Where Europe's private capital conversations become relationships.
An invitation-only gathering of up to 100 senior LPs, family offices, institutional investors and GPs — hosted in Dubrovnik by CVCA. Built for meaningful meetings and candid exchange, not high-volume fundraising.
Buy a ticket or request an invitation. Attendance is curated and deliberately limited to preserve the senior, investor-led character of the event.
Built around quality, not volume.
A private equity and venture capital gathering for a carefully selected group of limited partners, family offices, institutional investors and general partners — hosted in Dubrovnik, distinctly European in character.
This is not a trade fair. There are no crowded halls or rushed introductions. The programme combines keynote insight, fireside conversation, LP-only peer exchange, an Emerging Managers Showcase, pre-arranged LP–GP meetings and informal networking across receptions, lunches and dinners.
The goal is simple: the right room, with the right people, at the right time.
The conversations that will define 2026.
The core of the event — where Europe’s private-market decision-makers debate what actually moves returns.
Headwinds into tailwinds
Turning geopolitical disruption and shifting global capital flows into private-market opportunity.
Distributions & liquidity
Meeting LP expectations on DPI, cash returns and portfolio transparency.
Can Europe win the tech race?
What it will take for European capital and founders to build the world’s most valuable companies again.
The AI application layer
With the infrastructure layer maturing, value shifts to applications — AI is reshaping every business, and with it venture and private-equity theses, portfolios and strategies.
LP–GP alignment
Fees, terms and reporting — best market practice and candid peer-to-peer exchange.
Manager selection
Differentiation, track record, team depth and strategy fit in a more disciplined market.
Emerging managers
Why emerging managers deserve a chance — and why mid-fund-cycle track record is often overrated.
Value creation & exits
Creating and realising value in a volatile and fast-changing market.
Curated by design.
Attendance is reserved primarily for senior LPs, GPs, family offices, institutional investors and invited speakers. Service-provider participation is limited to a small number of exclusive sponsors — preserving the investor-led nature of the room.
A senior room
Participation focused on decision-makers and experienced private-market professionals.
A European lens
A predominantly European room of LPs and GPs, complemented by selected investors from other global markets.
Curated LP–GP meetings
Pre-arranged 1:1 meetings put participants in front of the people most relevant to their mandates.
LP-only peer exchange
Separate Chatham House breakfasts give family offices and institutional LPs trusted, candid space.
Emerging manager discovery
Selected emerging managers present their strategies to seasoned investors.
A Dubrovnik setting
Framed by the Adriatic, historic Dubrovnik and carefully chosen networking moments.
Who is speaking?
Confirmed speakers, in the order of appearance in the main-day conference programme. The line-up is growing as further speakers are confirmed.
Titles and affiliations are shown as confirmed at the time of publication; the line-up is growing as further speakers join.
Three days. One focused conference.
A welcome evening, a full main conference day, and an optional excursion to Konavle — with many reasons to stay for every conversation.
Arrival
- 18:00 · Welcome drinks reception — Hotel Excelsior terrace
- 19:45 · Networking dinner — Banje Beach lounge & club
Main conference
- 08:00 · LP-only breakfasts (family offices · institutional LPs)
- 09:00–16:10 · Main conference
- · Keynotes & fireside conversations
- · Emerging Managers Showcase
- · Family office fireside chat · LP Panel
- 19:30 · Conference dinner — Restaurant Dubrovnik
- 20:00 · Featured dinner keynote Tariq Fancy, Lecturer, Stanford Graduate School of Business; Founder, Treebeard Funds The assets are fine. The capital structures aren't. The green financing boom of 2019–22 didn't fund bad ideas — it funded real infrastructure, financed on assumptions about rates, growth and utilisation that no longer hold. The result is a generation of assets that work perfectly and capital structures that often don't. Drawing on the dotcom crash as a map, this talk argues that what looks like a failure of the green transition is actually something more interesting: a repricing. The assets get financed twice. The first money believed in the direction and got the timing wrong. (The question for the room is which money they want to be.)
Optional excursion
- 09:20 · Meeting point in front of Hotel Excelsior
- 09:30 · Departure for the excursion
- · Guided nature walk in Konavle
- · Croatian customs & heritage
- · Networking drinks & traditional lunch
- · Organised airport transfers to accommodate all departures for excursion participants
- · For participants returning to Dubrovnik after lunch, a further transfer is organised, departing Konavle around 14:30 and arriving back at Hotel Excelsior around 15:00
The official LP–GP Networking Event programme concludes with the Konavle excursion and lunch. For participants staying on in Dubrovnik on Friday evening, an informal dinner will be organised at extra cost, with each participant covering their own expenses.
View the main-day agenda — Thursday, 1 October 2026 +
John Mcilwaine, Senior Regional Representative, Italy, Malta and Croatia, European Investment Fund (EIF) (confirmed);
Magdalena Soljakova, Senior Country Officer for Croatia, Slovenia and North Macedonia, International Finance Corporation (IFC) (confirmed);
Anamarija Stanicic, Deputy President of the Board, HANFA (confirmed).
Fireside chat: Nenad Marovac, Founder and Managing Partner, DN Capital (confirmed) and Steve Schlenker, Founder and Managing Partner, DN Capital (confirmed), moderated by Mirna Marovic, President, CVCA.
Triple top line: when impact drives growth, Florian Loebermann, Partner, GET Fund (confirmed).
From Feelsgood to Feelsbetter: proving social impact pays, Domagoj Oreb and Pierre Matek, Managing Partners at Feelsgood Capital Partners (confirmed).
DPI is the new IRR, Dragos Petre, Partner and Dragalina Dragan, Investor Relations, ESG & Investment Manager, Morphosis Capital (confirmed).
Christoph Roos, Strategic Advisor and Investor, Finkeissen Holdings, single family offices (confirmed);
Milan Cvetkovic, Chief Investment Officer / Head of Private Equity, Paula Invest AG, a single family office (confirmed).
Moderator: Tilo Bonow, Founder and CEO, Piabo; Bonow Ventures GmbH, a single family office (confirmed).
Gordan Kuvek, Executive Director, Strategy Division, Croatian Bank for Reconstruction and Development (HBOR) (confirmed);
Gordana Neralic, Chief Investment Officer, Erste Ltd., pension funds management company (confirmed);
John Mcilwaine, Senior Regional Representative, Italy, Malta and Croatia, European Investment Fund (EIF) (confirmed);
Uros Acko, SID Upravljanje Premozenja (confirmed);
Cyrille Flichy, Head of Private Markets at BCGE (confirmed);
Tobias Winter, UNIQA (confirmed).
Moderator: Mirna Marovic, President, CVCA.
Conversations that continue long after the formal programme ends.
Who is attending?
Preliminary list of LPs and GPs attending who confirmed their attendance and provided consent to publish the name of the institution / company they represent on this website.
Confirmed participants also receive access to CapitalCircle, the event's private networking app, where they can complete a profile, browse fellow attendees and arrange meetings in advance.
Selected LPs attending
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Selected GPs attending
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Dubrovnik changes the pace of conversation.
The event is hosted at Hotel Excelsior Dubrovnik, a landmark seaside hotel with views of the Adriatic and the Old Town, within walking distance of the historic centre.
A focused private-market event benefits from more than a conference room. Welcome drinks on the terrace, seaside dinners and the optional Konavle excursion set a rhythm that is structured enough to be productive and relaxed enough for real relationships to form.
Dubrovnik Airport (DBV) is roughly 25 minutes from the hotel.
Accommodation & preferred rates
Three preferred-rate options have been secured for participants, all bookable directly with the hotels using the promo code CVCA.
Hotel Excelsior Dubrovnik — host venue
A landmark seaside address that has welcomed guests since 1913, set on the water between Banje Beach and the Old Town walls, with terraces and sea-facing rooms looking straight across to the historic centre. All conference sessions, the welcome reception and the main-day programme take place here. Participants can book at a discounted rate using promo code CVCA on the hotel website.
adriaticluxuryhotels.comVilla Argentina
Villa Argentina, next door to Hotel Excelsior, opened this week and also offers participants a discounted rate with promo code CVCA, bookable directly on the hotel website.
adriaticluxuryhotels.comVilla Dubrovnik
We have also secured additional discounted accommodation at Villa Dubrovnik — a cliffside retreat above the Adriatic, a short walk from the Old Town, and a hotel named by the prestigious French Prix Versailles among the sixteen most beautiful hotels in the world in 2026. Rooms can be booked at the discounted rate using promo code CVCA via the Villa Dubrovnik website.
villa-dubrovnik.hrBeyond Hotel Excelsior, Villa Argentina and Villa Dubrovnik, there are also plenty of options bookable via Booking.com or Airbnb in the Old City centre, most of them within 10 minutes' walking distance of the venue, Hotel Excelsior.
Airport transfers
Private transfers between Dubrovnik Airport (DBV) and Hotel Excelsior can be booked directly with the hotel's transfer partner at office.excelsior@als.hr — indicative price EUR 70 one way for 1–2 passengers. Please state your flight number, date and time, number of passengers and pieces of luggage, and your hotel if not the Excelsior. The organisers arrange airport transfers only for Friday excursion participants who need to leave for the airport during the excursion.
Designed for senior LPs, family offices and GPs.
Limited Partners
Institutional investors, pension funds, development finance institutions, funds-of-funds, insurers, asset managers and other LPs allocating to private markets.
Family Offices
Single and multi-family offices investing directly, through funds or via co-investment strategies.
General Partners
Established and emerging private equity, venture, growth, mezzanine, debt and specialised alternative fund managers.
Invited Speakers & Sponsors
Senior investors, fund managers and ecosystem leaders contributing to the programme — plus a small number of approved exclusive sponsors.
Two ways to take part.
You can buy a ticket directly, or request an invitation and the CVCA team will follow up. Either route, attendance is curated to keep the room senior, relevant and investor-led.
Registrations are reviewed for fit with the LP–GP format — profile, seniority and investment relevance.
For group registrations or any questions on eligibility, write to the organiser at mirna.marovic@cvca.hr.
The LP–GP Networking Event is reserved primarily for alternative investment fund managers across all strategies (GPs) and their end-investors (LPs). Places are limited to 100 senior, relevant participants — 50 GPs and 50 LPs. Service-provider attendance is reserved for event sponsors; service providers are warmly invited to explore sponsorship opportunities via the Request an invitation form or by writing to mirna.marovic@cvca.hr.
The Croatian Private Equity & Venture Capital Association.
CVCA promotes the development of private equity and venture capital in Croatia and across South East and Central & Eastern Europe. Its members back high-growth companies, innovation and entrepreneurship — and the wider private-market investment culture of the region.
In partnership with leading institutions.
The LP–GP Networking Event is supported by a small, carefully chosen group of sponsors aligned with its investor-led character.
Gold sponsor
The Croatian Bank for Reconstruction and Development (HBOR) is one of the key institutional investors and market builders of Croatia’s private equity and venture capital ecosystem. Through investments in venture capital, private equity and mezzanine funds, and its long-standing partnership with the European Investment Fund (EIF), HBOR has played a pivotal role in developing the domestic investment ecosystem, strengthening the fund-management industry and expanding access to alternative sources of finance for Croatian companies.
To date, HBOR has committed approximately EUR 130 million across 11 investment funds, which have completed more than 230 investments in Croatian companies while mobilising a multiple of private capital — helping lay the foundations for a sustainable private equity and venture capital market, supporting innovative and high-potential businesses and strengthening the competitiveness of the Croatian economy.
Bronze sponsors (in alphabetical order):
Collateral Good is a Zürich-based multi-strategy VC firm. They back deep technologies that cut emissions across four carbon-intensive value chains — food, packaging, textiles & fashion, and industry — combining senior investment professionals with hands-on operational and restructuring experience alongside corporate partners in each of the value chains.
Feelsgood Capital Partners is an impact venture capital firm delivering superior financial returns alongside measurable social impact for its investors — a dual objective it is now carrying into the close of its second fund, Feelsbetter.
GET Fund is a European ClimateTech growth investor applying a Triple Top Line approach to identify companies where economic growth, environmental impact and societal value reinforce each other.
Morphosis Capital is a top-quartile CEE-focused private equity firm with EUR 180m AUM, investing in lower mid-market companies across Romania and the broader CEE region. Morphosis backs entrepreneurial businesses with strong growth potential, combining capital and operational expertise to transform local champions into regional leaders.
Join the room where Europe's LP–GP conversations move forward.
A focused group. A senior audience. A setting built for trust, candour and long-term relationships — for investors and fund managers who value substance over scale.