Berlin, Germany · Startup Inkitt is a Berlin-based reader-powered book publishing platform founded in 2014 by Ali Albazaz. The platform uses AI and reader engagement data to identify commercially promising stories from independent authors and offers publishing deals to the most successful ones. Inkitt also operates GALATEA, a mobile storytelling app that has reached significant consumer traction globally. The company has raised multiple funding rounds including a Series C led by Khosla Ventures.
Limassol, Cyprus · Startup Nexters is a Limassol-headquartered mid-core mobile games publisher best known for Hero Wars, a long-running RPG that at its peak was one of the highest-grossing role-playing games on iOS and Android worldwide and popularized the now-ubiquitous 'puzzle in the ad, different game inside' marketing pattern. The company runs a portfolio of live-ops titles, relies on heavy user-acquisition and A/B testing in-house, and operates from Cyprus as a talent and operational hub following the 2020-2022 wave of games-industry migration into Limassol. In 2021 Nexters went public on Nasdaq via a SPAC combination at a valuation north of USD 1.5 billion, making it one of the very few Cyprus-listed consumer-tech exits on a major US exchange. For the directory it represents the scale of the Limassol mobile-gaming cluster that grew up around Wargaming and has since attracted dozens of studios and publishers.
Zagreb, Croatia · Venture Capital 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).