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REPORT / Q3 2026 UPDATE / DATA TO 30 SEPTEMBER 2026

Montenegro startup funding report

No Montenegrin startup announced a venture round in the first nine months of 2026. Since January 2024 the record holds one round.

Funding data for Montenegrin startups is scattered. Rounds are announced by companies, funds, angel networks and the press, often months after they close, and no single database has them all or has them right.

This report builds one record from all of them. We cross check startup databases against company, investor and press announcements, take out grants and loans that are reported as rounds, and add the rounds that were never fully recorded.

It covers venture rounds and exits of startups headquartered in Montenegro, and of startups that started here and moved their headquarters abroad. It uses the same record and rules as our CEE startup funding report, so Montenegro can be set against the ten countries it covers.

We add a quarter every three months. If you are raising in Montenegro, it shows how many rounds close, at what size, and who writes the first cheques.

Highlights

€0.0m
Raised in 9M 2026
None disclosed in 9M 2025 either

No round in the first nine months, against one round and €0 a year earlier.

0
Seed and later rounds in 9M 2026
0 in 9M 2025

0 seed and later rounds this year, against 0 a year earlier, and 0 rounds in all against 1. Pre-seed is where the record of recent rounds is least complete, and its count will rise as late rounds surface.

0
Venture-backed exits in 9M 2026
0 in 9M 2025

No venture-backed exits by September, against none in the same months of 2025.

01 / THE MARKET

The market

Capital as a year earlier. Rounds: 0 against 1.

Capital raised by stage, € millions
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Capital raised by stage
RowPre-seedSeedSeries AGrowthTotal
20240.00.00.00.00.0
20250.00.00.00.00.0
9M 20260.00.00.00.00.0

Montenegro raised €0 in 2024 and €0 in 2025. 2026 has €0 so far.

9M 2026 covers January to September 2026. The dashed line marks the same months of 2025.

Number of rounds by stage
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Number of rounds by stage
RowPre-seedSeedSeries AGrowthTotal
202400000
202510001
9M 202600000

0 rounds in 2024, 1 in 2025 and 0 so far in 2026. Some rounds are recorded months late, so the latest quarters will rise.

Same months, like for like: 9M 2026 against 9M 2025
Year to date against the same months last year
Row9M 20259M 2026Change
Capital€0.0m€0.0m-
Rounds10-
Pre-seed rounds10-
Seed rounds00-
Series A rounds00-
Growth rounds00-
Capital by quarter, € millions

Quarter by quarter, capital swings with the timing of large rounds. The count of rounds is the steadier signal.

The latest quarter is still filling in and will rise.

02 / MONTENEGRO IN THE REGION

Montenegro in the region

Montenegro raised €0 per person in 2025, 11th of the 11 countries compared here.

The same record and rules for Montenegro and the ten countries of our CEE report, so the comparison is like for like. Capital per person divides each country's capital by its population.

Montenegro and the ten CEE report countries, 9M 2026 against 9M 2025, most capital per person first
Capital and rounds by country, 9M 2026, with capital per person
Country€m 9M 2026ChangeRounds 9M 2026Change€ per person 2025€ per person 9M 2026
Estonia133▼ -48%39▼ -49%25897
Lithuania182▲ +3%28▼ -42%7563
Czechia513▲ +101%47▼ -15%2847
Bulgaria199▲ +91%22▼ -4%3231
Hungary122▲ +3%22▼ -35%1313
Slovakia55▼ -24%11▼ -39%2110
Ukraine282▲ +336%50▼ -29%27
Poland226▼ -10%67▼ -27%106
Latvia12▼ -84%4▼ -73%436
Romania105▲ +14%30▼ -6%96
Montenegro0-0-00

Population on 1 January 2025.

03 / STAGES AND ROUND SIZES

Stages and round sizes

Round counts by stage, and the typical round where enough amounts are disclosed.

Rounds by company stage. Where one round can move a stage's total, the count and the typical round tell more than the capital.

Rounds, capital and median round by stage
Rounds, capital and median round size by stage and year
RowRounds 2024€m 2024Rounds 2025€m 2025Rounds 9M 2026€m 9M 2026Median 2024Median 2025Median 9M 2026
Pre-seed0-1-0----
Seed0-0-0----
Series A0-0-0----
Growth0-0-0----

Median shown where at least three rounds of the stage disclosed an amount.

Pre-seed

No rounds in 2024, 1 in 2025 and 0 so far in 2026.

Seed

No rounds in 2024, 0 in 2025 and 0 so far in 2026.

Series A

No rounds in 2024, 0 in 2025 and 0 so far in 2026.

Growth

No rounds in 2024, 0 in 2025 and 0 so far in 2026.

04 / SECTORS

Sectors

By number of rounds since 2024, the largest sectors are AI (1). A company can sit in several sectors, so sector totals overlap.

Capital by sector, € millions
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Capital by sector
Row202420259M 2026
AI0.00.00.0

Ranked by 9M 2026 capital. Sectors overlap.

Rounds by sector
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Rounds by sector
Row202420259M 2026
AI010

Same sectors, counted by number of rounds.

05 / LARGEST ROUNDS

Largest rounds

Largest rounds, 9M 2026
Largest rounds 9M 2026
CompanyStageAmountMonthLead or first investor

Rounds with a disclosed amount.

Largest rounds, 2025
Largest rounds 2025
CompanyStageAmountMonthLead or first investor

06 / STARTED IN MONTENEGRO, BASED ELSEWHERE

Started in Montenegro, based elsewhere

Companies that started in Montenegro, or keep their main team here, but are headquartered elsewhere. They count in the totals, under Montenegro. Companies that Montenegrin founders built abroad, with no base here, are not included.

None on record since 2024.

07 / INVESTORS

Investors

Status Broker joined the most pre-seed and seed rounds since January 2025: 1.

Most active at pre-seed and seed since January 2025: Status Broker (1 rounds) and Digital Den (1 rounds). Investors are ranked by the rounds they joined, led or followed, over 2025 and 2026 together.

Most active at pre-seed and seed, 2025 to 9M 2026
Most active pre-seed and seed investors in Montenegro
InvestorBased inRoundsLed
Status Brokern/a11
Digital Denn/a10
Most active from Series A, 2025 to 9M 2026
Most active Series A and growth investors in Montenegro
InvestorBased inRoundsLed
Rounds with at least one investor based outside CEE
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Share of rounds with an international investor
Row202420259M 2026
All rounds0%0%0%

Rounds with a fund from outside CEE: , of rounds where investor headquarters are known.

Share of rounds where investor headquarters are known: 0 in 2024, 0 in 2025, 0 in 9M 2026.

08 / EXITS

Exits

No venture-backed exit on record since 2024.

No venture-backed exits since 2024: 0 in 2024, 0 in 2025 and 0 in 2026 so far. Deal values are rarely disclosed, so we count exits instead of summing them.

None on record since 2024.

09 / METHODOLOGY

Methodology

What the report covers

Period: January 2024 to September 2026. Past years are shown in full. The current year runs to the end of the last complete quarter.

Companies: startups headquartered in Montenegro, and startups that began there or keep their main team there and later moved their headquarters abroad. Every kind of startup is included: software and hardware, business and consumer.

Events: venture funding rounds, and exits (acquisitions, buyouts and stock market listings).

Sources: public sources only, namely startup databases, company, investor and angel network announcements, and the press.

Every round and exit named in the report links to its announcement. Totals, changes and charts are built from all rounds and are not linked.

This edition covers 1 venture rounds (0 with a disclosed amount) at 1 companies, and 0 exits. Next update: January 2027, adding Q4 2026.

Stages

Stages are the label the company announced or the source assigned. Where a label clearly does not fit the size of the round, such as a very large round called seed, the round is placed by its size. Where there is no label, round type and size decide.

How it is counted

  • Funding rounds are equity and convertible venture rounds, including angel network rounds. Grants, loans, state support programmes, crowdlending, secondary sales and investments after a listing are not counted.
  • Amounts are in euros, converted at about 1.10 US dollars to the euro. Rounds without a disclosed amount count toward the number of rounds but not toward capital.
  • Companies that are not startups are left out even when they raise venture money, such as established manufacturers, service firms and lenders.
  • Rounds and exits are cross-referenced against company, investor and press announcements where possible.

Limits

  • Public data does not capture every round, so counts are a floor. Small angel rounds are the most likely to be missing.
  • Some rounds are recorded months after they happen. Each update adds them to the month they happened in, so recent quarters, the latest above all, will rise.
  • Montenegro's record includes our own search of local press, investor portfolios and companies based abroad (October 2026), which added rounds the startup databases had missed.
  • Where a country raises a few dozen rounds a year, one round can move a total by more than half. Read changes in capital with the largest round in mind.
  • Montenegro's record was built in October 2026 from the investors active in Montenegrin startups, their portfolios and posts, and the press. It holds most of the disclosed capital, but small rounds that were never announced are missing more often than in the ten countries of our CEE report.

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