Top 50 Angel Investors in Czech Republic in December 2024
A list of 50 angel investors that invest in startups based in Czech republic. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in companies from Czech republic. We update this investor list every month.Top 50 Angel Investors in Czech Republic in December 2024
Investor | Czech Republic investments |
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Jaroslav Beck | 7 |
Jiri Hlavenka | 6 |
Vojta Roček | 5 |
Tomas Cupr | 5 |
Robert Kyncl | 4 |
Martin Rozhon | 3 |
Eduard Kucera | 2 |
Honza Široký | 2 |
Jan Habermann | 2 |
Marton Szoke | 2 |
Bashar Hamood | 2 |
Eva Janečková | 2 |
Philip Staehelin | 2 |
Michal Smida | 2 |
Nikola Rafaj | 2 |
Jude Gomila | 2 |
Hesham Zreik | 2 |
Mike Chalfen | 2 |
Robert Neale | 1 |
Oskari Saarenmaa | 1 |
Marek Frey | 1 |
Vit Vrba | 1 |
Ryan Petersen | 1 |
Ondřej Fryc | 1 |
Oliver Dlouhý | 1 |
Aaron Levie | 1 |
Markus Villig | 1 |
Kulpreet Singh | 1 |
Václav Lavička | 1 |
Filip Mikschik | 1 |
Martin Rajcan | 1 |
Christian Mruck | 1 |
Sara Varni | 1 |
Martin Kálovec | 1 |
Madhu Muthukumar | 1 |
Lachy Groom | 1 |
Rikard Steiber | 1 |
Zachary Sims | 1 |
Daniel Vávra | 1 |
Ferdinando Falco | 1 |
Jakub Jurovych | 1 |
Karel Obluk | 1 |
Rasty Turek | 1 |
Fredrik Björk | 1 |
Michael Stoppelman | 1 |
Alexandre Wentzo | 1 |
Jan Slama | 1 |
Jean-Pascal Duvieusart | 1 |
Lucjan Samulowski | 1 |
Kartik Varma | 1 |
Jaroslav Beck is a Co-Founder and Head Of Music at Beat Games. He attended the University of West Bohemia.
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Investment focus
- Gaming, Art, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Czech Republic, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Qerko — Qerko is loaded with great features for your business like fast checkout, tableside ordering, loyalty programs, verified reviews, and more. Apply today!
- Zuri — We are developing a modern private aircraft with vertical takeoff and landing. This will allow you to affordably travel from city to city at distances of up to 700 km apart.
- ArtMaster — ArtMaster is an online platform that offers individual one-on-one tuition and online courses designed by professionals in art and music.
Jiri Hlavenka - Co-founder & Investor @ Kiwi.com
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Mobile Apps
- Seed, Funding Round, Angel
- Czech Republic, Lithuania, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Amio — AI chatbot platform for support automation. No-code builder that supports web-chat, mobile chat, messengers like WhatsApp, and email.
- Dishboard — Dishboard's goal is to help restaurant owners better understand their overall business picture, track profits, and to enable them to dive deep into their costs while automating manual labor with such features as automatic invoice recognition so, at the end of the day, owners open the app and immediately see their real-time financial breakdownwith all revenues and all costs (including supplies and salaries) without doing a thing.Our ultimate vision is to become a fin. tech service provider for the restaurant market, where the first step is to start using the data we collect for scoring mechanisms and offer our clients short-term loans to prevent the cash gaps they face so often.
- Fireball — Dungeon Realms is like playing your favorite tabletop RPG on your phone. Play-by-post role-playing is a way to play asynchronously during your day.
Vojta Roček is the Partner of Presto Ventures.
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Investment focus
- Coffee, Fashion, Nutrition
- Seed, Angel
- Czech Republic, Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- Goodlok — Goodlok is a supplier of food and non-alcoholic drinks. They provide products that include fermented products and healthy food products. Their customers' inquiries are addressed through phone, email, and online applications.
- MADMONQ — MADMONQ is a European startup whose innovative food supplement, developed and produced in the heart of Europe supports complex mental and physical performance needs of top level gamers.
- Contember — Contember is an open-source low-code platform that helps in building, maintaining, and operating systems for content and data-based apps.
Tomas Cupr is the Group Chief Executive Officer at Rohlik. Additionally, Tomas Cupr has had 3 past jobs including Partner at KAYA.
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Investment focus
- Food and Beverage, Grocery, E-Commerce
- Funding Round, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Czech Republic
Portfolio highlights
- Rohlik — Rohlik is an innovative grocery delivery startup that offers a 90-minute same-day delivery service. Since its inception, Rohlik has been growing and is on track to EUR 300 mil. revenues in 2020. Rohlík was founded in 2014 by Marek Sacha and Tomas Cupr and is headquartered in Karlín, Hlavni mesto Praha, Czech Republic.
- Keboola — A dataops platform built to set up data practitioners for success. Sign up today and create a free account!
- Le Premier — Le Premier is a manufacturer and seller of tailor-made shirts, handmade suits and ties, and a wide range of men's wardrobe accessories.
Robert Kyncl is the current Chief Business Officer of YouTube. He previously worked at Netflix as a Vice President, Content. Robert Kyncl attended Pepperdine Graziadio Business School.
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Investment focus
- Art, FinTech, Payments
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Czech Republic
Portfolio highlights
- Qerko — Qerko is loaded with great features for your business like fast checkout, tableside ordering, loyalty programs, verified reviews, and more. Apply today!
- Outfindo — Making bikes & e-bikes buying easy
- ArtMaster — ArtMaster is an online platform that offers individual one-on-one tuition and online courses designed by professionals in art and music.
Martin Rozhon
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Health Care, Software
- Pre-Seed, Angel, Funding Round
- Czech Republic, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Hedepy — Online therapy works. Research has proven that what matters is the conversation, not where the conversation happens.
- snuggs — In Europe alone, there are over 300 million people with a vagina. Half of them are of reproductive age and they menstruate. For many, it is often connected with struggle, stress, and discomfort. And they seek a change.
- Puravia —
Eduard Kucera is a Member of the Board of Directors at AVAST Software since February 2014. Eduard was the Co-Founder and Chairman of the Board of Directors from the incorporation of AVAST Software a.s. in December 2006 until January 2014. Since 1991, Eduard was responsible for the activities of our predecessor entity, ALWIL Software partnership.From 1991 to 2009, Eduard also served as AVAST Chief Executive Officer, directing day-to-day operations that included the transition to a free software distribution model in 2002. Prior to co-founding AVAST, Eduard was a Computer Hardware Specialist at the Czech Computer Research Institute (VUMS). In 2009, Eduard was named Ernst & Young's "Entrepreneur of the Year 2009" for the Czech Republic. Eduard holds a Ph.D. in Natural Sciences degree in experimental Physics from Charles University in Prague.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Poland, United States, Slovakia (Slovak Republic)
Portfolio highlights
- Keboola — A dataops platform built to set up data practitioners for success. Sign up today and create a free account!
- Photoneo Brightpick Group — Next generation of 3D robot vision for flexible automation
- Manta — Get a holistic view of your data pipelines to boost your data governance, achieve DataOps, and migrate to the cloud without a hassle.
I started as a web developer, became web application full stack developer and kept moving towards backend development, system architecture, cloud SaaS and also product management. Currently, at Mews, I'm managing a growing team of 50+ developers, data scientists and testers. Together we're following our technical vision, contributing tothe product strategy and delivering technical solutions and products. I like to share my experience and enjoy mentoring of early stage startups.
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Health Diagnostics
- Pre-Seed
- Czech Republic
Jan is a founding partner of Credo Ventures. Before becoming a venture capitalist, he co-founded and operated several companies and later served as an M&A advisor representing the sellers as well as the acquirers. He is a member of Kauffman Fellowship, a highly sought-after program and network dedicated to the world of innovation investing.
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Investment focus
- Artificial Intelligence, Software, Internet
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United Kingdom, United States, Serbia
Portfolio highlights
- Zuri — We are developing a modern private aircraft with vertical takeoff and landing. This will allow you to affordably travel from city to city at distances of up to 700 km apart.
- Fabrica AI — Fabrica AI offers a revolutionary platform for faster robot development, using custom hardware designs and learned optimal control to increase efficiency while minimizing complexity and cost. With a vision for a future where robot development takes days, not years.
- Munch — Create anything from a captivating portfolio to a full-blown online store in minutes, with no subscription fee.
An entrepreneur and investor with a business background and solid technical experience. Founded several startups, the latest being Indextools, a software company specializing in enterprise on-demand web analytics software. In April 2008 Indextools got acquired by Yahoo! Inc. At the time of the acquisition, Indextools was recognized as one of thetop five web analytics vendors world-wide by Forrester / Jupiter Research. Mr. Szőke served at Yahoo for three years to lead integration efforts and to realign Indextools’ business model.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Software, EdTech
- Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Hungary, Switzerland, Czech Republic
Bashar Hamood is the Managing Director and co-founder of FasterCapital and attended Heriot-Watt University. He has broad experience across various organizational domains, including marketing strategy, branding, direct marketing, product launches, analysis, and reporting. As an entrepreneur, he has expertise in brand development and communityoutreach. Bashar is skilled in optimizing team dynamics, aligning diverse agendas, and leveraging strategic and operational drivers to achieve results. He also has a strong analytical approach, carefully studying each case and parameter variation.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, United Kingdom, India
Portfolio highlights
- Tikkno — Tikkno is a dynamic and innovative company offering an extensive portfolio of 100 high-quality services across key sectors such as technology, marketing, education, training, management, and design. Our mission is to empower businesses and individuals by providing cutting-edge solutions tailored to their unique needs.In technology, Tikknodelivers comprehensive IT services that streamline operations, boost efficiency, and enhance digital transformation. From software development to cybersecurity, our solutions are built to keep businesses ahead in the rapidly evolving tech landscape.In marketing, we craft data-driven strategies designed to maximize brand visibility, engagement, and growth. Our team excels in digital marketing, SEO, social media management, and advertising, helping businesses connect with their target audiences effectively.Our education and training services focus on upskilling teams and individuals through tailored programs that combine industry-leading knowledge with practical application. We offer specialized training to ensure that clients stay competitive in today’s fast-paced environment.Management and design services from Tikkno ensure that businesses operate efficiently while presenting a strong visual identity. Our management consulting aids in optimizing workflows and strategic planning, while our design services deliver creative, visually compelling solutions that resonate with audiences.Investing in Tikkno means investing in a forward-thinking company that is dedicated to delivering measurable value, innovative solutions, and long-term growth. With a commitment to excellence and a proven track record of success, Tikkno is positioned to become a key player in driving business success across various industries.
- Accel Growth — Accel Growth has created an amazing super oxygenation machine that uses a radical technique to supersaturate water with oxygen by forming new chemical interactions with the minerals in the water.
- Intech Research Group — Welcome to the world of TROT FTRs. Empowering the world like never before. Opens up many new business opportunities. And opportunities for the businesses. The opportunities you can’t afford to miss. An ideal for investors. TROT FTRs enjoy huge potential to become a trillion-dollar business. Once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Robust, sustained revenuestreams. Saves on future inflation for the global households. Year after year, Plan your budget without worrying. Hedge your costs or sell the rights for a good profit. Save big on your vacation, buying a home, children's education, healthcare. And many more. Why not earn while hedging? Good returns. Anytime liquidity, High Safety. Buy, sell, redeem, gift – all from your home comfort. No brokers. FTRs sold by vetted, reputed businesses. Blockchain registered. Legally compliant. Many Govt. corporations may soon offer their FTRs. Tourism, healthcare, agriculture, real estate, education, lifestyle, and many others. Freely tradable on TROT Exchange. ideal investment for households and businesses alike. FTRs for HNIs as the Market Makers. Multiply your returns. Minimal risk. One platform to weave the world's largest and the best network of all the participants – from businesses to households to the service providers An ideal solution for businesses. Meet all your finance needs. No ownership sharing. Think big. Plus, a huge marketing boost. Market Maker support as the up-front buyers.
Eva Janečková is an individual investor.
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Investment focus
- B2C, Rental, Travel
- Seed
- Czech Republic
Portfolio highlights
- Campiri — Campiri is the largest online campervan and recreational vehicle rental site. Choose from hundreds of RVs from rental dealers as well as private owners.
Philip Staehelin
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Investment focus
- Mobile, Travel, Education
- Seed, Convertible Note
- Czech Republic
Portfolio highlights
- ClaimAir — We are flight angels. We solve problems with flight delays, cancellations or baggage-related troubles.
- Educasoft — MyPrepApp is for students who need a reason to study. It’s a mobile and online service to help students pass their exams when they lack the motivation to study independently.MyPrepApp creates customized study plans for them and uses gamification and the support of friends to motivate them to meet their study goals and achieve the best examresults.
Michal Smida - Founder & CEO @ Twisto
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Mobile Apps, Mobile Payments
- Seed, Funding Round
- Czech Republic
Portfolio highlights
- Twisto — Twisto is on a mission to challenge the status quo of everyday finances via exceptional customer experience by being at the forefront in delivering cutting edge technology. Pay simply, fast and securely.
Founder/Co-founder since university studies, with corporate experience in PR, banking and internet retail. For years Nikola helps technology startups to set viable business and grow.
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Investment focus
- Mobile, Travel, Education
- Seed, Convertible Note
- Czech Republic
Portfolio highlights
- ClaimAir — We are flight angels. We solve problems with flight delays, cancellations or baggage-related troubles.
- Educasoft — MyPrepApp is for students who need a reason to study. It’s a mobile and online service to help students pass their exams when they lack the motivation to study independently.MyPrepApp creates customized study plans for them and uses gamification and the support of friends to motivate them to meet their study goals and achieve the best examresults.
Jude Gomila is currently CEO and Founder of the startup Golden.
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Investment focus
- Software, Biotechnology, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- United States, United Kingdom, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Parcha AI — Parcha is an AI-powered enterprise software that enables businesses to automate their scale compliance and operations.
- HockeyStack — HockeyStack enables marketing teams to drive pipeline efficiently and sales teams to close deals faster with modern attribution, holistic buyer journeys, and account insights.
- Farmako — Install Farmako app, get a free health ID and get all your medical records safe and secure in one place!
Hesham Zreik is the Founder and CEO of FasterCapital, an online accelerator and incubator. He has co-founded over 100 startups as a technical co-founder and invested in them as an angel investor. Under his leadership, FasterCapital has expanded its network to include over 1,000 regional partners, 1,000 mentors, and 200 partnerships with incubators,accelerators, and venture funds. The organization has helped over 300 startups raise more than $1 billion.Zreik began programming in 1989 with Basic, transitioning to QBasic in 1992. He ranked 7th in the Baccalaureate exams and earned an engineering degree at HIAST, followed by a DBA at Edinburgh Business School and a Master’s in Computer Information Science from AABFS.In 2018, Forbes ranked him #39 among the top 50 investors based on his investment activity and successful exits. He has invested in over 100 startups, co-founded more than 40, and has served as a mentor and board member for various companies. Zreik's investment interests include AI, fintech, blockchain, e-commerce, IoT, HR, and B2B startups.His portfolio includes companies such as Twitter, Zomato, and SpaceX. In 2002, he founded ZGroup Mobile, growing it to a valuation of $2.5–$3.25 million by 2005. The company was a candidate for acquisition by Incagold plc.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, India, Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
- Tikkno — Tikkno is a dynamic and innovative company offering an extensive portfolio of 100 high-quality services across key sectors such as technology, marketing, education, training, management, and design. Our mission is to empower businesses and individuals by providing cutting-edge solutions tailored to their unique needs.In technology, Tikknodelivers comprehensive IT services that streamline operations, boost efficiency, and enhance digital transformation. From software development to cybersecurity, our solutions are built to keep businesses ahead in the rapidly evolving tech landscape.In marketing, we craft data-driven strategies designed to maximize brand visibility, engagement, and growth. Our team excels in digital marketing, SEO, social media management, and advertising, helping businesses connect with their target audiences effectively.Our education and training services focus on upskilling teams and individuals through tailored programs that combine industry-leading knowledge with practical application. We offer specialized training to ensure that clients stay competitive in today’s fast-paced environment.Management and design services from Tikkno ensure that businesses operate efficiently while presenting a strong visual identity. Our management consulting aids in optimizing workflows and strategic planning, while our design services deliver creative, visually compelling solutions that resonate with audiences.Investing in Tikkno means investing in a forward-thinking company that is dedicated to delivering measurable value, innovative solutions, and long-term growth. With a commitment to excellence and a proven track record of success, Tikkno is positioned to become a key player in driving business success across various industries.
- Accel Growth — Accel Growth has created an amazing super oxygenation machine that uses a radical technique to supersaturate water with oxygen by forming new chemical interactions with the minerals in the water.
- Intech Research Group — Welcome to the world of TROT FTRs. Empowering the world like never before. Opens up many new business opportunities. And opportunities for the businesses. The opportunities you can’t afford to miss. An ideal for investors. TROT FTRs enjoy huge potential to become a trillion-dollar business. Once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Robust, sustained revenuestreams. Saves on future inflation for the global households. Year after year, Plan your budget without worrying. Hedge your costs or sell the rights for a good profit. Save big on your vacation, buying a home, children's education, healthcare. And many more. Why not earn while hedging? Good returns. Anytime liquidity, High Safety. Buy, sell, redeem, gift – all from your home comfort. No brokers. FTRs sold by vetted, reputed businesses. Blockchain registered. Legally compliant. Many Govt. corporations may soon offer their FTRs. Tourism, healthcare, agriculture, real estate, education, lifestyle, and many others. Freely tradable on TROT Exchange. ideal investment for households and businesses alike. FTRs for HNIs as the Market Makers. Multiply your returns. Minimal risk. One platform to weave the world's largest and the best network of all the participants – from businesses to households to the service providers An ideal solution for businesses. Meet all your finance needs. No ownership sharing. Think big. Plus, a huge marketing boost. Market Maker support as the up-front buyers.
Mike Chalfen is a solo early stage investor who backs teams building remarkable software-driven companies. He often partners with them from the start of their journeys and invest significant cheques in a small number of companies. He invested early in a wide range of great companies including King.com, Houzz, Fizzback, The Foundry, Ubiquisys,Boxed, eDreams, QXL.com and SuSE Linux. More recently he has invested early in emerging platforms like Crate.io, Harbr, Illumio and Tray.io, “intelligent software” startups like Moogsoft and Seal Software, other exciting startups such as Snyk and Time is Ltd, as well as several unannounced investments. In November 2017, he was honoured to be included at number six in Forbes' first Midas List Europe.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Series C
- United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Flexciton — Flexciton is the ultimate scheduling optimization solution for semiconductor wafer fabs. Flexciton applies cutting-edge technology to optimize the planning and scheduling decisions for the world's most complex manufacturing process - semiconductor wafer fabrication.
- Time is Ltd. — Time is Ltd. was founded in 2017 to improve the everyday productivity of large corporations and companies. An easy way to integrate solution for companies which are going through the process of adopting a diverse number of cloud tools, it allows them to understand the performance data behind their productivity.Powered by machine learning, theplatform brings the data from a number of tools, such as Office 365, G Suite, and Slack, amongst others, together in one. By unlocking the hidden gems in this combined data, it reveals a company’s successful working patterns and allows organizations to operate more effectively.Time is Ltd. is a Prague-based startup founded by serial entrepreneurs Jan Rezab and Cyril Höschl.
- AtomicJar — Integration testing made easier for developers
Robert Neale
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Investment focus
- Winery, Consumer, Craft Beer
- Angel
- Czech Republic
Portfolio highlights
- The Original Experience — In our unique beer exhibition, you can experience the story of beer from its history to the present, visit the taproom school, or enjoy dinner with a beer sommelier.
Oskari Saarenmaa - CEO & Co-founder @ Aiven
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Investment focus
- SaaS, Internet, Software
- Series A
- Czech Republic
Portfolio highlights
- Better Stack — Delightful observability tools that turn your logs & monitoring into a secret weapon for shipping better software faster.
Marek Frey
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Investment focus
- Industrial, Cyber Security, Internet of Things
- Pre-Seed
- Czech Republic
Portfolio highlights
- GuardIoT — Cybersecurity hacking industry utility military | Cyweta | Czechia
Vit Vrba
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Investment focus
- SaaS, Software, Messaging
- Seed
- Czech Republic
Ryan Petersen is the CEO and Founder of Flexport. Prior to starting Flexport to fix the user experience in global trade, Ryan was co-founder and CEO of ImportGenius.com, a data-as-a-service business for global shipping. He holds a degree in economics from the University of California, Berkeley and an MBA from Columbia University.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, India, Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- Better Stack — Delightful observability tools that turn your logs & monitoring into a secret weapon for shipping better software faster.
- TruckSmarter — Our mission is to empower truck drivers lives across the US through technology and grit.
- Teleport — Teleport is ridesharing reimagined as a protocol. By distributing ownership and governance of the network, riders get cars cheaper and faster, drivers earn more, and entrepreneurs can innovate on top.
Ondrej Fryc was born in 1973 in Prague. Ondrej Fryc is a Managing Partner at Reflex Capital SE. He graduated from the University of Economics, Department of Information Management.He started his career in business started Ondrej Fryc already studying at university as patrol seller of canned fish imported from the Baltic region. After severalpairs of worn out shoes rather then after he moved to the Netherlands Chamber of Commerce, where he worked as a project manager for international market research company. In 1997 he co-founded market research agency, where he served as managing director. After five years, sold its share.Andrew was in 2000 one of the three co-founders bilezbozi.cz, predecessor MALL.CZ. The company went through all the positions of the driver rozvozového vehicles to the current position of Chief Executive Officer Netretail Holding BV , under which we have passed, as well as all our foreign colleagues, the first February 2008 . Ondrej also significantly contributed to attracting investors for MALL.CZ, including Intel.In 2003 Ondrej elected to the board of the Association for Electronic Commerce in the Czech Republic and in 2007 was elected to the Supervisory Board CZ.NIC organization.Ondrej is married and has three children. His main hobbies include hiking, motorcycles, traveling on my own and of course MALL.CZ.
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Investment focus
- SaaS, Software, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Czech Republic, United States, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Apify — Cloud platform for web scraping, browser automation, and data for AI. Use 2,000+ ready-made tools, code templates, or order a custom solution.
- Keboola — A dataops platform built to set up data practitioners for success. Sign up today and create a free account!
- Denník N — Denník N is a local daily and online media firm that publishes issues on societal, political, and economics for its subscribers.
Oliver Dlouhý is the founder of a unique flight ticket search engine, which allows users to combine various flights and find the best flight connections. Within his first year, SkyPicker achieved enormous success and was ranked by New York Times blogger, Seth Kugel, as one of the top 10 internet travel companies. SkyPicker has also gained attentionin several other dailies, such as France’s Le Figaro.
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Investment focus
- Mobile Apps, Gaming, Internet
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Czech Republic, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Futupilot — Futupilot is a bike sharing company. You can ride a bike, operate bike-sharing in your city or invest to the bike-sharing ecosystem.
- Zuri — We are developing a modern private aircraft with vertical takeoff and landing. This will allow you to affordably travel from city to city at distances of up to 700 km apart.
- Fireball — Dungeon Realms is like playing your favorite tabletop RPG on your phone. Play-by-post role-playing is a way to play asynchronously during your day.
Aaron Levie is Chief Executive Officer, Cofounder and Chairman at Box, which he launched in 2005 with CFO and cofounder Dylan Smith. He is the visionary behind the Box product and platform strategy, incorporating the best of secure content collaboration with an intuitive user experience suited to the way people work today. Aaron leads the companyin its mission to transform the way people and businesses work so they can achieve their greatest ambitions. He has served on the Board of Directors since April 2005.Aaron attended the University of Southern California from 2003 to 2005 before leaving to found Box.
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Investment focus
- Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Czech Republic
Portfolio highlights
- Pika — The idea-to-video platform that sets your creativity in motion.
- Retell AI — RetellAI is an API for creating human-like conversational voice AI. Developers can build a voice AI similar to JARVIS in just a day — with an ~800ms response time and the ability to handle interruptions.
- Better Stack — Delightful observability tools that turn your logs & monitoring into a secret weapon for shipping better software faster.
Markus Villig is founder and CEO of Taxify. He attended University of Tartu.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, E-Commerce, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Estonia, Poland, Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- GScan — Cosmic-ray based solutions for 3D imaging. GScan redefines the boundaries of 3D scanning with Muon Flux Technology (MFT) detectors. Unparalleled quality, safety, ease-of-use. Scan anything. Detect everything.
- Sera — Sera's AI streamlines prospecting with tailored lists and enriched profiles, including accurate emails and metrics.
- Tab — Tab is the API-first company that enables smart receipts to arrive straight to your mobile bank app, all linked to your payment card. We help merchants deliver a seamless checkout experience and to unlock new avenues for post-sale engagement, banks to offer better user experiences & reducing customer support costs and consumers can wave goodbyeto lost receipts, tedious expense reporting processes and a more engaging banking experience.
Kulpreet Singh is Managing Partner at Overture Capital. He attended IMD.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Finland, Germany, Czech Republic
Portfolio highlights
- Better Stack — Delightful observability tools that turn your logs & monitoring into a secret weapon for shipping better software faster.
- Workfellow — Find what breaks the flow of work and processes - automatically. Then just fix it!
- Integration.app — Connect to any app your customers use. Build seamless integration logic and UI. Scale it to every relevant app with AI.
Václav Lavička
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Health Diagnostics
- Pre-Seed
- Czech Republic
Portfolio highlights
- Macromo — Improve your lifestyle and discover your health risks by analyzing your DNA, blood, and lifestyle data.
Filip Mikschik - Founder & CEO @ StartupJobs
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Investment focus
- EdTech, Education, Employment
- Seed
- Czech Republic, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Nelisa — Nelisa is a recruitment solution platform that helps companies find talent effectively, with maximum time and financial savings.Nelisa is a career partner, helping applicants find a job that makes sense to them. It then helps companies find new talents for the team. With cutting-edge technology, Nelisa is determined to change the way the jobmarket works.
- encubate — With 2,500+ members, Encubate belongs to the most popular tools for aspiring entrepreneurs. Through a combination of exercises, mentoring and bite-sized learning, Encubate will help you build your business.
Martin Rajcan is a General Partner at KAYA VC. He Attended Middlebury College.
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Investment focus
- Graphic Design, Developer Tools
- Seed
- Czech Republic
Portfolio highlights
- Supernova.io — Supernova helps you build, mature, and scale your design system easily, thanks to powerful documentation and efficient design system management.
Christian Mruck
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Investment focus
- Winery, Consumer, Craft Beer
- Angel
- Czech Republic
Portfolio highlights
- The Original Experience — In our unique beer exhibition, you can experience the story of beer from its history to the present, visit the taproom school, or enjoy dinner with a beer sommelier.
Sara Varni is the Chief Marketing Officer of Datadog. She previously worked at Attentive as a CMO. Sara Varni attended Bucknell University.
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Investment focus
- Graphic Design, Developer Tools
- Seed
- Czech Republic
Portfolio highlights
- Supernova.io — Supernova helps you build, mature, and scale your design system easily, thanks to powerful documentation and efficient design system management.
Martin Kálovec is an Early-stage Investor, YPO Member, ex BCG Managing Director and Partner.
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Investment focus
- SaaS, FinTech, Software
- Angel
- Czech Republic
Portfolio highlights
- Dishboard — Dishboard's goal is to help restaurant owners better understand their overall business picture, track profits, and to enable them to dive deep into their costs while automating manual labor with such features as automatic invoice recognition so, at the end of the day, owners open the app and immediately see their real-time financial breakdownwith all revenues and all costs (including supplies and salaries) without doing a thing.Our ultimate vision is to become a fin. tech service provider for the restaurant market, where the first step is to start using the data we collect for scoring mechanisms and offer our clients short-term loans to prevent the cash gaps they face so often.
Product
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Investment focus
- SaaS, Internet, Software
- Series A
- Czech Republic
Portfolio highlights
- Better Stack — Delightful observability tools that turn your logs & monitoring into a secret weapon for shipping better software faster.
Lachy Groom is the Co-Founder of Physical Intelligence. He previously worked at Stripe as the Head of Stripe Issuing.
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- Software, Financial Services, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, India, United Kingdom
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- Even — Even is a health tech company and healthcare provider that partners directly with the top hospitals in the country to offer you unlimited diagnostics, consultations, and 50 lakh worth of hospitalisations all with one monthly subscription cost.
- Nooks — Working with your team should be enjoyable & energizing. Nooks is the virtual office for your team to skip the fatiguing meetings and bring back impromptu collaboration & casual conversations.
- Pacific Fusion — Pacific Fusion was founded in 2023 with the mission to power the world with abundant, affordable, clean energy.
Rikard Steiber is the Founder & President of Viveport & he attedned SDA Bocconi in 1993.
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- Virtual Reality, Electric Vehicle, Sports
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- Sweden, United States, Czech Republic
Portfolio highlights
- LIV — LIV is your complete toolset for VTubing, Mixed Reality Capture and VR native utilities like in-headset stream chat, alerts and notifications!
- Einride — Einride is a freight mobility company that designs and builds technologies for transportation systems. It is taking logistics in a new direction with intelligent freight mobility solutions that are both autonomous and electric for shippers and carriers. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden.
- Jetson Aero — Your personal aircraft in aluminium and carbon fibre, powered with eight powerful electric motors.
Zach is the cofounder and CEO of Codecademy, the leading online education company closing the skills gap by teaching programming. Codecademy has reached millions of users in every country in the world. Codecademy’s investors include Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers, Index Ventures, Richard Branson, Yuri Milner, and more. Zach has worked withGroupMe (acq. by Skype) and drop.io (acq. by Facebook). Zach was named to Inc. Magazine and Forbes Magazine’s 30 Under 30 lists, was selected as a Technology Pioneer by the World Economic Forum, and was voted as one of TIME Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People of 2013.
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- Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, India, Canada
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- Commsor — Commsor is the world's only full-stack company, providing Community-Led companies with the software, resources, and education to unlock the full power of community.
- Circle — Circle is a community platform that brings together the creators' discussions, memberships, and content. The company was founded by Sid Yadav, Rudy Santino, and Andrew Guttormsen.
- Better Stack — Delightful observability tools that turn your logs & monitoring into a secret weapon for shipping better software faster.
Daniel Vávra - Co-Founder and Creative Director @ Warhorse Studios
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Investment focus
- Aerospace, Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality
- Funding Round
- Czech Republic
Portfolio highlights
- VRgineers — Built by industry experts, virtual reality systems are the No. 1 choice for realistic flight simulations and training for professionals and the military.
Ferdinando Beccalli-Falco is the President & Chief Executive Officer at General Electric.
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- Retail, Software, Logistics
- Pre-Seed
- Czech Republic
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- Ydistri — Digital tool for slow moving inventory problem
Jakub Jurovych
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- Developer APIs, Cloud Management
- Pre-Seed
- Czech Republic
Portfolio highlights
- E2B — Add code interpreting in your AI apps and AI agents.
Karel Obluk is the Partner at Evolution Equity Partners. He previously worked as the CTO and acting CEO at AVG Technologies.
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- Security, Software, Cyber Security
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- Czech Republic, Denmark, Germany
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- Codasip — Develop uniquely better products by harnessing the full power of RISC-V. Work with RISC-V Europe's leader.
- Localazy — Software & content localization on autopilot. Effective teams choose Localazy for automated SW i18n and content localization. Go international today!
- Logpoint — Logpoint is the creator of a reliable, innovative cybersecurity operations platform — empowering organizations worldwide to thrive in a world of evolving threats. By combining sophisticated technology and a profound understanding of customer challenges, LogPoint bolsters security teams’ capabilities while helping them combat current and futurethreats. Logpoint offers SIEM, UEBA, SOAR and SAP security technologies converged into a complete platform that efficiently detects threats, minimizes false positives, autonomously prioritizes risks, responds to incidents, and much more. Headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark, with offices around the world, Logpoint is a multinational, multicultural, and inclusive company. For more information, visit http://www.logpoint.com
Rasty Turek is the founder and CEO of Pex
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- Security, Aerospace, Electronics
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- United States, Czech Republic
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- Aimful — Meeting productivity assistant for everyone in your team or company.
- Arcjet — Arcjet helps developers protect their apps in just a few lines of code. Implement rate limiting, bot protection, email validation, and defense against common attacks.
- Zuri — We are developing a modern private aircraft with vertical takeoff and landing. This will allow you to affordably travel from city to city at distances of up to 700 km apart.
Fredrik Björk is Founder & CEO at Grafbase. He attended Rochester Institute of Technology.
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- Analytics, E-Commerce, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- United States, Chile, Denmark
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- Callstack AI — acreom is the integrated markdown knowledge base with tasks. Your personal daily driver for your dev workflow.
- Mason — Mason was an AI-powered SQL editor for teams.
- Dimension — Dimension is an all-in-one ecosystem for product development built for a better developer experience, enabling developers to plan, build, and deploy their project in one place.
Michael Stoppelman is an active angel/seed investor in Los Angeles. He's the former Senior Vice President of Engineering at Yelp. He started at Yelp as a software engineer working on the search engine. He took over as head engineering in 2012 after serving as a manager and Director of Engineering in the proceeding years. He scaled theengineering team from 30 to over 500 engineers. Prior to Yelp he was a software engineer at Google for 3.5 years and served as the tech lead for the AdSense Traffic Quality team. He received his BS in Computer Science from Purdue in West Lafayette, Indiana in 2003.
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- Software, Internet, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, United Kingdom, India
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- T2 — T2 is in early alpha. 280 character text, replies, and likes - that's it for now. Browse content now and sign up for the waitlist.
- Morty — Morty is an app for discovering, booking, and tracking escape rooms. Find legendary escape games, coordinate with friends, and record your wins.
- ParadeDB — ParadeDB is a modern Elasticsearch alternative built on Postgres.
A Leader with a "can do" approach and a proven track record of delivering ‘stretch’ targets in a difficult marketplace. Alumni of top-ranked business schools ESCE, INSEAD and Harvard Business School Executive Programs, Wentzo joined Casewise in 2004 and has held a variety of Sales and Operational roles within the EMEA and APAC regions.In 2010, Wentzo became Chief Executive Officer and has since been attributed to leading record-breaking profitability which lead to a successful sales exit of the company in 2017.His entrepreneurial spirit and strong but empathetic leadership style has been recognized through quotes and features in numerous publications including The Wall Street Journal, Forbes Insight, Financial Times, and Entrepreneur.
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- Information Technology
- Seed
- Czech Republic
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- Pointee — A simple way to increase the efficiency of RPA in your company. Automatically analyze your robotic processes and discover opportunities for improvement.
Jan Slama
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- Software, Education, Virtual Assistant
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Czech Republic
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- Goodbye — Online funeral provider, online wills and death related support services
- Reknihy — Reknihy offers books in excellent condition that has been read once a second chance and is looking for new readers for the books. It thus saves its customers' money while also making life easier for the environment by eliminating the need to print another book.
- Dishboard — Dishboard's goal is to help restaurant owners better understand their overall business picture, track profits, and to enable them to dive deep into their costs while automating manual labor with such features as automatic invoice recognition so, at the end of the day, owners open the app and immediately see their real-time financial breakdownwith all revenues and all costs (including supplies and salaries) without doing a thing.Our ultimate vision is to become a fin. tech service provider for the restaurant market, where the first step is to start using the data we collect for scoring mechanisms and offer our clients short-term loans to prevent the cash gaps they face so often.
Mr. Jean-Pascal Pierre A. Duvieusart was appointed as a Director of the Company in March 2017, and was redesignated as a Non-Executive Director in June 2019. He became an Executive Director and CEO of Home Credit N.V. in January 2020.Mr. Duvieusart joined McKinsey & Company in May 1992. He was a partner at McKinsey & Company from January1998 to June 2004 and a senior partner at McKinsey & Company from July 2004 to January 2010.Since September 2011, Mr. Duvieusart has been a non-executive member of the board of Polymetal International plc, a precious metals mining group operating in Russia and Kazakhstan (which is listed on the London and Moscow Stock Exchanges). Mr. Duvieusart has also served as a director of Home Credit Group B.V. since August 2018.
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- Apps, Travel, Leisure
- Seed, Funding Round
- Austria, Czech Republic
Portfolio highlights
- Advanto — Advanto is pioneering on-demand pay in CEE markets.
- tripmakery — tripmakery.com is an easy to use webapp that helps users to book group-accomodations all over Europe. With an database of 60.000 group hotels, tripmakery.com is the leading platform for larger group bookings. No matter whether 10 people travel together to Berlin or 50 people to Barcelona, tripmakery.com is the first platform to automate large groupbookings. Founded in 2015 by Robert Sasse and Ajmal Said in Vienna, tripmakery.com is backed by VC's like Speedinvest or Push Ventures and by the founders of 'hotel.de' one of the largest hotel-bookings platform in Germany.
- Jeff — Jeff is a personalized loan broker that matches borrowers and lenders through alternative data. Jeff's mission is to help the unbanked to access financial services. In the absence of credit history and bank transactions, Jeff gathers alternative data from sources like smartphones, social media, behavioral patterns, geolocation, and other typesof digital footprint.Jeff then puts this information to good use and find ways on how alternative data points can prove creditworthiness and build trust, building new ways of accessing financing and evolving an alternative credit score.The company was founded in 2019 and is located in Riga, Latvia.
Lucjan Samulowski - Cofounder & CPO @ DocPlanner
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- SaaS, Internet, Software
- Pre-Seed, Series A
- Poland, Czech Republic
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- Epinote — Epinote is Warsaw-based annotation boutique that provides high quality data annotation and collection services. We specialise in Computer Vision, NLP and search relevance projects including image, video, text and audio annotations. Our workforce consists of only in-house employees, mostly graduates of top Polish universities. Our managementconsists of experts who know exactly how to manage large human-intense projects and understand deeply Data Scientists needs. The highest delivered quality and facing unstable inflow of work is what we challenge everyday. Contact us. You will not be disappointed.
- Better Stack — Delightful observability tools that turn your logs & monitoring into a secret weapon for shipping better software faster.
Kartik Varma - Co-founder @ PropTiger
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- FinTech, Financial Services, SaaS
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Convertible Note
- United Kingdom, Ireland, United States
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- Valyuu.com — Bye old products, hello Valyuu.
- Flowpay — Flowpay offers operating loans to entrepreneurs who use one of our partner platforms.
- 1DigitalStack.ai — Technology for brand growth on Ecommerce marketplaces We help brands dominate Ecommerce by leveraging marketplace data & AI-enabled media management Let's Connect
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