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Top 30 Hardware Startup Investors in Croatia in May 2025

Last updated: May 2025 A list of 30 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Hardware startups based in Croatia. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Hardware companies from Croatia. We update this investor list every month.

Top 30 Hardware Startup Investors in Croatia in May 2025

Investor	Hardware Croatia investments
Fil Rouge Capital (FRC)	9
HCVC	6
Luca Ascani	6
Taavet Hinrikus	5
Day One Capital	3
South Central Ventures	2
Koch Disruptive Technologies	2
David Rowan	2
LocalGlobe	2
Pentland Ventures	2
Rite-Hite	2
Prologis Ventures	2
Hrvoje Zlatar	1
Vijay Sharma	1
Igor Anić	1
Ankur Singla	1
Radius Capital	1
AE Ventures	1
NJF Capital	1
Mekin Maheshwari	1
Girish Mathrubootham	1
Peaksjah	1
Aprameya Radhakrishna	1
SparkLabs Global Ventures	1
Blume Ventures	1
Linic Ltd	1
Lightspeed Venture Partners	1
Decisive Point	1
Ivan Topčić	1
Nenad Bakić	1

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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

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 — With the Native Teams platform, you can easily hire anyone, anywhere as an employer or get an employed status if you're working as a freelancer. Explore our international EOR and PEO services and start working remotely with full compliance.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Robotics, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, France, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Karman+ — Mining near Earth asteroids
Alpine Eagle — The Sentinel Counter-UAS System is an air-to-air sensor & interceptor network designed to detect, classify, and intercept unmanned aerial systems (UAS)
Fuse Vectors — Fuse Vectors is disrupting the manufacturing process in order to provide universal access to gene therapy.

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 — Open Cosmos design, build and operate space missions, providing straightforward access to high quality satellite data and insights on a global scale.
Unearthly Materials — Unearthly Materials is a transformative materials company focused on delivering practical room-temperature superconductors and powering the century of superconductivity.

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, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Hungary, United States, Croatia

Portfolio highlights

Qneiform — The best way to understand human capital
Orqa — Orqa is a technology company enablling FPV (First Person View) and Remote Reality (RR) for autonomous and remotely operated vehicles.
Whalebone — Whalebone offers zero disruption cybersecurity products to Telcos, ISPs, and enterprises.

South Central Ventures is dedicated to investments in startups, small and medium globally oriented technology companies in SE Europe.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Serbia, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

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.
All eyes on screens — AdScanner made its mission to empower data-driven TV advertising to increase effectiveness, transparency, speed, reduce manual, complicated, delayed reports and also to make TV more interconnected and comparable with digital channels. Our approach is to combine proprietary technologies and data.
LUPA Technology — Lupa is a cloud-based SaaS built for the Construction industry. Utilizing the power of AI and expert knowledge, Lupa turns large quantities of unstructured data into meaningful information. Based in New York and Belgrade, Lupa services Clients around the World working on large construction projects that require safe and secure real-time processingor forensic analysis of their data set. Lupa is the pioneer in construction data analytics and AI, paving the way for integration of cutting-edge tech in the industry.

Koch Disruptive Technologies is a unique investment firm partnering with principled entrepreneurs and transformative companies that are changing the world.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
Series A, Series B, Series C
United States, Israel, Croatia

Portfolio highlights

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
Outrider — Autonomous yard operations have set a new standard. Yard automation transforms yard operations into an efficient, safe, and sustainable solution.
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.

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.

Seeding ambitious founders at places like @citymapper, @improbableio,@teamkano, @moo, @songkick,@seedcamp, @transferwise and @zoopla since 1999. Who's next?

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, United States, France

Portfolio highlights

Nia — Nia is an AI platform building the next generation of autonomous engineering agents and redefining how developers interact with their codebase.
Ovo Labs — Ovo Labs is developing therapeutics that boost egg quality to enhance IVF success, technology aims to extend the timeline when the chances of conception are high.
Floral Energy — Floral Energy provides microgrids to data centres, EV charging hubs, manufacturers, hospitals, campuses, and more.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, United Kingdom, Croatia

Portfolio highlights

GEM — Discover plant based vitamins in delicious flavors, designed for whole body nutrition. Order as you go or choose a monthly vitamin subscription.
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!
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.

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.

Investment focus

Machine Learning, Software, Artificial Intelligence
Funding Round, Series A, Seed
United States, Croatia

Portfolio highlights

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.

Prologis Ventures partners with companies looking to revolutionize logistics to accelerate growth, navigate challenges and bring innovative solutions to market.

Investment focus

Software, Logistics, Artificial Intelligence
Series A, Series B, Series C
United States, China, Croatia

Portfolio highlights

Outrider — Autonomous yard operations have set a new standard. Yard automation transforms yard operations into an efficient, safe, and sustainable solution.
Tangible — Tangible is a climate technology company focused on building sustainable materials that are not harmful to the environment. Tangible is a unified software platform that catalyzes the adoption of sustainable building materials by allowing real estate developers, architects, and contractors to seamlessly identify, manage, and report on products thatmeet their carbon, environmental, and social goals.Founded in 2021 by Nicole Granath and Anneli Tostar, Tangible is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.
Platform Science — Experience the power to choose what drives your fleet. Platform Science delivers telematics and fleet management tools on a platform built for transportation.

Hrvoje Zlatar

Investment focus

Software, Developer Tools, Cloud Infrastructure
Pre-Seed
Croatia

Portfolio highlights

Mantil — Serverless development kit for Go and AWS Lambda

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.

Igor Anić

Investment focus

Software, Developer Tools, Cloud Infrastructure
Pre-Seed
Croatia

Portfolio highlights

Mantil — Serverless development kit for Go and AWS Lambda

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.

Early stage investors in the enabling technologies driving cyber-physical systems and advanced air mobility

Investment focus

Software, Machine Learning, Drones
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Croatia, Ireland

Portfolio highlights

Swarmer — Swarmer is an AI based mission control center for coordinated drones that acts as Firmware for video streaming, logging and monitoring.
Manna Air Delivery — Drone delivery made simple
Orqa — Orqa is a technology company enablling FPV (First Person View) and Remote Reality (RR) for autonomous and remotely operated vehicles.

Investment focus

IaaS, Big Data, Computer
Pre-Seed
Kenya, Croatia

Portfolio highlights

AMPnet — AMPnet is a set of white-label crowdinvesting platforms with a central P2P marketplace for renewable energy shares. Through our platform, renewable energy communities all over Europe are providing much-needed liquidity to their investments and connecting directly to large financers of renewables such as NGOs, carbon offseting schemes, etc...
UTU Technologies — Trust infrastructure for the sharing economy.

NJF Capital is the venture capital arm of NJF Holdings, founded by investor and entrepreneur Nicole Junkermann.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Biotechnology, Machine Learning
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Ireland

Portfolio highlights

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.
Pesto — Pesto is a San Francisco-based fintech business that recently released the Pesto Mastercard a next-generation asset-backed secured credit card.
Evolv AI — Evolv AI is the first AI-led experience optimization platform that recommends, builds, deploys and optimizes testing ideas for you.

Mekin Maheshwari - Advisor @ Mentr

Investment focus

Apps, Internet, Information Services
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?

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

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Seed, Angel, Series A
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.
Presentations.AI — Create stunning PowerPoint presentations in seconds with Presentations.AI - the ultimate AI presentation maker. Just type your idea and watch as we craft a professional PPT for you. Perfect for all: businesses, educators, and hobbyists. Dive in now, start for free!

Peaksjah

Investment focus

Software, Music, Events
Pre-Seed, Series A
Croatia, Estonia, United States

Portfolio highlights

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 revolutionizing the renewable energy industry as the first European Plug & Play platform driven by energy spot prices management and access to the FLEX markets for the residential solar batteries. With its cutting-edge technology, MarkeDroid is reshaping the energy value chain and maximizing the value of renewable energy for allstakeholders.
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.

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, Retail
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 — Evolved Foods is a sustainable eatery manufacturing company that designs and delivers plant based proteins and edible nutritional products.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, South Korea, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Splab — Grow your influence and expand your network with events.
Nitra — Nitra offers expense management software that integrates with the banks to provide innovative loan products.
Tella — Service

Backing the next wave of revolutionary founders, from India, for the world.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Internet
Seed, Series A, Series B
India, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Green Grahi — Green Grahi transforms food waste into useable protein, fats, and oils to create a more sustainable world.
Complement 1 — Complement 1 is a health technology company dedicated to transforming cancer care through lifestyle medicine. Founded in 2024, Complement 1 has developed the first clinically validated, tech-enabled lifestyle program with daily 1:1 coaching for cancer patients, survivors, and those at high risk. By combining personalized coaching withevidence-based interventions in exercise, nutrition, and somatic practices, Complement 1 helps patients improve their projected quality of life. Backed by leading oncologists and scientific research, Complement 1’s platform integrates seamlessly with conventional oncology care to deliver better outcomes and empower patients in their healing journey. The company is headquartered in the U.S. with a mission to make effective, holistic cancer care accessible to all. For more information, visit complement1.com.
Optimized Electrotech — Optimized Electrotech builds high-end Electro-Optic surveillance systems for Strategic and Commercial buyers. These products are researched and proven at India's most discerning clients for land and aerospace applications. The company is currently raising funds for commercial production.

Investment Fund

Investment focus

Robotics, Software, Machine Learning
Seed
Croatia

Portfolio highlights

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.

Lightspeed Venture Partners is a multi-stage venture capital firm focused on accelerating disruptive innovations and trends.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, India, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Seel — Peace of mind for shoppers and increased conversion rate for merchants. Available on Shopify App Store.
Virtue AI — Virtue AI operates as an AI security and compliance platform for applications.
Emversity — Beyond Odds focuses on upskilling the workforce and offers support to yhe healhcare industry.

Decisive Point is a venture capital firm that invests in dual-use technology startups and offers government contract consulting services.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Aerospace, Software
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Croatia, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Orqa — Orqa is a technology company enablling FPV (First Person View) and Remote Reality (RR) for autonomous and remotely operated vehicles.
Scout AI — Scout AI is building the robotic foundation model for defense.
Pendulum Systems — Alternative PNT solutions for national security. Pendulum Navigate uses inertial sensors for advanced geolocation for GPS denied and degraded environments. AI advantage for the tactical edge.

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.

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.

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