For Croatian startup ecosystem 2025 started a bit slower than last year. Project Mobility opening 2024 with €100 million cannot be easily surpassed, and even early stage funding was more active. If we look on the positive side, although 2025 starts with only a few substantial rounds, some of Croatian startups that stormed through funding draught are heading securely towards growth stage. Also, the second half of 2025 might show us some more dynamic as local funds like Fil Rouge Capital and AYMO Ventures recently raised funding as well.
The biggest funding rounds for Croatian startup ecosystem in H1 2025 amounted to €17.02 million.
Below, you can find the biggest H1 2025 funding rounds in Croatia, along with key details about the startups. Check the rest of the Central and Eastern Europe H1 2025 mappings here.
This article is part of the CEE funding mapping series, done with the support of Dealigence platform. Please feel free to contact us if we missed something: [email protected]. / If the deal’s original currency wasn’t the euro, we convert it to the ratio listed on the publishing day.
Croatia H1 2025 Funding
SplxAI
About: Provides cybersecurity services specifically for AI applications and chatbots, helping enterprises, startups, and scaleups identify and mitigate threats through both proactive and defensive strategies. Features include protection against prompt injection, social engineering attacks, and other vulnerabilities, ensuring trust and safety in AI technologies.
Founders: Kristian Kamber; Ante Gojsalić
Vertical: CyberSecurity
Latest round: $7M (€6.09M)
Stage: Seed
Investors: Inovo.vc; LAUNCHub Ventures; Runtime Ventures; South Central Ventures; DNV; Rain Capital
Total funding: €7.83M
Wasp
About: A declarative domain-specific language enables the development of full-stack web applications using minimal code, integrating seamlessly with React, Node.js, and Prisma. It simplifies frontend, backend, and deployment processes by providing a unified approach with zero configuration and adherence to best practices.
Founders: Matija Šošić; Martin Šošić
Vertical: AI; No-code
Latest round: $3.70M (€3.22M)
Stage: Seed
Investors: Metis Ventures; Y Combinator; Lunar Ventures; Tokyo Black; Abstraction Capital; Acequia Capital; Abstraction Capital; Fifth Quarter Ventures; HV Capital; Big bets; 468 Capital
Total funding: €4.63M
Lebesgue
About: An AI-powered analytics platform designed for e-commerce businesses to enhance profit and marketing ROI by integrating store performance with advertising data in a user-friendly dashboard. It offers automated auditing of ad campaigns, trend identification, actionable recommendations, and conversion tracking through a proprietary data tracking pixel.
Founder: Josip Begić
Vertical: Marketing; Sales
Latest round: $3M (€2.61M)
Stage: Seed
Investors: Interactive Venture Partners; Bridge Investments; K20 Fund; Fil Rouge Capital (FRC)
Total funding: €3.06M
Hypefy
About: An AI-powered platform simplifies influencer marketing for brands by automating workflows, managing campaigns, and helping to find suitable influencers to achieve measurable results. It aims to save time and reduce stress associated with traditional influencer marketing processes.
Founders: Stjepan Zelić, Filip Špiranec and Davor Šibenik
Vertical: Marketing
Latest round: €1.70M
Stage: Seed
Investors: Fil Rouge Capital (FRC); Euroventures; Interactive Venture Partners; Oktogon Ventures; InterCapital
Total funding: €1.94M
Arkensight
About: Transforms distributed visual data from various sources (like satellites, vehicles and drones) into real-time actionable intelligence for critical infrastructure, utilizing AI for automated inspection, object detection, geolocation, and change tracking through natural language processing.
Founders: Domagoj Ćorić; Luka Studen; Bruno Ćorić
Vertical: Data Analytics; AI
Latest round: €600K
Stage: Seed
Investors: Silicon Gardens
Total funding: €600K
Other important news
In May 2025, Bulgarian investment firm ImPulse Growth invested 500,000 euros in Croatian-founded biotech startup GlycanAge as part of a last year’s $5 million funding round.
In March 2025, Croatian Cenosco announced a growth investment led by Summit Partners, with participation from existing investor Fortino Capital. The amount was not disclosed. The company’s Integrity Management Suite (IMS) provides mission-critical integrity, reliability and process safety solutions to some of the world’s largest oil & gas, chemical and power companies, including Shell, Equinor and PTTGC.
