptoman | 1 |
| Ivan Topčić | 1 |
| Ted Pillows | 1 |
| Linic Ltd | 1 |
| NJF Capital | 1 |
| Follow[the]Seed | 1 |
| Skynet Trading | 1 |
| CSP DAO | 1 |
| SparkLabs Global Ventures | 1 |
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Find investors — It's Free!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.
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- FinTech, Software, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- France, Italy, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Fence — At Fence, we're transforming the way debt facilities are managed. We are the Operating System for your debt facility, reducing the amount of resources spent in back-office operations and letting teams focus on what matters.Our platform, built on blockchain technology, offers a Software as a Service (SaaS) solution that simplifies andautomate debt facility operations. Whether you're a capital provider or an asset originator, Fence leads you toward a smarter financial future.For capital providers, our platform enables internet-native debt solutions and real-time portfolio insights, enhancing your credit investment monitoring. With Fence, you stay ahead, making informed decisions for success. Asset originators benefit from enhanced capital efficiency and reduced operational costs, thanks to Fence's automation. We seamlessly integrate debt facilities into your tech stack and provide on-demand programmable debt, giving you unprecedented control over the capital you borrow.
- qomodo — Qomodo: La piattaforma BNPL innovativa. Rate a tasso zero, approvazioni veloci, transazioni sicure. Rivoluzionaria nell'acquisto per aziende e consumatori.
- ReportAId — ReportAId is an AI-powered software that breathes life into medical reports to make healthcare more organized, customized, and accessible.
HCVC is an early-stage Venture Capital firm backing hardtech companies worldwide. Beyond its fund, HCVC supports hardtech founders through Hardware Club, a selective global community of 500+ startups with dedicated resources, partnerships and events.
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- Software, Robotics, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, France, United Kingdom
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- Karman+ — Mining near Earth asteroids
- Kyron.bio — Kyron.bio uses the power of glycan alterations to enable improved protein therapies.
- atmio — atmio helps natural gas operations to find, fix and report methane emissions easily.
Taavet Hinrikus is based out of London, England and is the Partner of Plural Platform and Board Member of CoMind. Taavet previously worked at Wise as a Chairman and Co-founder. Taavet Hinrikus attended INSEAD.
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- FinTech, Software, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United Kingdom, United States, Estonia
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- Juro — Juro is an all-in-one contract automation platform that helps legal and business users to agree & manage contracts in one unified workspace.
- 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.
- Skeleton Technologies — Skeleton Technologies is the global leader in ultracapacitor & supercapacitor energy storage and helps companies in automotive, transportation, grid, and industry to save energy.
Fil Rouge Capital (FRC) is an investment fund manager whose funds focus on early-stage businesses from pre-seed, seed, and Series A rounds of investment.
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- Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Croatia, Slovenia, United Kingdom
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- GameBoost — Ranking up has never been easier. With GameBoost's cheap LoL and Valorant Elo Boosting Services.
- Native Teams — Hire anyone, anywhere with Native Teams. Use EOR and PEO services to employ global talent or get compliant employment as a freelancer.
- Native Teams — Native Teams is the all-in-one global platform for work payments and employment.We help businesses hire, pay, and manage talent across 85+ countries, without setting up local entities. Our platform handles global payroll, compliance, and taxes while empowering international teams and gig workers with flexible financial tools and multi-currencypayment solutions.Whether you're scaling your team or simplifying contractor management, Native Teams makes global hiring simple, secure, and cost-effective.Trusted by 1,500+ companies Operating in 85+ countries Up to 3x lower global employment costsGlobal payroll? Sorted. Compliance? Handled. Payments? Done.
South Central Ventures is dedicated to investments in startups, small and medium globally oriented technology companies in SE Europe.
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- Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Serbia, United States, United Kingdom
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- SplxAI — SplxAI provides the most comprehensive platform for AI Security Testing and Red Teaming, ensuring your AI Assistants and Agents are secure and reliable from build to runtime.
- Insightful — Get Insightful starting from 6.4$ and start monitoring your employees now!
- City Expert — City Expert Global is a Serbian startup that introduces new technologies and business approach to the traditional real estate sector. It focuses on creating new standards in the advertising and agency real estate sector. City Expert Global was founded in 2015 by Darko Luković, Stefan Stojanović, and Igor Jović. It is based in Belgrade, Serbia.
J&T Ventures is an early-stage Prague-based Venture Capital fund, which invests in promising startups from the CEE and SEE region. Our strategy is industry agnostic, but we primarily focus on companies in the seed stage with proven product market fit. Our average ticket size is between EUR 0.5m - EUR 2.5m.
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- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Czech Republic, United States, Croatia
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- XUND — Answer the most important health questions with AI-powered technology from XUND. Medically certified and CE marked.
- Wultra — Wultra helps the leading banks and fintech companies to secure their digital systems and bring trust to the customer journeys. Our security-related software technologies cover the whole digital banking application stack, be it on the web or mobile platforms.
- Grid.online — Grid.online is building transportation infrastructure as a service that will unlock the huge free transportation capacity of cities and allow it to be shared efficiently.
Prologis Ventures invests in Series A through Growth stage companies focused on innovating in the logistics sector. Prologis Ventures' thesis-driven investment strategy is centered on addressing Prologis customers' most critical pain points in supply chain and transportation, digital buildings and infrastructure, and real estate andconstruction.Prologis Ventures is the partner of choice to accelerate growth, navigate challenges, and bring innovative solutions to market.
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- Software, Logistics, Artificial Intelligence
- Series A, Series B, Series C
- United States, China, Croatia
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- Outrider — Autonomous yard operations have set a new standard. Yard automation transforms yard operations into an efficient, safe, and sustainable solution.
- PassiveLogic — The first fully autonomous platform for buildings.
- Tangible — Tangible is a construction AI software that connects scattered documents and turns it into usable data for decision making.
Seeding ambitious founders at places like @citymapper, @improbableio,@teamkano, @moo, @songkick,@seedcamp, @transferwise and @zoopla since 1999. Who's next?
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United Kingdom, United States, France
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- Wefarm — Wefarm is a farmer-to-farmer digital network that enables farmers to share information via SMS. The company allows small-scale farmers to connect with one another to solve problems, share ideas, and spread innovation. Utilizing the latest machine learning technology, Wefarm’s service works both online and over SMS.Since its founding in 2015,Wefarm has been named one of Africa’s Most Innovative Companies by FastCompany and has won Google’s Impact Challenge Award, TechCrunch’s Europas-Tech for Good Award, and the European Union Commission’s Ideas from Europe prize, among others. The company is headquartered in London with a field presence in Nairobi, Kampala, and Dar-es-Salaam.
- Gamma — Meet the modern memo. Write like a doc, present like a deck, discuss live or async.
- Residently — Simplifying the rental process: from finding the perfect pad to furnishing and sourcing expert local home services, all at the tap of a button.
Founded in November 2017 upon the spirit of transformation, Koch Disruptive Technologies (KDT) originates and invests in promising entrepreneurs and technologies across industries to improve Koch Industries' existing businesses and create new opportunities.Based in Wichita, Kansas, Koch Industries, Inc. is one of the largest privatecompanies in America with estimated annual revenues as high as $100 billion, according to Forbes. It owns a diverse group of companies involved in refining, chemicals, and biofuels; forest and consumer products; fertilizers; polymers and fibers; process and pollution control equipment and technologies; electronics; information systems; commodity trading; minerals; energy; glass; ranching; and investments. Since 2003, Koch companies have invested more than $80 billion in acquisitions and other capital expenditures. With a presence in about 60 countries, Koch companies employ more than 120,000 people worldwide, with about 70,000 of those in the United States. From January 2009 to present, Koch companies have earned more than 1,200 awards for safety, environmental excellence, community stewardship, innovation, and customer service.Learn more about KDT at http://news.kochind.com/news/2017/koch-disruptive-technologies-ready-to-transform
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- Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
- Series A, Series B, Series C
- United States, Israel, Croatia
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- Arkestro — Bid Ops is the only predictive procurement software built to keep your team continuously exceeding targets. Using Bid Ops, you can orchestrate your activities across systems using instant forecasts and real-time collaboration. Predict and win 2-5x faster savings and never get stuck waiting for a KPI report again. Learn more athttps://www.bidops.com
- Speedata — Speedata develops accelerated processor for big data analytics across industries. Speedata's Analytics Processing Unit (APU) was designed solely to optimize datacenter and cloud-based database and analytic workloads, dramatically improving performance by orders of magnitude while reducing costs, power consumption and space.
- Celestial AI — We develop audacious AI computing platforms that elevate performance, energy and economic efficiencies, enabling our customers to rapidly deploy innovations in their AI applications.
Rite-Hite is a world leader in the manufacture, sale, and service of loading dock equipment, industrial doors, safety barriers, HVLS fans, industrial curtain walls, and more - all designed to improve safety, security, productivity, energy savings, and environmental control. Watch Rite-Hite's Always Looking Ahead video below to learn more.
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- Software, Machine Learning, Robotics
- Funding Round, Series A, Seed
- United States, Croatia
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- Voxel — Eliminate near-misses and stop injuries before they happen. Teach your security cameras to detect safety hazards and inefficiencies in real-time.
- Gideon — Gideon 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.
- 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.
Pentland Group has been proudly supporting people to build the businesses of the future since 1932. Pentland Ventures is the Group’s direct investments division. We aim to combine the conviction of a venture capital fund, the financial discipline of a private equity firm, the operational expertise of a strategic investor and the long-term outlookand values of a fourth-generation family business.
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- Software, E-Commerce, Health Care
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, United Kingdom, Croatia
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- Windmill — Windmill is family-run and built on 60 years of air care expertise. Our air products are thoughtfully designed with you and the planet in mind. Learn more here!
- Sava Technology — SAVA is reinventing health monitoring with a novel biosensing platform enabling real-time, affordable, and painless molecular monitoring.
- Diaspora Co. — We're building a better spice trade, equitably and deliciously. We source South Asia's freshest, heirloom, and single-origin spices, directly from our partner farms to bring you next level flavor and fragrance!
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.
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- Software, Machine Learning, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United Kingdom, Croatia, Germany
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- 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.
Sjuul AltCryptoGems
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- Web3, Developer APIs, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed
- Croatia
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- Hybrid — Hybrid is a fintech company that offers a decentralized central AI tool with Web3's ecosystem of AI experts, agents, and data.
Nenad Bakić
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- Robotics, Software, Machine Learning
- Series A
- Croatia
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- 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.
Iced is Solana degenerate
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- Web3, Developer APIs, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed
- Croatia
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- Hybrid — Hybrid is a fintech company that offers a decentralized central AI tool with Web3's ecosystem of AI experts, agents, and data.
Peaksjah
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- Software, Music, Events
- Pre-Seed, Series A
- Croatia, Estonia, United States
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- FanSifter — FanSifter is a fan data management platform that leverages machine learning to help rights holders in music, entertainment, and sports increase tickets, music, merch, experiences, and sponsorships sales.
- MarkeDroid — MarkeDroid is Energy Orchestration Platform that helps installers and siteowners profit from turning traditional energy systems into AI-powered solutions.
- 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.
Eric Cryptoman
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- Web3, Developer APIs, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed
- Croatia
Portfolio highlights
- Hybrid — Hybrid is a fintech company that offers a decentralized central AI tool with Web3's ecosystem of AI experts, agents, and data.
Ivan Topčić
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- Robotics, Software, Machine Learning
- Series A
- Croatia
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- 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.
Ted Pillows
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- Web3, Developer APIs, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed
- Croatia
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- Hybrid — Hybrid is a fintech company that offers a decentralized central AI tool with Web3's ecosystem of AI experts, agents, and data.
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- Robotics, Software, Machine Learning
- Seed
- Croatia
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- Gideon — Gideon 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.
NJF Capital is the venture capital arm of NJF Holdings, founded by investor and entrepreneur Nicole Junkermann.
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- Artificial Intelligence, Software, Biotechnology
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, Germany
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- Waiv — We integrate the best of human and artificial intelligence to deliver better drugs and diagnostics at scale.
- Bioptimus — Our mission is to build the first universal AI foundation model for biology to fuel breakthrough discoveries and accelerate innovations in biomedicine and beyond.
- Evolv AI — Evolv AI is the first AI-led experience optimization platform that recommends, builds, deploys and optimizes testing ideas for you.
Follow[the]Seed is a post-seed algorithmic venture capital fund, using a unique predictive analytical model known as Raving Fans™ to identify the next $1 Billion+ ventures. Based in Sydney, Australia; San-Francisco, USA; Tel Aviv, Israel & Beijing, China our team has over 3 decades of combined experience building startups ourselves andanother 2 decades of experience investing in over 90 companies.Oh, and we truly love entrepreneurs and innovation.
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- Gaming, Software, Apps
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Australia, Singapore, China
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- Hybrid — Hybrid is a fintech company that offers a decentralized central AI tool with Web3's ecosystem of AI experts, agents, and data.
- Ajuna Network — Ajuna Network is a decentralized ecosystem for gamers and creators.
- Liquorice — Liquorice is a developer of a DeFi protocol that combines one-sided loan pools with a MEV-free trading engine.
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- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United States, Singapore, Switzerland
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- BullPerks — BullPerks is a community of like-minded individuals who want to leverage their power and invest together in the best projects on equal terms with VCs.
- Centrifuge — Centrifuge is the platform for tokenized real-world assets, providing the infrastructure and ecosystem to tokenize, manage, and invest into RWAs.
- Hybrid — Hybrid is a fintech company that offers a decentralized central AI tool with Web3's ecosystem of AI experts, agents, and data.
CSP DAO offers a unique blockchain system designed to address fair investment rights.
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- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology
- Seed, Funding Round, Initial Coin Offering
- Singapore, United States, Germany
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- InterSwap — InterSwap Labs enables secure and seamless swaps of native assets across multiple blockchain networks with a single transaction, eliminating the need for intermediary chains or bridges. It offers bridgeless liquidity unification and transportation across EVM, Cosmos, Solana, and Bitcoin. Built on the Axelar network, InterSwap Labs is the firstfully composable native asset cross-chain Automated Market Maker (AMM) with unified liquidity.
- Dyor Exchange — Dyor Exchange is a community-based investment platform.
- OMNIA Protocol — OMNIA Protocol offers a secure and private infrastructure for accessing blockchain technology. It provides high availability RPC endpoints for Ethereum, ensuring users can connect to the blockchain without being traced or monitored. The company focuses on delivering a compliant environment for handling personal data, including blockchain addressesand transactional information. OMNIA Protocol aims to democratize access to blockchain infrastructure, challenging the current concentration of this access among a few corporations. It supports various blockchains, including Bitcoin, Binance, Avalanche, Polygon, Arbitrum, and Optimism, through its platform, offering secure Arbitrum RPC Nodes features.
SparkLabs Global Ventures is a venture capital firm that offers seed-stage investment services to firms in the SaaS, healthcare, education, IoT, fintech, mobile, commerce, HR, gaming, security, and VR industries. It was founded in Dec 2013 and is based in California.Exceptional entrepreneurs, that are building strong, category defining companiesat highly advantageous valuations – can be found anywhere. The company has a team that is highly experienced in finding such talent and helping our entrepreneurs to develop, grow, network, and scale into other markets throughout the world.
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- Software, Internet, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, South Korea, Singapore
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- Splab — Handle everything from marketing to buyer matching, even without a full team. We cover: multi-stakeholder bookkeeping, virtual & physical events registration management, event tech setup, matchmaking, ticket sales & marketing, and post-event reporting.
- Nitra — Nitra offers expense management software that integrates with the banks to provide innovative loan products.
- Tella — Service
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