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Top 50 Software Startup Investors in Croatia in September 2025

Last updated: Sep 2025 A list of 50 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds 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 50 Software Startup Investors in Croatia in September 2025

Investor	Software Croatia investments
Fil Rouge Capital (FRC)	28
Day One Capital	6
HCVC	6
Luca Ascani	6
Taavet Hinrikus	5
South Central Ventures	5
Credo Ventures	3
Lunar Ventures	3
J&T Ventures	3
Prologis Ventures	2
HV Capital	2
PortfoLion Capital Partners	2
Rite-Hite	2
David Rowan	2
Pentland Ventures	2
Nauta Capital	2
Koch Disruptive Technologies	2
LocalGlobe	2
CRE Venture Capital	1
Chris Larsen	1
Skynet Trading	1
Feelsgood	1
Acequia Capital (AceCap)	1
SGH CAPITAL	1
Peaksjah	1
Chris Schagen	1
Esther Dyson	1
Conviction VC	1
Hrvoje Zlatar	1
Radius Capital	1
Eric Cryptoman	1
Tokyo Black	1
Nenad Bakić	1
468 Capital	1
Cade Hill Investments	1
Stefan Thomas	1
Decisive Point	1
Vesna deep tech	1
Iced	1
Ted Pillows	1
Linic Ltd	1
Igor Anić	1
Speedinvest	1
Mate Rimac	1
SparkLabs Global Ventures	1
NJF Capital	1
Playfair Capital	1
Abstraction Capital	1
Follow[the]Seed	1
CSP DAO	1

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Fil Rouge Capital (FRC) is an investment fund manager whose funds focus on early-stage businesses from pre-seed, seed, and Series A rounds of investment.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Croatia, Slovenia, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

GameBoost — Ranking up has never been easier. With GameBoost's cheap LoL and Valorant Elo Boosting Services.
Native Teams — With the Native Teams platform, you can easily hire anyone, anywhere as an employer or get an employed status if you're working as a freelancer. Explore our international EOR and PEO services and start working remotely with full compliance.
Native Teams — Native Teams is the all-in-one global platform for work payments and employment.We help businesses hire, pay, and manage talent across 85+ countries, without setting up local entities. Our platform handles global payroll, compliance, and taxes while empowering international teams and gig workers with flexible financial tools and multi-currencypayment solutions.Whether you're scaling your team or simplifying contractor management, Native Teams makes global hiring simple, secure, and cost-effective.Trusted by 1,500+ companies Operating in 85+ countries Up to 3x lower global employment costsGlobal payroll? Sorted. Compliance? Handled. Payments? Done.

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

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Hungary, United States, Croatia

Portfolio highlights

Qneiform — The Leading Financial Services Talent Data Platform
Orqa — Orqa is a technology company enablling FPV (First Person View) and Remote Reality (RR) for autonomous and remotely operated vehicles.
Whalebone — Whalebone offers zero disruption cybersecurity products to Telcos, ISPs, and enterprises.

HCVC is an early-stage Venture Capital firm backing hardtech companies worldwide. Beyond its fund, HCVC supports hardtech founders through Hardware Club, a selective global community of 500+ startups with dedicated resources, partnerships and events.

Investment focus

Software, Robotics, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, France, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Lendurai — Lendurai enables drones to operate without GNSS using computer vision and AI. Providing autonomous navigation solutions for defence and public sector UAVs.
Alpine Eagle — The Sentinel Counter-UAS System is an air-to-air sensor & interceptor network designed to detect, classify, and intercept unmanned aerial systems (UAS)
Chef Robotics — Chef Robotics | Empowering Humans to Do What They Do Best

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.

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.
qomodo — Qomodo: La piattaforma BNPL innovativa. Rate a tasso zero, approvazioni veloci, transazioni sicure. Rivoluzionaria nell'acquisto per aziende e consumatori.
ReportAId — ReportAId is an AI-powered software that breathes life into medical reports to make healthcare more organized, customized, and accessible.

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.

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.

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
United States, Serbia, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

SplxAI — SplxAI provides the most comprehensive platform for AI Security Testing and Red Teaming, ensuring your AI Assistants and Agents are secure and reliable from build to runtime.
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.
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.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Axoflow — Axoflow security data pipeline for high-quality security data, faster detection and response, and reduced costs.
Surglogs — Surglogs streamlines and automates the administration of logbooks, medications, supplies, in-services, and drills in healthcare facilities. The outdated pen-and-paper method is replaced with a HIPAA compliant state of the art digital application, complemented with a desktop portal that serves as an administrative dashboard.Surglogs was founded in2015 and headquartered in California, United States.
Kontext — Complete configuration with SSR, responsive design, fast refresh and image optimization.

Lunar Ventures is a deep-tech, seed-stage venture fund with a team of 3 deep-tech expert partners in Berlin that come from science, and business in deep tech companies. The firm particularly invests across Europe into founders building high potential startups that specialize in artificial intelligence or machine learning, blockchain,cybersecurity, big data, analytics, or other industries.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Neurolabs — Neurolabs helps puts an end to out-of-stocks using a powerful combination of computer vision and synthetic data, improving customer experience and increasing revenue.
Wasp — A simple language for developing full-stack web apps with less code.
Runware — Run AI models with the lowest-cost API for developers. Fast, flexible access to image, video, and custom generative AI tools.

J&T Ventures is an early-stage Prague-based Venture Capital fund, which invests in promising startups from the CEE and SEE region. Our strategy is industry agnostic, but we primarily focus on companies in the seed stage with proven product market fit. Our average ticket size is between EUR 0.5m - EUR 2.5m.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Czech Republic, United States, Croatia

Portfolio highlights

XUND — Answer the most important health questions with AI-powered technology from XUND. Medically certified and CE marked.
Wultra — Wultra helps the leading banks and fintech companies to secure their digital systems and bring trust to the customer journeys. Our security-related software technologies cover the whole digital banking application stack, be it on the web or mobile platforms.
Grid.online — Grid.online is building transportation infrastructure as a service that will unlock the huge free transportation capacity of cities and allow it to be shared efficiently.

Prologis Ventures invests in Series A through Growth stage companies focused on innovating in the logistics sector. Prologis Ventures' thesis-driven investment strategy is centered on addressing Prologis customers' most critical pain points in supply chain and transportation, digital buildings and infrastructure, and real estate andconstruction.Prologis Ventures is the partner of choice to accelerate growth, navigate challenges, and bring innovative solutions to market.

Investment focus

Software, Logistics, Artificial Intelligence
Series A, Series B, Series C
United States, China, Croatia

Portfolio highlights

Outrider — Autonomous yard operations have set a new standard. Yard automation transforms yard operations into an efficient, safe, and sustainable solution.
Tangible — Tangible is a climate technology company focused on building sustainable materials that are not harmful to the environment. Tangible is a unified software platform that catalyzes the adoption of sustainable building materials by allowing real estate developers, architects, and contractors to seamlessly identify, manage, and report on products thatmeet their carbon, environmental, and social goals.Founded in 2021 by Nicole Granath and Anneli Tostar, Tangible is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.
Platform Science — Experience the power to choose what drives your fleet. Platform Science delivers telematics and fleet management tools on a platform built for transportation.

We support exceptional founders in building market leading digital companies.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Internet
Series A, Seed, Series B
Germany, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Framer — Framer is a tool to design interactive high-fidelity prototypes for iOS, Android, desktop, or the web. It enables users to turn static mockups into interactive prototypes and to experiment quickly with dynamic, native-feeling animations and interactions.Framer integrates with design tools, exports smoothly to mobile devices, and is powered bythe language of the modern web, Javascript. The company was founded by Jorn Dijk and Koen Bok.
PraxiPal — PraxiPal is building an AI-driven healthcare workforce to tackle the increasing shortage of healthcare staff.
feld.energy — feld. energy enables farmers to produce sustainable energy without sacrificing agriculture.Agri-PV is a solution that brings benefits to all parties.

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

Software, Information Technology, Big Data
Series A, Seed, Series B
Hungary, Poland, United States

Portfolio highlights

UVIONIX — Uvionix deploys Autonomous Flying Robots (AFRs) to monitor and report live data, ensuring a comprehensive view of operations, workflow efficiency, and near 100% inventory level accuracy. The system creates live digital twins of warehouse spaces, meticulously tracking each material movement. Delivering precise, unbiased data, and being immune to human error, the platform drastically enhances material planning, reduces stock losses, and lowers labor costs.
Kodesage — Kodesage captures your company's collective knowledge to help understand and modernize legacy code
Coding Giants — Put description here

Rite-Hite is a world leader in the manufacture, sale, and service of loading dock equipment, industrial doors, safety barriers, HVLS fans, industrial curtain walls, and more - all designed to improve safety, security, productivity, energy savings, and environmental control. Watch Rite-Hite's Always Looking Ahead video below to learn more.

Investment focus

Machine Learning, Software, Artificial Intelligence
Funding Round, Series A, Seed
United States, Croatia

Portfolio highlights

Voxel — Eliminate near-misses and stop injuries before they happen. Teach your security cameras to detect safety hazards and inefficiencies in real-time.
Gideon — Gideon 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.
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.

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.

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.

Pentland Group has been proudly supporting people to build the businesses of the future since 1932. Pentland Ventures is the Group’s direct investments division. We aim to combine the conviction of a venture capital fund, the financial discipline of a private equity firm, the operational expertise of a strategic investor and the long-term outlookand values of a fourth-generation family business.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, United Kingdom, Croatia

Portfolio highlights

Windmill — Windmill is family-run and built on 60 years of air care expertise. Our air products are thoughtfully designed with you and the planet in mind. Learn more here!
Diaspora Co. — We're building a better spice trade, equitably and deliciously. We source South Asia's freshest, heirloom, and single-origin spices, directly from our partner farms to bring you next level flavor and fragrance!
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.

We support visionary founders across Europe as they build the next generation of B2B software companies.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Mobile
Seed, Series A, Series B
Spain, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Zelt — Manage everything from HRIS, payroll, pension, devices, apps and more seamlessly in one central hub, for all processes and applications, third-party included. Improve productivity through enhanced employee experience.
NetBird — Wiretrustee is an open-source VPN platform built on top of WireGuard® making it easy to create secure private networks for your organization or home. It requires zero configuration effort leaving behind the hassle of opening ports, complex firewall rules, VPN gateways, and so forth.
Unravel — Unravel delivers immersive digital transformation and engagement with travellers through short-format, shoppable videos.

Koch Disruptive Technologies is a unique investment firm partnering with principled entrepreneurs and transformative companies that are changing the world.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
Series A, Series B, Series C
United States, Israel, Croatia

Portfolio highlights

Arkestro — Bid Ops is the only predictive procurement software built to keep your team continuously exceeding targets. Using Bid Ops, you can orchestrate your activities across systems using instant forecasts and real-time collaboration. Predict and win 2-5x faster savings and never get stuck waiting for a KPI report again. Learn more athttps://www.bidops.com
Speedata — Speedata develops accelerated processor for big data analytics across industries. Speedata's Analytics Processing Unit (APU) was designed solely to optimize datacenter and cloud-based database and analytic workloads, dramatically improving performance by orders of magnitude while reducing costs, power consumption and space.
Celestial AI — We develop audacious AI computing platforms that elevate performance, energy and economic efficiencies, enabling our customers to rapidly deploy innovations in their AI applications.

Seeding ambitious founders at places like @citymapper, @improbableio,@teamkano, @moo, @songkick,@seedcamp, @transferwise and @zoopla since 1999. Who's next?

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, United States, France

Portfolio highlights

Laka — Laka is collective bicycle insurance especially for cyclists. We flipped insurance. By making it pay to pay out, we are the collective that backs each other. Protect your bikes and gear against theft & damage with Laka 5-star rated cycle insurance.
Xelix — Empower your AP & P2P teams with Xelix: AI-powered software that prevents overpayments & delivers meaningful insights around working capital.
Two — Buy Now, Pay Later for your business customers. Two makes it easy and safe to offer invoice as a payment method on your e-commerce site.

Founded in 2015, CRE Venture Capital invests in early stage tech companies that are levered to Africa. CRE is headquartered in the New York metro area, with a regional office in Lagos, Nigeria.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
South Africa, Nigeria, United States

Portfolio highlights

Sabi Am — Sabi is Africa's largest B2B company, & we are digitising informal trade via our platform. We access markets hard to reach and ensure ease of distribution, & are the No 1 FCMG supplier in Africa.
Sukhiba — Sukhiba is a decentralized community-based commerce platform.
Stitch — One API integration for enterprise online payments across South Africa. Accept Pay by bank, debit + credit card, cash, manual EFT, debit order and crypto.

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).

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.

Crypto market making experts with 5+ years of experience. We provide stable liquidity, tight spreads, and 24/7 coverage for your digital assets. Book a call today.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Financial Services, Cryptocurrency
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, Singapore, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Centrifuge — Centrifuge is the platform for tokenized real-world assets, providing the infrastructure and ecosystem to tokenize, manage, and invest into RWAs.
Hybrid — Hybrid is a fintech company that offers a decentralized central AI tool with Web3's ecosystem of AI experts, agents, and data.
Inference Labs — AI hyperscale on decentralized networks - We provide certainty for on-chain AI

What we invest in today shapes the world we will live in tomorrow

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Gaming
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Croatia, Ireland, Slovenia

Portfolio highlights

Vidi-X — VIDI-TO creates the VIDI X STEM learning tool, VIDI Project X is a developing microcomputer with two cores and a TFT touchscreen, powered by an ESP32 processor. VIDI X is outfitted with a few intriguing sensors as well as a special port that allows for additional functionality expansion.
GameBoost — Ranking up has never been easier. With GameBoost's cheap LoL and Valorant Elo Boosting Services.
BE-ON — BE-ON offers citizens in financial difficulty specialized financial counseling.

We are a leading early-stage investment platform. We are at the center of a global ecosystem that attracts and fuels the technical founders and product teams building the next wave of global businesses.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, United Kingdom, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Arago — Arago is an AI and computer hardware company developing an energy-efficient AI chip powered by light, and its associated software.
Tracelight — Tracelight is an AI-powered Excel add-in that enhances financial modeling by enabling users to generate formulas from natural language, check for errors, and interact with models using plain English. It helps financial professionals save time, reduce errors, and work more efficiently while maintaining security and data privacy.
Hyperdrives — Discover Hyperdrives, a deep-tech engineering company providing electric drive systems designed to set a new benchmark for performance-to-cost.

Capital That Makes Sense. Tactical early stage technology investors in the US, Europe and beyond.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, France, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Groq — Groq radically simplifies compute to accelerate workloads in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and high-performance computing.
OpenAI — Introducing Sora: Creating video from text
Forepont Capital Partners — Founded in 2017 in New York, Forepont Capital Partners is a global asset manager in healthcare and life science.

Peaksjah

Investment focus

Software, Music, Events
Pre-Seed, Series A
Croatia, Estonia, United States

Portfolio highlights

FanSifter — FanSifter is a fan data management platform that leverages machine learning to help rights holders in music, entertainment, and sports increase tickets, music, merch, experiences, and sponsorships sales.
MarkeDroid — MarkeDroid is revolutionizing the renewable energy industry as the first European Plug & Play platform driven by energy spot prices management and access to the FLEX markets for the residential solar batteries. With its cutting-edge technology, MarkeDroid is reshaping the energy value chain and maximizing the value of renewable energy for allstakeholders.
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.

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.

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.

Esther Dyson - Founder @ Way to Wellville

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.

Conviction is a privately backed multi-stage investor in post revenue, high growth B2B SaaS companies. We are one of the most active and largest direct global venture capital groups.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom, United States, Belgium

Portfolio highlights

Cartesia — Cartesia provides real-time multimodal intelligence for all devices. Its objective is to develop the next generation of AI: pervasive, interactive intelligence that operates everywhere.
Spur — Spur works in automation of all functional codes and E2E testing.
Ethos — Ethos builds autonomous agents powered by insights from leading human experts.

Hrvoje Zlatar

Investment focus

Software, Developer Tools, Cloud Infrastructure
Pre-Seed
Croatia

Portfolio highlights

Mantil — Serverless development kit for Go and AWS Lambda

Early stage investors in the enabling technologies driving cyber-physical systems and advanced air mobility

Investment focus

Software, Machine Learning, Drones
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Croatia, Ireland

Portfolio highlights

PhysicsX — PhysicsX is a developer of AI and simulation engineering technologies to reinvent the design and operation of machines and products.
Manna Air Delivery — Drone delivery made simple
Orqa — Orqa is a technology company enablling FPV (First Person View) and Remote Reality (RR) for autonomous and remotely operated vehicles.

Eric Cryptoman

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.

Tokyo Black is a clothing brand offering T-shirts, joggers, and other apparel in black and streetwear styles.

Investment focus

Software, Analytics, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, United Kingdom, France

Portfolio highlights

Nagish — Nagish captions your phone calls and empowers you to talk using text or voice. It's fast, private, and free.
Knapsack — Fast, on-device AI. Carve your own path with a secure, on-premise, open-source GPT. Semantic search and chat with ultimate privacy and security.
Depot — The fastest place to build Docker images.

Nenad Bakić

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.

468 Capital is an investment firm that focuses on identifying and managing opportunities in various markets. The firm employs a systematic approach to investment analysis and portfolio management. It collaborates with a range of partners to support its investment strategies. The company serves industries including technology, healthcare, andrenewable energy.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Germany, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Alaan — Take control of your business spend.
SRE.ai — SRE.ai delivers AI agents that automate Salesforce DevOps workflows, allowing for fast, transparent deployments, back-promotions, and impact analysis. With seamless tool integration, SRE.ai minimizes clicks and maximizes productivity, enabling teams to scale without sacrificing quality or speed.
BlindPay — BlindPay is a stablecoin API that enables companies to send and receive money worldwide using fiat money, stablecoins and multiple blockchains. We handle all the complex compliance and regulatory requirements, so companies can focus on their core business.

Cade Hill is a long-term investor who focuses on capital-efficient companies. It specialises in small software businesses that are ready to scale.

Investment focus

Software, Enterprise Software, Information Services
Funding Round
Croatia

Portfolio highlights

SysKit — Syskit Point is your go-to platform for governing the entire M365 lifecycle. Reporting, auditing, and governance - simplified. Start your 21-day free trial.

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.

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.

Decisive Point is a venture capital firm that invests in dual-use technology startups and offers government contract consulting services.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Aerospace, Software
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Croatia, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Scout AI — Scout AI is building the robotic foundation model for defense.
Firestorm — Democratizing deterrence through the use of radically affordable, mission-adaptable unmanned aerial systems (UAS) and answering the call for future-proofed systems with open system architectures.
Standard Nuclear — Standard Nuclear is focused on advancing nuclear energy by providing innovative nuclear fuels to support the next generation of reactors. The company contributes to renewable energy by developing innovative nuclear fuels that enhance efficiency and sustainability, thereby reducing the environmental impact of energy production. By promoting nuclearenergy, the company supports the clean energy transition, providing a stable and reliable power source that complements intermittent renewables like solar and wind.

Vesna's goal is to fund deep tech initiatives and startups that will either directly address or creatively and more efficiently tackle the most significant problems affecting our planet.

Investment focus

Software, Cyber Security, Information Technology
Seed
Croatia

Portfolio highlights

Legit — Data Privacy Manager is Cloud-native privacy automation platform that is using cutting-edge proprietary AI / ML technologies to help companies protect privacy and develop their businesses in the digital and connected world.

Iced is Solana degenerate

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

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.

Investment Fund

Investment focus

Robotics, Software, Machine Learning
Seed
Croatia

Portfolio highlights

Gideon — Gideon 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.

Igor Anić

Investment focus

Software, Developer Tools, Cloud Infrastructure
Pre-Seed
Croatia

Portfolio highlights

Mantil — Serverless development kit for Go and AWS Lambda

Speedinvest is one of Europe’s most active early-stage venture capital funds, with more than €1.2bn in AuM and offices in Berlin, London, Munich, Paris, and Vienna. Our dedicated sector-focused teams (Climate Tech & Industrial Tech, Deep Tech, Fintech, Health & Bio, Marketplaces & Consumer Tech, SaaS & Infra) are the first to fundEMEA's most innovative pre-Seed and Seed tech startups. Our in-house operational experts and global network of industry leaders support our portfolio companies with growth, people (HR), market expansion, and more throughout every stage of their journeys. Bitpanda, GoStudent, Wayflyer, Open, CoachHub, Schüttflix, TourRadar, Adverity, and TWAICE are among our portfolio of 400+ companies.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, Germany, Austria

Portfolio highlights

ARX Robotics — ARX is a defence technology company that specialises in developing autonomous unmanned systems and sensors for the European defence sector.
Due — Discover our global payment platform. Powered by open, decentralised and interoperable networks.
Tibo Energy — To make sure you operate within the limits of your contract we control your network. We avoid congestion in your energy network.

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.

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.

SparkLabs Global Ventures is a venture capital firm that offers seed-stage investment services to firms in the SaaS, healthcare, education, IoT, fintech, mobile, commerce, HR, gaming, security, and VR industries. It was founded in Dec 2013 and is based in California.Exceptional entrepreneurs, that are building strong, category defining companiesat highly advantageous valuations – can be found anywhere. The company has a team that is highly experienced in finding such talent and helping our entrepreneurs to develop, grow, network, and scale into other markets throughout the world.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, South Korea, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Splab — Handle everything from marketing to buyer matching, even without a full team. We cover: multi-stakeholder bookkeeping, virtual & physical events registration management, event tech setup, matchmaking, ticket sales & marketing, and post-event reporting.
Nitra — Nitra offers expense management software that integrates with the banks to provide innovative loan products.
Tella — Service

NJF Capital is the venture capital arm of NJF Holdings, founded by investor and entrepreneur Nicole Junkermann.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Biotechnology, Machine Learning
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Ireland

Portfolio highlights

Bioptimus — Our mission is to build the first universal AI foundation model for biology to fuel breakthrough discoveries and accelerate innovations in biomedicine and beyond.
Pesto — Pesto is a San Francisco-based fintech business that recently released the Pesto Mastercard a next-generation asset-backed secured credit card.
Evolv AI — Evolv AI is the first AI-led experience optimization platform that recommends, builds, deploys and optimizes testing ideas for you.

Playfair is a generalist VC fund with a contrarian approach to pre-seed technology investing. Based in London, Playfair invests across the UK and Europe with an intentionally high conviction, low volume approach: making 6-8 investments a year and preserving time, capital and resource to help companies post-investment. Playfair has backed 70+companies across two funds including Thought Machine, Andela, Mapillary, Recycleye and Orca AI.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United Kingdom, United States, France

Portfolio highlights

Warden AI — Warden AI is an AI assurance platform for validating fair, compliant, and trustworthy AI systems. Schedule a demo to learn more!
Those Beyond — Those Beyond develops a social gaming platform that supports interactive fan experiences within fictional universes. The platform uses its proprietary Arise Engine to enable browser-based adventures, role-playing, and puzzle-solving activities involving mass community participation. Projects include collaborations with entertainment franchises suchas "The Walking Dead," allowing fans to engage with story-driven challenges and community events. The platform includes customizable social spaces designed to reflect the themes and aesthetics of the associated intellectual properties.
Astral Systems — Our compact multi-state fusion reactors offer high particle flux and exceptional lifetime performance, unlocking a wide variety of critical medical, industrial, and research applications today.

Abstraction Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm building tools for developers and software infrastructure. The firm also focused on companies building dev tools and workflow automation that reduces the time required to build, deploy, and measure the performance of the software. The technology stacks are moving from monolithic suites to acomposed mesh of loosely-integrated, best-in-class tools, and developers are continuing to gain influence.

Investment focus

Software, Developer Tools, Developer APIs
Seed, Pre-Seed
United States, Canada, France

Portfolio highlights

Lekko — Dynamically configure your software without redeployments. With Lekko, engineers can focus on executing and safely hand off daily reconfigurations.
Athenic AI — Athenic AI is your AI data analyst and BI reporting tool for SaaS, CPG, and manufacturing teams. Visualize data and track customer retention easily.
dScribe AI — Monitor Bulk Inventory with 3D Vision AI

Follow[the]Seed is a post-seed algorithmic venture capital fund, using a unique predictive analytical model known as Raving Fans™ to identify the next $1 Billion+ ventures. Based in Sydney, Australia; San-Francisco, USA; Tel Aviv, Israel & Beijing, China our team has over 3 decades of combined experience building startups ourselves andanother 2 decades of experience investing in over 90 companies.Oh, and we truly love entrepreneurs and innovation.

Investment focus

Software, Gaming, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Australia, Singapore, China

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.
Ajuna Network — Ajuna Network is a decentralized ecosystem for gamers and creators.
Liquorice — Liquorice is a developer of a DeFi protocol that combines one-sided loan pools with a MEV-free trading engine.

CSP DAO offers a unique blockchain system designed to address fair investment rights.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology
Seed, Funding Round, Initial Coin Offering
United States, Singapore, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Novastro — Novastro is a Layer 2 chain for RWAs powered by AI that integrates MoveVM and EigenLayer AVS, delivering Ethereum-level security and Move’s scalability to unlock tokenised yield opportunities across RWAs & DeFi protocols.
SecondLive — SecondLive is a diversified metaverse focused on building social networks and supporting creator economic activities.
Hybrid — Hybrid is a fintech company that offers a decentralized central AI tool with Web3's ecosystem of AI experts, agents, and data.

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