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Coverage and milestones from Edi Budimilić’s work in startups, software, innovation and Croatia’s first satellite.
2025 · fiuman.hr
In the 30th year of Primorje-Gorski Kotar County supporting local innovation, Edi's PlugTurn Signal was named among the awarded innovations and received €2,300 in third-prize support.
2024 · crocube.hr
On 21 Dec 2024 a SpaceX Falcon 9 carried CroCube, the first Croatian satellite, to a 510 km orbit. Exevio is an official mission partner: it built the official tracking app, supported the mission financially and supplied components that are flying over your head right now.
2024 · riportal.net.hr
RI TV visited Exevio after 11 years of continuous growth. The report covers its 30+ employees, the city support used for equipment and certifications, and Edi's role in launching Startup Inkubator Rijeka.
2024 · novilist.hr
Rijeka's daily profiled Exevio as a showcase of the city's business support programme: 11 years, 30+ people, 350 m² on the 8th floor of Nikola Tesla street, and a founder who came back from the US to build at home.
2020 · startup.rijeka.hr
Listed among the mentors of Rijeka's startup incubator, passing on what Commodore 64 BASIC, four exits and one satellite teach you: helping local founders execute their business dreams.
2015 · netokracija.com
Netokracija covered the crowdfunding campaign by Edi Budimilić, Ladislav Jurić and Antonija Zorić to bring a public Back to the Future trilogy screening and a DeLorean to Rijeka on 21 October 2015.
2015 · netokracija.com
Netokracija's review of Croatian crowdfunding in 2014 named Edi the country's biggest crowdfunding promoter, with 24 projects backed on Kickstarter and another five on Indiegogo.
2013 · netokracija.com
After the WhoAPI team returned from 500 Startups in Mountain View, Netokracija covered the intensity of the accelerator, pitching in the street and fundraising from bed while the team pushed design, data and distribution.
2013 · whohack.com
WhoAPI co-organized a two-day hackathon in Rijeka with the Step-Ri science & technology park, backed by the U.S. Embassy, VIPnet and Netokracija, one of the largest in the region at the time.
2012 · whoapi.com
During the Geeks On a Plane tour of Croatia (30+ foreign investors, invited by the country's president), WhoAPI took first place in the startup pitch, and Dave McClure's 500 Startups invested. Next stop: the accelerator in Mountain View, California.
2012 · netocratic.com
The region's tech press followed WhoAPI's run: two friends from Rijeka going from "that guy in the audience reading tweets about investments" to raising $200k+ for their domain-intelligence API.
2011 · netokracija.com
Netokracija reported Avalon's acquisition of GEM Studio and its 1,200+ client websites. Goran and Edi used the exit to focus fully on WhoAPI and its potential as a global domain-intelligence startup.
2002 · generationstars.com
Generation Stars' most noticed game appeared in Croatian gaming magazines and newspapers of the early 2000s: two teenagers shipping games from Rijeka, with some titles reaching tens of thousands of downloads.