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Top 25 Hardware Startup Investors in Croatia

Last updated: Apr 2024 A list of 25 angel investors and VC 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 25 Hardware Startup Investors in Croatia

Investor	Hardware Croatia investments
Fil Rouge Capital (FRC)	9
Luca Ascani	6
HCVC	6
Taavet Hinrikus	5
LocalGlobe	2
Pentland Ventures	2
David Rowan	2
Rite-Hite	2
South Central Ventures	2
Koch Disruptive Technologies	2
Prologis Ventures	2
Igor Anić	1
Nenad Bakić	1
Vijay Sharma	1
NJF Capital	1
Blume Ventures	1
Ankur Singla	1
Linic Ltd	1
Aprameya Radhakrishna	1
Marko Kovac	1
SparkLabs Global Ventures	1
Peaksjah	1
Ivan Topčić	1
Girish Mathrubootham	1
Hrvoje Zlatar	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.

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 — 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.
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 is an "all-in-one" payment methods aggregator, allowing physical commercial operators to safeguard and expand their cash flow and offer Buy Now Pay Later payments to customers, in addition to one-time payments. Qomodo focuses on merchants providing services for essential yet often unforeseen expenses, which typically involve ahigher transaction value.

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

Portfolio highlights

atmio — atmio helps natural gas operations to find, fix and report methane emissions easily.
Transmutex SA — Producing clean energy from nuclear waste is the challenge Transmutex is taking on. Based on experimentaly validated science from CERN in Geneva.
Chiral — Next-generation electronics with nanomaterials

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, Financial Services, Software
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.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Qogita — A leading global wholesale supplier that offers a wide variety of products, brands, and categories across geographies.
Catalog — Catalog is the first plug-and-play tool exclusively designed to digitise small-to-medium B2B merchants ordering process. With Catalog, B2B SMBs are equipped with the tool they need to reclaim their time, engage with buyers in meaningful ways and boost growth.
Victory League — The virtual home for football fandom.

Pentland has been proudly supporting people to build the businesses of the future since 1932. Pentland Ventures is the Group's direct investments division.

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.

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 — Build a successful company with EWOR
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.

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, Robotics, Software
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.

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
Serbia, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

AdScanner — 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.
Pixyle.ai — Pixyle.ai’s image recognition software detects fashion items in images. It's accurate and integrates seamlessly with any tech stack.The company help fashion retailers deliver visual AI solutions that allow shoppers to visually search for products and get relevant similar product recommendations on their e-commerce platforms, improving bothcustomer engagement and conversion rates. Their automatic tagging and business intelligence solutions enable retailers to save time, reduce costs, and make smarter decisions.
Mily Technologies — Mily Tech is a delivery analytics platform tailored for last-mile deliveries. It collects your data and gives it spatial context to help you quickly understand when, where and what happens on the field.

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

Percepto — Percepto is a developer of autonomous drone technology for inspection and surveillance.Drones hold the potential to disrupt multi-billion dollar industries including energy, security, insurance, agriculture, and more. Drones completely change the way inspection, measurement, surveillance, and deliveries are done today. Still, the main barrier tomaking them a must-have platform is the ability of drones to perform tasks autonomously.The company is at the forefront of redefining how industrial sites and critical infrastructure are holistically inspected and monitored, harnessing remote robotics to autonomously collect, aggregate, and analyze visual data.Leveraging its experience with Percepto Sparrow, the most deployed drone-in-a-box solution on the market, Percepto introduced Percepto AIM (Autonomous Inspection and Monitoring) the first end-to-end autonomous inspection and monitoring platform. Percepto AIM empowers the remote operation center of the future to assess risk, minimize downtime, drive efficiency, increase safety, and reduce operational costs.
Bitterroot Bio — Bitterroot Bio is pioneering the emerging field of cardio-immunology, which investigates the interplay between the immune system and cardiovascular health.
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.

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

Relay — Relay is a technology-enabled delivery network that enables businesses to expand and improve their e-commerce operations.
Site Technologies — Site Technologies integrates the physical and digital world to optimize real estate asset management decision-making. The company utilizes imagery to offer clients with proactive, predictive, and actionable data designed to extend the lifespan of their properties and save time and money.
Terminal Industries — Terminal Logistics is automating the yard, one of the last great frontiers of untapped value in transportation.

Igor Anić

Investment focus

Software, Developer Tools, Cloud Infrastructure
Pre-Seed
Croatia

Portfolio highlights

Mantil — Serverless development kit for Go and AWS Lambda

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.

Vijay Sharma

Investment focus

Electronics, Service Industry, Telecommunications
Seed
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.

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

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Germany

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.

Blume Ventures provides pre-series A and early stage funding to tech-focused/tech-enabled ventures. They are typically the first institutional investors in their portfolio companies and invest for about 8-10 years. They are proponents of a collaborative approach and like to co-invest with like-minded angels and seed funds. They then providefollow-on investments to their stellar portfolio companies.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Series B
India, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Kusho — AI agent for API testing.
Nurturev — Revenue intelligence is the process of analyzing & interpreting sales data to make informed business decisions. Transform your sales conversations, gain insights, & drive revenue growth.
Interview Kickstart — Interview Kickstart, established in 2014, is the gold standard for Technical Interview Preparation. Our 500+ instructors, drawn from tech giants like Google and Amazon, have guided 15,000+ engineers beyond skill enhancement- from mock interviews and real-world projects to effective salary negotiation. The outcome? Alumni landing jobs with $300K+ offers, and the highest compensation at a whopping $1.28 Million.

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.

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.

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.

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

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 — Manage communities and events and enjoy them like never before. Umoh is a super-connector for participants and provides a powerful dashboard full of insights for event and community managers.
Nitra — Nitra offers expense management software that integrates with the banks to provide innovative loan products.
Tella — Service

Peaksjah

Investment focus

Software, Music, Events
Pre-Seed, Series A
Croatia, 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.

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.

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 vacation packages online. International trips in 3 easy steps, at best rates guaranteed. Experience a hassle-free vacation.