Top 15 Artificial intelligence Angel Investors in Czech Republic in September 2025
A list of 15 angel investors that invest in Artificial intelligence startups based in Czech republic. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Artificial intelligence companies from Czech republic. We update this investor list every month.Top 15 Artificial intelligence Angel Investors in Czech Republic in September 2025
Investor | Artificial intelligence Czech Republic investments |
---|---|
Michael Rostock-Poplar | 4 |
Mike Chalfen | 2 |
Ondrej Smolar | 2 |
Eduard Kucera | 2 |
Matej Turek | 1 |
Jakub Mahdal | 1 |
Joerg Dr. Rupp | 1 |
Siim Teller | 1 |
Kartik Varma | 1 |
Michal Pechoucek | 1 |
Jeff Sagansky | 1 |
Tomas Cupr | 1 |
Ondřej Fryc | 1 |
Paul Sallaberry | 1 |
Clark Golestani | 1 |
Michael is a founding partner of the company. In last five years Michael completed a number of cross-border M&A projects and advised on several private equity investments. Before founding Venture Investors in 1999, he worked as a legal counsel for WoodCommerz. Prior to that he participated on the first issue of eurobonds in the CEE region (theissuer was the Czech power company ČEZ). He also worked for PPF (First Privatization Fund), where he took part in the preparation of several privatization projects in Russia and Bulgaria. He is also a member of the supervisory board of iMall, large online retailer and a member of the advisory board of Tuesday Business Network.Michael studied Law at Charles University in Prague and went on to pursue graduate studies at St Anthony's College, Oxford (Soros scholar) and Hughe's Hall, Cambridge (Chevening Scholar), where he obtained his masters degree in law (focus on corporate finance law). He specialized in securities and exchanges law and regulation of financial markets. He founded and presided the Central European Society at Cambridge University.Michal speaks Czech, English, Russian and Polish. Among projects he worked on recently there were several sell mandates from IT and telecommunications companies, acquisition of private University and work for Western European Private Equity funds on the acquisition of Czech Telecom.
Show more
Investment focus
- Software, Cloud Computing, SaaS
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Czech Republic, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Boost.space — Combining the power of a Cloud-based Database with an intuitive Integration Platform, we make it easy to streamline and enhance your workflows. Imagine the simplicity of Airtable fused with the connectivity of Zapier. Experience the future of no-code Data Management, today.
- DecisionRules — DecisionRules is a lightweight and innovative business rules engine that lets you easily manage business rules in a secure cloud.
- Safetica Technologies — Safetica Intelligent Data Security protects sensitive enterprise data wherever your team uses it.
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.
Show more
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
Ondrej Smolar - Board Member @ Gruveo
Show more
Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Sales
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Czech Republic, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Retailys.com — Retailys.com is a unified cloud platform for multiple online stores, social media and global marketplaces management
- Boost.space — Combining the power of a Cloud-based Database with an intuitive Integration Platform, we make it easy to streamline and enhance your workflows. Imagine the simplicity of Airtable fused with the connectivity of Zapier. Experience the future of no-code Data Management, today.
- Safetica Technologies — Safetica Intelligent Data Security protects sensitive enterprise data wherever your team uses it.
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.
Show more
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.
Matej Turek - COO and Co-Founder @ Trisbee
Show more
Investment focus
- FinTech, Lending, Aerospace
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Czech Republic
Portfolio highlights
- E2B — Add code interpreting in your AI apps and AI agents.
- 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.
- Flowpay — Flowpay offers operating loans to entrepreneurs who use one of our partner platforms.
I'm the Founder of Safetica Technologies - the recognized CEE Data Leak Prevention company. I've been honored to be selected by Forbes as Czech's 30 Under 30.
Show more
Investment focus
- Software, Database, Security
- Seed, Funding Round
- Czech Republic
Portfolio highlights
- Boost.space — Combining the power of a Cloud-based Database with an intuitive Integration Platform, we make it easy to streamline and enhance your workflows. Imagine the simplicity of Airtable fused with the connectivity of Zapier. Experience the future of no-code Data Management, today.
- Safetica Technologies — Safetica Intelligent Data Security protects sensitive enterprise data wherever your team uses it.
Joerg Dr. Rupp is an angel investor.
Show more
Investment focus
- Manufacturing, Robotic Process Automation (RPA)
- Pre-Seed
- Czech Republic
Portfolio highlights
- RoboTwin — Easy robot teaching for spray painting, powder coating, grinding, sanding, polishing, general motion teaching. 3 steps & 1 minute to automation.
Siim Teller is a Managing Partner at Lemonade Stand. He attended the University of Tartu from 1997 to 2003.
Show more
Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Simulation
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Austria, Estonia, Czech Republic
Portfolio highlights
- Wowflow — Wowflow is a mobile-first collaboration and workflow for facility maintenance teams.
- Superface — Superface helps you build reliable AI solutions that achieve human-level accuracy with high goal completion rate.
- DimensionLab — Next-generation engineering and scientific software
Kartik Varma - Co-founder @ PropTiger
Show more
Investment focus
- FinTech, Financial Services, SaaS
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Convertible Note
- United Kingdom, Ireland, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Valyuu.com — Bye old products, hello Valyuu.
- Flowpay — Flowpay offers operating loans to entrepreneurs who use one of our partner platforms.
- 1DigitalStack — Technology for brand growth on Ecommerce marketplaces We help brands dominate Ecommerce by leveraging marketplace data & AI-enabled media management Let's Connect
Michal Pechoucek joined Avast as CTO in September 2019. Mr. Pechoucek leads the core technology and R&D teams supporting the work of the Avast Threat Labs, Big Data and innovation teams. He is also responsible for the company’s scientific research in the fields of Artificial Intelligence, machine learning, and cybersecurity.Before joiningAvast, Mr. Pechoucek spent over twenty years as a professor at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering at the Czech Technical University (CTU) in Prague, during which time he led the Department of Computer Science and founded the Artificial Intelligence Center in 2001. He also co-founded a research-oriented study programme, Open Informatics, which offers a choice of different subjects, combines different areas of informatics and approaches and continues to be taught today.Mr. Pechoucek has authored more than 400 high impact publications and contributed numerous innovative AI applications to research in computer science. Before joining Avast, he was the prime mover behind the creation of the Avast Chair of Cybersecurity at CTU, and in 2019, he also helped to establish the Avast funded joint CTU/Avast AI and Cybersecurity Laboratory. Today, Mr. Pechoucek continues to lecture at CTU and lead the Artificial Intelligence Center.
Show more
Investment focus
- Machine Learning, Network Security, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed
- Czech Republic
Portfolio highlights
- Resistant AI — Resistant AI provides fraud detection and prevention in automated document processing workflows, transaction monitoring, and identities analysis.
Jeff Sagansky - Chief Executive Officer and President @ Double Eagle Acquisition
Show more
Investment focus
- Software, Big Data, Advertising
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- United States, Canada, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Picklebet — Puntaa is a social daily fantasy sports (DFS) app.
- Oddin.gg — Oddin.gg - Esports live odds provider with industry-leading uptime and multiple live markets. B2B Esports data API. Boost volume and profit. Try our demo.
- SiBS — Social Bartering System is a platform for community connection and the trade of goods and services. Social Bartering System was founded in 2020 and was headquartered in New York, United States.
Tomas Cupr is the Group Chief Executive Officer at Rohlik. Additionally, Tomas Cupr has had 3 past jobs including Partner at KAYA.
Show more
Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Fashion, Grocery
- 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.
- FLEXDOG — FlexDog is the real deal in streetwear. Founded in Prague in 2020, our team curates brands, models, and products. Our gallery is a place where the community meets. The offer covers global and local brands, from the hottest releases to everyday wear. Our business partners are selected carefully. We search for the best sneakers and streetwear storesand brands from all over the world, that cherish inspiration, customer experience and product quality as their key values.
- Keboola — A dataops platform built to set up data practitioners for success. Sign up today and create a free account!
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.
Show more
Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- Czech Republic, United States, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- Grid.online — Grid.online is building transportation infrastructure as a service that will unlock the huge free transportation capacity of cities and allow it to be shared efficiently.
Paul Sallaberry is the Chairman of the Board at Seal Software.
Show more
Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Series B, Series C, Funding Round
- United States, Czech Republic
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- Oportun — Get affordable personal loans, effortless savings tools, credit-building credit cards, and smart budgeting tools to strengthen your finances.
- Bitwise — Bitwise Asset Management is a trusted partner to individuals, wealth managers, family offices, investment managers, and institutions in navigating cryptocurrency. Bitwise develops funds, indexes, insight, and other services. The team behind Bitwise has backgrounds in technology, security, and finance. The firm’s origins are in technology and itprides itself on having a deep understanding of protocols while seeking to build understanding and help the technical and non-technical alike participate.
Clark Golestani is Managing Director of C Sensei Group since 2018. He attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Show more
Investment focus
- CRM, SaaS, Computer
- Seed, Series A
- United States, Czech Republic
Portfolio highlights
- BalkanID — BalkanID leverages data science to provide **visibility of risky entitlements** and simplifies the access review & certification process across the SaaS and Public Cloud landscape.
- 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.
- Curavit Clinical Research — Curavit is a “virtual CRO”, purpose-built to design and execute decentralized clinical trials. The company works with our clients to design their trials from first principles, based on the team’s decades of experience in research and digital health technologies. For each trial, they assign an experienced principal investigator, who is an expert inthe specific disease area, to develop the protocol and drive the regulatory submission process. Curavit manages participant recruitment, enrollment, and consent. Under the direction of the PI, their clinical study team executes the entire decentralized clinical trial.
Investors by industry
Google
Marketplace
Hardware
Energy
Proptech
Health Care
Biotech
Artificial intelligence
Climate
Consumer
Community
Impact
Gaming
FinTech
EdTech
Sustainability
Venture Capital
Big Data
Web3
B2B
Financial Services
Finance
Infrastructure
Education
Photography
Payments
Food and Beverage
Video Games
Organic Food
Retail
Beauty
Publishing
Clean Energy
Real Estate
Manufacturing
Art
Music
Android
Internet
Enterprise Software
eSports
Franchise
Sports
Construction
Digital Media
Email
Medical
Social Network
Wellness
Social Media
Mobile
Legal
Local
Recruiting
Cannabis
Platforms
Fitness
Travel
Mobile Advertising
Biotechnology
Hospitality
Social
Automotive
Crowdfunding
Wine And Spirits
Medical Device
CleanTech
Transportation
Mobile Apps
InsurTech
Enterprise
LGBT
Fashion
Oil and Gas
Life Science
Theatre
Film
Non Profit
Renewable Energy
SaaS
Sporting Goods
Restaurants
Social Impact
Software
Celebrity
Cryptocurrency
Machine Learning
Agriculture (agtech)
Media (entertainment)
Facebook
Blockchain
Investors by country
United Kingdom
Canada
South Korea
Ireland
United States
New Zealand
India
Germany
Australia
Armenia
South Africa
Spain
Japan
Africa
China
Sri Lanka
Singapore
Qatar
Asia
Indonesia
Vietnam
Oceania
LATAM
Middle East
Bulgaria
Belize
Bahrain
Croatia
Georgia
Belarus
Hungary
France
Ghana
Ethiopia
Gibraltar
Chile
Egypt
Finland
Costa Rica
Greece
Barbados
Belgium
Estonia
Bermuda
Czech Republic
Denmark
Algeria
Hong Kong
Ecuador
Faroe Islands
Liechtenstein
Liberia
Lebanon
Mauritius
Peru
Norway
Israel
Malaysia
Mexico
Nicaragua
Jersey
Panama
Morocco
Mali
Lithuania
Italy
Philippines
Kuwait
Malta
Myanmar
Sierra Leone
El Salvador
Uganda
Venezuela
Sweden
Slovenia
Poland
Uruguay
Ukraine
Tajikistan
Puerto Rico
Portugal
Tunisia
Taiwan
Tanzania
Turkey
San Marino
Senegal
Togo
Uzbekistan
Serbia
Russian Federation
Zambia
Rwanda
Zimbabwe
Thailand
Dominican Republic
Azerbaijan
Iceland
Nigeria
Bahamas
Namibia
Iraq
United Arab Emirates
Jamaica
Honduras
Isle of Man
Bolivia
Luxembourg
Pakistan
Albania
Grenada
Jordan
Romania
Bangladesh
Argentina
Europe
Saudi Arabia
Brazil
Kenya
Kazakhstan
Cayman Islands
Cambodia
Guatemala
Oman
Latvia
Cyprus
Austria
Switzerland
Cameroon
Colombia
Seychelles
Marshall Islands
Angel Investors in Czech Republic by industry