The directory currently lists 41 organisations across 11 cities.
41 entries.
Croatia's largest general technology conference, organised by Bug, with around 100 talks across six parallel tracks. Draws globally successful speakers and a broad developer and tech-leader audience — a good ecosystem pulse for Zagreb-based founders and engineering hires.
Southeast Europe's leading security industry event at Zagreb Fair bringing together 3,000+ professionals and 150+ exhibitors across physical security, cybersecurity, IoT and smart technologies.
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.
Invite-style AI & Data summit at Hotel Histria for 200 senior leaders across banking, telecom, healthcare, retail and public sector, with 50+ speakers focused on business value of enterprise AI.
BIRD Incubator is Croatia's first AI-focused startup incubator, offering a free 7-week pre-incubation program, a 6-month incubation program, and a 3–6 month acceleration track. It provides mentorship, expert support, investor introductions, and 450 m² of event and co-working space. All programs are offered at no cost and for no equity.
CollabDays Zagreb is a free, community-driven one-day technology conference held at Algebra University College in Zagreb. It focuses on Microsoft 365, Teams, SharePoint, the Power Platform and collaboration technologies, with expert talks and interactive sessions for developers, IT professionals and business users, run by volunteer speakers.
International SEO and digital growth conference on the Adriatic coast featuring 18 speakers, 5 masterminds and hands-on workshops covering technical SEO, content strategy and AI search.
The Croatian Cybersecurity Institute (Hrvatski institut za kibernetičku sigurnost) is an Osijek-based organisation promoting information-security knowledge and practice in Croatia. It organises the annual Cyber Security Conference (CSC), one of the country's longest-running cybersecurity events, gathering professionals, researchers and vendors for technical talks and networking.
CSC 26 is the 10th edition of Croatia's International Cybersecurity Conference, held at the Kulturni centar Osijek. The multi-day event gathers cybersecurity professionals, researchers and vendors for technical talks, hands-on sessions and networking, and is organised by the Croatian Cybersecurity Institute in eastern Croatia.
Europe's leading conference for digital nomads and remote-first founders, set against Dubrovnik's stunning Adriatic coastline. Covers remote team building, cross-border taxation, and building location-independent businesses. Attracts 800+ attendees from 40+ countries. Tickets from EUR 150-350.
The tenth edition of Split's largest student-facing IT conference, organised by the DUMP association of young programmers. Free to attend, with lectures, workshops, and company booths covering entrepreneurship, AI, and software — a useful recruiting touchpoint for founders hiring in Dalmatia.
Feelsgood Capital was founded in 2019 and officially licensed by the Croatian Financial Services Supervisory Agency on June 10, 2020, making it the first social impact investment fund in Croatia and the third VC to launch in the country with an entirely Croatian team. Led by Managing Partners Renata Brkić, Domagoj Oreb, Vedran Blagus, and Dinko Novoselec, the fund manages approximately €30 million targeting Croatian and Slovenian ventures. It backs pre-seed through Series A companies delivering measurable social impact in financial inclusion, agriculture, circular economy, education, and healthcare. Portfolio companies include GameBoost and VIDI X, with roughly 12 investments to date.
Fil Rouge Capital was founded in 2014 in Zagreb and is the most active early-stage VC fund exclusively dedicated to Croatian startups, having deployed capital into over 170 companies. Its second fund, Fil Rouge Capital II (€45 million), was co-funded by the European Investment Fund with €32.55 million under the Croatian Venture Capital Initiative. Founding Partners Julien Coustaury and Roger Blott, joined by Partner Stevica Kuharski, focus on pre-seed, seed, and Series A across all sectors, with notable portfolio outcomes including participation in the ecosystems around Infobip and Rimac. The fund has recorded 2 unicorns and 12 acquisitions across its portfolio.
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.
HAMAG-BICRO is the Croatian government agency for SMEs, innovations, and investments, formed in 2014 by merging HAMAG INVEST and BICRO. It provides grants, micro-loans, and bank-credit guarantees to entrepreneurs across all development stages, and implements EU structural fund programs for innovation and R&D. In 2023, it co-launched the EUR 80 million Croatian Venture Capital Initiative 2 (CVCi 2), a fund-of-funds targeting innovative Croatian SMEs.
A three-day gathering of around 500 data and enterprise-IT experts from Croatia and abroad on the Red Island near Rovinj — one of the region's longest-running professional tech conferences. Relevant for founders working on data-heavy or Oracle-stack products.
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.
Croatia's largest developer and tech conference organized by unicorn Infobip, held in the coastal city of Zadar. Attracts 2,500+ developers, CTOs, and tech founders for talks on cloud, AI, and communications technology. Tickets around EUR 200-400 with a strong community atmosphere.
The largest gathering of Java users in the region, jointly organised by HUJAK and HrOUG on St. Andrew's Island near Rovinj. A multi-day resort-format conference relevant to founders with JVM-heavy stacks and regional enterprise engineering hiring.
JumpIT Forum is a business-focused IT conference held at the Mozaik Event Centar in Zagreb and running since 2017. The 2026 edition, themed 'Projekti koji mijenjaju poslovanje' (Projects that change business), features 16 TED-style talks, 4 panels and 32 speakers, aimed at converting IT projects into measurable business value across the IT, telco, banking and finance sectors.
KTC International is a business-conference organiser running enterprise IT and technology events across Central Europe, including the JumpIT Forum in Zagreb. JumpIT Forum focuses on converting IT projects into measurable business value across the IT, telecommunications, banking and finance sectors, with TED-style talks and expert panels.
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.
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.
MS Community (Udruga Informatičkih Stručnjaka) is a Croatian IT professionals association that organises community-driven, volunteer-run technology conferences. It runs CollabDays Zagreb, a free one-day event focused on Microsoft 365, Teams, SharePoint and the Power Platform for developers, IT professionals and business users.
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.
Netgen is a Croatian digital agency headquartered in Zagreb, specializing in web design, development, eCommerce, and AI-integrated digital experiences. The company has organized Web Summer Camp annually since 2012, making it one of the premier recurring web developer and digital industry conferences in Southeast Europe. Netgen holds ISO 9001 and ISO 27001 certifications and maintains platform partnerships with Ibexa DXP, Storyblok, and Google. The agency operates from offices in Zagreb, Croatia, and Zürich, Switzerland, serving established brands across Europe.
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.
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.
Prosperus Invest was founded in 2010 in Zagreb as a growth equity and private equity fund manager focused on expansion-stage SMEs across Croatia and the broader Adriatic region. Led by Joško Miliša and Partner Luka Orešković, the firm has grown assets under management approximately 4× to around €200 million. Its flagship Prosperus Growth fund (first close ~€50 million, backed by EIF and HBOR under the CROGIP program) commits at least 75% to Croatian SMEs in IT, hospitality, renewables, healthcare, and publishing, with notable investments including IntechOpen (scientific open-access publishing, Rijeka) and Neos (data analytics and cloud IT services).
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.
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.
Central and Eastern Europe's largest SaaS conference, run as an immersive format where 300-600 founders, operators, and investors stay together at a single Adriatic resort for three days of talks, dealmaking, and side events. Strong fit for early-to-growth-stage B2B SaaS teams.
Infobip's developer and product conference on the Adriatic coast, combining technical talks on messaging APIs, CPaaS, and cloud communications with a startup pitch competition and seaside networking. 2,000+ attendees from across Europe. Tickets from EUR 100. The Split setting and summer timing make it one of Europe's most appealing dev conferences for combining work and warm weather.
STEP Ri is a science and technology park established in 2008 by the University of Rijeka, together with the City of Rijeka and Primorje–Gorski Kotar County. It bridges academia and industry by providing business advisory, entrepreneurship training, office space, and access to the Enterprise Europe Network. The park supports university spin-offs and knowledge-based startups from concept to market.
Technology Park Split (TPS) is Croatia's largest technology park, spanning approximately 18,500 square metres and managed by Split's Development Agency (RaST). It brings together startups, researchers, and entrepreneurs through incubation and acceleration programs, co-working facilities, and four conference rooms. The park is designed to support innovative micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises in high-technology fields.
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.
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.
Regional satellite event of the WeAreDevelopers congress, bringing world-class developer content to Zagreb. Features workshops and talks on full-stack development, DevOps, and emerging frameworks. A key gathering point for Croatia's fast-growing developer community.
Hands-on web development conference organised by Croatian agency Netgen since 2012, held at the five-star Hotel Ambasador in Opatija on the Adriatic coast. Across three days (2-4 July 2026) it runs interactive workshops, small-group discussions and networking across six specialised tracks, including JavaScript for Developers and a Digital Change track, aimed at developers, designers, project managers and founders.
Largest regional communications festival now in its 19th edition, with five content tracks including Media, AI, HR, Investment and Finance Weekend gathering media, marketing and PR professionals.
Zagreb Innovation Centre (ZICER) is a publicly supported hub offering incubation, acceleration, and coworking services for tech startups. It runs four acceleration tracks (Startup Factory, Growth, Global, Deep Tech) backed by a EUR 300,000 investment fund, and provides access to ZICERLab for hardware and product development. The centre houses roughly 80 companies across sectors including AI, IoT, greentech, and electronics.