Top 5 Marketplace Startup Investors in Serbia

Last updated: Apr 2024 A list of 5 angel investors and VC 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

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

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Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

SoCyber — SoCyber provides services in the field of Information and Communication Technology, specializing in Cybersecurity services. The main business lines are security as a service, penetration testing, vulnerability assessment, and IT audits. After being a successful service company for several years, SoCyber developed a holistic vulnerability managementsolution "Kikimora.io" that makes the vulnerability management process centralised, transparent and easy to follow and understand. It enables companies to prioritise the remediation of vulnerabilities and address their security issues in a timely manner. The solution saves companies time and money by eliminating the need for repeated security testing that shows the same vulnerabilities.
Collabwriting — Collabwriting is a simple browser extension that helps you share, comment and collaborate on content you find online
Affirma Biotech — Affirma Biotech develops new orally available immunotherapeutic drugs for the treatment of severe infections and cancer

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.
WaveOptics — WaveOptics is a designer and manufacturer of diffractive waveguides for wearable Augmented Reality (AR) devices. The company aims to be the key optical component in wearable augmented reality devices. WaveOptics was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Abingdon, Oxfordshire.
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.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Social Media
Seed, Angel, Series A
United Kingdom, Germany, Spain

Portfolio highlights

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.
LIFT99 — LIFT99 is a coworking hub and network of startup founders in Tallinn, Estonia, and Kyiv, Ukraine. In 2018, we launched our Skillsharing Platform for founders around the world.
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.

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.