Top 15 Software Angel Investors in Croatia in May 2025
A list of 15 angel investors that invest in Software startups based in Croatia. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Software companies from Croatia. We update this investor list every month.Top 15 Software Angel Investors in Croatia in May 2025
Investor | Software Croatia investments |
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Luca Ascani | 6 |
Taavet Hinrikus | 5 |
David Rowan | 2 |
Mate Rimac | 1 |
Esther Dyson | 1 |
Sjuul AltCryptoGems | 1 |
Ted Pillows | 1 |
Marko Kovac | 1 |
Stefan Thomas | 1 |
Chris Schagen | 1 |
Chris Larsen | 1 |
Ivan Topčić | 1 |
Hrvoje Zlatar | 1 |
Igor Anić | 1 |
Nenad Bakić | 1 |
Luca is founder and CEO of Lambda Alpha, an investment company focused on early stage investment. Its portfolio includes Bear, the Apple Design Award winner notes app, Fintechs as Lendable and Emma App in London, Mansa in Paris and ScalaPay as well as autonomous robots Gideon Brothers and automated pasta restaurant Cala. Recent investmentsincludes Dishpatch, Airbank and RVVUP. Luca started his entrepreneurial career aged 20 when he launched BuyCentral.it, the first Italian shopping comparison site, in 2000. It was sold to Lycos in 2004. In 2002 he founded ADVance which became the leading digital agency in Italy, subsequently sold to NetBooster. In 2004 he cofounded GoAdv, later rebranded Populis, one of the largest vertical digital publishing groups in Europe and Brazil, listed on the Paris Alternext stock exchange. In 2011 Populis was named the fastest growing company in Ireland and part of the top ten in Europe by Deloitte. In 2012 and 2013 he has brought the TechCrunch conference to Italy with the aim of connecting the Italian industry with international investors. For this same purpose he was co-hosting the 2017 Founders Forum in Rome.From 2010 Luca was in the board of IlSecoloXIX, an Italian north west leading newspaper, then acquired by LaStampa in 2014 and he was in the board of the new group, ITEDI, until it was acquired by Gruppo Espresso in 2017.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Software, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- France, Italy, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Fence — Fence is a SaaS platform to automate debt facility operations like reporting and payments between lenders and borrowers.
- Jet HR — Jet HR makes managing people incredibly simple: payroll, benefits, devices, compliance and much more. We re-thought the HR function, removing anything that is cumbersome and simplifying any action on employees. We are funded by the best Italian VCs (Exor Ventures, Italian Founders Fund and 6 more) and by the best Italian founders (founders ofCasavo, Satispay, Scalapay, Bending Spoons, Musixmatch, Talent Garden, Oyster HR, etc).
- qomodo — Qomodo: La piattaforma BNPL innovativa. Rate a tasso zero, approvazioni veloci, transazioni sicure. Rivoluzionaria nell'acquisto per aziende e consumatori.
Taavet Hinrikus is co-founder and CEO of TransferWise. Prior to starting TransferWise, Taavet was Skype’s director of strategy until 2008, starting as its first-ever employee. One of the World Economic Forum's Tech Pioneers, Taavet is an adviser to Prime Minister of Estonia on the digital agenda. He’s also a mentor and angel investor; hisinvestments include Tweetdeck, Mendeley, OMGPOP, Property Partner, Sunrise, Improbable and Mapillary.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Software, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United Kingdom, United States, Estonia
Portfolio highlights
- Meatable — Meatable is a food production company that produces real and guilt-free meat. With one cell, they are revolutionizing the meat industry's impact on climate change and animal welfare. At the same time they increase food security, without compromising the culinary experience of eating tasty, real meat. They aim to satisfy the world'sappetite for meat without harming people, animals, and the planet.It was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Delft, South Holland, The Netherlands.
- Open Cosmos — Open Cosmos design, build and operate space missions, providing straightforward access to high quality satellite data and insights on a global scale.
- Unearthly Materials — Unearthly Materials is a transformative materials company focused on delivering practical room-temperature superconductors and powering the century of superconductivity.
David Rowan is editor of the UK edition of WIRED magazine, which won 2009 Launch of the David Rowan is Editor of the WIRED UK, the technology and trends magazine covering online brands, gadgets and the culture that surrounds them. David has reported on technology for The Times and Channel 4 News, the latter requiring him to illustrate the newiPod Video from the set of a porn shoot. He's also written for The Sunday Times and Telegraph Magazines, and edited the Guardian's on-line content. David has curated an exhibition of British creative talent at the Government's Cabinet Forum conference. He has also addressed the TEDs, and frequently contributes on Newsnight and the Today programme. He also writes a monthly column for GQ. David is in touch with many of the world's leading trend-setters and spotters. In presentations he looks at how the net is disrupting almost every sector, how apps change consumer behaviour and why 'social commerce' is killing traditional marketing. He reveals the 10 trends that will change your market in the next decade - and what you should be doing now to protect yourself.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United Kingdom, Germany, Croatia
Portfolio highlights
- EWOR — EWOR is a platform dedicated to transforming aspiring entrepreneurs into successful startup founders through world-class education, mentorship, and investment opportunities.
- Climate X — Climate X combines climate science and econometrics to deliver precise climate risk data without any black boxes.
- Rhizocore Technologies — We develop high-performance strains of locally-sourced mycorrhizal fungi to improve tree growth, tree health and tree resiliency. We offer a sustainable solution to increase forest yields whilst improving the ability of trees to sequester carbon.
Mate Rimac (1988) is Croatian inventor, entrepreneur, founder and CEO of Rimac Automobili and Greyp Bikes.Rimac Automobili Ltd. is a high-technology company from Croatia founded in 2009 which focuses on the development and production of high-performance electric vehicles, powertrains and battery systems. The company’s CEO Mate Rimac was committedto building the next-generation of supercars, which began when Mate converted his old BMW to a race EV. The car officially homologated as a “Rimac Automobili e-M3” is holding 5 FIA and Guinness World records for acceleration. Rimac Automobili is the company behind the idea and production of the ConceptOne, their first vehicle which was the world’s first electric hypercar with more than 1000 HP, an exceptional supercar with a new propulsion system as well as the revolutionary approach to vehicle dynamics - All Wheel Torque Vectoring (AWTV). The majority of its components are developed and manufactured in-house. In collaboration with FIA Formula E the ConceptOne is used as the official zero-emission race director’s car during Formula E events.
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Investment focus
- Software, Fitness, Web Development
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Portfolio highlights
- Rolla — Rolla helps beginners and fitness enthusiasts to improve their overall health & fitness. Take the next step and reach your goals with features tailored to your preferences and fitness level.
- Codemap — Hire no-code, automation and technology experts & agencies vetted by Codemap. Build software faster with minimal or NO coding - launch in days or weeks. Learn no-code and automate processes to supercharge your business.
Esther Dyson - Founder @ Way to Wellville
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Software, Medical
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Canada, Russian Federation
Portfolio highlights
- Ezra AI — Ezra provides full-body MRI screening for potential early cancer and abnormalities in up to 13 organs. Book a scan today.
- Way — Way combines intuitive eating with behavior science for mindful habits. 73.5% of app users report transformed thinking post-program.
- Openwater — OPENWATER - THE FUTURE OF NEURAL DIAGNOSTICS IN THE PALM OF YOUR HAND.
Sjuul AltCryptoGems
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Investment focus
- Web3, Developer APIs, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed
- Croatia
Portfolio highlights
- Hybrid — Hybrid is a fintech company that offers a decentralized central AI tool with Web3's ecosystem of AI experts, agents, and data.
Ted Pillows
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Investment focus
- Web3, Developer APIs, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed
- Croatia
Portfolio highlights
- Hybrid — Hybrid is a fintech company that offers a decentralized central AI tool with Web3's ecosystem of AI experts, agents, and data.
Marko Kovac is the Founder and Chief Product Strategist at Repsly
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Investment focus
- Software, Developer Tools, Cloud Infrastructure
- Pre-Seed
- Croatia
Portfolio highlights
- Mantil — Serverless development kit for Go and AWS Lambda
Stefan Thomas wants to live in a world where currency moves as frictionlessly as information. As CTO of Ripple, he is helping to build an Internet protocol that does just that. Stefan is one of the co-creators of the Interledger Protocol (ILP).Prior to Ripple, he developed vast experience in digital currencies, being both the founder of,WeUseCoins.com, the largest website for novice Bitcoin users,and the creator of BitcoinJS, a software package used by a wide range of Bitcoin businesses all over the world. Now, at Ripple Labs, his overarching motivation is to weave a global value web by making it easy for developers - from individual entrepreneurs to financial institutions - to build extremely efficient money transfer systems using the Ripple protocol, and, in the end, a world in which exchanging value is as frictionless, free and fast as exchanging information.
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Investment focus
- Internet, Software, Apps
- Seed, Series B
- United States, Croatia
Portfolio highlights
- Cinnamon — The one-stop shop to design, develop and deploy your next digital project.
- Cinnamon — Backed by a strong business plan, Cinnamon strives to change the way we view content and the way that content is monetized. To replace the prevailing corporate-based financial model with one in which the creative content partners are compensated immediately and fairly. Ours will be a home and online community for innovative ideas, imagery, videos,short films, serialized content with a whole new way of doing business.
- Puma Browser — Puma is a mobile browser and wallet for the Web3 ecosystem. Private by design. Today, we enable seamless payments for creators, app & game developers via Coil and ILP protocol and access to HNS & ENS domains. Long term, our goal is to give 1b people access to Web3 world, DeFi, the peer to peer and ownership based economy.
I help developer tech entrepreneurs beginning from crazy idea, through MVP stage, product market fit, go-to-market fit, up to go-to-market scaling. Also I help you get your first 1000 leads. Before, I was the CMO at Contentful and helped it grow from $0m to $50m in ARR, and before that founded 3 companies, including Wooga (exit to Playtika),Linklift, and Mundwerk.I obsess about being customer-centric and customer-driven in building your organization. And I am the curmodgeon who tells you things you need to (but probably don't want to) hear.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Germany, United States, France
Portfolio highlights
- DGG — RapidCompact by DGG is the leading solution to make 3D content fit all target platforms, freeing up each creative team's' time by automating the creation of high-quality, optimized 3D assets for Web, mobile, AR and XR use. Customers include retailers, public institutions, tech companies, XR studios, and more.
- PartyKit — PartyKit is an open source deployment platform for AI agents.
- Growblocks — Driving revenue growth is complicated. Teams need to collaborate, work with data and keep everyone on track in order to succeed.Growblocks strives to apply our winning formula to the B2B Scale-Up community helping our customers reach their revenue growth dreams - faster.We believe that when enough brains are applied, every problem is solvableand our team of brains is world class.Founded by a team of business leaders who have helped start, scale and exit some of the most successful SaaS companies in Europe. Funded by leading European VCs and Angel Investors.
Chris Larsen is the Executive Chairman and co-founder of Ripple. Previously, Larsen served the company as its CEO and Chairman of the Board of Directors. Prior to Ripple, Chris co-founded and served as CEO of Prosper, a peer-to-peer lending marketplace, and E-LOAN, a publicly traded online lender. During his tenure at E-LOAN, he pioneered the openaccess to credit scores movement by making E-LOAN the first company to show consumers their FICO scores. Chris serves at the Board and Advisory levels at numerous companies and organizations including: Betable, CreditKarma, and Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC).
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Information Technology, Internet
- Seed
- United States, Croatia
Portfolio highlights
- Yellow — Yellow is a financial services provider of software, analytics, and investments in blockchain startups.
- Cinnamon — The one-stop shop to design, develop and deploy your next digital project.
- Puma Browser — Puma is a mobile browser and wallet for the Web3 ecosystem. Private by design. Today, we enable seamless payments for creators, app & game developers via Coil and ILP protocol and access to HNS & ENS domains. Long term, our goal is to give 1b people access to Web3 world, DeFi, the peer to peer and ownership based economy.
Ivan Topčić
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Investment focus
- Robotics, Software, Machine Learning
- Series A
- Croatia
Portfolio highlights
- Gideon Brothers — Gideon Brothers develops autonomous, mobile, collaborative and modular robots for unstructured, indoor, human industrial environments. They are one of the largest robotics engineering companies in Central and Southeastern Europe. Founded in 2017, the company is headquartered in Zagreb, Croatia.
Hrvoje Zlatar
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Investment focus
- Software, Developer Tools, Cloud Infrastructure
- Pre-Seed
- Croatia
Portfolio highlights
- Mantil — Serverless development kit for Go and AWS Lambda
Igor Anić
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Investment focus
- Software, Developer Tools, Cloud Infrastructure
- Pre-Seed
- Croatia
Portfolio highlights
- Mantil — Serverless development kit for Go and AWS Lambda
Nenad Bakić
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Investment focus
- Robotics, Software, Machine Learning
- Series A
- Croatia
Portfolio highlights
- Gideon Brothers — Gideon Brothers develops autonomous, mobile, collaborative and modular robots for unstructured, indoor, human industrial environments. They are one of the largest robotics engineering companies in Central and Southeastern Europe. Founded in 2017, the company is headquartered in Zagreb, Croatia.
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