Apart from her talks to the Prime Minister Theresa May during her visit to the UK, the Croatian president Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic met with Greg Clark, the British minister of economy in order to talk about strengthening the economic connection between the two countries and their citizens. She also met with representatives of Croatian start-ups and British investors in Bloomberg.

The Croatian president said that Croatia had to improve business conditions for innovative companies that relocated overseas because they couldn’t have realized their ideas in Croatia.

Hrvoje Prpic, the Croatian entrepreneur also attended the meeting of the Croatian president with the British investors. He is the owner of the Trillenium company based in London and one of the founders of the Croatian network of business angels. At the meeting he explained that British investors found Croatian start-ups interesting because they were much cheaper in comparison to those that could be found in the West.
‘’I think that all people who are in the start-up industry know that Croatia is only the first step, the next step is Europe, whilst the final destination is Silicon Valley’’, commented Prpic.

He also announced that an annual meeting of the European network of business angels would be held in Zagreb at the end of November with participation of the Iron Maiden singer and business angel Bruce Dickinson.