# Top 20 Software Startup Investors in Slovenia in May 2026

## Fil Rouge Capital (FRC)
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Zagreb, Grad Zagreb, Croatia
- Relevant deals: 6
- 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.

## LAUNCHub Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sofia, Grad Sofiya, Bulgaria
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software

LAUNCHUB is a leading early-stage venture capital fund focused on investing in startups in South-Eastern (SEE) and Central-Eastern (CEE) Europe. 

## Silicon Gardens
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Ljubljana, Ljubljana Urban Commune, Slovenia
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: SaaS, Software, Apps

Californians have their Silicon Valley, New Yorkers have Silicon Alley, Londoners the Silicon Roundabout, Berlin has the Silicon Alee and they're witnessing the rise of Silicon Savannah in Kenya. But what best describes Slovenia are the Silicon Gardens - small, efficient, highly cultivated patches of technology entrepreneurship. 500+ membersand growing rapidly.

## 3VC
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Vienna, Wien, Austria
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS

We believe in entrepreneurs with big ideas  and the determination to drive humanity forward.

## Pymwymic
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Agriculture, AgTech, Farming

Founded in 1994, Pymwymic is the “Put Your Money Where Your Meaning Is Community”, a co-owned organisation of European wealth holders who take a frontrunner role in the transition towards investing with care for people and planet. A community that consists of over 150 individuals, families, entrepreneurs and angel investors of differentbackgrounds, ages and nationalities. We currently invest through the Pymwymic Healthy Ecosystems Impact Fund, a venture capital fund for companies that seek to conserve and restore our ecosystems, with a specific focus on sustainable food systems. By combining our knowledge, passion and money, we bring credibility to the impact investing industry and continuously push for higher standards until investing with care for people and planet is is the new norm.

## Oltre Venture
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Finance, SaaS, Agriculture

We shape impact investing for people and planet

## Frontier Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Cupertino, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series B
- Focus: Internet, Marketplace, Software

Leading early stage venture capital fund in the Silicon Valley. We invest in ground-breaking global Internet and blockchain companies with network effects. Click to submit a deck or learn more.

## CV VC
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Zug, Zug, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Blockchain, Software, Information Technology

We invest in blockchain

## Pangea Blockchain Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Lugano, Ticino, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Blockchain, Information Technology, Mobile Payments

Pangea Blockchain Fund focuses on offering intellectual and financial capital to exceptional early-stage blockchain companies from around the world. It invests in entrepreneurs committed to building blockchain solutions that disrupt or transform the status quo.

## Nejc Kodric
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Banking

Nejc Kodric Since starting out in 2011 with little more than some basic computer equipment, €1,000 and a love of technology, Nejc has been instrumental in developing Bitstamp into one of the most trusted and highest volume bitcoin exchanges in the world. With offices in Luxembourg, London and New York, Bitstamp continues to grow from strength tostrength, serving its customers’ bitcoin trading requirements.Among his many achievements as chief executive officer, Nejc spearheaded the approach to become the first fully licensed virtual currency exchange in EU, which was granted in 2016, setting the benchmark for the Bitcoin industry’s continued consolidation and strength.With a keen interest in promoting economic empowerment and technology, Nejc has spoken at several conferences including Techcrunch, Bitcoin Foundation, MoneyConf, Deloitte Conference: Future Challenges, ICT Spring Europe and FundForum International, and was awarded Best Virtual Currency Start-up at The Europas in June 2014.Nejc was born in Slovenia, where he studied Organization and Management of Information Systems and Economics, and currently splits his time between his home country and Luxembourg.Specialities: Bitcoin, blockchain, trading, virtual currencies, economic empowerment, education, science and technology

## Guillaume "G" Cabane
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Analytics, FinTech

Guillaume Cabane is CEO of Growth Ex Machina where he advises growth stage startups. Formerly, Guillaume held VP of Growth roles at Drift, Segment, and other successful startups where he helped these teams grow from ~50 to 300. Prior to these roles, Guillaume spent six years at Apple. Outside of work, Guillaume is husband of one, father of two,cheese-eater of many, and Pastafarian.

## Piton Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Marketplace, Internet

Piton Capital is a venture capital and growth equity firm headquartered in London, United Kingdom. Piton focuses exclusively on network effects businesses (marketplaces, exchanges and platforms) as this provide one of the few moats or forms of defensibility to achieve dominance. There are several forms of great network effects businesses thataren’t marketplaces that include data network effects (including machine learning and AI), businesses that rely on user generated content, as well as SaaS businesses with the potential to layer network effects around it. The firm is a stage and style-agnostic and seeks to invest from seed to late stage (€200k to €15m).

## Capital Genetics
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Ljubljana, Ljubljana Urban Commune, Slovenia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Internet, Web Hosting, Enterprise Software

Capital Genetics is a fast-growing privately-owned boutique advisory firm based in Slovenia that specialises in corporate finance, growth capital, business and real estate valuation.

## Runa Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Financial Services

Runa Capital is a global venture capital firm built by serial entrepreneurs that invests in early-stage software startups around the world...

## Damijan Merlak
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Hardware, Software, Health Care

Damijan Merlak - Board member @ Bitstamp

## VentureFriends
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Athens, Attiki, Greece
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: FinTech, Software, E-Commerce

We are an early stage investor investing in Seed and Series A startups.

## Day One Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Budapest, Budapest, Hungary
- Relevant deals: 1
- 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.

## Konstantin Koos
- Type: Angel
- Location: Loulé, Faro, Portugal
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Gaming, Software, Blockchain

Konstantin Koos is a VC/DLT Investor ✦ Strategy Consultant ✦ Best Selling Author ✦ Researcher ✦ Health and Happiness enthusiast ✦ Family Man.

## KUBOTA Corporation.
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Corporate Round
- Focus: Agriculture, AgTech, Artificial Intelligence

It is an Investment Organization

## Bitstamp
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series C
- Focus: Software, Cryptocurrency, Bitcoin

Bitstamp owns and operates a digital currency marketplace that allows companies and individuals from all around the world to buy and sell bitcoin, litecoin, ethereum, ripple, and bitcoin cash. Damijan Merlak and Nejc Kodric founded Bitstamp in 2011. It has its headquarters in London in the United Kingdom with additional offices in Luxembourg andBerkeley in California.

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