# Top 35 Food and Beverage Startup Investors in Czech Republic in June 2026 ## Reflex Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Prague, Hlavni mesto Praha, Czech Republic - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS 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. ## Rockaway Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Prague, Hlavni mesto Praha, Czech Republic - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Fashion 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. ## KAYA - Type: VC Fund - Location: Prague, Hlavni mesto Praha, Czech Republic - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Health Care, Internet 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. ## MITON - Type: VC Fund - Location: Prague, Hlavni mesto Praha, Czech Republic - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Internet 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. ## Vojta Roček - Type: Angel - Location: Prague, Hlavni mesto Praha, Czech Republic - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: Information Technology, Coffee, Fashion Vojta Roček is the Partner of Presto Ventures. ## Jiri Hlavenka - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - 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. ## 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. ## N1 - Type: VC Fund - Location: Prague, Hlavni mesto Praha, Czech Republic - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Health Care NATION 1 IS “DAY 0” INVESTOR, THE 1ST CHOICE FOR THE 1ST INVESTOR & PARTNER FOR BUILDING A SUCCESSFUL COMPANY. ## Presto Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Prague, Hlavni mesto Praha, Czech Republic - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: SaaS, Software, Information Technology We're a Prague-based VC firm investing in fast growing tech companies and empowering talented startup founders from Central and Eastern Europe. ## Jan Slama - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel - Focus: Software, iOS, Apps Jan Slama ## Oktogon Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Budapest, Budapest, Hungary - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Convertible Note - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology 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 ## Nick Penny - Type: Angel - Location: Prague, Hlavni mesto Praha, Czech Republic - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Angel - Focus: Winery, Consumer, Craft Beer Project Lead ## AdRock Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Larnaca, Larnaca, Cyprus - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Women's, Consumer, Nutrition 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. ## Bertrand Grospellier - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Nutrition, Pharmaceutical, Dietary Supplements Bertrand Grospellier ## Christian Mruck - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Angel - Focus: Winery, Consumer, Craft Beer Christian Mruck ## Fiedler Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Vienna, Wien, Austria - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Mobile Apps We are a first check investor helping overlooked founders from peripheral European ecosystems defy the odds and create breakout companies. ## Peter Zaborszky - Type: Angel - Location: Budapest, Budapest, Hungary - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A - Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Mobile Apps Peter Zaborszky is the Founder of Retalk. He attended Imperial College London. ## Robert Neale - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Angel - Focus: Winery, Consumer, Craft Beer Robert Neale ## Silicon Gardens - Type: VC Fund - Location: Ljubljana, Ljubljana Urban Commune, Slovenia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Apps 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. ## Lukáš Křítek - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Nutrition, Pharmaceutical, Dietary Supplements Lukáš Křítek ## Christopher Muhr - Type: Angel - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series C - Focus: SaaS, Solar, Energy Christopher Muhr is a founder and the chief operating officer of Muhr has studied at Leipzig Graduate School of Management (HHL) where he obtained his master’s degree in finance andmanagement in 2008.Muhr lives in Berlin, Germany. ## ORBIT Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Prague, Hlavni mesto Praha, Czech Republic - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Debt Financing, Series B - Focus: Leasing, Sales, EdTech 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. ## Tilia Impact Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Prague, Hlavni mesto Praha, Czech Republic - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed - Focus: Information Technology, Software, Health Care 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. ## Marton Szoke - Type: Angel - Location: Budapest, Budapest, Hungary - Relevant deals: 1 - 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. ## Piton Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Series B - Focus: E-Commerce, Marketplace, Internet 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). ## Lex Veldhuis - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Nutrition, Pharmaceutical, Dietary Supplements Lex Veldhuis ## Kai Hansen - Type: Angel - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, E-Commerce, FinTech business angel // entrepreneur // founder lieferando.de // boardmember booksy.com ## Martin Kálovec - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Angel - Focus: SaaS, FinTech, Software Martin Kálovec is an Early-stage Investor, YPO Member, ex BCG Managing Director and Partner. ## Martin Rozhon - Type: Angel - Location: Chrudim, Pardubicky kraj, Czech Republic - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel - Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Health Care Martin Rozhon ## FJ Labs - Type: VC Fund - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services FJ Labs is a stage-agnostic investment firm that focuses on marketplaces and consumer facing startups. ## Brno Investment Group - Type: VC Fund - Location: Prague, Hlavni mesto Praha, Czech Republic - Relevant deals: 1 - Focus: Snack Food, Restaurants, Organic Food Brno Investment Group is an investment firm that focuses on various sectors in the local and adjoining regions. ## Hopi - Type: VC Fund - Location: Jazlovice, Hlavni mesto Praha, Czech Republic - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Grocery, E-Commerce, Food Delivery Hopi is a logistics company which assists retail chains through their services of supplying goods. ## Laszlo Robert Czirjak - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Analytics, Animation Laszlo Robert Czirjak is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner at iEurope Capital.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, energyand power, health care, manufacturing, technology, business services, and media and telecom. 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 (a 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 the 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 an MBA and BS in Industrial Engineering, both with honors, from Columbia University in New York. ## Bizthusiasm - Type: VC Fund - Location: Prague, Hlavni mesto Praha, Czech Republic - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Grocery, Women's, Consumer Bizthusiasm is an investment firm which specializes in funding and supporting startups at the early stage of their development. ## Radek Starý - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Nutrition, Pharmaceutical, Dietary Supplements Radek Starý