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Fil Rouge Capital, a Venture Capital investment fund invested 100.000,00 EUR in OREA BiH

This is the first investment by Fil Rouge Capital in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The primary goal of Fil Rouge Capital is to invest in entrepreneurs, start-up, and scale-up companies. They are sector agnostic and they run an Accelerator program 2 times a year. Their mission is to build an entrepreneurial ecosystem and to disrupt things for the better.

Senita Slipac, a CEO and founder of OREA, the largest Marketplace for handmade items in Southeast Europe, was a winner at Podim Conference Pitching competition. OREA is now a part of the FLC Accelerator program and they will raise new funding in year 2023 to expand on Croatian market and further on European market. Currently, OREA has 160 sellers in BiH and their goal is to have a minimum of 50 sellers from Croatia.

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