As of 5th December, Prosperus Growth private equity fund, owns the majority stake in the company Yellow Sumbarine d.o.o. which is behind Croatia's largest chain of craft burgers. Prosperus Growth raised over EUR 59 million and was additionally supported by the European Investment Fund (EIF) through...

After last year's investments in Zagreb based dental clinic Arena, Solin based dental clinic Salona Dental and dental lab Vladimir Tešija, Adria Dental Group’s growth continues with investment in Rident, the largest clin...

Croatian venture capital fund Feelsgood Capital signed an agreement to invest EUR 300,000 ($331,000) in local startup BiteMe Nutrition. The company produces raw energy bars and cookies from organic materials, gluten-free, sugar-free, and additive-free, Feelsgood said in a statement. Its products...

With the new € 70 million SCV Technology Fund III, South Central Ventures is bound to back more of the regional tech start-ups conquering global markets. We continue to look for excellent teams to join the portfolio companies we backed previously, including ...

The Aviva Polyclinic, one of the leading polyclinics in Croatia, after investing in the specialist Dijagnostika 2000 Polyclinic, which focuses on radiology, also invested in the biggest private urology Uro Centar Polyclinic. The Uro Centar Polyclinic is equipped with state-of-the-art equipment for t...

The Aviva Polyclinic, one of Croatia's leading polyclinics, has taken over the specialist Diagnostics 2000 Polyclinic with a focus on radiology, the statement said. Diagnostics 2000 is the first private diagnostic institution to be equipped with a magnetic resonance imaging device back in 1996. Sinc...

Zagreb, 17th January 2022. In its third transaction since establishment, the Prosperus Growth private equity fund invested in IntechOpen, a successful Croatian company and the world's leading publisher of Open Access books. The investment in the majority stake in the company, co-founded by Aleksanda...

Fortenova group concluded the sale of the Aviva Polyclinic, one of the leading Croatian polyclinics, to the investment company Provectus Capital Partners (PCP). Aviva Polyclinic is a select healthcare provider for patients, companies and insurers, offering a wide range of services to more than 40,00...

Croatian private equity fund Prosperus Growth has entered a strategic partnership with Neos, a Croatian company specializing in the most technologically advanced IT solutions, the statement said. Prosperus Growth has gained a majority stake in the company with a significant investment in Neos and co...

Croatian startup Mindsmiths is a pioneer in the field of Autonomous Support System (ASS). By connecting with the Mindsmiths platform, digital systems become autonomous, make independent decisions, and approach users proactively. “When your doctor, bank, mobile provider, or educational instituti...

Adria Dental Group, which both Arena and Salona Dental polyclinics will be operating under, will serve as the hub for the Provectus Capital Partners (PCP)-initiated consolidation of the dental sector. Provectus Capital Partners (PCP), an investment company focused on the markets in Southeast Euro...

Feelsgood, the first Croatian VC for impact investing, backed the domestic startup for financial advice and lending BE-ON with €1.3M. The news comes two weeks after the fund invested €1.2M in the Croatian AI platform developing autonomous systems Mindsmiths. BE-ON aims to help financially exc...

Invera Equity Partners (IEP), an equity fund management company, has finalized its investment in Metamorfoza d.o.o (Croatia), including wholly (100%) owned subsidiaries in Hungary and the United States. The IEP thus acquired a majority (65%) stake in the company and undertook to increase the company...

Provectus Capital Partners (PCP), a South East Europe focused investment firm, has invested in Polyclinic Arena, one of the leading polyclinics in the Republic of Croatia, making it PCP’s first investment in the dental sector. Arena has over 60 highly skilled professionals from all fields of de...

After the sale of Vinkovci's Spačva, Quaestus Private Equity Fund, also sold the Trgovišće Textile Factory. It was sold to Nikola Gadža, an entrepreneur who was once the main representative for Diesel for the Croatian and BiH markets, and today his largest company is a certain Sinago. In Quaestu...

The company Pervanovo, which is owned by Pervanovo Invest, a Croatian entrepreneur from Sweden Darko Pervan, acquired a total of 98.68 percent of the shares of Drvna industrija Spačva on Tuesday through three purchase agreements and said that it would announce an offer to take over the Vinkovci com...

Studenac, the main retail chain in the Adriatic, and portfolio company of the regional private equity fund Enterprise Investors, bought a 100 percent stake in Bure Trgovina d.o.o., a Biograd retail chain that operates in 29 retail stores in the Zadar County and employs 120 employees.This is a contin...

Blue Sea Capital, a regional private equity fund, has successfully completed the sale of its 100 percent ownership stake in Piramida, a leading Croatian manufacturer of glass pharmaceutical packaging, to Nipro PharmaPackaging International NV, a subsidiary of Nipro Corporation which has its headquar...

British-Croatian startup Cognism has received a USD 12.5 million investment from the VC fund of Switzerland's largest telecom, Swisscom Ventures. With this new capital, Cognism plans to open offices across Europe and further invest in the development of its products. The last known market value o...

Three years after taking over the Studenac retail chain, the Polish private equity fund Enterprise Investors has left the ownership structure of the National Retail Chain (NTL), in which it had a 20% stake. Although it is not known exactly how much Studenac was paid by the other National Retail Chai...

Croatian private equity fund management company Provectus Capital Partners (Provectus) has made its first investments. In September 2021, Provectus has completed the first closing of EUR 56 million for the private equity fund Adriatic Structured Equity under their management. The target fund size is...

After the recently announced acquisition of a 26% stake in A.N.P. Energija held by Prosperus FGS, Fortenova grupa has now agreed to acquire a further 39% stake in A.N.P. Energija owned by Inspire Investments d.o.o. Fortenova stressed that following the transactions with Prosperus and Inspire, For...

Private equity fund Prosperus Growth Capital, one of the three funds under the CROGIP program, fundraised EUR 51 million from investors in the first closing. Prosperus Growth Capital is managed by Prosperus Invest, whose management team confirmed the completion of the first closing and the start of...

In November 2020, Croatian private equity fund Prosperus FGS and Fortenova grupa d.d. (“Fortenova”) made two separate corporate transactions. In the first transaction, Fortenova agreed to acquire a 26% stake in A.N.P. Energija, held by Prosperus FGS, thus gaining a controlling stake in the fi...

On November 17th, 2020. Croatia's first agricultural tech startup Agrivi with headquarters in London secured €4million in Series A funding round from South Central Ventures, the European Investment Fund (EIF), and the Croatian Bank for Reconstruction and Development(HBOR). Fil Rouge Capital and Ag...

Prosperus successfully and profitably exited its investment in tourism amidst the pandemic, which hit the tourism business the hardest. Laguna Novigrad d.d., one of the leading tourist companies in Croatia operating under the Aminess hotels and campsites brand, has signed an agreement to take ove...

The European Investment Fund (EIF) and Croatian Bank for Reconstruction and Development (...