# Top 20 Software Angel Investors in Croatia in June 2026 ## Luca Ascani - Type: Angel - Location: Rome, Lazio, Italy - Relevant deals: 6 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: FinTech, Software, Financial Services 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. ## Taavet Hinrikus - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: FinTech, Software, Financial Services Taavet Hinrikus is based out of London, England and is the Partner of Plural Platform and Board Member of CoMind. Taavet previously worked at Wise as a Chairman and Co-founder. Taavet Hinrikus attended INSEAD. ## David Rowan - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Machine Learning, Information Technology 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. ## Carl Runefelt - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Blockchain, Web3, Gaming Carl Runefelt is based out of Dubai and is the CEO and Founder of The Moon Group. Carl previously worked at ICA Supermarket as a Cashier and Stocker. ## Chris Larsen - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Blockchain, Internet, Payments 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). ## Stefan Thomas - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series B - Focus: Internet, Software, Apps 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. ## Nenad Bakić - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A - Focus: Robotics, Software, Machine Learning Nenad Bakić ## Chris Schagen - Type: Angel - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS 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. ## Sjuul AltCryptoGems - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Web3, Developer APIs, Artificial Intelligence Sjuul AltCryptoGems ## Preetha Parthasarathy - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology US, India. Preetha Parthasarathy is the Partner at SAP.iO . Preetha Parthasarathy attended Texas McCombs School of Business. ## Ivan Topčić - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A - Focus: Robotics, Software, Machine Learning Ivan Topčić ## Marko Kovac - Type: Angel - Location: Zagreb, Grad Zagreb, Croatia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Developer Tools, Cloud Infrastructure Marko Kovac is the Founder and Chief Product Strategist at Repsly ## Mate Rimac - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Fitness, Web Development 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. ## Esther Dyson - Type: Angel - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Health Care, Software, Medical Esther Dyson - Founder @ Way to Wellville ## Hrvoje Zlatar - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Developer Tools, Cloud Infrastructure Hrvoje Zlatar ## Ted Pillows - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Web3, Developer APIs, Artificial Intelligence Ted Pillows ## Eric Cryptoman - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Web3, Gaming, Web Apps Eric Cryptoman ## Igor Anić - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Developer Tools, Cloud Infrastructure Igor Anić ## Damir Sabol - Type: Angel - Location: Zagreb, Grad Zagreb, Croatia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: Retail, Travel, Leisure Damir Sabol - Founder/CEO @ Photomath ## Ant Wilson - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: SaaS, Software, Developer Tools Co-Founder & CTO at Supabase