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Silicon Gardens

Venture capital

Pre-Seed–Seed · 14 people tracked

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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.

Stage
Pre-Seed–Seed
Check
$330K – $1.6M
Leads rounds
Leads
Instruments
Equity
Founded
2014
Last 12 months
1 investment
Tracked investments
49

Team · 14 people

from the firm's website
Andraž Tori· Advisory Board

Entrepreneur associated with Outbrain (Zemanta) and Kiberpipa.

Jugoslav Petković· Advisory Board

Entrepreneur associated with Flaviar, mimovrste and Domenca.

Jure Leskovec· Advisory Board

Associated with Stanford Computer Science and Kumo.ai.

Jurica Cerovec· Advisory Board

Entrepreneur associated with Photomath and Microblink.

Luka Renko· Advisory Board

Entrepreneur associated with Outfit7 and HERMES softlab.

What they invest in

from 43 of 49 portfolio companies

SaaS ×19AI & Machine Learning ×18Consumer ×9Marketplaces ×9EdTech ×7Digital Health ×6Developer Tools ×5Enterprise Software ×5

HQs:United States×7Slovenia×5Austria×1Germany×1United Kingdom×1Romania×1

Investments · 49 tracked

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57hours57hours.com

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

Arkensightarkensight.com
Beepingbeeping.si

Beeping is an on-demand platform for booking home and business cleaning services, connecting customers with a network of vetted professional cleaners.

ConsumerMarketplacesSaaS

Bible Chatthebiblechat.com𝕏

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

Bird Buddymybirdbuddy.comin𝕏

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)Kyle Buzzard(Director)Tom Vodopivec(Chief Operating Officer)Michael Dietz(Chief Technology Officer)Benjamin Kumalic(Vice President of Growth)Henrik Fuglsang(Vice President of Supply Chain)

Bornborn.comAug 2026

Born builds AI characters designed to grow, evolve, and connect like humans, marketed as virtual friends and AI companions.

AI & Machine LearningConsumerSocialBerlin, DE

Cadrocadro.comin𝕏

Cadro is an investment management firm that combines technology with personalised service and investment expertise to serve modern individual investors.

Fintech

Chime Carechimecare.co.uk

Chime Care is a UK home care agency providing personal care services for elderly and vulnerable people, including assessments and in-home carers.

Digital HealthHealthtechWellness & Fitness

Cleanshelf

SaaS spend management platform that raised $8M and was acquired by LeanIX (later acquired by SAP).

ClozerAIclozerai.com

ClozerAI is an AI sales copilot that connects a private knowledge base, live call assistance, and post-call automation into one system for sales teams.

AI & Machine LearningSaaSSales Tech

Codeplaincodeplain.aiin

Codeplain is an AI-powered code generation platform that turns specifications written in Plain, a structured English specification language, into production-ready, automatically tested software.

AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsSaaSSan Francisco, US

coherencecoherence.ioin𝕏

coherence provides a multiplayer engine, hosting options, and co-development services for building and running online multiplayer games in Unity.

Cloud ComputingDeveloper ToolsGaming

Curoflowcuroflow.sein

Curoflow provides a white-label digital healthcare platform for care providers, combining booking, triage, electronic medical records, a patient portal, payments, and business support in one system.

Digital HealthHealthtechSaaS

Daytonadaytona.ioin𝕏

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)Vedran Jukić(Co-founder & CTO)Goran Draganić(Co-founder & Chief Architect)

DispoMarketdispo-market.eu
DocsCubedocscube.io

DocsCube is a B2B sales platform for creating client portals, deal rooms, customer onboarding flows, and mutual action plans, with features for file sharing, order forms, and eSignatures.

Enterprise SoftwareSaaSSales TechChicago, US

Eurosendereurosender.com

Eurosender is an online logistics platform that lets individuals and businesses book international parcel shipping through partner couriers such as DHL, UPS, FedEx, GLS, and DPD at bulk-negotiated rates.

Logistics & Supply ChainMarketplacesSaaS

EVEjoineve.ai

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

Final Offerfinaloffer.com

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)Judd Hoffman(Manager)Kevin Caulfield(Manager)Kevin Caufield(Manager)

Flaviarflaviar.comin𝕏

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)

Flower & Spiceflowerandspice.com

Flower and Spice makes natural skincare products that combine skincare with aromatherapy, offering items in full and sample sizes directly to consumers.

Direct to ConsumerE-commerceWellness & Fitness

FotoNationfotonation.com

FotoNation is a fabless silicon company developing TriSilica, an edge AI chip platform that fuses vision, audio, thermal, mmWave, and inertial sensing with a compute-near-memory architecture to process only relevant data at low power.

AI & Machine LearningDeep TechSemiconductors

HotelSyncotasync.mein

HotelSync provides hotel management software for hospitality professionals and hoteliers, offering tools aimed at increasing revenue and reducing costs.

Enterprise SoftwareSaaSTravel & Hospitality

Influeeinfluee.co

Influee is a UGC (user-generated content) platform that connects e-commerce brands with a global network of vetted creators to produce, edit, and manage conversion-focused video ads for channels like TikTok and Instagram.

Creator EconomyMarketing TechMarketplaces

InsiderCXinsidercx.com

InsiderCX is a patient experience platform that collects post-visit feedback from clinics via WhatsApp and SMS, then uses AI to categorise, score, and report on responses by theme and sentiment.

AI & Machine LearningDigital HealthSaaS

Juicy Marblesjuicymarbles.comin𝕏

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

Mediatelymediately.co

Mediately provides an AI assistant, Elly, that gives healthcare professionals fast access to drug information, including drug interactions and restrictions of use.

AI & Machine LearningDigital HealthHealthtech

Mimomimo.orgin𝕏

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

Muffinmffn.io

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

Munchmunch.eco

Platform enabling restaurants and retailers to sell surplus food, rescuing meals and groceries that would otherwise go to waste.

Kirill Perepelica(Founder)in

Nordoonnordoon.aiin

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

Noteynotey.coin

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.

ConsumerEdTechGamingCayce, US

ohanatryohana.comin

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

Phylophylo.bioin𝕏

Phylo is an applied research lab studying agentic AI to accelerate biomedical discoveries for scientists.

AI & Machine LearningBiotechDeep TechSaaSStanford, US

Popsypopsy.co
Poviopovio.comin𝕏

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

Prepiaprepia.comin

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

PricePilotpricepilot.io

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

Realtracingrealtracing.com

Realtracing operates a database of construction sites and new building projects, including early-stage projects that have just obtained building permits, with verified information on each project's current phase.

Construction TechData & InfrastructurePropTech

ReservAwayreservaway.com

ReservAway is an online car hire platform where travelers search, compare and book rental cars, with a focus on transparent pricing and protection/coverage options.

ConsumerMarketplacesTravel & Hospitality

Securities Gridsecuritiesgrid.com

Securities Grid offers a white-label platform for financial institutions to issue, manage, and transfer tokenized assets as DLT-based dematerialized securities, with compliance rules built into smart contracts.

Crypto & Web3FintechSaaS

Siriussirius.videoin

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

Speech Blubsspeechblubs.com𝕏

Speech Blubs is a speech therapy app designed for children, developed with feedback from therapists, teachers, and parents.

Digital HealthEdTechHealthtech

SuperAppsuperappp.com

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

Tasq Technologiestasq.aiin

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)

Turneoturneo.com

Turneo provides a platform for hotels to digitise and sell their on-site services and experiences — such as activities, spa and wellness, dining, rentals, and transfers — across guest touchpoints, with booking, pricing, resource, and commission management.

AI & Machine LearningSaaSTravel & Hospitality

VoiceFromvoicefrom.ai

VoiceFrom builds AI-powered live speech interpretation tools, including a browser-based cloud service that translates event sessions into audience languages using each speaker's own voice, an air-gapped on-premise deployment for closed networks, and a "Restate" product that rephrases difficult speech into simpler words for language learners.

AI & Machine LearningEdTechSaaS

WiseEdwise-ed.ai
ZenHirezenhire.ai

ZenHire provides an AI recruiting platform that sources, screens, interviews, and shortlists candidates, using AI-driven voice interviews to evaluate logic, emotions, and language nuances in multiple languages.

AI & Machine LearningHR TechSaaS

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Frequently asked questions

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.

Media · Podcasts & interviews

featuring the team

The Hard Truth About Pitching Investors | Krešo Gotovac, Silicon Gardens Fund | BRP #116

The Business Room · Krešo Gotovac

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