Top 10 FinTech Startup Investors in Croatia in October 2024

Last updated: Oct 2024 A list of 10 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Fintech startups based in Croatia. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Fintech companies from Croatia. We update this investor list every month.

Top 10 FinTech Startup Investors in Croatia in October 2024

Investor	FinTech Croatia investments
Fil Rouge Capital (FRC)	5
Credo Ventures	3
Day One Capital	3
PortfoLion Capital Partners	2
Speedinvest	1
Middleton Enterprises	1
Lead Ventures	1
Playfair Capital	1
SGH CAPITAL	1
Esther Dyson	1

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Fil Rouge Capital (FRC) invests in early stage businesses from angel investment, seed, VC and Series A rounds through a combination of equity and debt structures.FRC’s approach is to target investments that complement the skills and experience of its Founders so that they can bring more than just capital to help a business grow. Both FRC’sFounders have a core knowledge of technology, services, and an entrepreneurial history that they can bring to the benefit of an investment. FRC is Europe-centric, and with a base in Ljubljana, Slovenia, there is an additional focus on Central and Eastern Europe, Austria and Southern Germany. On an opportunistic basis FRC will look at deals throughout Europe and also the United States. The Founders are well-connected to accelerators in Central Europe and in Silicon Valley.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Croatia, Slovenia, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

GameBoost — Ranking up has never been easier. With GameBoost's cheap LoL and Valorant Elo Boosting Services.
Magic Forest — Magic Forest is a biotech firm that democratizes the forestry sector by permitting public investment. Their online trading platform enables private investors to invest in forests and offset their carbon footprint.
Native Teams — Native Teams is a platform that offers payments and employment tools for freelancers, remote workers, and clients. Native Teams was founded in 2021 and was headquartered in London.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Picogrid — Picogrid builds a unified platform for autonomous systems. Connect, command, and monitor sensors and autonomous systems at global scale.
Collabwriting — Collabwriting is a simple browser extension that helps you share, comment and collaborate on content you find online
Delta Green — Aggregating household assets in large controllable block of flexibility.

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

Software, Information Technology, Apps
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Hungary, United States, Croatia

Portfolio highlights

Colossyan — We make video creation simply and stressless. AI video technology allow us to crate video in just a few minutes. Ty out here.
Commsignia — Commsignia specializes in the research and development, manufacturing and distribution of cooperative intelligent transportation systems. Its product line includes a V2X Communication Software Stack and Commsignia’s own security stack implementation, Hybrid V2X/ADAS Safety Applications, a V2X Simulator, On-Board Units (OBU) and Roadside Units(RSU).The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California.
CircuitMess — Fun and educational DIY kits for learning electronics & coding. Learn STEM in a fun way! Find your perfect science project.

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

Software, Information Technology, Big Data
Series A, Seed, Series B
Hungary, Poland, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

deskbird — Most intuitive and people-centric - deskbird's hybrid workplace solution that employees will love. For all flexibe companies, from startup to corporate.
Mindgram — Mindgram is a science-based platform and mobile app for complete mental wellness.
Pactum — Pactum autonomous negotiations help companies unlock hidden value. Our AI negotiates non-strategic supplier contracts on a massive scale.

Speedinvest is one of Europe’s most active early-stage investors, with more than €1bn AUM, 40 investors, and offices in Berlin, London, Munich, Paris, Vienna and San Francisco. Your success is our priority, so we don’t just send some money and "check in" at board meetings. Our mission is to empower you with game-changing support throughevery stage of your journey. Our focused investment teams know your industry inside and out. Their Deep Tech, Fintech, Industrial Tech, Network Effects, Digital Health and Subscriptions experience, know-how and deep networks are yours from day one. You also have full access to our in-house Platform+ team of operational experts who can provide tailored growth marketing, people (HR), US business development, and networking support throughout every stage of your journey.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Germany, United Kingdom, Austria

Portfolio highlights

planqc — planqc quantum computers store information in individual atoms – nature's best qubits. Quantum information is processed by arranging these qubits in highly scalable arrays and manipulating them with precisely controlled laser pulses. planqc unique combination of quantum technologies is the fastest way to scale to thousands of qubits, aprerequisite for industry-relevant quantum advantage.
Prewave — Supplier monitoring for purchasing, supply chain management and sustainability managers.
Palm — Cash Management for the Modern Treasury

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

Software, SaaS, Energy
Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom, Croatia

Portfolio highlights

Oradian — Go further with core banking software designed to enable financial institutions to rapidly launch new products and scale securely with ease.
SushiDog — SushiDog is a food and beverage company that produces sushi rolls, poke bowls, and asian salads.
Upholstery2u — Upholstery2u provides on-site repairs for equipment and furniture upholstery. It brings the mobile workshop to the customer's location, where upholstery technicians perform repairs while enhancing business procedures.

Lead Ventures is a Budapest-based venture capital firm, specialist of financing scale-ups in Central Europe. Its mission is to support the region’s most promising ventures with capital, experience and a wide-ranging professional network, enabling them to transform their industry with innovation. Lead Ventures provides equity financing tocompanies in their scale-up phase, the typical ticket size is between EUR 2-10 million. Lead Ventures is searching for dynamic teams with a unique story, outstanding growth potential and solutions tested and validated by the market. The firm seeks to invest in companies operating in the mobility, energy and sustainability as well as b2b services and software sectors, however, Lead Ventures is open to support teams active in other areas as well.Lead Ventures has EUR 100 million under management invested by MOL, the most successful energy company in CEE, and two financial institutions specialised in supporting the startup ecosystem - the Hungarian Development Bank (MFB) and Eximbank.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
Series A, Series B, Series C
United Kingdom, Hungary, China

Portfolio highlights

Antavo Enterprise Loyalty Cloud — Antavo Loyalty Cloud is the most powerful loyalty program technology on the market. Our scalable, pure-play tech integrates easily thanks to robust APIs.
GoodVision — We help transport specialists to achieve incredible productivity on traffic projects by automating traffic data analytics from video.
Parkl Digital Technologies — Digital parking and EV charging for modern drivers.

Playfair is a generalist VC fund with a contrarian approach to pre-seed technology investing. Based in London, Playfair invests across the UK and Europe with an intentionally high conviction, low volume approach: making 6-8 investments a year and preserving time, capital and resource to help companies post-investment. Playfair has backed 70+companies across two funds including Thought Machine, Andela, Mapillary, Recycleye and Orca AI.