Top 5 Marketplace Startup Investors in Serbia in May 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 May 2025
Investor | Marketplace Serbia investments |
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SeedBlink | 2 |
South Central Ventures | 2 |
Robert Dighero | 1 |
Stefan Glänzer | 1 |
Mark Zaleski | 1 |
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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.
- Footprints AI — Footprints is one of the most advanced AI-driven Retail Media platforms in the world, helping physical retailers generate a new high profit margin revenue in 3 months or less.Retail Media will be a $100 billion market by 2025. This means that 1 in 4 dollars in digital ad spend will be on media platforms that leverage intent-based customerbehavior data.Footprints is part of the global Microsoft Pegasus program, a cohort of 12 high-impact AI startups worldwide with the most viable solutions to transform the physical retail model into an AI-driven business model.Footprints' unique technology enables physical retailers to turn anonymous traffic into profitable, predictable audiences by leveraging our proprietary offline-to-online behavioral data fusion, artificial intelligence and algorithmic automation.Since 2017, Footprints has pioneered AI technologies that enable physical retailers to: - Enable an automated omnichannel retail media service - Become the brand of choice in local communities - Expand more profitably into new local communitiesFootprints is currently working with Tier 1 retailers and retail properties to transform their offline and online visitors into retail media.Every day, Footprints orchestrates and processes billions of visits, searches, and purchases from offline and online retail environments for YOU, to meet your customers' needs better than ever before. The result? A seamless shopping experience, more customers, more sales, and a new high profit margin revenue.Retail Media is the #1 priority for retailers everywhere, who can now offer personalized and curated content to their customers around the world.
- .Lumen — .lumen builds glasses that help the blind live a better life.
South Central Ventures is dedicated to investments in startups, small and medium globally oriented technology companies in SE Europe.
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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.
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 £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.
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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.
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.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Social Media
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- United Kingdom, Germany, Spain
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- Auro — Auro is a mobile fitness-tech solution providing you with a personal trainer in your ear. We believe that fitness is at its effective best, when it is personalized, engaging, and accessible anytime. We break down the barriers to exercise by providing millions of people all over the world access to a personal trainer along with the best of contentthat boutique studio fitness has to offer.We’re creating a truly motivating, connected fitness experience that keeps people coming back for more by combining world class instructors, killer playlists and data science led personalisation.Our mission is to transform lives by making fitness experiences awesome, accessible and affordable.
- HEY HOLY — We’re transforming pet care — with a breed-specific health concept instead of one-size-fits-all, with longevity at its core
- ClickClickDrive — ClickClickDrive is a developer of a search engine designed for users to find driving schools.The company's platform helps users to find information on different driving schools, find evaluations/recommendations published by driving students and also offers an easy-to-use theory application to help them prepare for the exam, enabling usersto choose the best driving school for them.
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.
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, DSP
- Seed, Angel, Series B
- United Kingdom, United States, France
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.
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