Top 15 Machine Learning Startup Investors in Croatia in May 2025
A list of 15 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Machine learning startups based in Croatia. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Machine learning companies from Croatia. We update this investor list every month.Top 15 Machine Learning Startup Investors in Croatia in May 2025
Investor | Machine Learning Croatia investments |
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Luca Ascani | 6 |
HCVC | 6 |
Taavet Hinrikus | 5 |
Fil Rouge Capital (FRC) | 3 |
Rite-Hite | 2 |
Koch Disruptive Technologies | 2 |
LocalGlobe | 2 |
Pentland Ventures | 2 |
David Rowan | 2 |
Prologis Ventures | 2 |
NJF Capital | 1 |
Ivan Topčić | 1 |
J&T Ventures | 1 |
Peaksjah | 1 |
SparkLabs Global Ventures | 1 |
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.
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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.
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.
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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.
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.
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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.
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.
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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.
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.
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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.
Koch Disruptive Technologies is a unique investment firm partnering with principled entrepreneurs and transformative companies that are changing the world.
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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.
Seeding ambitious founders at places like @citymapper, @improbableio,@teamkano, @moo, @songkick,@seedcamp, @transferwise and @zoopla since 1999. Who's next?
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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.
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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.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United Kingdom, Germany, Croatia
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- 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.
Prologis Ventures partners with companies looking to revolutionize logistics to accelerate growth, navigate challenges and bring innovative solutions to market.
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Investment focus
- Software, Logistics, Artificial Intelligence
- Series A, Series B, Series C
- United States, China, Croatia
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- 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.
NJF Capital is the venture capital arm of NJF Holdings, founded by investor and entrepreneur Nicole Junkermann.
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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.
Ivan Topčić
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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.
J&T Ventures is an early-stage Prague-based Venture Capital fund, which invests in promising startups from the CEE and SEE region. Our strategy is industry agnostic, but we primarily focus on companies in the seed stage with proven product market fit. Our average ticket size is between EUR 0.5m - EUR 2.5m.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Czech Republic, United States, Croatia
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- XUND — Answer the most important health questions with AI-powered technology from XUND. Medically certified and CE marked.
- Wultra — Wultra helps the leading banks and fintech companies to secure their digital systems and bring trust to the customer journeys. Our security-related software technologies cover the whole digital banking application stack, be it on the web or mobile platforms.
- Grid.online — Grid.online is building transportation infrastructure as a service that will unlock the huge free transportation capacity of cities and allow it to be shared efficiently.
Peaksjah
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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.
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.
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- Software, Internet, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, South Korea, Singapore
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