Top 10 Financial Services Startup Investors in Croatia (August 2026)

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.

Investment focus

Industry: Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
Geography: Croatia, Slovenia, United Kingdom

Investor stats

Total investments: 131
Round size: Seed $50k–$1.4M; Pre-Seed $55k–$552k
Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow

Portfolio highlights

HEU — HEU is a legaltech company that automates and manages legal documents and allows users to edit and share them.
tvbeat — Established in 2013, TVbeat provides a comprehensive TV Inventory Management & Yield Optimization SaaS Framework designed for TV Inventory owners, giving such TV sell-side players the essential tools to succeed in the ever changing TV ecosystem. Our SaaS Framework solves key addressable and non-addressable TV requirements & challengesthrough provision of holistic measurement, forecasting, planning, order management and optimization capabilities and self-serve applications. Such features can be leveraged across owned & operated TV inventories, media partner inventory and acquired inventory from 3rd party sources (DSPs & exchanges). TVbeat’s solution is being used successfully in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Ireland, France, Africas, Spain, Belgium, Middle East, Scandinavia to name a few. All of this is achieved by a world class team of engineers, data scientists, product managers and client support staff. Our offices are located in New York, London and Zagreb.
Eurosender — Eurosender is the digital platform for companies and individuals looking for a unified solution for global logistics processes. Eurosender comprises a wide variety of logistics services in different geographies.

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We partner with outstanding technology founders from Central and Eastern Europe to help them realize their global ambitions.

Investment focus

Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Czech Republic

Investor stats

Total investments: 164
Round size: Seed $800k–$7M; Pre-Seed $371k–$4M; Series A $2M–$19M
Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow

Portfolio highlights

Modeinspect — acreom is the integrated markdown knowledge base with tasks. Your personal daily driver for your dev workflow.
IP Fabric — Automated Networks Assurance Platform fully maps complete network infrastructure, providing hyper-converged visibility and a single point of truth for global networks, provides advanced visualization for troubleshooting issues, and simulates network behavior to infer deviation from policy or infer risks which could cause an outage in the future.
Contentyze — Contentyze develops a content generation platform, integrating cutting edge deep learning research with commercial applications in marketing, media and e-commerce.

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We are an early-stage technology investor, managing privately financed funds. We seek to find and join the most exciting Central Eastern European teams on their global mission.

Investment focus

Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Geography: Hungary, United States, Croatia

Investor stats

Total investments: 56
Round size: Seed $310k–$6.1M; Pre-Seed $500k–$7.2M; Series A $2.7M–$27M
Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $35M in 2018

Portfolio highlights

Statzup — Domain name StatZup.com is a dynamic and impactful choice for startups looking to make a bold statement in the world of statistics and data analysis. The name suggests a sense of urgency and excitement, urging users to stay on top of the la
Volteum — Electric vehicle (EV) fleets made easy. Volteum helps companies transition to EVs, optimize charging, and manage electric car fleet operations efficiently.
Whalebone — Whalebone offers zero disruption cybersecurity products to Telcos, ISPs, and enterprises.

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New Vision 3 is an Early-stage Venture Capital fund.

Investment focus

Industry: Software, Payments, Financial Services
Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
Geography: Bulgaria, Italy, Croatia

Investor stats

Total investments: 27
Round size: Seed $217k–$3.4M; Pre-Seed $108k–$605k; Venture - Series Unknown $1.4M–$2.8M
Lead/follow: 85% lead, 15% follow

Portfolio highlights

ELando — eLando is an IT services company that offers cyber security, cloud solution, consulting, mobile solution, and software engineering services.
QuarkXR — The Next Gen Compression and Streaming Technology! QuarkXR is an ultra-fast software solution that provides low-latency wireless transmission. It runs the heavy processes on the GPU, and is hardware-agnostic.
365 Data Science — 365 Data Science offers data science, machine learning, and AI training to help you land your dream career. Learn ChatGPT, Python, Excel, Tableau, Power BI, and more.

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Portfolion is a CEE-focused multi-stage investor with a flexible fund structure that allows it to back companies from or before 1st client until the end of their journey. The fund manager has backed some of the CEE region’s most successful companies including SEON, Novakid, Tresorit, Packhelp, and Starschema.

Investment focus

Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
Geography: Hungary, Poland, United States

Investor stats

Total investments: 78
Round size: Seed $439k–$6.6M; Series A $1.6M–$13M; Series B $3.7M–$45M
Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow
Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $82M in 2020

Portfolio highlights

Kodesage — Kodesage captures your company's collective knowledge to help understand and modernize legacy code
Mobilfox — Mobilredfox offers phone cases and mobile accessories, focusing on protection and style for smartphones.
GymBeam — We are a fitness e-commerce platform with sports nutrition, premium services, and fair prices. We offer a wide range of nutritional supplements and advanced foods.

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Capital That Makes Sense. Tactical early stage technology investors in the US, Europe and beyond.

Investment focus

Industry: Software, Financial Services, FinTech
Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Geography: United States, France, United Kingdom

Investor stats

Total investments: 134
Round size: Seed $150k–$6M; Pre-Seed $120k–$27M; Series A $1.7M–$29M
Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019

Portfolio highlights

Kalshi — Kalshi is a regulated exchange & prediction market where you can trade on the outcome of real-world events. Buy and sell Event Contracts.
FINESSE — Welcome to the future of fashion: AI-driven, size inclusive, affordable and sustainable, FINESSE is the first fashion house that produces styles voted on by you & our AI - no overproduction, no waste!
Merge Labs — Merge Labs is a brain-computer interface startup that aims to compete with Neuralink and integrate human cognition with AI.

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Esther Dyson - Founder @ Way to Wellville

Investment focus

Industry: Health Care, Software, Medical
Stage:Seed, Series A
Geography: United States, Canada, Russian Federation

Investor stats

Total investments: 72
Round size: Seed $270k–$4.3M; Series A $1.5M–$16M
Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow

Portfolio highlights

The Beans — The Beans offers a software application platform that creates personalized cash flow plans designed for its users. The Beans is Simplifying the path to financial balance through design and technology so that people can focus on what they love.
NextSense — Introducing NextSense Smartbuds: EEG-powered earbuds that go beyond sleep tracking. Backed by science, Smartbuds provide real-time insights to help you achieve deeper, more restorative sleep. Comfortable, intuitive, and easy to use, Smartbuds empower you to wake up your best self.
Openwater — OPENWATER - THE FUTURE OF NEURAL DIAGNOSTICS IN THE PALM OF YOUR HAND.

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Middleton Enterprises is an investment company with interests in commercial and residential property as well as venture capital investments in a range of SMEs.

Investment focus

Industry: Software, Wellness, Health Care
Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
Geography: United Kingdom, Croatia

Investor stats

Total investments: 11
Round size: Seed $667k–$1.8M
Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow

Portfolio highlights

SushiDog — SushiDog is a food and beverage company that produces sushi rolls, poke bowls, and asian salads.
EverySkin — EverySkin is brand of aesthetic clinics offering premium, safe and affordable laser hair removal, cosmetic injections & skin treatments. Book Now!
Upholstery2u — Welcome to Upholstery2U. Discover our upholstery services, latest projects, and how we deliver quality and reliability to clients across the UK.

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Speedinvest is a globally active European venture capital firm built on a simple belief: many move more. From six offices across EMEA, our sector-focused investment teams back relentless founders from pre–Seed to Growth with long-term conviction, providing day-one access to our global network of corporate customers, experts, industry leaders, andtop-tier follow-on investors to scale smarter and faster. Building lasting companies like Bitpanda (Austria), Moove (Nigeria), Gigs (U.S.), Tide (UK), ARX Robotics (Germany), Wayflyer (Ireland), GoStudent (Austria), Seqera Labs (Spain), and Cylib (Germany) — together. Big ideas may start with one. But scaling and winning take The Power of More.

Investment focus

Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Geography: United Kingdom, Germany, Austria

Investor stats

Total investments: 603
Round size: Seed $1M–$8M; Pre-Seed $713k–$3.8M; Series A $4.1M–$33M
Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $384M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

Findery — Find and leave notes anywhere in the world, discover local knowledge, hidden secrets, and exciting stories. Share your travel knowledge, geoblog, or local news!
Facility — Flexkeeping is a Hotel Operations Platform designed to help teams automate and collaborate like never before.
Polaron — Material Design. Supercharged with AI.

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