# South Central Ventures

> South Central Ventures is a VC fund in Belgrade backing Software and SaaS. See 63 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Belgrade, Serbia
- Total investments: 63
- Last investment: Dec 2025
- Lead investor: 59%
- Fund size: $82M
- Last fund: Mar 2022
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/south-central-ventures
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/VenturesSc
- Website: http://sc-ventures.com/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SouthCentralVentures/

South Central Ventures is a VC fund in Belgrade focused on Software and SaaS. South Central Ventures focuses on early stage high-growth companies with excellent management teams.With offices in Belgrade, Zagreb and Skopje, South Central Ventures (SCV), through Enterprise Innovation Fund (ENIF), is focused on tech companies in the Balkans. The € 40 million fund is dedicated primarily to early stage and growth investments.Within the fund’s ‘seed pocket’, € 1.5 million is allocated for investments of up to € 100 000 per company. The majority of the fund is allocated for early stage and growth investments of up to € 3 million per company. These investments are intended to fuel the international business expansion and growth of the most promising tech startups that can show traction and prove their potential to “make it big”.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $219k–$2.8M |
| Pre-Seed | $33k–$2M |
| Series A | $329k–$5M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 19 | 30% |
| SaaS | 10 | 16% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 10 | 16% |
| Machine Learning | 7 | 11% |
| Enterprise Software | 6 | 10% |

83 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 28 | 44% |
| Pre-Seed | 9 | 14% |
| Series A | 8 | 13% |
| Series B | 4 | 6% |
| Funding Round | 4 | 6% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 13 | 21% |
| United Kingdom | 9 | 14% |
| Serbia | 8 | 13% |
| Croatia | 4 | 6% |
| The Netherlands | 2 | 3% |

10 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Jan Kobler | Managing Partner | 9 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jan-kobler |
| Eli Zhabevska | Senior Associate | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/eli-zhabevska |
| Goran Stevanovic | Partner | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/goran-stevanovic |
| Jure Mikuz | Managing Partner | 8 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jure-miku |
| Krunoslava Peulja | Chief Cultural Officer | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/krunoslava-peulja |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| GlycanAge | Can you slow down your inner body clock? At GlycanAge we’ve proven you can! How? By analysing over 150,000 individuals across 20 years of research from our world leading scientists.Our studies show that well managed dietary improvements, healthy weight loss, and exercise can tangibly improve your biological age. GlycanAge is the only biologicalage test proven to respond to lifestyle changes. We’ve made your choices measurable so you can stay healthier and younger for longer. | $8.7M | Venture - Series Unknown | Dec 18, 2025 |  |
| Katalist | KatalistAI is a design assistant that unleashes your marketing and design potential. Driven by cutting-edge AI, it streamlines your creative process, elevates your ideas, and amplifies productivity. | $1.5M | Seed | Dec 18, 2025 |  |
| Bubo² | Bubo² makes 3D easy. AI-powered platform transforms photos and videos into interactive, web-ready 3D models. Businesses use Bubo² to showcase, inspect, and sell products with greater clarity and confidence. It is scalable, seamless, and built for any industry where visual detail matters. | $2M | Pre-Seed | Sep 15, 2025 |  |
| Recommend | Recommend develops predictive market intelligence infrastructure for commercial teams and AI-powered platforms. The company uses a purpose-built behavioral model and real-time signal processing to detect, predict, and act on market demand before it appears in traditional analytics. Its platform provides tools for demand discovery, campaignactivation, performance intelligence, and predictive APIs that enterprises and agencies integrate into marketing, media planning, and commercial decision workflows. Recommend also maintains infrastructure for large-scale ingestion, clustering, and scoring of market signals across news, social, search, and behavioral data sources. The company's products are primarily used by global agencies, enterprise brands, and platform partners building demand-driven commercial applications. | $1.5M | Seed | Apr 01, 2025 |  |
| SplxAI | SplxAI is a cybersecurity company specializing in automated security testing for AI chatbots, ensuring they remain safe from manipulation and data breaches. The platform continuously monitors and tests chatbots for vulnerabilities such as prompt injection, context leakage, social engineering, and other advanced threats. Key features includereal-time detection and mitigation strategies, multimodal pentesting capabilities (covering text, audio, and video), and comprehensive reporting tools that provide actionable insights for improving security. SplxAI's solution integrates seamlessly with existing security frameworks and platforms, making it easy to deploy and manage. By providing robust protection against a wide range of threats, SplxAI helps enterprises safeguard their AI-driven applications, maintain data integrity, and ensure compliance with industry standards. The company is committed to innovation, continuously enhancing its product to address emerging threats in the rapidly evolving AI landscape. SplxAI is trusted by forward-thinking organizations looking to proactively secure their AI assets and protect sensitive information. | $7M | Seed | Mar 26, 2025 |  |
| hylosense | Almost all energy is dependent on weather, yet energy companies still rely on outdated weather forecasts which can’t capture details needed for decimal point accuracy. So every small forecast errors trigger grid instability, penalties, and poor energy bids. That's why we built hylosense - hyper-local weather models that are up to 50% moreaccurate than their global counterparts. | $350K | Pre-Seed | Jan 10, 2025 |  |
| 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. | $11M | Series B | Oct 02, 2024 |  |
| SplxAI | SplxAI is a cybersecurity company specializing in automated security testing for AI chatbots, ensuring they remain safe from manipulation and data breaches. The platform continuously monitors and tests chatbots for vulnerabilities such as prompt injection, context leakage, social engineering, and other advanced threats. Key features includereal-time detection and mitigation strategies, multimodal pentesting capabilities (covering text, audio, and video), and comprehensive reporting tools that provide actionable insights for improving security. SplxAI's solution integrates seamlessly with existing security frameworks and platforms, making it easy to deploy and manage. By providing robust protection against a wide range of threats, SplxAI helps enterprises safeguard their AI-driven applications, maintain data integrity, and ensure compliance with industry standards. The company is committed to innovation, continuously enhancing its product to address emerging threats in the rapidly evolving AI landscape. SplxAI is trusted by forward-thinking organizations looking to proactively secure their AI assets and protect sensitive information. | $2M | Pre-Seed | Sep 10, 2024 |  |
| Leanpay | Leanpay is an omni-channel POS financing company that aims to disrupt consumer loans segment, and help consumers buy products they need. Existing BNPL players are financing average basket size of around 150 EUR. Leanpay is focused on segment of bigger purchases up to 5.000 EURm, with average basket size 4x bigger compered to BNPLs. Today, thatsegment is mostly covered with traditional consumer loans provided by banks. Leanpay is able to disrupt the segment because it is regulated credit company with high competencies in providing in-dept credit analysis for its clients, preventing over-indebtedness and assuring Leanpay position as responsible lender. Leanpay has focus on markets in CEE region. | $10.8M | Series B | Jul 30, 2024 |  |
| 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. | $1.8M | Seed | Jul 02, 2024 |  |

10 of 63 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does South Central Ventures invest in?

South Central Ventures invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 63 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is South Central Ventures's check size?

South Central Ventures typically joins rounds of $219k–$2.8M at Seed, $33k–$2M at Pre-Seed and $329k–$5M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds South Central Ventures participates in.

### How do I contact South Central Ventures?

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### Who are the partners at South Central Ventures?

The team at South Central Ventures includes Jan Kobler (Managing Partner), Eli Zhabevska (Senior Associate) and Goran Stevanovic (Partner), among 8 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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