Silicon Gardens
Venture capitalPre-Seed–Seed · 16 people tracked
Investment thesis
Silicon Gardens positions itself as a founders-for-founders venture capital firm focused on the Adria and wider Central and Eastern European region. It backs early-stage founders solving problems they understand deeply, often continuing to support repeat entrepreneurs across multiple ventures from pre-seed onward. The firm emphasizes the region's strength in producing world-class engineers and builders, investing in software and AI-native technology companies and following on as they progress from thesis to product to first customers.
Source: firm website, verified Aug 16, 2026.
Team · 16 people
from the firm's website & curated
Founder mafia
4 people who came through Silicon Gardens went on to found or lead other companies.
+ 1 more
What they invest in
from 44 of 50 portfolio companiesAI & Machine Learning ×22SaaS ×22Consumer ×11Marketplaces ×9EdTech ×7Enterprise Software ×7Digital Health ×6Healthtech ×6
HQs:United States×8Slovenia×7United Kingdom×3Romania×2Austria×1Germany×1
Who they back
founder profiles across 20 portfolio companiesFounding team size:solo founder×112 founders×43 founders×34+ founders×2
Where their founders studiedfrom 15 founders with education data
University of Ljubljana ×6
Where their founders worked beforefrom 21 founders with career history
Codeanywhere ×2Domenca ×2
Accelerator rootsportfolio companies that came through a program
3 founders hold a PhD · 2 hold an MBA (of 20 with degree data)
Investments · 50 tracked
founders shown can be your intro pathBy year:2026 · 22025 · 12021 · 14 dated
Bible Chat is a mobile app that provides curated Bible verses and biblical content to help users deepen their faith and understanding of Scripture.
AI & Machine LearningConsumerHealthtechMedia & EntertainmentSocialWellness & Fitness
Laurentiu BalasainMarius Iordachein
Co-investorsUnderline VenturesEarly Game VenturesPlay VenturesTrue Ventures
ClozerAI is an AI-first platform that helps salespeople by integrating private knowledge bases, live conversations, and post-call insights into a unified system.
AI & Machine LearningSaaSSales TechLjubljana, SI
Jure
57hours is an online booking platform connecting people with certified mountain and adventure guides for activities such as hiking, glacier trips, and other outdoor experiences.
MarketplacesSports TechTravel & Hospitality
Co-investorsFeelsgood Capital PartnersSouth Central VenturesNordic Eye Venture Capital
An educational content platform that publishes curated Bible verses and spiritual guidance, with a complementary mobile app that provides biblical teachings and daily devotional content.
AI & Machine LearningEdTechMedia & EntertainmentMental HealthSocialWellness & Fitness
Laurentiu Balasa(Co-founder)inMarius Iordache(Co-founder)in
Co-investorsTrue VenturesPlay Ventures
Bird Buddy makes a smart bird feeder with a built-in camera (Nature Cam Pro) that captures 2K video and photos and uses AI to recognize bird species, paired with a mobile app that lets users view and share bird activity in their garden.
ConsumerHardwareIoTKalamazoo, US
Franci Zidar(Chief Executive Officer)inKyle Buzzard(Director)inTom Vodopivec(Chief Operating Officer)inMichael Dietz(Chief Technology Officer)inBenjamin Kumalic(Vice President of Growth)inHenrik Fuglsang(Vice President of Supply Chain)in
Co-investorsBackedBoscarol d.o.o.Fundamental VenturesGeneral CatalystProtagonistAdjacent V4+1 more
Born builds AI characters designed to grow, evolve, and connect like humans, marketed as virtual friends and AI companions.
AI & Machine LearningConsumerSocialBerlin, DE
Co-investorsAccelEntrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator (ERA)Flyer One VenturesLaton Ventures
Cadro is an investment management firm that combines technology with personalised service and investment expertise to serve modern individual investors.
Fintech
Co-investorsSouth Central Ventures
Chime Care is an in-home care agency that matches caregivers with clients based on ability, location, personality, and preference, offering services including visiting care, overnight care, live-in care, and respite care.
B2B MarketplacesDigital HealthHealthtechWellness & Fitness
SaaS spend management platform that raised $8M and was acquired by LeanIX (later acquired by SAP).
coherence builds a Unity plugin and platform that lets game studios of any size add multiplayer and networked features to their games, with planned support for engines such as Unreal and Godot.
Cloud ComputingDeveloper ToolsGamingSaaS
Dino Patti(Founder & CEO)in
Co-investorsBLN CapitalSisu Game Ventures
Daytona provides a secure, elastic runtime for executing AI-generated code and running agent workflows, offering isolated, programmatically controlled development infrastructure.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingDeveloper Tools
Ivan Burazin(Co-founder & CEO)inVedran Jukić(Co-founder & CTO)inGoran Draganić(Co-founder & Chief Architect)in
Co-investors500 Emerging EuropeFirestreak VenturesUpfront Venturese2vcFirstMark CapitalPace Capital
Eurosender is a freight forwarding platform that connects shippers with logistics companies and transporters worldwide, offering centralized booking and rate comparison.
B2B MarketplacesLogistics & Supply ChainMarketplacesSaaSLuxembourg, LU
Eve is an autonomous AI sales agent that connects to a company's existing tools (CRM, inbox, calendar, messengers) to prospect, run personalized outreach, follow up, and book qualified meetings, with all outbound messages drafted for user approval.
AI & Machine LearningSaaSSales Tech
Co-investorsDOMiNO VenturesGeek Ventures
Final Offer operates an online real estate platform that brings transparency to home transactions by letting buyers submit offers and see real-time activity on a property, including a signaling mechanism for sellers' target prices.
AI & Machine LearningMarketplacesPropTechHingham, US
Tim Quirk(Manager)inJudd Hoffman(Manager)inKevin Caulfield(Manager)inKevin Caufield(Manager)
Flaviar operates a members-only club that curates and distributes rare and craft spirits from distilleries worldwide, providing consumers direct access to premium and independent producers.
B2B MarketplacesConsumerE-commerceFoodTechMarketplacesLjubljana, SI
Jugoslav Petkovic(Founder/CEO)inMatija Rijavec(Founder/Magician, Taster & CTO)inGrisa Soba(Founder)in
BoardMichael Schuster(Director)
Co-investorsFundersClubKima VenturesMultiplier CapitalNewtown PartnersY CombinatorACE & Company
Flower and Spice is a beauty and skincare company that sells face creams, serums, exfoliators, masks, and related products formulated with botanical ingredients.
ConsumerDirect to ConsumerE-commerceWellness & Fitness
Karmen
FotoNation develops silicon-proven imaging and AI technology deployed across billions of devices.
AI & Machine LearningDeep TechHardwareSemiconductors
HotelSync provides hotel management software for hospitality professionals and hoteliers, offering tools aimed at increasing revenue and reducing costs.
Enterprise SoftwareSaaSTravel & HospitalityWilmington, US
Djordje Jevtic(Founder)
Co-investorsPresto Ventures
Influee is a platform that helps brands run TikTok Spark Ads by connecting them with creators who produce authentic, user-generated content for paid campaigns.
AdTechAI & Machine LearningCreator EconomyMarketing TechMarketplacesSaaS
Co-investorsFundamentum
Juicy Marbles is a food company that produces meat products made through traditional methods without laboratory synthesis or artificial chemicals.
Climate TechConsumerFoodTechLjubljana, SI
Luka Sinček(Founder)inMaj Hrovat(Founder)inTilen Travnik(Founder)in
Co-investorsEmles Venture PartnersFeelsgood Capital PartnersWorld FundY CombinatorAgFunder
Mimo offers an interactive mobile app for learning software development through guided coding lessons and hands-on projects, serving beginners who want to pursue careers as web, full-stack, Python, or front-end developers.
AI & Machine LearningEdTechVienna, AT
Henry Ameseder(Founder)in
Co-investorsHansmann Family OfficeNorthzonePUSH VenturesTechstars
Muffin is a web and mobile app that digitizes food and beverage goods acceptance, automates data entry into ERP/POS systems, and handles stock counting through a swiping interface.
FoodTechLogistics & Supply ChainSaaS
Platform enabling restaurants and retailers to sell surplus food, rescuing meals and groceries that would otherwise go to waste.
Kirill Perepelica(Founder)in
Co-investorsInteractive Venture Partners Llc
Nordoon delivers artificial intelligence solutions for manufacturing, wholesale, and distribution operations, serving Fortune 500 companies and global suppliers.
Advanced ManufacturingAI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareLogistics & Supply Chain
Stefan WalterPhilipp ReupoldPablo TrentoTomaz Suklje(Founder & Co-CEO)inBlaz Fortuna(Founder & Co-CEO)in
Co-investorsInteractive Venture Partners Llc
Notey is a mobile game that teaches guitar to children through real-time listening and guided gameplay, using structured song progressions appropriate for beginners and early learners.
AI & Machine LearningConsumerEdTechGamingCayce, US
Co-investorsSuperCharger VenturesTechstars
Ohana is a digital parenting app that helps families manage their children's online safety and screen time by blocking unsafe content, limiting device usage, and providing insights into digital habits.
ConsumerDigital Health
Co-investorsPUSH Ventures
Phylo is an applied research lab studying agentic AI to accelerate biomedical discoveries for scientists.
AI & Machine LearningBiotechDeep TechSaaSStanford, US
Kexin Huang(Founder)in
Co-investorsAndreessen HorowitzFifty YearsHAWKTAILMenlo VenturesSV Angel
Povio is a software engineering and product development firm that partners with startups and organizations to build digital products from concept to production.
Developer ToolsEnterprise SoftwareMarketplacesSaaSCelje, SI
Matevž Petek(Founder/CEO)in
Co-investorsY Combinator
Prepia is a quiz-based exam preparation platform offering mobile and desktop apps covering more than 100 professional certification exams across fields such as healthcare, tech, and business.
ConsumerEdTech
Viktor Pesic(Founder)in
Co-investorsInovo VC
PricePilot is a Slovenian online booking and work-organization platform for appointment-based businesses such as salons, medical clinics, auto repair shops, and laundromats.
MarketplacesRetail TechSaaS
A B2B sales intelligence platform that provides access to construction project data, client contacts, and architect information to help sales teams identify and pursue new business opportunities.
Construction TechData & InfrastructurePropTechSaaSSales Tech
ReservAway is an online car rental marketplace that provides transparent pricing, upfront fee disclosure, and flexible booking options to travelers.
ConsumerInsurTechMarketplacesSector AgnosticTravel & Hospitality
Securities Grid provides a white-label asset tokenization platform for financial institutions to offer tokenization services to corporate and asset manager clients.
Crypto & Web3Enterprise SoftwareFintechSaaSLondon, GB
Tomaž Kovačič(CEO & Co-Founder)Darko Butina(Chairman & Co-founder)Anže Smerdeli(Head of Business Development)
SIRIUS is an online music school offering live one-on-one lessons in guitar, piano, and singing through its own virtual music room software, with over 400 vetted music teachers.
EdTechSaaS
Co-investorsMarket One Capital
Speech Blubs is a speech therapy app designed for children, developed with feedback from therapists, teachers, and parents.
Digital HealthEdTechHealthtech
Co-investorsPUSH Ventures
Superapp is an AI-powered app builder that generates native Swift and SwiftUI apps for iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and Mac from plain-English descriptions, without requiring coding.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsSaaS
Vitalik K(Founder)
Co-investorsHeartfelt Capital
Tasq provides a production-time validation and evaluation layer for enterprise AI models, decomposing high-stakes problems into micro-decisions and routing each to machine, crowd contributor, or domain expert judgment.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareDenver, US
Wesley Stewart Hamer(Manager)Kenneth Nguyen(Manager)
Co-investorsTal Ventures
Turneo provides an experience management system for hotels to build, sell, and manage bookable activities and tours across their properties, supporting both in-house offerings and third-party partner experiences from a unified platform.
AI & Machine LearningB2B MarketplacesE-commerceSaaSTravel & HospitalityLondon, GB
Matija Marijan(Founder)in
Co-investorsBessemer Venture PartnersUnderline Ventures
ZenHire is an applicant tracking system that consolidates the full hiring lifecycle—sourcing, screening, evaluation, and onboarding—on a single platform with native AI-powered resume parsing, candidate matching, and assessment capabilities.
AI & Machine LearningHR TechSaaS
Vladimir Božović(CEO & Founder)
Portfolio news
latest coverage across their companiesSirius · sharecast.com · Aug 18, 2026
Born · therecursive.com · Aug 17, 2026
Daytona · itkey.media · Jul 9, 2026
Codeplain · tryfundable.ai · Jul 6, 2026
Munch · trysignalbase.com · Jun 23, 2026
Phylo · finsmes.com · Feb 9, 2026
EVE · finsmes.com · Nov 11, 2025
Prepia · balkanengineer.com · Aug 14, 2025
Frequently asked questions
- How many investments has Silicon Gardens made?
- Silicon Gardens has 48 tracked investments, including 2 dated in the last 24 months.
- What stage does Silicon Gardens invest at?
- Silicon Gardens invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed stages.
- What is Silicon Gardens's typical check size?
- Silicon Gardens typically writes checks of $330K – $1.6M.
- What sectors does Silicon Gardens focus on?
- Silicon Gardens focuses on Consumer, Enterprise Software, SaaS, Sector Agnostic.
- Does Silicon Gardens lead rounds?
- Yes, Silicon Gardens leads investment rounds.
- Who does Silicon Gardens co-invest with?
- Silicon Gardens most often shares deals with PUSH Ventures, Y Combinator, Interactive Venture Partners Llc, among 41 tracked co-investors.
Media · Podcasts & interviews
featuring the teamThe Hard Truth About Pitching Investors | Krešo Gotovac, Silicon Gardens Fund | BRP #116
The Business Room · Krešo Gotovac
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