Slovenia startup ecosystem
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Ljubljana University Incubator (LUI)
University incubator in Ljubljana that describes itself as the leading incubator in Slovenia, supporting ambitious startups with a particular focus on turning breakthrough technologies into companies and on building the country's deep tech ecosystem. It runs startup weekends and thematic verticals, and maintains an alumni community that it presents as a network for exchanging knowledge and accessing resources.
NT Konferenca 2026
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.
Outfit7
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.
Palsit d.o.o.
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.
PODIM 2026
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.
PODIM 2027
PODIM 2027 takes place in Maribor 17-19 May, preceded by an online demo day on 4-5 May. The startup conference runs a full annual cycle from a December call for startup applications through an April startup catalogue release to the live event, covering AgriTech, Industry 4.0, HealthTech, mobility and AI.
SaleSqueze
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.
Silicon Gardens
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.
Slovene Enterprise Fund
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.
Slovenia Games Conference 2026
The Slovenian games industry's annual conference, run by the Slovenia Games Association at the Faculty of Computer and Information Science in Ljubljana, covering game design, writing, production and the business of shipping games from a small market. DATE UNCONFIRMED: as of September 2026 sgc.si advertises only a 20 February 2027 edition and shows nothing on the October 2026 date recorded here, so treat the dates below as unverified until the organisers publish them.
Start:up Slovenija
Independent open platform for the Slovenian startup ecosystem, based on Ulica škofa Maksimilijana Držečnika in Maribor. It acts as connector, coordinator and promoter of the network of ecosystem stakeholders at home and abroad, covering startups, investors, support environments and entrepreneurial experts, and organises the Demo dan Start:up Slovenija showcase.
Suricate Ventures
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.
Technology Park Ljubljana
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.
Viberate
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.
Zeides Conference 2026
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.
