Tech and innovation have a home in Slovenia

Starting with the biggest success story so far. Outfit7, co-founded by Iza and Samo Login and regarded as one of the most valuable and biggest in the industry of mobile entertainment apps. Outfit7 received global recognition with Talking Tom and Family franchise, centred around a mobile app where anthropomorphic animal characters repeat the user's words. The Cyprus-based company, headquartered in London and with development departments in Ljubljana, also stands out as it didn't receive any investment capital, the Logins were able to fund and sustain the growth until they sold the company to a Chinese conglomerate for US $1bn at the beginning of 2017.

The current year is apparently a good one for lucrative exit deals. Zemanta, one of the earliest Slovenian tech start-ups founded in 2006, also changed ownership, leaving its founders, Andraž Tori and Boštjan Špetič,...