Zagreb, Croatia · Startup AGRIVI is a digital agriculture platform offering farm management software (AGRIVI 360), an AI advisory tool for input manufacturers (AGRIVI AI Engage), and food traceability solutions. The platform is used across 50+ markets by enterprise farms and agri-food companies including Nestlé, Driscoll's, and Kimberly-Clark. Founded in Zagreb in 2013, the company has raised EUR 4 million and is active across five continents.
Startup Series A AgriTechFood & BeverageSaaS
Osijek, Croatia · Startup Gideon Brothers develops AI and 3D-vision-based autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) for material handling in manufacturing, logistics, and warehousing. Their flagship product TREY is an autonomous forklift for trailer loading and unloading, using stereoscopic cameras and deep learning for navigation. The company raised a $31 million Series A in 2021, led by Koch Disruptive Technologies, with backing from DB Schenker and Prologis Ventures.
Startup Series A RoboticsLogisticsAI
Vodnjan, Croatia · Startup Infobip is a Croatian communications infrastructure company that became one of Europe's most significant API businesses by connecting enterprises to global mobile and messaging networks. Its platform lets companies send and orchestrate customer interactions across SMS, voice, email, WhatsApp, and other channels through a unified developer and enterprise interface. The company's strategic advantage comes from its direct relationships with telecom operators and its focus on delivery reliability, compliance, and reach at global scale. That makes Infobip a foundational layer for authentication flows, service alerts, customer support, and transactional communication used by digital businesses around the world. In ecosystem terms, it is important not only because of its size, but because it offers a different European success model: a deeply technical, infrastructure-heavy company built far from the continent's biggest venture hubs. It is a strong addition to the directory because it broadens the map of European startup success beyond SaaS and marketplaces into telecom-grade platform infrastructure.
Startup Late Stage CPaaSTelecomCommunications Infrastructure
Zagreb, Croatia · Startup Microblink is a Croatian-founded identity intelligence company that builds AI-powered software for capturing and processing identity documents, enabling businesses to automate onboarding and reduce manual data entry. Its technology powers verification for approximately 50% of providers in the Gartner 2024 IDV Magic Quadrant and has processed over 3 billion transactions. The company raised $60 million in 2020 and operates offices in the US, Europe, and Asia.
Startup Growth Identity VerificationAIFintech
Zagreb, Croatia · Startup Mindsmiths is a Zagreb-based AI company developing an Autonomous Support System (ASS) platform that enables digital products to make independent decisions and engage users proactively. The platform has been deployed in healthcare (chronic patient support) and banking (financial advisory). Mindsmiths raised EUR 1.2 million in 2021 from Feelsgood Capital, with CEO Mislav Malenica also serving as president of the Croatian AI Association.
Startup Seed AIHealthcareFintech
Zagreb, Croatia · Startup Nanobit is a Zagreb-based mobile gaming studio specializing in narrative and simulation games that have been downloaded over 200 million times globally. The company's portfolio includes popular titles like BitLife and Tabou Stories, which combine interactive storytelling with life-simulation mechanics to build deeply engaged player communities. Nanobit was acquired by Stillfront Group in 2021 for approximately $148 million but continues to operate independently from Zagreb. The studio is a leading example of Croatia's mobile gaming talent and demonstrates how European studios can build global consumer hits in the casual and mid-core gaming segments.
Startup Growth GamingMobileEntertainment Tech
Osijek, Croatia · Startup Orqa is an Osijek-based hardware company that builds high-performance FPV (first-person-view) goggles, video transmission systems, and drone software used by professional drone racers, industrial inspection teams, cinematography crews, and — increasingly — military users in Ukraine and elsewhere who need low-latency remote flight at scale. The company's flagship FPV.One family of goggles became a reference product in the high-end racing scene for its micro-OLED displays, refresh rates, and firmware openness, and the team has since expanded into digital HD video links and open FPV platforms. Orqa runs a full electronics design and manufacturing operation out of Slavonia, which is unusual in a region better known for software, and has become a visible example of defense-and-dual-use hardware built on a European open supply chain. For the directory it rounds out Croatia's industrial-tech picture alongside Rimac's automotive deep tech and Infobip's telecom infrastructure.
Startup Growth HardwareDronesFPVDefense TechElectronics
Zagreb, Croatia · Startup Photomath is a Zagreb-founded consumer edtech app that lets students photograph a math problem with their phone camera and get back a step-by-step explanation of how to solve it, from early primary arithmetic all the way up to single-variable calculus. Founded in 2014 by Damir Sabol as an internal demo of a computer-vision OCR system at his company MicroBlink, Photomath became one of the most downloaded education apps in the world, with hundreds of millions of installs across iOS and Android and particularly strong usage in the US, Brazil, and parts of Europe. In 2022 Google acquired Photomath, integrating its solver into Google's broader education products, but the core engineering team continues to operate out of Zagreb, making it one of the most successful consumer tech exits ever achieved from Croatia and a flagship example of how world-class computer vision IP can ship from the Balkans into billions of users' pockets.
Startup Growth EdTechConsumer AppsComputer VisionAI
Zagreb, Croatia · Startup Pythagora is a Zagreb-founded developer-AI startup building an autonomous software engineer that goes beyond chat-style copilots: the user describes a product in plain English, and Pythagora's agent scaffolds the project, generates code iteratively, writes and runs tests, debugs itself against the test output, and keeps the human in the loop through structured checkpoints rather than single-prompt hallucinations. The team open-sourced an earlier version of the agent (GPT Pilot) which passed 40,000 stars on GitHub and became one of the most-starred AI coding projects in Europe, and they have since commercialized the tooling for teams that want reproducible full-app generation rather than line-by-line completion. Pythagora raised seed funding from Inovo Venture Partners among others, and is part of the CEE wave of AI-native developer-tools startups competing with Cursor, Devin, and Replit Agent from a Central European base.
Startup Early Stage Developer ToolsGenerative AIAICoding Agents
Zagreb, Croatia · Startup Rimac Technology is the engineering and technology arm of Rimac Group, building high-performance electric drivetrain components, battery systems, and vehicle technology for major automotive OEMs worldwide. Founded in 2009 by Mate Rimac in a garage near Zagreb, the company has grown into a global leader in EV hypercar engineering (Rimac Nevera) and supplies technology to Porsche, Hyundai, Koenigsegg, and others. Rimac also took majority ownership of Bugatti through a joint venture with Porsche. With its new campus on the outskirts of Zagreb employing over 2,000 people, Rimac is Croatia's most valuable technology company and one of Europe's most impressive deep-tech success stories.
Startup Late Stage Electric VehiclesAutomotive TechDeep Tech
Zagreb, Croatia · Startup Verne is a Zagreb-based autonomous mobility company developing a self-driving robotaxi service for European urban markets. It was spun out of Rimac Group by Mate Rimac, Marko Pejković, and Adriano Mudri, and raised EUR 100 million in Series A funding in 2024 from investors including TASARU Mobility Investments (Saudi Arabia's PIF), Infinum, and Kia. Verne is constructing its first production facility in Zagreb and plans to launch a 60-vehicle fleet in 2026.
Startup Series A Autonomous VehiclesMobilityEV
Zagreb, Croatia · Startup Wasp is an open-source, full-stack TypeScript web framework co-developed by Croatian founders Matija and Martin Šošić. It integrates React, Node.js, and Prisma through a declarative configuration language, generating complete web applications with built-in auth, background jobs, and deployment. The company is Y Combinator alumni (W21) and raised EUR 1.3 million in seed funding led by Lunar Ventures.
Startup Seed Developer ToolsOpen SourceSaaS