Top 5 Payments VC Funds &amp; Investors in Croatia (June 2026)

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.

Investment focus

Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Geography: Hungary, United States, Croatia

Investor stats

Total investments: 52
Round size: Seed $310k–$6.5M; Pre-Seed $500k–$2.6M; Series A $2.7M–$35M
Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $35M in 2018

Portfolio highlights

AERON — ÁERON’S DESIGN IS CHARACTERIZED BY THE UNIQUE COMBINATION OF SUPERB QUALITY, INNOVATIVE CRAFTMANSHIP, AND EFFORTLESS ELEGANCE. EVERY COLLECTION FOCUSES ON REINVENTING TRADITIONAL TAILORING TECHNICS WHILEONLY USING FINEST MATERIALS SUCH AS A DISTINCTIVE SUEDE JAPANESE LEATHER THAT HAS BECOME A SIGNATURE FABRIC OF ÁERON. THE DIFFICULT BALANCE OFCREATING ONE ARTFUL PACKAGE, WHERE WORK AND PLAY HARMONIZES TOGETHER, FORMS THE MINIMAL YET FEMININE SENSUALITY OF A DECADE-DEFINING ÁERON LOOK. ÁERON ENCOMPASSES A RICH VARIETY OF HIGH-WAISTED TAILORED PANTS, ASYMMETRICAL COATS, OVERSIZE SWEATERS, AND MINIMALISTIC DRESSES.
Samebug, Inc. — Samebug is a software startup company that builds a platform to help developers to find and share solutions to software problems. Simply take a stack trace from a crash, plug it into Samebug (either via a browser or plugin to IntelliJ IDEA or Android Studio) and it will search across over a Million (and growing) solutions to determine if theproblem causing the crash has been solved by another engineer or not. If it has, Samebug will present the solution, if the problem has not been solved, Samebug will connect you with experts who can help.
Statzup — Domain name StatZup.com is a dynamic and impactful choice for startups looking to make a bold statement in the world of statistics and data analysis. The name suggests a sense of urgency and excitement, urging users to stay on top of the la

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

Investment focus

Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Geography: United States, Czech Republic, United Kingdom

Investor stats

Total investments: 143
Round size: Seed $965k–$7M; Pre-Seed $371k–$4M; Series A $2M–$19M
Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow

Portfolio highlights

Modeinspect — acreom is the integrated markdown knowledge base with tasks. Your personal daily driver for your dev workflow.
Segron — From Network Engineering , where new services and components need active testing via Rollout and Installation , to ensure correct functionality after...
Explain Everything — Free online whiteboard for teaching. Record video tutorials, create interactive presentations. Join 24+ million users of Explain Everything.

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Portfolion is a CEE-focused multi-stage investor with a flexible fund structure that allows it to back companies from or before 1st client until the end of their journey. The fund manager has backed some of the CEE region’s most successful companies including SEON, Novakid, Tresorit, Packhelp, and Starschema.

Investment focus

Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
Geography: Hungary, Poland, United States

Investor stats

Total investments: 75
Round size: Seed $439k–$7.6M; Series A $1.6M–$13M; Series B $3.7M–$42M
Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $82M in 2020

Portfolio highlights

deskbird — Most intuitive and people-centric - deskbird's hybrid workplace solution that employees will love. For all flexibe companies, from startup to corporate.
FLOWX.AI — FLOWX.AI wraps and orchestrates legacy systems, making it incredibly easy for enterprises to create web and mobile front-ends for mission-critical business flows. The revolutionary AI-enabled Apeiron UX engine is able to automatically create a modern, intuitive front-end for customers and employees, helping to consolidate in a unified UI all thebusiness logic cross-systems.This enables companies with complex technology landscapes to create and launch mission-critical digital products fast, and then facilitate an easy path forward to full digital transformation.The revolutionary novel approach is 100x faster and cheaper than existing alternatives. FLOWX.AI allows delivery of enterprise-grade mobile and web digital front-ends as fast as 10 weeks, and requires much smaller engineering teams.
SEON — SEON Fraud Prevention tools help organisations reduce the costs and resources lost to fraud. Spot fake accounts, slash manual reviews and cut chargebacks now.

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Playfair is a sector agnostic fund focused exclusively on pre-seed investing. Based in London, Playfair invests across the UK and Europe with an intentionally high conviction, low volume approach: making six investments a year out of its third $70m fund and preserving time, capital and resource to help companies post-investment. Our 78% Series Agraduation rate is ~3x industry average. Playfair has backed 100+ companies since 2013, including Thought Machine, Orca AI, Protex AI, StackOne and Nory.

Investment focus

Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce
Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Geography: United Kingdom, United States, France

Investor stats

Total investments: 132
Round size: Seed $1M–$7.7M; Pre-Seed $700k–$3.1M; Series A $2.7M–$20M
Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow

Portfolio highlights

Nory — Revolutionise your restaurant with Nory's restaurant management software. Streamline operations, boost profits, and enhance decision-making in one platform.
Protex AI — Protex AI develops an AI-powered proactive health and safety technology that enables an injury-free industrial workplace. The company allows EHS teams to adopt proactive safety cultures and in doing so realize an injury-free workplace.
Passionfruit — Join hundreds of the best startups around the world and use Passionfruit to hire freelance marketing specialists on-demand.

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