Top 5 Marketplace Startup Investors in Serbia in February 2025

Last updated: Feb 2025 A list of 5 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Marketplace startups based in Serbia. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Marketplace companies from Serbia. We update this investor list every month.

Top 5 Marketplace Startup Investors in Serbia in February 2025

Investor	Marketplace Serbia investments
South Central Ventures	2
SeedBlink	2
Robert Dighero	1
Mark Zaleski	1
Stefan Glänzer	1

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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 — The SplxAI platform is the first complete pentesting solution for Conversational AI apps. Secure your AI systems proactively with automated vulnerability assessments and mitigation.
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.

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Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Romania, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Pago — Managing and paying utility bills, insurance, mobile top-ups and taxes takes too much time for many households in Europe. Pago simplifies these payments by adding automation where possible, using integrations with billers, insurers and online platforms to dramatically reduce the time needed for all these payments. The service is available in theB2C app called Pago and through B2B integrations by embedding Pago features in partner apps through SDK or API. Pago's services are used by over 500k monthly active users in Romania, Poland and Italy.
Brainactive — Brainactive is an AI-driven platform that streamlines the access to vital insights used by companies to make sound business decisions, by enabling them to directly interview their current and potential customers, regardless of their expertize in sociology, past experience with market research, size of their team, or their market research budget.Integrated with a pool of 300+ million vetted and engaged consumers around the world, the platform allows companies to get relevant answers to their questions in minutes, with assistance from advanced conversational and generative LLM trained on market research, available along the way.Putting businesses in direct contact with their customers essentially removes the need for any intermediaries in the process and brings the costs and time down to a mere fraction of what traditional market research typically requires. At the same time, companies get to keep sensitive concepts and prototypes tested entirely secured, since no one else is involved, at any stage.
.Lumen — .lumen builds glasses that help the blind live a better life.

Robert Dighero has over 20 years operational experience, the last 15 working with the internet. He is a partner at White Bear Yard and an active investor across Europe focused on early stage e-commerce, payment and marketplace businesses. He has led a number of investment syndicates and taken on a number of board and advisory roles.Robert waspreviously CFO of QXL ricardo from 1998 to 2008, overseeing development from start-up to its eventual sale to Naspers. He managed a diverse range of corporate actions including its dual listing IPO, consolidating the European online auction market with nine acquisitions, the largest over $1 billion and launching an MBO.The QXL Group was the best performing share on Main Market in both 2004 and 2005 and in the All-Share in 2007 with an over 35,000% share price increase in 5 years. Robert was short-listed for CBI / Real FD, FD of the Year in 2007 and the following year negotiated the Â£1 billion sale of QXL via a public take-over offer.Prior to QXL, Robert was CFO of AOL UK and previous roles included that of M&A at Bertelsmann USA and at Verulam Investments. Robert started his career at Bain & Co, having left Cambridge with a First class degree and a post-graduate degree in Engineering and has an MBA from Insead.

Investment focus

Financial Services, E-Commerce, Real Time
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
United Kingdom, Serbia, Denmark

Portfolio highlights

Swipe — Swipe helps you make quick, beautiful, responsive presentations and lets you broadcast them in real-time to anyone, on any device, anywhere in the world. Swipe turns your presentations into conversations, by putting your content in the hands of your audience and lets you interact with real-time polls for a more modern, engaged, two-way presentationexperience. Rebuilt from the ground up with the tools to help save you time and make better presentations.
Lendino — Lendino er en markedsplads for lån, hvor private og professionelle investorer kan låne direkte til kreditværdige virksomheder til begge parters fordel. Ved at bruge lånemarkedspladsen sparer man tid, penge og besvær — både som investor og låntager. Du kan læse mere om hvordan Lendino virker her.
Lendable — Lendable is a lending platform. When you borrow money, it comes straight from an investor. Unlike banks, who hand out loans from piles of cash they look after on behalf of savers. Their platform is super-fast (you’ll see in a moment), and makes lending as hassle- free as possible. It’s a matter of a few clicks and you get your quote. Unlike banks,who require paperwork and run expensive branch networks.

Mark is an experienced Internet founder and executive. From 2000 to 2007, Mark was CEO for QXL ricardo, a leader of online consumer trading platforms. QXL was the best performing stock on the London Stock Exchange in 2005 and the LSE’s Main Market in 2004. It was sold for nearly £1 billion in 2007. He was also Chairman and CEO of Dailymotion from2007 to 2009. Under his leadership, the Company became the world’s number one independent video-sharing site with over 60 million unique visitors and 1 billion video views per month.Mark is an angel investor, non-Executive Director of Show My Homework, Dynistics and GoCardless and advisor to Spotahome. He has also invested in several other high-growth internet businesses across Europe such as QXL ricardo plc, Dailymotion, Emesa, Digitech, Shutl, Wave Optics, Chirp and Spotahome.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Marketplace, Software Engineering
Seed, Angel, Series B
United Kingdom, France, Serbia

Portfolio highlights

RentCheck — RentCheck saves property managers time by allowing tenants to do their own inspections. 90% of customers save over 1 hour per inspection. Recommended by hundreds of property managers.
Arteli — Arteli is a predictive analytics platform using artificial intelligence and machine learning to improve store optimization to drive higher revenue and margin. It effortlessly connects executives with actionable insights, propelling their businesses towards transformation. It's not merely data; it's comprehension, informeddecision-making, and, ultimately, the catalyst for achieving revolutionary outcomes. With Arteli's AI Analytics Interface, you're not merely staying in sync with your business; you're forging ahead as its leader.
Team Satchel — Creators of market-leading software, Show My Homework, Satchel has developed a powerful range of school software focusing on homework, behavior, classroom management, and teaching resources.Show My Homework has been our brand and our main product since it was launched five years ago. Having seen our company grow to over 70 employees and evolvemultiple products and services, we wanted our brand to encompass everything we offer. Making the change from Show My Homework to Satchel allows us to do this and supports our vision for the future.As a brand, Satchel will provide schools around the globe with exceptional products and a service second-to-none that can be relied upon to help deliver the best learning experience.

Stefan is an entrepreneur and investor from Germany who enjoys living in London. He is the co-founder of companions.de, companionsTV, ricardo.de and myblog.de. He is the founding investor and executive Chairman of Mendeley.com and RjDj.me and has been and in the same role at Last.fm. Stefan is a firm believer in European entrepreneurship andan active angel. He holds a PhD in foreign exchange risk management and was a professional DJ for 15 years.