Who Founded Bugatti Rimac?

Mate Rimac is a Croatian entrepreneur, born in Livno, Bosnia and Herzegovina, who grew up partly in Germany before settling in Croatia. He began by converting a 1984 BMW 3 Series to electric power, designing his own batteries and motors, and founded Rimac Automobili in 2009 in a country with no car industry. Rimac supplied battery and powertrain engineering to other carmakers, drew investment from Porsche in 2018 and Hyundai, and built the Concept_One and the Nevera. In 2021 he became CEO of Bugatti Rimac at 33, and in September 2026, when Porsche's exit closed, he also became President of Bugatti Automobiles.

Mate Rimac was born in 1988.

Ettore Bugatti (1881 to 1947) was an Italian-born car designer who founded Automobiles E. Bugatti in Molsheim, Alsace, in 1909. He treated cars as both machines and art, building the Type 35, one of the most successful racing cars of the 1920s, and the Type 41 Royale. The brand faded after his death, was revived by Volkswagen in 1998 and has been part of Bugatti Rimac since 2021, with cars still built in Molsheim.