Top 5 Mobile Startup Investors in Croatia (October 2023)

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

Investment focus

Industry: Software, Financial Services, FinTech
Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
Geography: United States, France, United Kingdom

Investor stats

Total investments: 117
Round size: Seed $150k–$4.9M; Series A $1.7M–$6.5M; Series B $6M–$300M
Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019

Portfolio highlights

Cryptio — We offer enterprise-grade accounting, reporting, and audit software for your digital assets.
TabTrader — TabTrader - Cryptocurrency trading terminal. Over 20K+ trading instruments on 20+ major exchanges in one app.
Asset Reality — Asset Reality manages and realises seized and confiscated assets for public and private sector clients globally.

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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.

Investment focus

Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
Geography: Germany, United Kingdom, Austria

Investor stats

Total investments: 30
Round size: Seed $497k–$2.7M; Pre-Seed $250k–$536k
Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow

Portfolio highlights

memtime — memtime shows you everything you worked on during the day. Each program is recorded so that you can quickly remember. Add-on available for any software. | memtime
E-mobilio — E-mobilio is a consulting and mediation platform for electromobility.
SharpGrid — SharpGrid is a data and technology business that is redefining on-trade and hospitality market research. To create an accurate and full picture of the on-trade channel, we collect data from all on-trade outlets (restaurants, bars, pubs, or cafés) on the market. SharpGrid's data-driven technologies help companies like Coca-Cola, Heineken, andMakro achieve commercial efficiency and growth.

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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.

Investment focus

Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
Geography: United Kingdom, Hungary, China

Investor stats

Total investments: 17
Round size: Series A $2M–$11M; Series B $3.8M–$4.5M
Lead/follow: 71% lead, 29% follow

Portfolio highlights

Antavo Enterprise Loyalty Cloud — Antavo is an Enterprise Loyalty Cloud, providing best-in-class technology to manage experience-based, paid, and lifestyle loyalty programs.
GoodVision — We help transport specialists to achieve incredible productivity on traffic projects by automating traffic data analytics from video.
GA Drilling — GA Drilling is the solution for a local, independent source of electricity, heating, clean water and food production in the unstable world.

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