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Zagreb Has a Workshop for Startups. The City Helps Pay the Bill.
At ZICER, founders can move from a subsidized office to a prototype, a pitch and a shot at public funding. The revealing detail is how much of the machinery sits under one roof.
Nikolina Lauc
Nikolina Lauc is co-founder and CEO of GlycanAge, a UK-based longevity diagnostics company built on two decades of glycobiology research from her father's laboratory in Zagreb. A serial entrepreneur since 18, she runs a business that translates a blood-based glycan test into a biological age readout, and she has become one of the more visible operators pushing preventive-health testing into the consumer market.
Neno Duplan
Neno Duplan is the founder and CEO of Locus Technologies, a Mountain View-based company he bootstrapped in 1997 to become one of the world's first cloud-based environmental, health, and safety (EHS) software providers. Born in Croatia and trained as a civil engineer, Duplan earned his Ph.D. at the University of Zagreb, an M.S. from Carnegie Mellon, and advanced management training at Stanford. He pioneered the commercial SaaS model for environmental data management - deploying the world's first such product in 1999 - and has spent nearly three decades helping governments, utilities, and corporations track, manage, and report their environmental footprints. With more than 30 technical papers published, 11,000+ active users, and a 98% customer renewal rate, Duplan has built Locus into a durable, self-funded software company at the intersection of environmental science and enterprise technology.