# Top 50 Enterprise Angel Investors in Czech Republic in June 2026

## Michael Rostock-Poplar
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, SaaS, E-Commerce

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.

## Ondrej Smolar
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bratislava, Bratislava, Slovakia (Slovak Republic)
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Sales

Ondrej Smolar - Board Member @ Gruveo

## Jiri Hlavenka
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Mobile Apps, Information Technology

Jiri Hlavenka is based out of South Moravia and is the Co-founder & Investor of FaceUp. Jiri previously worked at Kiwi.com as a Co-founder & Investor. Jiri Hlavenka attended the Brno University of Technology.

## Eduard Kucera
- Type: Angel
- Location: Prague, Hlavni mesto Praha, Czech Republic
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Robotics

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.

## Kulpreet Singh
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, General Santos, Philippines
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS

Kulpreet Singh is Managing Partner at Overture Capital. He attended IMD.

## Bashar Hamood
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce

Bashar Hamood is a Venture Partner at FasterCapital. He previously worked as an Associate Director at Logica. He attended Heriot-Watt University.

## Jaroslav Beck
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Gaming, Software, Art

Jaroslav Beck is based out of Czech Republic, Europe and is the Co-Founder and CEO of BottleCap AI. Jaroslav previously worked at Beat Games as a Co-Founder and Music Director. Jaroslav Beck attended the University of West Bohemia.

## Jakub Mahdal
- Type: Angel
- Location: Prague, Hlavni mesto Praha, Czech Republic
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Focus: Software, Database, Security

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.

## Eva Janečková
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: B2C, Rental, Travel

Eva Janečková is an individual investor.

## Hesham Zreik
- Type: Angel
- Location: Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Focus: Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence

Hesham Zreik is the CEO of FasterCapital. He previously worked at DreamApps as a Project Manager. Hesham attended the University of Westminster.

## Aaron Levie
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services

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.

## Mike Chalfen
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence

Mike Chalfen is based out of London, England, and is the Founder & Partner of Chalfen Ventures and also Board of Director of SurrealDB. Mike previously worked at Advent Venture Partners as a General Partner. Mike Chalfen attended Harvard University. Mike Chalfen has received the award of The Midas List.

## Marton Szoke
- Type: Angel
- Location: Budapest, Budapest, Hungary
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Information Technology, Software, EdTech

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.

## Ory Weihs
- Type: Angel
- Location: Prague, Hlavni mesto Praha, Czech Republic
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: SaaS, SEO, Apps

Ory Weihs is the Founder at Team Odeon. He attended Technion - Israel Institute of Technology.

## Tomas Cupr
- Type: Angel
- Location: Prague, Hlavni mesto Praha, Czech Republic
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, SaaS, Fashion

Tomas Cupr is the Group Chief Executive Officer at Rohlik. Additionally, Tomas Cupr has had 3 past jobs including Partner at KAYA.

## Peter Skrla
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Diabetes, Internet, Software

Peter Skrla is an angel investor and mentor of startups.

## Michael Stoppelman
- Type: Angel
- Location: Greater Los Angeles Area, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Internet

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.

## Lucjan Samulowski
- Type: Angel
- Location: Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: SaaS, Internet, Software

Lucjan Samulowski - Cofounder & CPO @ DocPlanner

## Michal Pechoucek
- Type: Angel
- Location: Prague, Hlavni mesto Praha, Czech Republic
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Internet, Machine Learning, Network Security

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.

## Filip Mikschik
- Type: Angel
- Location: Prague, Hlavni mesto Praha, Czech Republic
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: EdTech, Education, Employment

Filip Mikschik - Founder & CEO @ StartupJobs

## Vaclav Dejcmar
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: SaaS, Video, Events

Vaclav Dejcmar

## Vit Vrba
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: SaaS, Software, Messaging

Vit Vrba

## Clark Golestani
- Type: Angel
- Location: Delray Beach, Florida, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, CRM, SaaS

Clark Golestani is Managing Director of C Sensei Group since 2018. He attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

## Ferdinando Falco
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Retail, Software, Logistics

Ferdinando Beccalli-Falco is the President & Chief Executive Officer at General Electric.

## Vladimír Peták
- Type: Angel
- Location: Prague, Hlavni mesto Praha, Czech Republic
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Travel, Tourism, Software

Vladimír Peták

## Vit Horky
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Software, Banking, Logistics

Vit Horky, Brand Embassy's co-founder and CEO, loves an unforgettable customer experience. Whether it's service with a smile at a Starbucks near you (he's always traveling) or the perfectly timed tweet that draws him back to a company he forgot about, he knows customer experiences are at the heart of customer service. That's whyBrand Embassy was built. Between speaking at international conferences, and cheering on his growing team, you’ll find him musing about the fascinating life of bees.

## Oliver Dlouhý
- Type: Angel
- Location: Jindrichuv Hradec, Jihocesky kraj, Czech Republic
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Mobile Apps, Gaming, Internet

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.

## Ondřej Fryc
- Type: Angel
- Location: Prague, Hlavni mesto Praha, Czech Republic
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: SaaS, Software, Information Technology

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.

## Juraj Masar
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: SaaS, Software, Health Care

Juraj Masar is the Co-Founder and CEO of Better Stack, Co-Founder of Wallmine, and Founder of Customer.guru. He is a former Software Engineer at Prizeo. Juraj Masar attended Charles University.

## Lachy Groom
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Financial Services, Information Technology

Lachy Groom is the Co-Founder of Physical Intelligence. He previously worked at Stripe as the Head of Stripe Issuing.

## Zachary Sims
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS

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.

## Robert Kyncl
- Type: Angel
- Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Art, FinTech, Payments

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.

## Tim Soulo
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: SaaS, Internet, Software

Tim Soulo is the Chief Marketing Officer and Product advisor at Ahrefs (an industry leading SEO tool, powered by Big Data). With almost 10 years of practical experience in SEO and digital marketing, he's the author of many data-driven SEO research studies and a number of detailed SEO guides.

## Olda Bajer
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: B2C, Rental, Travel

Olda Bajer is an individual investor.

## Ryan Petersen
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, FinTech

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.

## Michal Kratochvil
- Type: Angel
- Location: Prague, Hlavni mesto Praha, Czech Republic
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Convertible Note
- Focus: Travel, Insurance, Law Enforcement

Michal Kratochvil is the CEO at BudgetBakers

## Paul Sallaberry
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series B, Series C
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Internet

Paul Sallaberry is the Chairman of the Board at Seal Software.

## Damir Špoljarič
- Type: Angel
- Location: Prague, Hlavni mesto Praha, Czech Republic
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Art, SaaS, Computer

Damir Špoljarič is the founder of SnackHost.

## Oskari Saarenmaa
- Type: Angel
- Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series B, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Computer

Oskari Saarenmaa - CEO & Co-founder @ Aiven

## Daniel Dines
- Type: Angel
- Location: Dover, Delaware, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence

Daniel Dines is based out of New York, New York, and is the Founder, Chief Executive Officer, and Chief Innovation Officer of UiPath. Daniel Dines attended the University of Bucharest.

## Nikola Rafaj
- Type: Angel
- Location: Prague, Hlavni mesto Praha, Czech Republic
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Convertible Note
- Focus: Mobile, Travel, Education

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.

## Philip Staehelin
- Type: Angel
- Location: Prague, Hlavni mesto Praha, Czech Republic
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Convertible Note
- Focus: Mobile, Travel, Education

Philip Staehelin

## Petr Zamecnik
- Type: Angel
- Location: Prague, Hlavni mesto Praha, Czech Republic
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Mobile Apps, Video, Travel

Petr Zamecnik - Chief Content Officer @ EMA data

## Petr Dadak
- Type: Angel
- Location: Brno, Jihomoravsky kraj, Czech Republic
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: B2B, B2C, E-Commerce

Petr Dadak

## Liu Jiang
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Blockchain, B2B

Liu Jiang is based out of San Francisco, California and is the Founder of Sunflower Capital. Liu previously worked at Sequoia Capital as a Partner. Liu Jiang attended Stanford University.

## Alexandre Wentzo
- Type: Angel
- Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Information Technology

A visionary Leader with a "can do" approach and a proven track record of delivering ‘stretch’ targets in a fast growing and highly competitive marketplace., and building world-class teams. Alexandre has built top performing software company by driving a strong cultural change program and by re-structuring the leadership team as necessarywhile remaining visible to the shareholders of the business.Alexandre Wentzo is Chief Strategy Officer for iGrafx, a leader in intelligent process management solutions. Alexandre's mission is to create the most innovative process intelligence platform to help large organizations thrive by accessing real-time process optimization through predictive analytics and AI based automation. One of Alexandre's mission is to build a scalable and first-class GTM organization to support iGrafx high growth plan.Prior to iGrafx, Alexandre was Senior Vice President Private Equity, Asia Pacific (APAC) and Japan for Celonis, the undisputed leader in process mining and execution management technology. Alexandre focused on strategic and business planning, marketing and business development and accelerated growth within the APAC and Japanese regions, as well as developing Celonis footprint in the PE world. Alexandre was also SVP ISV, where his mission was to build a world-class marketplace for Celonis with the next generation Execution Apps with Celonis EMS technology: a new class of technology built to unlock capacity in our client's business!Prior to Celonis, Alexandre spent several years with Signavio, where he focused on making Signavio North America a leader in the process modelling and mining space; which resulted in a successful acquisition by SAP.Alexandre also previously held the title of CEO of Casewise, a global process modelling company, which he turned around to successfully sold it to Erwin. Outside of work, Alexandre is passionate about volunteering: He has long been involved with organizations like Hope and Aid Direct, with whom he helped provide aid to families in need in places like Kosovo. Alexandre has also been part of a nursery-building project in South Africa. Alexandre also enjoys spending time with his wife and three young boys, and is passionate about hospitality.#AI #lowcodenocode #Mining #ProcessMining #TaskMining #Automation #RPA #BPAHis 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.

## Roy Reznik
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Generative AI, Virtual Workforce, Artificial Intelligence

Roy Reznik is a Co-Founder and VP of R&D at Wiz. Prior to that, he co-founded Adallom LTD. and serves as its Vice President of R&D. Roy Reznik leads Adallom’s research and development efforts and manages the engineering team. Roy Reznik has a wide and in-depth technical understanding, experience in both large-scale companies and smallstart-ups, and a success-driven attitude. He has unique talents in developing complete products from scratch. He was Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer at Kollart and Director of Product Management at WhereCanItBe.

## Kieran Flanagan
- Type: Angel
- Location: Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, SaaS, mHealth

Kieran Flanagan was the VP Marketing/Growth at HubSpot.

## David Singleton
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Finance, Software, Consulting

David Singleton is the CTO at Stripe.

## Jakub Jurovych
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Analytics, Collaboration

Jakub Jurovych

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