Financial Times: Croatia’s Orqa Among Europe’s Fastest Growing Companies

March the 20th, 2026 – The Financial Times (FT) has listed Croatia’s impressive Orqa among Europe’s quickest growing companies.

As Poslovni Dnevnik writes, Orqa, a highly successful Croatian technology company specialising in the development of advanced FPV and unmanned systems, has been included in the prestigious FT1000 list of the quickest growing companies in Europe. The list is published by the Financial Times in cooperation with the Statista research agency.

In this year’s FT1000 list, Croatia’s Orqa achieved an exceptional result, coming an incredible second place in the Aerospace & Defence category. This saw it ranked among the leading European companies in one of the most dynamic and strategically important sectors in the world. At the same time, Orqa took 135th place overall among the 1000 quickest growing companies in Europe and is the only company from Croatia to be included in the FT1000 list.

The FT1000 is one of the most relevant European company rankings by revenue growth, encompassing the thousand quickest growing companies from across Europe over a three-year period. Inclusion on this list is considered a strong indicator of business success, scalability and market relevance.

“Entering the FT1000 list of the Financial Times is an extremely important recognition for Croatia’s Orqa as one of Europe’s quickest growing companies. It is solid confirmation that our growth is not only technological, but also commercially sustainable and internationally relevant. We’re particularly proud of earning second place in the Aerospace & Defensc segment, which clearly reveals that today, Orqa can easily compete equally with the leading European companies currently operating within this sector. This is also a strong signal that a period of new, even greater business and development news lies ahead of us,” stated Ivan Jelušić, co-founder of Orqa.

Orqa’s placement on the FT1000 list comes at a time of strong growth across the entire European indusattempt of unmanned systems and defence technologies. In it, the increasing required for domestic, technologically advanced solutions is increasingly being emphasised. In this context, Croatia’s Orqa has been profiled as one of the key actors of the new generation of European tech companies, as well as being among Europe’s quickest growing companies.