Ljubljana, Slovenia · Accelerator ABC Accelerator was founded in 2015 and is the largest private startup accelerator in South Eastern Europe, based at BTC City in Ljubljana. It runs a three-month programme accepting up to 12 startups per cohort, offering a €25,000 convertible loan and an option for €100,000–€250,000 follow-on investment. To date it has accelerated over 130 startups from 30 countries and helped them raise approximately €30 million in funding. It has been recognised as the best accelerator programme by the Central European Startup Awards.
Ljubljana, Slovenia · Event Arena Tehnologij is Slovenia's central event dedicated to science, innovation and creativity — a full-day, free public exhibition of the latest Slovenian technologies with interactive demos, talks and workshops on artificial intelligence, security and the digital future. The 2026 (3.0) edition is held at Technology Park Ljubljana and promises more exhibitors than the roughly 50 technology actors who took part in 2025.
Ljubljana, Slovenia · Event Largest AWS-focused conference in the Adriatic region, hosted at Four Points by Sheraton Ljubljana Mons. Full day of community-led sessions on cloud architecture, modern AWS services, and cloud-native development for developers, architects and founders.
Ljubljana, Slovenia · Event Regional BEAUTY FORUM by Cosmoprof at Gospodarsko razstavisce Ljubljana, drawing 5,000+ salon owners, distributors, and brand buyers from the Adriatic and Balkan market. Day tickets about EUR 10-20. Covers skincare, nails, and aesthetic devices, a low-cost entry point for beauty-tech and clean cosmetics startups targeting Southeast Europe.
Ljubljana, Slovenia · Startup Bitstamp is one of the oldest continuously operating cryptocurrency exchanges in the world, founded in 2011 in Ljubljana by Nejc Kodrič and Damijan Merlak as a European alternative to Mt. Gox, and the first crypto exchange to obtain an EU-wide payment-institution license via Luxembourg. The exchange became a workhorse for professional traders and corporate treasuries in the early bitcoin era because of its deep order books, straightforward fiat rails, and relatively boring, compliance-first posture compared to more speculative venues. Bitstamp has moved its headquarters structure across Luxembourg, London, and the US over the years but its Slovenian origin and engineering roots remain, and in 2024 Robinhood announced a USD 200 million acquisition to use Bitstamp as the backbone of its European and institutional crypto business — a validating exit that puts Slovenia on the map for globally significant crypto infrastructure. For the directory, Bitstamp is the canonical Slovenian fintech deep-tech story.
Bled, Slovenia · Event 21st edition of Slovenia's flagship international policy forum, themed Choosing the Future. Convenes heads of state, ministers, business leaders and innovators around geopolitics, the digital transition, AI governance and sustainability.
Maribor, Slovenia · Event Inaugural BSides chapter in Maribor: a free, community-driven information security conference at Hotel City Maribor covering offensive security, detection engineering, cloud security, AI in cybersecurity, and incident response.
Ljubljana, Slovenia · Support Organization Business Angels of Slovenia (Poslovni angeli Slovenije) was founded in 2007 and is the first and largest angel investor club in Slovenia. The organisation has facilitated over $8 million in investments across more than 40 ventures, focusing on early-stage and seed-stage startups. It is a member of EBAN (European Business Angels Network) and the Global Entrepreneur Network, providing portfolio companies with access to international investor networks. It serves as a bridge between founders seeking seed capital and experienced investors looking for early-stage deal flow.
Ljubljana, Slovenia · Startup Celtra is a Slovenian adtech company focused on creative automation for digital marketing teams. Its software helps global brands and agencies produce, adapt, and distribute large volumes of campaign assets across formats, channels, languages, and audience variants without forcing design teams to recreate each asset manually. That capability matters because modern digital advertising requires massive variation in size, copy, locale, and targeting logic, and manual production quickly becomes a bottleneck. Celtra therefore sits in a high-value operational layer between creative strategy and campaign execution, helping marketing teams scale output while preserving consistency. In the European startup ecosystem, it is a strong example of B2B software built around workflow automation for brand and media teams rather than around direct media buying. It also connects naturally to localization and consumer-growth companies already in the directory, since multi-market campaigns depend heavily on structured creative production at scale.
Ljubljana, Slovenia · Startup DDD Invoices is a Ljubljana-based API-first compliance platform that lets software vendors, ERPs, accounting tools, and marketplaces emit fully compliant e-invoices and fiscal reports across dozens of jurisdictions through a single integration. The product abstracts country-specific formats (Peppol BIS, FatturaPA, UBL, FacturX, SAF-T, FA_VAT and others), government clearance flows, digital signing requirements, and archival rules, so the customer team does not have to track the dozens of overlapping mandates that the EU's VAT in the Digital Age (ViDA) agenda is phasing in. The company's bet is that mandatory structured e-invoicing across the EU between 2026 and 2030 turns what used to be a back-office nice-to-have into a default requirement, and that most vertical SaaS builders would rather buy than build that compliance layer. It is one of the clearest examples of a Slovenian B2B SaaS built directly against upcoming European regulation.
Ljubljana, Slovenia · Startup Elaphe Propulsion Technologies was founded in 2006 by Andrej Detela and Gorazd Lampič and specialises in in-wheel electric motors for electric vehicles. The company's plug-and-play Elaphe M700 system places the drive motor directly inside the wheel hub, eliminating traditional axles and drivetrains to improve vehicle efficiency and design freedom. Elaphe received €7 million from the Slovenian government in 2021 and has supplied its technology to automotive partners globally, including Aptera. It is headquartered at Technology Park Ljubljana.
Ljubljana, Slovenia · Startup GenePlanet was founded in 2008 by Marko Bitenc and Nina Šterk and is the leading European provider of preventive genetic tests, including non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT), cancer screening, and lifestyle DNA tests. The company cooperates with more than 500 clinics, hospitals, and insurance firms worldwide and markets its products under brands including NutriFit. In July 2023 GenePlanet closed a €20 million Series B round led by BlackPeak Capital, bringing total funding to approximately $34 million. It was ranked among the 1,000 fastest-growing companies in Europe by the Financial Times.
Ljubljana, Slovenia · Coworking Space Impact Hub Ljubljana is a coworking space and innovation ecosystem in the centre of Ljubljana that supports impact entrepreneurs, social enterprises, and purpose-driven organisations. It offers flexible workspace, incubation and acceleration programmes, capacity-building workshops, and community events that foster cross-sector collaboration. As part of the global Impact Hub network, members gain access to over 100 Impact Hub locations worldwide for three days. The hub is a recognised EU|BIC (European Business and Innovation Centre) member.
Nova Gorica, Slovenia · Event Slovenia's biggest cybersecurity conference, running for over 20 years, covering practical security, privacy, and AI-security topics for a professional audience. Relevant to security-focused founders and notable as a flagship event outside the capital.
Portorož, Slovenia · Event Community-driven Java and open-source conference held alongside MakeIT 2026 at Convention Centre Portus. 90+ sessions covering JVM, Spring, cloud-native Java, microservices, software architecture, and AI-assisted development tooling.
Ljubljana, Slovenia · Startup Juicy Marbles was founded in 2019 by Maj Hrovat, Luka Sinček, and Tilen Travnik and produces whole-cut, plant-based meat products including a flagship vegan filet mignon and marbled steaks made primarily from soy protein. The company raised $4.5 million in a seed round in 2021 backed by investors including Y Combinator. Its products are sold in approximately 3,500 stores across Europe and North America through retailers including Tesco, Sainsbury's, Waitrose, Whole Foods, Migros, and Lidl. Production is carried out by BEVO d.o.o. in Slovenia.
Ljubljana, Slovenia · Startup Katalist is a Slovenian-founded generative-AI startup building an end-to-end pre-production workspace for video: writers and directors can import or draft a script, let the system break it down into beats, shots, and storyboards, generate consistent character and location renders, and iterate on the look of every scene before a single frame is filmed. The key differentiator is character- and setting-consistency across shots — the hard problem that plagues early image and video models — which Katalist addresses with reference-conditioning and scene graphs rather than naive prompt chaining. The target users are in-house content teams at brands, boutique production studios, and advertising agencies that have to produce far more video than their traditional pipelines can absorb, and that need a visual ideation layer that survives client feedback cycles. The company graduated from 500 Global's Eurasia program and is one of the more interesting European pre-production tools competing with the LTX Studio / Showrunner generation of US AI-film products.
Ljubljana, Slovenia · Startup Koofr is a privacy-oriented, GDPR-compliant cloud storage provider founded in 2013 and headquartered in Ljubljana. The service stores user data in EU-based data centres and allows users to connect and manage files from third-party storage accounts such as Dropbox, Google Drive, and OneDrive from a single interface. Koofr won the Slovenian Startup of the Year award in 2013 shortly after launch and has grown to a paying subscriber base across Europe. It is a resident company of Technology Park Ljubljana.
Portoroz, Slovenia · Event The largest IT conference in Slovenia, in its 31st edition on the Adriatic coast, bringing together technology professionals, business leaders, and educators. A broad ecosystem event useful for Slovenian founders' networking and hiring.
Ljubljana, Slovenia · Startup Outfit7 is the Slovenian-born mobile entertainment studio behind the Talking Tom and Friends franchise, which has become one of the most downloaded mobile IPs in the world and a textbook example of a European consumer software company achieving escape velocity into the US and Asian markets without relocating its engineering base out of Ljubljana. Founded in 2009 by Samo and Iza Login, the studio combined a viral AR-era animal avatar concept with disciplined live-ops, mobile advertising, and cross-promotion to drive billions of downloads, and in 2017 sold to China's Zhejiang Jinke Entertainment in one of the largest cash exits ever achieved by a Slovenian tech company. Today Outfit7 remains the anchor of Slovenia's consumer gaming cluster, running the Talking Tom & Friends universe across games, TV series, and licensed merchandise, and continuing to ship new free-to-play titles from its Ljubljana, Limassol, and London offices.
Šempeter pri Gorici, Slovenia · Event Organisator Palsit d.o.o. is a Slovenian company specializing in cybersecurity knowledge events and professional communities, based in Šempeter pri Gorici near Nova Gorica. The company organizes over nine annual conferences, most notably INFOSEK — Slovenia's largest information security conference — alongside ZEIDES, BIZTOPIX, CIO SUMMIT, and AiSEK. Palsit also operates professional clubs for IT professionals, ethical hackers, AI practitioners, and GDPR officers, collectively reaching over 2,130 participants per year with more than 320 speakers and 140 sponsors.
Maribor, Slovenia · Event Curated startup and investor conference at Habakuk Congress Centre, capped around 1,200 attendees for deal quality. Known for selected startup participation, Podim Pitching Competition, and structured 1:1 meetings.
Škofja Loka, Slovenia · Startup SaleSqueze is a Visual CPQ (Configure, Price, Quote) SaaS platform founded in 2018 and headquartered in Škofja Loka. It enables manufacturers and sellers of complex, configurable products — including modular homes, agricultural equipment, RVs, and medical devices — to build interactive product configurators and automate the lead-to-order process without coding. In June 2024 the company raised €1.4 million in a seed round led by Underline Ventures, with participation from Robin Capital and Fortech Investments. It was the largest disclosed funding round in Slovenia in H1 2024.
Ljubljana, Slovenia · Venture Capital Silicon Gardens is the Adria region's first founders-for-founders venture capital firm, founded in 2019 and headquartered in Ljubljana. It backs exceptional early-stage tech startups from the Adria region (ex-Yugoslavia and diaspora) and broader CEE, investing as one of the first institutional checks at pre-seed and seed. Fund III, a €33M+ vehicle launched in June 2023, focuses on B2B SaaS, marketplaces, consumer apps and games, and innovative D2C products. The fund's 100+ LP base includes founders who built Outfit7, Sportradar, Bitstamp, Celtra, Photomath, and Zemanta.
Maribor, Slovenia · Support Organization The Slovene Enterprise Fund (SEF) is the main public financial institution supporting micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises and startups in Slovenia. It provides non-refundable grants, favourable loans, and equity financing at all stages from pre-seed to growth, including products such as P2 startup incentives (up to €54,000), seed capital (SK75), and venture capital (SI-SK). In 2025 it announced €10 million for Slovenian startups through its P2 2026 programme. The Fund is established by the Republic of Slovenia and operates in partnership with the Ministry of Economic Development and Technology.
Ljubljana, Slovenia · Event Slovenia's annual games-industry conference, covering development, design, marketing, and the business of game development, with an Indie Expo and awards. Recent editions drew around 600 attendees — a focused flagship for founders in gaming and interactive media.
Ljubljana, Slovenia · Venture Capital Suricate Ventures is a Ljubljana-based venture capital firm founded in 2021 by a group of nine partners with backgrounds spanning finance, insurance, law, IT, private equity, energy, and mobility. The fund targets pre-seed to early-growth technology companies in Southeastern Europe, with a smart-money philosophy and minimum ticket sizes from €50,000. Core investment verticals are fintech and insurtech, gaming and metaverse, digital health, and logistics and supply chain. Notable portfolio companies include ZenOwn, Noii, Bloq.it, and VIAR.
Ljubljana, Slovenia · Innovation Hub Technology Park Ljubljana (TP LJ) was established in 1995 and is one of the largest innovation ecosystems for the commercialisation of technology in South East Europe. It spans two locations with over 75,000 m² of workspace and hosts more than 300 companies and 1,500 employees, including notable Slovenian tech companies such as Cosylab and XLAB. The park provides incubation, mentoring, acceleration through its BALI programme, and networking for early-stage and growth-stage tech ventures. It is regarded as the foundational pillar of Slovenia's startup support infrastructure.
Ljubljana, Slovenia · Startup Viberate is a Ljubljana-based music-industry analytics platform that tracks artists, songs, festivals, and venues using live data from streaming services, social media, and live-event networks, and packages it into a Bloomberg-terminal-style product for record labels, agencies, investors, and music-tech builders. Its core dataset covers hundreds of thousands of artists and is used by A&R teams for signing decisions, by festivals for booking, and by rights buyers for catalog valuation. Founded by Vasja Veber and Matej Gregorčič in 2014, the company is publicly listed on the Ljubljana Stock Exchange and is one of the most prominent Slovenian examples of a vertical SaaS built around alternative data, with an English-language product that sells directly into New York, London, and Los Angeles. Viberate rounds out the directory's picture of CEE music-tech alongside Celtra in adtech and Outfit7 in entertainment software.
Kranj, Slovenia · Event The 10th anniversary international conference on electronic identification and trust services, held at the Brdo Congress Center near Kranj. Organized by the Slovenian Association for Electronic Identification and Trust Services (EIDES) with Palsit, the 2026 edition focuses on the European Digital Identity Wallet, remote identification, biometrics, information security and AI-related threats.