# Top 50 Startup Investors in Slovenia in June 2026

## Fil Rouge Capital (FRC)
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Zagreb, Grad Zagreb, Croatia
- Relevant deals: 12
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS

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.

## LAUNCHub Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sofia, Grad Sofiya, Bulgaria
- Relevant deals: 12
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software

LAUNCHub is a leading early-stage venture capital fund focused on investing in startups in South-Eastern (SEE) and Central-Eastern (CEE) Europe. 

## Silicon Gardens
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Ljubljana, Ljubljana Urban Commune, Slovenia
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Apps

Californians have their Silicon Valley, New Yorkers have Silicon Alley, Londoners the Silicon Roundabout, Berlin has the Silicon Alee and they're witnessing the rise of Silicon Savannah in Kenya. But what best describes Slovenia are the Silicon Gardens - small, efficient, highly cultivated patches of technology entrepreneurship. 500+ membersand growing rapidly.

## RTA.vc
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Warszawa, Mazowieckie, Poland
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Software, Travel, Genetics

RTAventures VC invests early in online businesses with special focus on healthcare related products and business models like SaaS (software as a service) and marketplaces. RTAventures VC is managed by Piotr Kulesza and Lubomir Jurczak and is based in Warsaw, Poland and Berlin, Germany. The largest investments include Docplanner, Typeform, PointNine Capital.

## AgFunder
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Agriculture, AgTech, Biotechnology

AgFunder is a global venture capital firm backing deeptech platforms across AI, biotech, robotics, manufacturing, climate, and materials.

## Nucleus Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Focus: Biotechnology, Food and Beverage, Agriculture

Supporting purpose-driven founders solving systemic challenges to planetary health.

## South Central Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Belgrade, Vojvodina, Serbia
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence

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

## World Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Energy, Chemical, Biotechnology

European VC backing entrepreneurs who build climate tech that can save at least 100Mt CO2e emissions per year.

## CV VC
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Zug, Zug, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Blockchain, Software, Financial Services

We invest in blockchain

## European Investment Bank
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt
- Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Energy

The European Investment Bank (EIB) offers lending, borrowing, and treasury services primarily within the European Union. It provides project loans for public and private sectors, loans to banks and intermediaries, structured finance products, guarantees, and securitization instruments for debts. Additionally, EIB offers equity and fund investmentproducts, including infrastructure and environmental funds, as well as venture capital funds. EIB also supports microfinance and risk-sharing finance for research and innovation, and provides technical expertise for sustainable energy projects. Its services include infrastructure advisory, urban development support, guarantees for transport infrastructure, and funding for public-private partnerships and small- to medium-sized enterprises. The bank serves various sectors, including transportation, energy, health, education, and agriculture.

## Vito One
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Munich, Bayern, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Real Estate, Construction, Big Data

Die Digitalisierung stellt uns vor neue Herausforderungen, denen wir mutig begegnen. Mit VC/O gestalten wir die Zukunft mit und investieren in sie.

## Guillaume "G" Cabane
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Analytics, SaaS

Guillaume Cabane is CEO of Growth Ex Machina where he advises growth stage startups. Formerly, Guillaume held VP of Growth roles at Drift, Segment, and other successful startups where he helped these teams grow from ~50 to 300. Prior to these roles, Guillaume spent six years at Apple. Outside of work, Guillaume is husband of one, father of two,cheese-eater of many, and Pastafarian.

## Day One Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Budapest, Budapest, Hungary
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence

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.

## Damijan Merlak
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Hardware, Software, Health Care

Damijan Merlak - Board member @ Bitstamp

## Daniel Tomov
- Type: Angel
- Location: Sofia, Grad Sofiya, Bulgaria
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
- Focus: FinTech, Software, Small and Medium Businesses

Daniel is founding partner at Eleven Accelerator Venture Fund and investing in some of the most promising and exciting tech startups in CEE. Daniel has been involved in startups since 2000 as early stage investor and funded (in some cases bootstrapping) entrepreneur in diverse domains ranging from software to mobile to consumer goods torenewable energy. He has been lucky to meet and befriend with some of the greatest tech entrepreneurs in our region.

## Innovation Nest
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Kraków, Malopolskie, Poland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, SaaS, E-Commerce

Innovation Nest invest in early stage B2B SaaS startups from Europe and help them grow from local to global using our network of contacts and strong in-house competencies. It strongly believes that the path to growth leads through Silicon Valley and strongly encourage our portfolio startups to set up presence there. The company supports high-techcompanies to grow faster and scale their business globally.

## 3VC
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Vienna, Wien, Austria
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence

3VC is a European venture capital fund that invests in carefully selected tech startups with global ambition, starting from Series A. Together with our extensive network, our entrepreneurial team provides dedicated support to our portfolio companies.

## Runa Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Financial Services

Runa Capital is a global venture capital firm built by serial entrepreneurs that invests in early-stage software startups around the world...

## RUG Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Nanotechnology, Sensor, Biofuel

RUG Ventures is an early stage investment company. We guide students and researchers in the process of setting up successful startups.

## VectoIQ LLC
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Automotive, Autonomous Vehicles, Machine Learning

VectoIQ is an advisory firm helping new companies in the smart transportation space. Reverse merger with Nikola Motor in June 2020.

## Bitfinex
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Taipei, T'ai-pei, Taiwan
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Bitcoin

Bitfinex is the longest-running and most liquid major cryptocurrency exchange. Founded in 2012, it has become the go-to platform for traders & institutional investors.

## Eleven Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sofia, Grad Sofiya, Bulgaria
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology

We empower local heroes to build global success. Eleven is an early-stage VC investing in technology companies in Southeast Europe.

## Oltre Venture
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Finance, SaaS, Local

We shape impact investing for people and planet

## Xenia Muntean
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Software

Xenia Muntean is a tech entrepreneur, passionate about all things social media. She is co-founder and CEO at Planable.

## 3TS Capital Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Software, Internet, SaaS

One of the leading European technology-focused growth capital investors, backing high-growth SMEs across Technology & Internet, Media & Communications.

## Feelsgood
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Zagreb, Grad Zagreb, Croatia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Gaming

What we invest in today shapes the world we will live in tomorrow

## European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt
- Focus: Financial Services, Banking, Finance

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) invests in changing lives. Through our financial investments, business services and work on policy reform, we're doing more than ever before to build open, market economies across 3 continents.

## Underline Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Bucharest, Bucuresti, Romania
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Machine Learning

Underline Ventures partners at the earliest stages with Eastern European founders building high-growth startups with global ambitions. Underline Ventures invest at the seed stage (pre-seed, seed, late seed) along with other investors, which we can also help you find. Our average cheque is €500k.

## Credo Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Prague, Hlavni mesto Praha, Czech Republic
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology

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

## Klub 20
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Manufacturing

Klub 20 is an investment firm.

## Avalon Wealth Club
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Helmshore, Lancashire, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming

Avalon Wealth Club is a dynamic group of marketing experts, blockchain veterans, real estate investors and event organizers

## Tiny Supercomputer Investment Company
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology

Backing great companies when they're tiny

## Tiny VC
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology

Backing great companies when they're tiny

## Christoph Zoeller
- Type: Angel
- Location: Heidelberg, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: B2B, Software, Employment

Christoph Zoeller is a Co-Founder & CEO at Instaffo.

## xista science ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Klosterneuburg, Niederosterreich, Austria
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Biotechnology, Medical, Medical Device

We invest in deep tech startups and academic spin-offs with a strong innovation based on science, engineering and technology. We invest as lead investor in pre-seed and seed stages and have the ability to follow on in later rounds. We understand the needs of science and tech based startups and offer tailored support for entrepreneurs. We areembedded in the venture capital scene, yet understand the language of science and the world of research. Thanks to our diverse team, our expertise and experience in technology, entrepreneurship, finance, legal, IP, and strategic consulting will support your startup right from the start.

## Ivaylo Simov
- Type: Angel
- Location: Sofia, Grad Sofiya, Bulgaria
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Coffee, Big Data, Agriculture

Ivaylo Simov devised eleven’s strategy. His notorious shyness can be overcome only with ample amounts of beer, preferably while skiing. He was previously a director in a private equity fund, but now wants to change the VC industry from the bottom up.

## HTGF (High-Tech Gruenderfonds)
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Bonn, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Biotechnology, Information Technology

High-Tech Grunderfonds finances startups with growth potential. Its team of investment managers supports young companies with expertise, entrepreneurial spirit, and passion. The company focuses in the fields of digital tech, industrial tech, life sciences, chemistry, and related business areas. It also focuses on financial services in varioussectors.

## daFUND
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Ljubljana, Ljubljana Urban Commune, Slovenia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
- Focus: Hotel, Banking, FinTech

daFUND is a venture capital fund which invest in early stages  propelled by software.

## Fortech Investments
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Debt Financing
- Focus: Software, Data Mining, Manufacturing

Romanian Investment fund and strategic partner for early-stage start-ups in Energy, Healthcare, Manufacturing, Automotive, and FinTech.

## SHS Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tübingen, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series C, Series A
- Focus: Health Care, Medical Device, Medical

Mission With our investments, SHS Capital supports fast-growing companies in their mission to become European healthcare champions. Located in the …

## Julien Coustaury
- Type: Angel
- Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: SaaS, Information Technology, B2B

Julien Coustaury is the Founding Partner of Fil Rouge Capital and he was a CEO at Vega. He has a master's degree from EFREI Paris.

## Tine Tomažič
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Chemical, Nanotechnology

Tine Tomažič - CEO and Director of R&D @ Pipistrel

## Bjoern W. Schaefer
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1

Bjoern W. Schaefer - Germany Venture Partner @ Innogest Capital

## Sandro Mur
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Retail, Travel, Leisure

Sandro Mur Co-Founded BabyWatch Inc. in 2012 and serves as its Chief Executive Officer. Mur is a Young Entrepreneur from Croatia, who started his first startup in elementary school.
After finishing high school, he started to explore AI in diagnoses and developed an artificial diagnosis system for neuronal disorders called NMD.Before BabyWatch, hewas the Founder of INU company specialized for expert systems in medicine, with a team of seven extraordinary engineers of mathematics and informatics. He first started making money by dealing with Dragon Ball picture cards.

## JF Investments
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Pullach Im Isartal, Bayern, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Focus: Biotechnology

JF Investments GmbH (“JFI”) is an Asset Manager that acts independently of Banks.Based in Pullach near Munich, they started off as an in-house asset manager for LHI Group, which still holds an interest in JFI today. They can look back on an excellent track record achieved for over 15 consecutive years.JFI focuses on managing Investment Funds.They are an opportunistic value investor aiming for absolute return strategies. Their strategies are independent of the capital market environment and are geared towards preserving capital while taking account of inflation.

## Point Nine
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Internet

Point Nine Capital is a Berlin-based venture capital firm focused exclusively on early-stage Internet investments in areas like Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), online marketplaces, and mobile.The fund and its managers, Pawel Chudzinski and Christoph Janz have backed a number of highly successful Internet companies such as Delivery Hero, Clio,Shiftplanning, Vend, Typeform, and Zendesk from their earliest stages.

## George Burke
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Initial Coin Offering, Seed
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Internet

Passionate problem solver specializing in blockchain, cryptocurrency, health & wellness tech, biohacking.Product manager, marketer, & executive with a proven ability to recognize and capitalize on commercial opportunities. Conceived, launched and successfully exited three companies. 13+ years of experience in consumer product development& growth marketing.

## KUBOTA Corporation.
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Corporate Round
- Focus: Agriculture, AgTech, Artificial Intelligence

It is an Investment Organization

## Konstantin Koos
- Type: Angel
- Location: Loulé, Faro, Portugal
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Gaming, Software, Blockchain

Konstantin Koos is a VC/DLT Investor ✦ Strategy Consultant ✦ Best Selling Author ✦ Researcher ✦ Health and Happiness enthusiast ✦ Family Man.

## Pymwymic
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Agriculture, AgTech, Information Technology

Invest in the food and agriculture sector. Pymwymic has a pioneering role in impact investing with a focus on restoring broken systems