Led · Equity · Sep 2022

Juicefast develops technologically advanced production of natural fasting juices and healthy meals using high hydrostatic pressure (HPP) processing to better preserve taste, color, texture, enzymes and nutrients. The team comprises about a dozen young experts turning high-quality fruits and vegetables into two- and four-week fasting plans and ready meals. The founders merged two prior ventures (Detox.hr and Zdravi obroci) into a new company registered in Slovenia to unify operations. Juicefast emphasizes sourcing from local family farms and composting production by-products to reduce environmental impact. The company aims to use the recent funding to improve production quality and expand distribution to reach as many users as possible, positioning its products as a tool to help fight obesity. No operating metrics (revenue/users) are disclosed in the article.

Led · Equity · Mar 2022

BiteMe Nutrition makes healthy snacks from exclusively organically grown ingredients, with no gluten, additives, or added sugars. The company emphasizes sustainable production and works with certified organic producers to minimize environmental impact. Founded in 2019 in Croatia, BiteMe has expanded into domestic and seven international markets in less than two years, including Slovenia, the UK, Germany, Poland, Hong Kong, Greece, and Estonia. The team positions the brand as a new standard in sports nutrition built on real-world sports needs and natural recipes. The company recently received new capital to support wider availability of its products to athletes and people pursuing a healthy lifestyle. CEO Edo Mujkic framed the funding as a boost to continue building that global story and encouraging changes in nutritional habits.

Led · Equity · Feb 2022

57hours operates a booking platform for outdoor adventure tourism that connects customers (for example hikers and sailors) with local guides across destinations worldwide. The company positions itself as an operations-focused marketplace rather than a deep-technology innovator, leveraging founders' tech and business-development experience. Over the past year the business grew fourfold after discovering scalable user-acquisition channels. Average booking value on the platform exceeds $2,500, which supports positive return on ad spend from a single booking. The team plans to use new capital to invest in proven growth channels while continuing experiments, including increased paid marketing, SEO, social and video content production. Founders Viktor Marohnić and Perica Levatić emphasize product-market fit, commercialization and measurable social impact like driving local bookings and supporting underserved groups. 57hours operates a global marketplace to find and book sports‑adventure activities—hiking, skiing and guided outdoor experiences—organized with professional guides. The startup began in 2019 as an internal project inside digital agency Five and is now led from New York. Founders Viktor Marohnić and Perica Levatić emphasize promoting an active lifestyle over building novel technology. Since January 2021 the company reported 1,500% growth, and its success metric is days users spend outdoors. Financially, 57hours recently secured external capital to support expansion and operations, reflecting investor interest in its travel and outdoor‑activity niche.

Led · Equity · Dec 2021

BE-ON offers financial consulting and actionable advice to people who have become financially excluded due to inability to meet creditor obligations. The company acts as a credit intermediary and holds legal approvals to offer consumer lending, and users can obtain a certificate of mediation from the Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Croatia. Services include free workshops and individual analyses, and the core process begins with restructuring each client’s income and liabilities to restore regular payments. BE-ON’s solution enables people with regular incomes to restructure obligations, pay creditors, and re-enter the financial market. The startup plans to use the new funding to expand its activities in consumer lending. CEO Sabine Gradistanac Skrgatic said the investment recognises three years of the company’s work helping citizens regain personal financial freedom.

Led · Seed · Nov 2021

Mindsmiths develops an autonomous support system (ASS) platform that connects to digital systems so they can make independent decisions and approach users proactively. The company serves multiple industries, including healthcare for chronic patients and financial-advice use cases in banking. It intends to use the new funding to further develop and expand its ASS platform, which the company says has a proven social impact record. Mindsmiths raised USD1.4M in Seed funding to support those plans. The round was led by Feelsgood. The company is led by founder and CEO Mislav Malenica.