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Top 35 Food and Beverage Startup Investors in Czech Republic in September 2025

Last updated: Sep 2025 A list of 35 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Food and beverage startups based in Czech republic. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Food and beverage companies from Czech republic. We update this investor list every month.

Top 35 Food and Beverage Startup Investors in Czech Republic in September 2025

Investor	Food and Beverage Czech Republic investments
Reflex Capital	4
Rockaway Capital	3
KAYA	3
MITON	3
Tomas Cupr	2
Presto Ventures	2
Vojta Roček	2
N1	2
KOOPEO Ventures	1
Oktogon Ventures	1
Silicon Gardens	1
Fiedler Capital	1
Kai Hansen	1
Bizthusiasm	1
Martin Kálovec	1
ORBIT Capital	1
Nick Penny	1
Tilia Impact Ventures	1
Marton Szoke	1
Martin Rozhon	1
FJ Labs	1
Jan Slama	1
Jiri Hlavenka	1
AdRock Ventures	1
Brno Investment Group	1
Radek Starý	1
Hopi	1
Lex Veldhuis	1
Christian Mruck	1
Amazon	1
Bertrand Grospellier	1
Piton Capital	1
Peter Zaborszky	1
Laszlo Robert Czirjak	1
Lukáš Křítek	1

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Doing business may resemble a jungle survival. You better be prepared and have the right reflexes! It's also useful to have someone with real experience around. We at Reflex Capital are entrepreneurs, just like you. We built our own companies, negotiated with investors, and took part in plenty of transactions.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Czech Republic, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

FaceUp — Whistleblowing System for companies and schools. FaceUp is an anonymous reporting channel for those who care. Try FaceUp for FREE.
Boataround — Boataround was founded on the premise that renting a boat should be as straightforward as booking a hotel room. Today, the organization manages yacht charter and boat rentals in 72 countries throughout the world.
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.

We focus on investing and building Internet businesses not only in CEE. We believe in innovations and technologies. We create some added value. We are the next generation of entrepreneurs.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Fashion
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Czech Republic, Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

DoDo — DoDo is the smart delivery service specializing in last-mile and same-day delivery of goods to the end customer. DoDo is currently the technological leader with its data-driven solution and agile processes. We already managed to ensure long-term contracts and pilot projects with multiple high-profile retail and gastro customers ensuring us asubstantial turnover growth and margins. In DoDo we plan to invest in its SW system architecture to further optimize the delivery process based on big data, AI and automatization. The goal is to be the prime provider with its scalable solution. Same-day-delivery is expected to be an important service for all retail players and DoDo plans to continue with the acquisition of these clients especially in the Central European region. The indisputable advantage is easy implementation into the existing solution. Our flexible procedures and processes are easily adaptable to meet exactly what partner´s business needs. DoDo is managing over 600+ cars, 1300+ couriers in 4 countries.
Spotawheel — Spotawheel is a trusted high-tech used cars B2C platform that redesigns the whole buy-sell process from scratch, ensuring value, transparency and customer satisfaction at the highest levels throughout.
FreewayCamper — FreewayCamper offers the new digital platform with a large selection of top campers and additional services, with a direct booking option. They have the latest models to rent - fully equipped, fully covered, directly available, and easy to book. They give it at fair price guarantee & all kilometers included. They have short-term and long-termrentals and, it is flexible and offers to rebook.

We are committed to supporting founders at every stage of their journey, from studio projects and pre-seed through to Series A and follow-ons.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Czech Republic, United States, Poland

Portfolio highlights

TopK — TopK features native support for both vector search and keyword search in a single, unified system. With its powerful query expression language, TopK enables you to build reliable search applications (semantic search, RAG, multi-modal, you name it) without juggling multiple databases or services. Our unified retrieval engine will evolve tosupport document transformation, query understanding (parse metadata filters from user query), and adaptive ranking (provide more relevant results by sending “relevance feedback” back to TopK) under one roof.
E2B — Add code interpreting in your AI apps and AI agents.
Riptides — Riptides is the non-human identity fabric for your workloads and AI agents, and they trust Every Connection. Even the Autonomous Ones.

Company builders operating from Czech Republic and focusing on Central and Eastern Europe. We prefer building consumer facing businesses and have the most fun around marketplaces and e-commerce in general.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Human Resources
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
Czech Republic, United Kingdom, Poland

Portfolio highlights

Graet — Make your mark in the sports and earn money on the first platform for prospective hockey players.
Aim — Aim is a private business briefing for founders and venture capitalists. So you don't have to, Aim keeps tabs on your company bubble. Establish your business hypotheses and receive regular updates on insights that are truly important.
DeepScout.ai — DeepScout.ai is a technology-first company that uses AI for data-backed decisions about pricing and assortment.

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

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.
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We're a Prague-based VC firm investing in fast growing tech companies and empowering talented startup founders from Central and Eastern Europe.

Investment focus

SaaS, Software, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Czech Republic, United States, Estonia

Portfolio highlights

Elin.ai — Elin.ai develops an AI-driven engagement tracker for teams in Slack, making remote teams productive and successful. Elin.ai's performance measurement and tracking software lets its users to create and compare teams, tag users, and get weekly insights on improving metrics by analyzing their team communication and getting actionable insights onbuilding high-engagement culture, allowing managers to check how their teams are doing in the real-time.
BlueQubit — BlueQubit is on a mission to democratize Quantum Computing and make it accessible to everyone. Through our BQ platform users can develop, test and run programs on Quantum Computers.
Corn — Corn is a new Ethereum Layer 2 network that aims to be the best platform for utilizing Bitcoin.

Vojta Roček is the Partner of Presto Ventures.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Coffee, Fashion
Seed, Angel
Czech Republic, Ireland, United States

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.

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Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
Czech Republic, Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Liki24 — Liki24 is a logistics company that features a software platform that utilizes deep integration with partner pharmacies, clinics, and insurance companies. Its software is designed for logistics team coordination, task management, and data management.
Myriad AI — Myriad AI solves regulatory enterprise compliance using autonomous AI agents.
Hypherdata — Healthcare's only closed matchmaking platform facilitating data collaborations between Hospitals and companies building AI products. Book a demo

KOOPEO Ventures is an investment company focused on pre-seed and seed stage investments within CEE region. We are looking for opportunities to invest especially in emerging projects with potential of high growth of revenues and company value. We only invests our own money which allows us to make investment decisions very quickly.We typicallyinvest up to 500 000EUR especially in the areas of E-commerce, Mobile, Internet, Affiliate marketing and Fintech. Except of financial resources ,we offer for all of our startups, individual approach, support during establishment of business strategy and help with international expansion. We also provide access to our network of advisors, partners and contacts on domestic and foreign markets.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Loyalty Programs, Human Resources
Seed, Pre-Seed
Czech Republic, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Atoto — Atoto is technology start-up that connects consumers to local specialty food shops. Consumers can order fresh local groceries online from the stores they love, and have them delivered to their door. The goal of Atoto.cz is to make buying food and drugs, from local merchants, easier.
TRIFFT Loyalty Platform — Build lasting customer relationships with TRIFFT's powerful loyalty platform. Drive engagement and boost retention with customizable programs. Learn more!
Precismo — Precismo is a photorealistic 3D scanning technology and service founded in 2017. It's currently used to perform precise non-destructive testing by industry leaders and prepare original 3D content for entertainment, retail, media and gaming industries.

We leverage our local background, operational expertise and global network to help CEE startups realize their fullest potential. Our Scope in Hungary, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Poland, Croatia, Romania, Slovenia, Bulgaria. Founding team and core technology exist and have ‘zero to one’ potential. Product has global appeal from day one. Early stage.Capable of achieving extraordinary growth. Focus on technology-heavy plays. Our portfolio companie: Bitrise, Recart, Enduraid.Why Oktogon? Led and partially funded by the entrepreneur behind Hungary’s largest-ever startup M&A success Regional network of potential co-investment partners Principals and mentors with proven startup and entrepreneurial experience Strong connections to US and Western European tier 1 VCs, Angels and partners Access to a large network of local technical and management talent

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
Hungary, United States, Czech Republic

Portfolio highlights

Surveily — Surveily applies Artificial Intelligence to increase safety in manufacturing plants. It integrates with existing CCTV infrastructure to minimise deployment cost. It detects threats in real-time and allows for early prevention and mitigation. We cater to the most dangerous sectors that require an ever increasing safety parameters such as chemical,gas and oil.
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.
Hypefy — B2C companies working with Instagram and TikTok influencers run top performing influencer marketing campaigns with minimal effort.

Californians have their Silicon Valley, New Yorkers have Silicon Alley, Londoners the Silicon Roundabout, Berlin has the Silicon Alee and they're witnessing the rise of Silicon Savannah in Kenya. But what best describes Slovenia are the Silicon Gardens - small, efficient, highly cultivated patches of technology entrepreneurship. 500+ membersand growing rapidly.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Apps
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Slovenia, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Prepia — Prepia is a modern exam prep platform helping students study smarter & achieve better results with personalized quizzes, expert content & intuitive tools.
Bible Chat — Bible Chat is the best Christian AI app that lets you talk to the Bible, ask faith questions, request prayers, and study Scripture. Try now for free!
nordoon — Extrakt.AI handles the busywork of Supply Chain Management. We extract inquiries and orders directly from emails and send them to enterprise systems without the need for manual data entry. We use generative AI to make extraction templates super simple to create, starting with a short description and a few examples.

We are a first check investor helping overlooked founders from peripheral European ecosystems defy the odds and create breakout companies.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Food and Beverage
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Hungary, Latvia, Serbia

Portfolio highlights

AgroSync — Uncover hidden profits. Use field data to boost returns this season
RivalSense — Monitor competitors of your startup. Receive curated weekly updates.
Trace.Space — Engineers develop complex products 10x faster with Trace.Space. Requirements management for the next generation

business angel // entrepreneur // founder lieferando.de // boardmember booksy.com

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Germany, United Kingdom, Italy

Portfolio highlights

autarc — We supercharge installers with our OS to become heat pump champions
Cylib — The cylib process transfers waste from end of life batteries or production scrap into marketable products. Cylib covers all steps from the discharging of batteries up to hydrometallurgical extraction. Since the whole process is in one hand, also the processing of production scraps as well as black mass is possible.
Nesnězeno — Nesnezeno is a platform that helps restaurants, shops, and hotels eliminate the waste of quality food. Through their mobile platform, they sell day-of treats that are nearing their expiration date.

Bizthusiasm is an investment firm which specializes in funding and supporting startups at the early stage of their development.

Investment focus

Grocery, Women's, Consumer
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.
LidskáSíla — LidskáSíla is a household cleaning marketplace platform. LidskáSíla.cz offers fair dealing, fast service and especially quality. That's why we do not like to call our ladies as cleaners or ladies for cleaning. They are real professionals. LidskáSíla.cz started in 2015 as a small Prague company.

Martin Kálovec is an Early-stage Investor, YPO Member, ex BCG Managing Director and Partner.

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.

Orbit Capital is an investment firm focused on the technology and software ScaleUps: new category between venture capital and private equity worlds.Over the past 10 years we experience explosion of startup businesses taking advantage of the technology developments and digital revolution. Now they are maturing into ScaleUps.Our financingsolutions are designed to support and accelerate their growth.

Investment focus

Leasing, Sales, Mobile Apps
Funding Round, Debt Financing, Series B
Czech Republic, Belgium, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Preply — Looking for a tutor? Preply is the best platform for private online lessons with a flexible payment system and affordable prices. Book your first lesson.
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.
Manifesto Market — Manifesto is a hospitality platform at the intersection of technology, data science, gastronomy, and real estate. We create high–footfall and cashless large format, multi-vendor food markets. We value sustainability, creativity, innovation, and deliver unique customer experiences to our community. We are developing and utilizing technology andtransaction data to enhance customer experience, increase tenant turnover, and drive customer traffic. Awarded by Mastercard for Best Customer Experience 2018, finalist of Internorga Future Award 2020 + 2021, Tripadvisor Travellers' Choice 2020. Published in The New York Times, Financial Times-fDi Intelligence, Monocle, Dezeen, The Guardian, Evening Standard, and more.

Project Lead

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.

Tilia Impact Ventures is a Czech impact fund that supports purpose-driven founders and companies with scalable business models and high environmental or social impact potential.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Health Care, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Czech Republic, Estonia, Italy

Portfolio highlights

Alvie — Alvie creates products based on sensors and an AI platform to assist farmers in adjusting pesticide doses.
LetsData — AI-powered radar that detects InfoOps threats across 50+ countries in real-time, protecting you from disinformation campaigns.
Lifeyear — Digital-first heart care. At scale.

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.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, EdTech
Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
Hungary, Switzerland, Czech Republic

Portfolio highlights

Ydistri — Digital tool for slow moving inventory problem
Logiscool — International franchise network teaching kids programming
Nesnězeno — Nesnezeno is a platform that helps restaurants, shops, and hotels eliminate the waste of quality food. Through their mobile platform, they sell day-of treats that are nearing their expiration date.

Martin Rozhon

Investment focus

Health Care, Software, E-Commerce
Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
Czech Republic, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Fabini — Fabini is a manufacturing and retail company that offers cookware products.
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 — Puravia provides food supplements. They also provide omega-3 fatty acids, multivitamins, minerals, proteins, digestive enzymes, cannabinoids, antioxidants, medicinal mushrooms, Probiotics, prebiotics, herbal food supplements, and glutathione.

FJ Labs is a stage-agnostic investment firm that focuses on marketplaces and consumer facing startups.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Brazil, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Heave — The Heave App is revolutionizing heavy equipment service. We connect businesses with on-demand diesel mechanics for fast, reliable repairs and maintenance. Our nationwide network of qualified contractors ensures your equipment stays up and running, minimizing downtime and maximizing productivity.
VIVLA — We make exclusive second homes in top European locations accessible to everyone. Buy shares of your home without having to buy the whole property.
Garage — Garage is the trusted marketplace for buying and selling emergency vehicles, equipment, and more.

Jan Slama

Investment focus

Software, Education, Virtual Assistant
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Czech Republic

Portfolio highlights

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.

Jiri Hlavenka - Co-founder & Investor @ Kiwi.com

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Mobile Apps
Seed, Funding Round, Angel
Czech Republic, Lithuania, United States

Portfolio highlights

Fabini — Fabini is a manufacturing and retail company that offers cookware products.
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.

AdRock Ventures is a Cyprus-based, privately held investment and advisory firm. The firm focuses on early stage investment opportunities worldwide and advises only on its own investment assets.

Investment focus

Women's, Consumer, Nutrition
Seed, Pre-Seed
Czech Republic

Portfolio highlights

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.
LidskáSíla — LidskáSíla is a household cleaning marketplace platform. LidskáSíla.cz offers fair dealing, fast service and especially quality. That's why we do not like to call our ladies as cleaners or ladies for cleaning. They are real professionals. LidskáSíla.cz started in 2015 as a small Prague company.

Brno Investment Group is an investment firm that focuses on various sectors in the local and adjoining regions.

Investment focus

Snack Food, Restaurants, Organic Food
Funding Round
Czech Republic

Portfolio highlights

Fruitisimo — Fruitisimo is a food and beverage chain that offers fresh juice made from fruits and vegetables for a healthier and happier lifestyle.

Radek Starý

Investment focus

Nutrition, Pharmaceutical, Dietary Supplements
Seed
Czech Republic

Portfolio highlights

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.

Hopi is a logistics company which assists retail chains through their services of supplying goods.

Investment focus

Grocery, E-Commerce, Food Delivery
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.

Lex Veldhuis

Investment focus

Nutrition, Pharmaceutical, Dietary Supplements
Seed
Czech Republic

Portfolio highlights

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.

Christian Mruck

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.

Free shipping on millions of items. Get the best of Shopping and Entertainment with Prime. Enjoy low prices and great deals on the largest selection of everyday essentials and other products, including fashion, home, beauty, electronics, Alexa Devices, sporting goods, toys, automotive, pets, baby, books, video games, musical instruments, office supplies, and more.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, E-Commerce
Series B, Funding Round, Grant
United States, India, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Luma AI — Building visual AI to expand human imagination and capabilities
Anthropic — An AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
Infinium — Infinium Electrofuels are produced from renewable power and waste CO2 and are a clean burning alternative for the transportation sector.

Bertrand Grospellier

Investment focus

Nutrition, Pharmaceutical, Dietary Supplements
Seed
Czech Republic

Portfolio highlights

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.

Piton Capital is a venture capital and growth equity firm headquartered in London, United Kingdom. Piton focuses exclusively on network effects businesses (marketplaces, exchanges and platforms) as this provide one of the few moats or forms of defensibility to achieve dominance. There are several forms of great network effects businesses thataren’t marketplaces that include data network effects (including machine learning and AI), businesses that rely on user generated content, as well as SaaS businesses with the potential to layer network effects around it. The firm is a stage and style-agnostic and seeks to invest from seed to late stage (€200k to €15m).

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Marketplace, Internet
Series A, Series B, Funding Round
Germany, United Kingdom, The Netherlands

Portfolio highlights

Nesnězeno — Nesnezeno is a platform that helps restaurants, shops, and hotels eliminate the waste of quality food. Through their mobile platform, they sell day-of treats that are nearing their expiration date.
Vesper — Vesper is the leading Commodity Intelligence Platform for Dairy, Sugar, Oils and Fats. View the latest commodity prices, insights & forecasts.
Munch — Munch operates a marketplace for restaurants, supermarkets, bakeries and cafes to sell their surplus food to consumers at a discounted price.

Peter Zaborszky is the Founder of Retalk. He attended Imperial College London.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Mobile Apps
Series A, Funding Round
Czech Republic

Portfolio highlights

Nesnězeno — Nesnezeno is a platform that helps restaurants, shops, and hotels eliminate the waste of quality food. Through their mobile platform, they sell day-of treats that are nearing their expiration date.

Laszlo Robert Czirjak, in Hungary since 1992, was born and educated in the U.S. His venture capital, private equity, investment banking and operational experience spans e-commerce, Internet, automotive and transport, financial services, consumer and retail, energy and power, health care, manufacturing, technology, business services, and media andtelecom. Prior to founding iEurope, he was a Managing Director at Bankers Trust Company/BT Alex Brown in London, where he built the regional investment banking business in six countries in Southern Central and Eastern Europe from 1991-1998. He led over 20 major M&A and restructuring assignments involving over $1.5 billion and 24 significant debt and equity financings totaling over $3.2 billion. He advised on, sourced and executed various private equity transactions. He was CEO of Bankers Trust Rt. (Hungary). Earlier in his career in New York, Mr. Czirjak served as a Director at the Bridgeford Group and at IBJ Schroder Bank, US investment banking subsidiaries of the Industrial Bank of Japan. He has held positions at Goldman Sachs (in M&A and Project Finance) and in operations management at Chemical Bank. Mr. Czirjak served on the boards (or other similar governing bodies) of each of iEurope fund’s portfolio companies including ATech, Vatera, Kupi Me and others. He is a former member of the Board of Directors, and Chairman of the Board’s Audit Committee, of MOL Rt., the Hungarian Oil and Gas Company that is publicly traded on several European exchanges. He also served on the CEE advisory board of AES Hungary (subsidiary of NYSE AES Corp). He also currently sits on the local CEE advisory Committee of Euro-Phoenix Financial Advisors. He is a former President of the American Chamber of Commerce in Hungary and is still active as Chairman of its Corporate Governance, Business Integrity and Entrepreneurship Committee, where he co-authored a position paper titled “Good Corporate Governance in Hungary” and a Hungarian English Glossary on relevant terminology. Mr. Czirjak is currently Chairman of the Board of United Way Resource Foundation in Hungary and is President of the Columbia University and Business School Clubs of Hungary. He is a Board member of the Hungarian American Fulbright Commission. He received a MBA and BS in Industrial Engineering, both with honors, from Columbia University in New York.

Investment focus

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Nesnězeno — Nesnezeno is a platform that helps restaurants, shops, and hotels eliminate the waste of quality food. Through their mobile platform, they sell day-of treats that are nearing their expiration date.

Lukáš Křítek

Investment focus

Nutrition, Pharmaceutical, Dietary Supplements
Seed
Czech Republic

Portfolio highlights

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.

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