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Nenad
Marovac

Nenad founded DN Capital and is Managing Partner, with more than 30 years of venture and private equity experience across technology and media.

Investment sectors

FintechSoftwareConsumer InternetMarketplace
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Nenad Marovac

Biography

Nenad Marovac has more than 30 years of venture capital and private equity investment experience in the technology and media sectors.

Nenad Marovac is the Founder and Managing Partner of DN Capital. Prior to DN Capital, Nenad was a Partner at Advent International in London, where he focused on TMT investments.

Nenad focuses on investments in digital marketplaces, consumer internet, software as a service (SAAS) and fintech companies.

Amongst his select investments are Shazam Entertainment (sold to Apple), Auto1 (largest online marketplace for used cars), GoStudent, Hometogo (IPO Frankfurt), Mister Spex (IPO Frankfurt), Apsmart (acquired by Thomson Reuters), Datanomic (acquired by Oracle), Endeca, (acquired by Oracle), Eve Sleep (IPO London), Happn, JobandTalent, Lendis, OLX (acquired by Naspers), Purplebricks (IPO London), Tbricks (acquired by Orc) and Quandoo (acquired by Recruit Holding), Happn, Tourlane and Yassir.

Nenad was Chairman of Invest Europe (formerly known as EVCA) for the year 2018/2019 and previously Chair of the association’s Venture Council 2015-2018. He is an active member of YPO.

Nenad received an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School. Nenad is the son of Professor Nenad Marovac, who was a prominent early pioneer in the field of computer science.

Nenad Marovac is the Co-Founder of the DN Capital Foundation.

Select investments

Auto1Europe's digital infrastructure for buying and selling used cars.$10 billion IPO (MDAX)MarketplaceNumaDigital hotel operator and technology developer for short term rentals and travel accomodations.Consumer InternetOlxOnline classifieds marketplace for buying and selling a wide range of goods.AcquiredMarketplaceShazamOne of the world's most-downloaded apps, answering a universal question — "what song is this?" — with a tap.Acquisition (Apple)Music recognitionApsmartApsmart is a London-based mobile innovation company who work with startups and established brands that are looking to drive innovation via unique mobile solutions. Their core offering is consultancy, design and development services.AcquiredSoftwareQuandooQuandoo is a Berlin based restaurant reservation software business and consumer platform. It sells reservation and table management software to restaurants and publishes this inventory of restaurant availability online through its own portal, mobile applications, widgets on the restaurant websites and through third-party partnerships. Quandoo was acquired by Recruit Holdings in March 2015.AcquiredSoftware