Made in Croatia

As Poslovni Dnevnik/Lucija Spiljak writes on the 12th of November, 2019, ''underground mushrooms aren't going to put food on the table or raise children,'' is a sentence that spouses Radmila and Goran Karlić heard often when they decided to leave their jobs and devote themselves to truffle farming in Paladini near Buzet on the Istrian peninsula, a northern area of Croatia. Way back in 1994, they initially founded Karlić truffles - The company through which they are now engaged in the purchase and the sale of truffles with their children, and the processing and sales of their products in shops,…

Croatia is a paradoxical country at times. It boasts an outdated, draconian system that likes to throw obstacles wrapped in red tape in the path of success for entrepreneuers and their ideas, leading many of them to either give up or go elsewhere to operate under a different flag, but yet, so many startups and so much success can be found here in spite of an unfriendly and self-limiting system. Meet Aircash. This impressive Croatian startup, Aircash, has 40,000 users and is already hot on the heels of the likes of Keks Pay and Revolut. As Poslovni Dnevnik/Bernard Ivezic writes…

As Poslovni Dnevnik/Sergej Novosel Vuckovic writes on the 10th of November, 2019, with over twenty years of professional experience working on the development of advanced electronic systems, as well as a good dose of enthusiasm and ''zeal'' for putting together what they personally care about and love, these two colleagues and friends from Zagreb, Goran Fiolić and Gordan Galić, launched the startup Pixblasters. This Croatian startup's aim is to create and manufacture an innovative RGB LED controller, an electrical device that would enable both professionals and amateurs, and even those without any experience and knowledge of electronics, to create large…

The EU-level protection of škripavac cheese will doubtlessly put a spring back in the step of the sixteen cheese producers who produce this product in Lika-Senj County. As Marta Duic/Poslovni Dnevnik writes on the 3rd of November, 2019, after lamb and potatoes, Lika could soon gain a third EU-protected product - škripavac cheese. As revealed by Ivana Starčević, who is the head of the Lika Local Action Group (LAG), the initiative was initially launched four years ago by several associations and is being implemented as part of the Integra Lika 2020 project. "Because there's a market for this type of high-quality product,…

As Novac writes on the 1st of November, 2019, the Croatian company Infinum, which, by the way, operates not only here in the Republic of Croatia, but all over the world, said that simply changing their web domain from infinum.hr to infinum.com saw great changes follow. ''We started the company back while we were still students with lots of ideas but very shallow pockets, so we had to be careful what we spent. Since we started in Croatia, we got the ''.hr'' domain for free. But to expand our business abroad, we needed a country-specific domain,'' Tomislav Car wrote on…

As Poslovni Dnevnik/Lucija Spiljak writes on the 30th of October, 2019, this Croatian-made device is named Stuey, based on the English word ''stuttering'', and the process of patenting and protecting intellectual property is ongoing. It is estimated that more than 70 million people are tortured with this problem in the world, while that number in Croatia stands at around 70,000. Although the exact cause for stuttering is unknown, most scientists today consider stuttering to be a neurological condition that interferes with speech production. Daily situations involving speech cause high levels of stress and tension for people who stutter, leading them to…

As Poslovni Dnevnik/Lucija Spiljak writes on the 30th of October, 2019, back in the middle of November last year, the Nar store with a rich offer of local and organic fruits and vegetables from Croatian OPGs opened in the Zagreb district of Špansko, more precisely at Ulica Marija Radić 14. In the first week of the opening the store alone, a large number of interested people gathered in the neighbourhood, and all the credit goes to sisters Azra and Dina Delić. These young entrepreneurs graduated from the Faculty of Agriculture in Zagreb; Azra completed her bachelor's degree in horticulture in…

As Poslovni Dnevnik/Bernard Ivezic writes on the 29th of October, 2019, The Croatian startup Amodo, whose software products are used by America's largest insurer AIG, has been listed among the top five insuretech startups in the world by the Financial Times. Insuretech stands for insurance tech, and these involve companies that make technological innovations within the insurance industry. The highly respected and reputable publication states that insurers have long resisted change, but that is now beginning to alter rapidly. According to Deloitte, 2.6 billion US dollars was invested globally last year in insuretech companies, accelerating that investment. In the first…

As Poslovni Dnevnik/Bernard Ivezic writes on the 29th of October, 2019, this encouraging new deal for the Croatian startup coincides with the conclusion of the second round of funding in the amount of 19.4 million kuna. The Croatian startup Gideon Brothers has delivered its robots to the leading European logistician, DB Schenker. The value of the job as well as the number of robots Gideon Brothers have put together for the job have not been released. Matija Kopic, CEO and co-founder of Gideon Brothers, emphasised that this impressive job is a testament to the technological leap the Croatian startup has…

One of the most respected Croatian scientists in the world, professor Nenad Ban, from the ETH Zürich University recently visited Zagreb, held a talk at the Faculty of Science and gave a lengthy interview to Zoran Vitas for Večernji list. Professor Nenad Ban is internationally renowed as the scientist who was among those who managed to determine the threedimentional structure of the ribosome, one of the biggest and the most complex molecules in any living organism. It is often said that Ban is the Croatian scientist who came closest to the Nobel prize in the recent history, as he was…