Venture studio · Zagreb, Croatia

We start companies and stay behind them.

Adriato is a venture studio in Zagreb. We build our own companies, from the first idea to a running business, and we build with partners who want to do the same.

The studio

Two ways we build.

Most of what we do is our own. Some of it is with partners. The way of building is the same.

Own ventures

Three companies, three markets.

Each company has its own name, brand and market, and stands on its own. Adriato is the studio behind it.

About the ventures →
How we build

One way of building, whatever the market.

Software testing, a mood diary, medicinal mushrooms. The markets differ. The way we build a company is the same each time.

How we build →
01

Find.

Start with a need we can see up close. Talk to the people who have it, test the idea cheaply and decide whether it deserves a company.

02

Build.

A small team ships the first product in months, not years. Name, brand, product and first customers, together.

03

Run.

We operate what we build. Growth, operations and the daily work of a real company, for as long as it deserves to exist.

What we believe

We build to keep.

We are not building companies to hand over in eighteen months. We start them to run them, and to run them well. Everything else about how we work follows from that.

What we believe →
Partner builds

Build with us.

Own ventures come first. When there is room, we build a company with a partner the same way we build our own: same team, same way of working, your market.

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Notes

Written as we go.

All notes →
Why we run the companies we start.Aug 2026What growing mushrooms taught us about shipping software.Jul 2026Naming a company so the studio can disappear.Jun 2026