Top 5 Consumer VC Funds &amp; Investors in Croatia (May 2026)

Fil Rouge Capital (FRC) invests in early stage businesses from angel investment, seed, VC and Series A rounds through a combination of equity and debt structures.FRC’s approach is to target investments that complement the skills and experience of its Founders so that they can bring more than just capital to help a business grow. Both FRC’sFounders have a core knowledge of technology, services, and an entrepreneurial history that they can bring to the benefit of an investment. FRC is Europe-centric, and with a base in Ljubljana, Slovenia, there is an additional focus on Central and Eastern Europe, Austria and Southern Germany. On an opportunistic basis FRC will look at deals throughout Europe and also the United States. The Founders are well-connected to accelerators in Central Europe and in Silicon Valley.

Investment focus

Industry: Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
Geography: Croatia, Slovenia, United Kingdom

Investor stats

Total investments: 107
Round size: Seed $21k–$321k; Pre-Seed $54k–$214k
Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow

Portfolio highlights

GameBoost — Ranking up has never been easier. With GameBoost's cheap LoL and Valorant Elo Boosting Services.
Magic Forest — Magic Forest is a biotech firm that democratizes the forestry sector by permitting public investment. Their online trading platform enables private investors to invest in forests and offset their carbon footprint.
Native Teams — Native Teams is a platform that offers payments and employment tools for freelancers, remote workers, and clients. Native Teams was founded in 2021 and was headquartered in London.

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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, Apps
Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Geography: Hungary, United States, Croatia

Investor stats

Total investments: 44
Round size: Seed $310k–$3M; Pre-Seed $500k–$2.6M; Series A $2.7M–$27M
Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $36M in 2018

Portfolio highlights

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.
Colossyan — We make video creation simply and stressless. AI video technology allow us to crate video in just a few minutes. Ty out here.
Commsignia — Commsignia specializes in the research and development, manufacturing and distribution of cooperative intelligent transportation systems. Its product line includes a V2X Communication Software Stack and Commsignia’s own security stack implementation, Hybrid V2X/ADAS Safety Applications, a V2X Simulator, On-Board Units (OBU) and Roadside Units(RSU).The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California.

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APX is Europe’s leading very-early-stage VC. Based in Berlin and backed by Axel Springer and Porsche, we support and partner with the most ambitious founding teams from Europe and beyond - often as their first investor.We invest up to EUR 500K in startups until a series A starting with a quick EUR 50K investment, and within a few months,depending on traction and speed, we can invest further. Each month we invest in new teams who become part of the APX community, counting hundreds of other founders. Since 2018, we have invested in 100+ startups across 20+ industries with founders from 20+ countries together with 100+ co-investors.

Investment focus

Industry: Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
Geography: Germany, United Kingdom, United States

Investor stats

Total investments: 158
Round size: Seed $1.1M–$3.4M; Pre-Seed $54k–$900k
Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow
Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $59M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

askui — Use natural language to automate your UI tests. Our UI test solution is based on visual features and offers a real no-code black-box test.
CYCLE — GetHenry is a rapidly growing subscription service for market-leading delivery companies. We make sure that thousands of couriers are on the move safely, quickly and comfortably every day. In this way, we not only create added value for delivery services, but also help to reduce transport-related CO2 emissions on the last mile.
Genie — Genie is a productive web development framework in Julia. Build web applications, UIs, backends, integrate with databases, set up web services and APIs.

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South Central Ventures is dedicated to investments in startups, small and medium globally oriented technology companies in SE Europe.

Investment focus

Industry: Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Geography: Serbia, United Kingdom, United States

Investor stats

Total investments: 49
Round size: Seed $120k–$2.5M; Pre-Seed $32k–$1.1M; Series A $321k–$5.4M
Lead/follow: 63% lead, 37% follow
Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022

Portfolio highlights

AdScanner — 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.
Pixyle.ai — Pixyle.ai’s image recognition software detects fashion items in images. It's accurate and integrates seamlessly with any tech stack.The company help fashion retailers deliver visual AI solutions that allow shoppers to visually search for products and get relevant similar product recommendations on their e-commerce platforms, improving bothcustomer engagement and conversion rates. Their automatic tagging and business intelligence solutions enable retailers to save time, reduce costs, and make smarter decisions.
Mily Technologies — Mily Tech is a delivery analytics platform tailored for last-mile deliveries. It collects your data and gives it spatial context to help you quickly understand when, where and what happens on the field.

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