Explore startups, investors, and ecosystem operators in Zagreb, Croatia.
23 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.