Croatia startup ecosystem
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JavaCro 2026
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 2026 (October 2026)
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
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
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
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
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
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.
Neos
Neos is a Zagreb-founded IT consultancy delivering data and analytics, software engineering, and cloud and infrastructure services to telecom, financial, energy and public-sector clients across the EMEA region. Founded in 2002, the company has completed more than 400 projects, including a cloud-first core banking platform for Croatian bank HPB, and holds Oracle Cloud Managed Service Provider expertise. Croatian industrial group Koncar Digital has signed an agreement to acquire a majority stake in Neos.
Netgen
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.
Nord mobil
Nord Mobil d.o.o., based in Samobor, Croatia, designs and manufactures mobile homes and glamping units that have been sold to campsites in Croatia, Austria, Hungary, Slovenia and Sweden since 2013. The company offers several model lines, including sea-view, winter-ready and vertically oriented designs, and reports more than 3,000 units sold, 100 employees and a decade of manufacturing experience. Nord Mobil is a portfolio company of Prosperus Invest.
Orqa
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.
Pepermint
Pepermint d.o.o. is the Zagreb company behind Weekend Media Festival, the largest gathering of the communications, media, marketing and technology industries in Southeast Europe, which reached its 19th edition in 2026. The festival draws several thousand delegates to Rovinj each September for panels, workshops and networking across advertising, media, digital business and startups. Pepermint is registered at Republike Austrije 27 in Zagreb.
Photomath
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
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
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
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.
SaaStanak 2026
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.
SaaStanak 2027
SaaStanak 2027 runs 24-26 May at Amadria Park Hotel Ivan in Sibenik, Croatia. The SaaS-focused conference draws founders, operators and venture capital investors from the CEE startup ecosystem, with tickets in past years selling out during the early bird phase.
Spona
Spona is a free micro-ERP platform that connects clients with their outside suppliers and subcontractors, combining contracts, work phases and milestones, tasks, payment analytics, built-in chat and video calls, a shared calendar, and an AI consultant in one shared workspace. Its only paid service is financing: once a milestone is approved, suppliers can request early payment or clients can defer payment up to 90 days, with Spona charging a transparent fee on the financed amount. The company operates through Top Digital Agency Limited in Ireland and its Croatian subsidiary Top Digital d.o.o. (Spona Croatia), based in Zabok, and has received co-financing from the European Regional Development Fund's Competitiveness and Cohesion Programme.
STEP Ri – Science and Technology Park of the University of Rijeka
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.
