# Top 35 Enterprise Startup Investors in Croatia in October 2023

## Fil Rouge Capital (FRC)
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Zagreb, Grad Zagreb, Croatia
- Relevant deals: 34
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce

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.

## South Central Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Belgrade, Vojvodina, Serbia
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence

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

## Day One Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Budapest, Budapest, Hungary
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Apps

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.

## J&T Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Prague, Hlavni mesto Praha, Czech Republic
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS

J&T Ventures is an early-stage VC fund based in Prague. We support aspiring entrepreneurs in the early stages of their journey with up to €2.5 million funding. We focus predominantly on the CEE, Nordics and Baltics, but won't say no to the next unicorn that comes from anywhere in Europe. While not sector limited, we especially likesolutions for FinTech, PropTech, Retail, IoT/IoE, and Industry 4.0.

## Credo Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Prague, Hlavni mesto Praha, Czech Republic
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology

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

## PortfoLion Capital Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Budapest, Budapest, Hungary
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Big Data

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.

## Feelsgood
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Zagreb, Grad Zagreb, Croatia
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Gaming

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

## Girish Mathrubootham
- Type: Angel
- Location: Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology

Girish Mathrubootham is the CEO and Founder at Freshworks. Girish Mathrubootham attended University of Madras.

## Playfair Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce

Playfair Capital is an early-stage fund that commits to companies early and with conviction. Based in London, Playfair combines the best aspects of angel investing with a focused fund, to invest in truly ambitious founders, wherever they are in the world. Playfair takes a sector-agnostic approach and investments span deep tech, SaaS, marketplacesand B2B companies. We’ve backed the founders of more than 60 companies including Mapillary (acq. Facebook), CryptoFacilities (acq. Kraken), Omnipresent, Orca AI, Ravelin, sprout.ai, Thought Machine, Trouva and Vinehealth.

## Lead Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Budapest, Budapest, Hungary
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS

Lead Ventures is a Budapest-based venture capital firm, specialist of financing scale-ups in Central Europe. Its mission is to support the region’s most promising ventures with capital, experience and a wide-ranging professional network, enabling them to transform their industry with innovation. Lead Ventures provides equity financing tocompanies in their scale-up phase, the typical ticket size is between EUR 2-10 million. Lead Ventures is searching for dynamic teams with a unique story, outstanding growth potential and solutions tested and validated by the market. The firm seeks to invest in companies operating in the mobility, energy and sustainability as well as b2b services and software sectors, however, Lead Ventures is open to support teams active in other areas as well.Lead Ventures has EUR 100 million under management invested by MOL, the most successful energy company in CEE, and two financial institutions specialised in supporting the startup ecosystem - the Hungarian Development Bank (MFB) and Eximbank.

## Lunar Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology

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.

## Aprameya Radhakrishna
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Internet, Software, Apps

Aprameya loves singing romantic songs and is the quintessential dreamer who doesn’t fear to experiment. He used to be the Head of Business Development for PDS at Jones Lang LaSalle India where he spent almost 3 years post his graduation from IIM Ahmedabad. He has worked at Infosys and has an Electronics engineering degree from NITK Surthkal andif all this has made you think he’s a geek, ask his close friends and they would say otherwise!

## Conviction VC
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence

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. 

## ZAKA VC
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Prague, Hlavni mesto Praha, Czech Republic
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning

ZAKA Startups is a private pre-seed and seed venture capital company. It is focused on early-stage software driven investments across the whole EU with primary focus on CEE, DACH and Baltics. ZAKA operates primarily from Prague and Bratislava with scouts in Berlin and Baltic region.

## SGH CAPITAL
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Financial Services, FinTech

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

## SQ Capital Group 尚策資本集團
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Information Technology, Restaurants, Shopping

SQ Capital Group is a financial group engaged in fundraising advisory and venture investment for technology companies in Asia. Leveraging on our strong strategic investor networks in the Greater Bay Area and our IPO and investment banking expertise, we have unique positioning of empowering growth stage companies.

## CRE Venture Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Software

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.

## Mekin Maheshwari
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series D
- Focus: Apps, Education, Food Delivery

Mekin Maheshwari - Advisor @ Mentr

## Preetha Parthasarathy
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Developer Tools

US, India. Preetha Parthasarathy is the Partner at SAP.iO . Preetha Parthasarathy attended Texas McCombs School of Business.

## Blume Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services

Blume Ventures provides pre-series A and early stage funding to tech-focused/tech-enabled ventures. They are typically the first institutional investors in their portfolio companies and invest for about 8-10 years. They are proponents of a collaborative approach and like to co-invest with like-minded angels and seed funds. They then providefollow-on investments to their stellar portfolio companies.

## Speedinvest
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Vienna, Wien, Austria
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services

Speedinvest is one of Europe’s most active early-stage investors, with more than €1bn AUM, 40 investors, and offices in Berlin, London, Munich, Paris, Vienna and San Francisco. Your success is our priority, so we don’t just send some money and "check in" at board meetings. Our mission is to empower you with game-changing support throughevery stage of your journey. Our focused investment teams know your industry inside and out. Their Deep Tech, Fintech, Industrial Tech, Network Effects, Digital Health and Subscriptions experience, know-how and deep networks are yours from day one. You also have full access to our in-house Platform+ team of operational experts who can provide tailored growth marketing, people (HR), US business development, and networking support throughout every stage of your journey.

## HV Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Munich, Bayern, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Internet, Software

We support exceptional founders in building market leading digital companies.

## Acequia Capital (AceCap)
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Seattle, Washington, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence

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.

## Vijay Sharma
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Electronics, Service Industry, Telecommunications

Vijay Sharma

## Porsche Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Stuttgart, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series B, Seed, Series A
- Focus: Automotive, Transportation, Information Technology

Porsche Ventures is a venture capital arm of Porsche that invests in companies from early-stage through growth. The firm was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Stuttgart, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany.

## 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.

## Igor Anić
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Developer Tools, Cloud Infrastructure

Igor Anić

## Hrvoje Zlatar
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Developer Tools, Cloud Infrastructure

Hrvoje Zlatar

## Mate Rimac
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Web Development, Information Technology

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.

## APX
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology

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.

## Ankur Singla
- Type: Angel
- Location: New Delhi, Delhi, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Retail, Consumer

Ankur Singla

## Abstraction Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Kansas City, Missouri, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Developer Tools, Developer APIs

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.

## Esther Dyson
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Health Care, Medical, Software

Esther Dyson - Founder @ Way to Wellville

## 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

## Middleton Enterprises
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Newcastle Upon Tyne, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Energy

Middleton Enterprises is an investment company with interests in commercial and residential property as well as venture capital investments in a range of SMEs.

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