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Top 50 Hardware Startup Investors in Czech Republic in April 2025

Last updated: Apr 2025 A list of 50 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Hardware startups based in Czech republic. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Hardware companies from Czech republic. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Hardware Startup Investors in Czech Republic in April 2025

Investor	Hardware Czech Republic investments
Y Soft Ventures	7
Credo Ventures	7
Reflex Capital	6
Presto Ventures	6
N1	6
Rockaway Capital	4
Jaroslav Beck	3
MITON	2
Mike Chalfen	2
European Space Agency	2
Neon DAO	2
Dominance Ventures	2
Wave Financial Group	2
DAO Maker	2
J&T Ventures	2
Altered Ventures	2
Jan Habermann	2
Jakub Nesetril	1
Syner	1
Accelerasia Ventures	1
Daniel Vávra	1
KAYA	1
QQ Capital	1
ORBIT Capital	1
Sony Innovation Fund	1
Springtide Ventures	1
Garage Angels	1
Honza Široký	1
LEVERAGE	1
Hiro Capital	1
Palmer Luckey	1
Quanti	1
The Venture Reality Fund/VRF	1
Damir Špoljarič	1
Illuminate Financial	1
P&J Capital	1
Samsung NEXT	1
Jiri Hlavenka	1
Technology Agency of Czech Republic	1
Accel	1
Prusa Research	1
Somnium Space	1
David Wu	1
Amazon Alexa Fund	1
Vit Horky	1
Vit Vrba	1
Paul Sallaberry	1
Clark Golestani	1
PRO-ZETA a.s.	1
Sunfish Partners	1

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At Y Soft Ventures, we invest in innovative B2B hardware and software startups in Central and Eastern Europe, seeking global impact and market validation.

Investment focus

Video, Virtual Reality, Internet of Things
Funding Round, Seed, Pre-Seed
Czech Republic, Slovakia (Slovak Republic)

Portfolio highlights

Scase — Scase is a portable, point-of-care, medical device.
VRgineers — Built by industry experts, virtual reality systems are the No. 1 choice for realistic flight simulations and training for professionals and the military.
Arbo Technologies — Data-based care for non-forest greenery.

We partner with outstanding technology founders from Central and Eastern Europe to help them realize their global ambitions.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Upheal — Meet your new therapy tool with secure video-calling, analytics, and automated progress notes built-in.
Axoflow — Axoflow security data pipeline for high-quality security data, faster detection and response, and reduced costs.
Surglogs — Surglogs streamlines and automates the administration of logbooks, medications, supplies, in-services, and drills in healthcare facilities. The outdated pen-and-paper method is replaced with a HIPAA compliant state of the art digital application, complemented with a desktop portal that serves as an administrative dashboard.Surglogs was founded in2015 and headquartered in California, United States.

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'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

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.
Bavovna AI — Bavovna Inc., a Delaware C-corp, is a dual-use tech company primarily focusing on AI-driven alternative navigation for Unmanned Vehicles operating in GPS-denied and Electronic Warfare (EW) threatened environments. Bavovna combines fully NDAA complaint modular hardware and SaaS AI software for aerial, surface, and subsurface UV platforms to addressmalicious and natural challenges to Position, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) systems. Bavovna has tested its solutions widely in Ukraine, EMEA, and the US for different types of UAVs, including VTOL, fixed-wing, multi-copters, and surface and underwater vehicles.

Nation 1 VC is a Prague and Brno based venture capital firm focused on investing in seed-stage startups operating in the Czech Republic.The firm seeks to invest in the fintech, insurancetech, artificial intelligence, customertech, ecommerce and travel sectors.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
Czech Republic, Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Hedepy — Online therapy works. Research has proven that what matters is the conversation, not where the conversation happens.
Daytrip — Daytrip is a platform for traveling with local drivers. It allows independent travelers to get the most out of their vacation by connecting them to local drivers, who drive them from one city to another with their own cars, discovering local sights and culture on the way.It gives travelers an opportunity to see otherwise unreachable countrysidesights, meet real locals and get to know local history, culture and current affairs first-hand. Daytrip is an entirely new approach to traveling, combining the comfort of package holidays with the flexibility of independent planning and authenticity of backpacking.
Myriad AI — Myriad AI solves regulatory enterprise compliance using autonomous AI agents.

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.

Jaroslav Beck is a Co-Founder and Head Of Music at Beat Games. He attended the University of West Bohemia.

Investment focus

Gaming, Art, Information Technology
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
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 — Learn music in a effective and fun way.

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, Marketplace
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
Czech Republic, United Kingdom, Poland

Portfolio highlights

100ks — The 100ks.cz initiative emerged from a desire to surround oneself with current Czech art and get to know the artists of our generation.
GRAET — Make your mark in the sports and earn money on the first platform for prospective hockey players.
VOS.health — Boost mental health and wellbeing with VOS.health. Conquer stress, anxiety, and depression while enhancing productivity through personalized plans and mood tracking. Join VOS, a community that understands and supports your journey.

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.

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

The European Space Agency (ESA) is Europe’s gateway to space. Its mission is to shape the development of Europe’s space capability and ensure that investment in space continues to deliver benefits to the citizens of Europe and the world. ESA is an international organisation with 22 Member States. By coordinating the financial and intellectualresources of its members, it can undertake programmes and activities far beyond the scope of any single European country.ESA’s budget for 2017 is €5.75 billion. ESA operates on the basis of geographical return, i.e. it invests in each Member State, through industrial contracts for space programmes, an amount more or less equivalent to each country’s contribution. There are around 2200 staff working for ESA, from all the Member States and include scientists, engineers, information technology specialists and administrative personnel.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Grant, Pre-Seed, Seed
Germany, United Kingdom, Ireland

Portfolio highlights

Forsway — Forsway is a satellite systems designer focused on the creation of end-user low-cost hybrid satellite / terrestrial telecommunication terminals. Forsway's leadership in innovation responds to one key requirement: cost efficiency in the provision of broadband services to end users.Forsway coordinates the development of new products withthe key players in the satellite and wireless industries (including the European Space Agency, some of the major Satellite Service Providers and Telco operators worldwide), applying the state of the art in technology to enable the generation of high tech / low cost end user terminals that can maximize the use of both satellite and terrestrial networks capacity: support for DVB-S2 waveforms (including VCM and ACM outbound modes, up to 16APSK demods), support for 3G WCDMA/HSPA (also GPRS/EDGE).Forsway’s mission remains to contribute in the bridging of the digital divide by applying maximum efficiency in the operation of hybrid terrestrial/satellite telecommunication networks.
Hula Earth — Biodiversity Monitoring for Nature, Agriculture, and Infrastructure
Horizon Microfabrication — The goal of Horizon is to provide clients with revolutionary micro-scale conductive parts and components to succeed. Horizon provides a comprehensive 3D microfabrication production process chain under one roof, together with extensive experience in the design and development of 3D microparts.

Neon DAO is a for-profit DAO for the Metaverse

Investment focus

Blockchain, Gaming, 3D Technology
Seed, Funding Round
United States, Austria, Czech Republic

Portfolio highlights

Metahood — Metahood offers services for discovering, purchasing, and selling land in the open metaverse.
Hook — Hook provides an NFT-native options protocol that enables active traders to earn more with less. For active traders, options allow them to earn multiples of buying the floor for the best trades.
Atlas — Atlas builds cutting-edge generative 3D AI technology to enable the creation of assets & virtual worlds.

Dominance is a venture firm that invests and partners with the most ambitious founders focused on Web 3 innovation.

Investment focus

Software, Blockchain, Gaming
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, France, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Jambo — Empowering the next generation of Africans via web3- Jambo
Agnostic — Open and indexed blockchain data. Let's Decentralize it!
Gunzilla Games — Gunzilla Games is an independent, innovative, and player-focused developer of AAA games.

Wave Digital Assets offers early-stage investment, asset management, treasury management, and strategy consulting to further the growth of the crypto and digital asset ecosystem.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Financial Services, FinTech
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Blu — Blue is a blockchain security platform. They offer KYC/AML trading on DeFi protocols like uniswap and curve, as well as wrap and trading services with secured KYC. They provide intermediary services for banks and brokerages.
MynaSwap — Myna Swap is a platform built by collectors, for collectors, that empowers goods to be traded beyond their physical form. MynaSwap allows users to trade in real-time with other collectors around the globe without the hassle of managing the logistics of physical assets. Myna's Avalanche-native platform allows you to trade collectibles inreal-time with both digital and fiat currencies, low latency, and industry-low fees. Support for other chains such as Ethereum, Polygon and more coming soon.
Criptonite Asset Management — Criptonite Asset Management's exists to offer qualified & institutional investors a tailored, liquid and proven approach to cryptocurrency investments.

DAO Maker creates growth technologies and funding frameworks for startups, while simultaneously reducing risks for investors

Investment focus

Blockchain, Gaming, Software
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
Spain, Vietnam, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Tea-Fi — Tea-Fi is an all-in-one decentralized finance (DeFi) platform that turns complexity into opportunity.
Hackless — Hackless is a platform of security services and analytics for your DeFi protocol. The 1st out-of-the-box MEV-solution that helps to protect smart contracts from the hack attacks.
web3intelligence — Build wealth and trust in the world of crypto with intelligent financial tools, data and infrastructure.

J&T Ventures is an early-stage Prague-based Venture Capital fund, which invests in promising startups from the CEE and SEE region. Our strategy is industry agnostic, but we primarily focus on companies in the seed stage with proven product market fit. Our average ticket size is between EUR 0.5m - EUR 2.5m.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Czech Republic, United States, Croatia

Portfolio highlights

XUND — Answer the most important health questions with AI-powered technology from XUND. Medically certified and CE marked.
Wultra — Wultra helps the leading banks and fintech companies to secure their digital systems and bring trust to the customer journeys. Our security-related software technologies cover the whole digital banking application stack, be it on the web or mobile platforms.
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.

Altered Ventures is an early-stage seed venture capital fund that helps creators develop and publish video games, AR, and VR.The VC fund supports new projects with a focus on developers in and making games, augmented, and virtual reality for emerging markets and invests in developers with all the funds they need to make and publish their games,without the need to give up equity in the studio. However, developers will need to share revenue with the group.In 2016, Mario Valle founded the Silicon Valley, San Francisco-based firm.

Investment focus

Gaming, eSports, Blockchain
Funding Round, Seed
Mexico, Czech Republic

Portfolio highlights

Victoria VR — Victoria VR is the first Blockchain-based MMORPG in Virtual Reality with Realistic Graphics built and owned by its users.
Qapla Gaming — We help gaming creators grow their audience and build an engaging community
Henchman & Goon —

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.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Software, Machine Learning
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.

Jakub Nesetril

Investment focus

Aerospace, Electronics, Graphic Design
Seed, Angel
Czech Republic

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.
Supernova.io — Supernova helps you build, mature, and scale your design system easily, thanks to powerful documentation and efficient design system management.

Syner is a civil engineering company that specializes in the construction of sports facilities and industrial areas.

Investment focus

Sports, Virtual Reality
Funding Round
Czech Republic

Portfolio highlights

Sense Arena — Virtual Reality Training for Hockey Players and Goalies. Grow your athletic performance by employing brain training of Read and React based on our cutting edge technology into your training program.

AccelerAsia Ventures is our hands-on investment arm. Find out more about our selection criteria for investment and how we could help your business with our accelerator.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Retail Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
Singapore, Czech Republic, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Ackcio — Ackcio builds real-time, reliable, wireless, monitoring solutions for industrial applications.
Archanan — Archanan is revolutionizing supercomputing by changing how scientific software is developed. Supercomputing has a problem. Archanan have access to tomorrow's computers but we are still using yesterday's practices. Developing applications for supercomputers costs too much time, too much money, and is too difficult. Archanan empowers thevast majority of scientists to use supercomputers through a suite of easy-to-use tools which can help design robust, scalable, and portable code. Our solution provides cost savings of an order of magnitude to supercomputing centers and increases productivity of their users by ten times. Archanan is facilitating the path toward the future of personalized medicine, self-driving cars, commercial space travel, quantum computing, and much more.
Shopmatic — Be it chat selling, social selling, marketplace selling, or selling via webstore, Shopmatic offers you multiple ways to do ecommerce and sell products online

Daniel Vávra - Co-Founder and Creative Director @ Warhorse Studios

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.

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, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Czech Republic, United States, Poland

Portfolio highlights

GRAET — Make your mark in the sports and earn money on the first platform for prospective hockey players.
Woltair — Digitisation of the heating installation process - from lead generation, through sales and installation, to after-sales support.
E2B — Sandboxed cloud environments for AI agents & AI apps with a single line of code

QQ Capital is a family venture office in Prague, Czech Republic, that backs bold entrepreneurs building the future through technology.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Gaming, Artificial Intelligence
Pre-Seed, Angel, Seed
Czech Republic, Slovakia (Slovak Republic), United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Wiselli — Automate Success, Multiply Conversions, and Outsmart Competitors. All While You Sleep
Groundcom — Groundcom builds and operates a worldwide network of ground stations providing a connectivity for satellite operators.
Navigara.com — Global HR market analytics

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, Series B, Series C
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.

Sony Innovation Fund is investing in technology-driven transformational companies shaping the future of business, entertainment and society.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
Series B, Funding Round, Series A
United States, Japan, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Anzu.io — Anzu is an in-game advertising platform that introduces native, creative, and dynamically-updated ads to video games and esports.
FLUX — FLUX provide “FLUX Header Bidding Solution” that creates fair competition opportunities and significantly increases advertising revenue within the header bidding server, ad requests are sent to SSPs and ad exchanges all at once, so it is possible to have a pure price competition without prioritization, and to determine the highest bid amount andvalue of the advertising space. I can. Then, the price of the highest bid ad in the header bidding and the ad set in the ad server are competed, and the ad with the higher bid is delivered.
Verity — Our automated inventory tracking system powered by self-flying inventory drones makes the zero-error warehouse a reality.

Springtide Ventures is a venture capital company that helps to bring start-ups to life, materialize their visions, and global ambitions. It has a relentless drive for success, overcoming challenges and learning while, above all, preserving its integrity and sticking rigorously to ethical norms. Naturally, they value such qualities in entrepreneursand teams we support as they take on the challenges of building their next enterprise.The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Prague, Czech Republic.

Investment focus

Software, Cyber Security, SaaS
Series A, Seed, Series B
Israel, United States, Czech Republic

Portfolio highlights

OpenLoop Health — OpenLoop's solutions are thoughtfully designed to simplify telehealth delivery across an expansive array of services, in all 50 states.
NetOp.Cloud — NetOp proactively keeps critical business networks healthy, optimizing network operations for MSPs and large,multi-site enterprises. Read more.
Source Defense — Source Defense provides an entirely new solution, leveraging a fully automated, machine-learning-assisted set of policies that ensure 3rd party JavaScript integrations operating on your website maximize user experience and eliminate the threat of such integrations being leveraged for malicious website activity.

Garage Angels is an investment firm that invests in companies at the angel investment stage.

Investment focus

Software, CRM, Sensor
Funding Round, Seed
Czech Republic

Portfolio highlights

Realpad — Introduction of Realpad software for real estate developers and companies selling new-build homes.
Senzoor — Senzoor develops, manufactures, and tests the hardware and firmware of sensory devices and operates cloud services. Their products include senzoor klik loc, senzoor klik sos, sensor move, motion sensor, senzoor aqua, and flood sensor.
Agdata.ag — Agdata is an online system for managing family farms and large farms. They offer farm management, automatic job recording, satellite imagery, a meteor station, a sheet moistening sensor, grain probes, soil probes, field navigation, PHM control, animal movement monitoring, and an attendance system.

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.

Investment focus

Health Care, Health Diagnostics
Pre-Seed
Czech Republic

Portfolio highlights

Zaitra — Zaitra reduces data transmission costs while also providing spaceship onboard and artificial intelligence services.
Macromo — Improve your lifestyle and discover your health risks by analyzing your DNA, blood, and lifestyle data.

LEVERAGE build exceptional internet companies. We invest our own experience, time and capital. We are looking for new ambitious projects!

Investment focus

B2B, E-Commerce, Retail Technology
Seed
Czech Republic

Portfolio highlights

Nulisec — Nulisec is on a mission to make European manufacturers of Fast Moving Consumer Goods more accessible to the world. They are starting with Foods & Beverages because this industry produces the most waste and loss from the inefficient matching of supply and demand from manufacturers to distribution and retail. They provide the technologyinfrastructure and marketing reach to help emerging brands and other businesses to leverage the power of new technology to engage with their users and customers and operate in a more efficient way. Retailers get access to a whole new dimension of products, through a unified ordering system which streamlines purchasing processes.

Founded by Luke Alvarez, Ian Livingstone and Cherry Freeman, Hiro Capital is a Luxembourg/London technology Venture Capital fund which invests in European and UK innovators in Games, Esports and Digital Sports.

Investment focus

Gaming, Video Games, Software
Series A, Funding Round, Seed
United States, United Kingdom, India

Portfolio highlights

Atom Switch — Atom Switch is an independent developing studio providing design, development, and consulting for mobile and web apps, games, advertising.
Loric Games — Loric Games operates as a gaming studio that offers players story-driven experiences. The company aims to inspire players that seek adventure within fantastical worlds that are brought to life through shared story-driven experiences.
Incredibuild — Incredibuild accelerates your development on-prem and the cloud to give you shorter builds, faster iterations, and better products.

Palmer Luckey is the Founder of Anduril Industries. He is also the designer of the Oculus Rift, a virtual reality head-mounted display, and the founder of Oculus VR.Frustrated with the inadequacy and high cost of the existing HMDs on the market, Palmer began experimenting with his own designs in 2009 at the age of 16. In 2012, he formed OculusVR, which was acquired two years later by Facebook for $2.3b.Palmer began attending Golden West College and Long Beach City College at the age of 14, and studied at California State University, Long Beach before dropping out to found Oculus VR.His deep interest in defense technology was driven by his time at the USC ICT MxR lab, where he built hardware used to research immersive PTSD treatment for US veterans. He continued to support various military applications of VR during his time at Oculus, informing his belief that radical modernization of US military technology is a prerequisite for preserving our way of life.

Investment focus

Virtual Reality, Gaming, Hardware
Seed, Pre-Seed
Czech Republic, United Kingdom

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!
Atomontage — Atomontage develops a volumetric graphics and simulation platform that can scale to record-breaking data sets and beyond. The company is headquartered in Wilmington, Delaware.
Sidequest — Sidequest is a community driven app store for virtual reality.

Quanti is an Information Technology company which develops flexible and bespoke software and hardware solutions.

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.

The Venture Reality Fund drives innovation and investment at the intersection of immersive, spatial, and intelligent computing for consumer and enterprise sectors.

Investment focus

Virtual Reality, Software, Augmented Reality
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Finland, Australia

Portfolio highlights

GRACIA.AI — AI-powered ultra-photorealistic volumetric videos for VR, MR and more
Astrocade AI — Astrocade AI is an AI-powered social gaming platform that allows anybody to create games and interactive experiences.
Eggscape Entertainment — Eggscape is designed as a playful and social experience where players explore vibrant interactive environments integrated with the real world.

Damir Špoljarič is the founder of SnackHost.

Investment focus

Computer, Database, Aerospace
Funding Round, Seed
Czech Republic, United Kingdom

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.
RoyaltyRange — RoyaltyRange is a data provider with 4 professional databases covering Royalty rates, Service fees, Loan rates, Companies' financials.
Blindspot Technologies — Blindspot Technologies provides DDoS protection solutions, Based on the latest Deep Learning and Cloud technologies.

Illuminate Financial is a venture capital firm dedicated to enterprise fintech and B2B software companies building technology solutions for financial services.

Investment focus

FinTech, Software, Financial Services
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Sendblocks — SendBlocks helps you cut the time to market from months to weeks and save up to 80% on development efforts.
Notabene — Crypto Compliance for VASPs & Regulators made simple! Notabene is a platform designed to bridge crypto markets with traditional financial systems. Book a demo today.
Reality Defender — Reality Defender is deepfake detection done right. With billions of visual and audio assets indexed, we offer the most robust deepfake detection available.

We are venture capital investors. We bring passion, know-how and money to a wide range of industries in the Central European region, in both established and high-potential growth businesses.

Investment focus

Aerospace, Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality
Seed
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.

Samsung NEXT Ventures is an investment arm of Samsung NEXT, a multifaceted innovation group within Samsung Electronics dedicated to identifying new growth opportunities that will define the next decade. The firm prefers to invest in artificial intelligence, fintech, blockchain, health technology, infrastructure, and media technology sectors.

Investment focus

Software, Blockchain, Information Technology
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, Israel, Canada

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Bold — Bold is your home for personalized, science-backed workouts shown to reduce fall risk. Assess your strength, mobility, and balance with a free 1-minute test.
Atropos Health — Atropos Health rapidly provides personalized real-world evidence for any clinical decision
Mesh — Mesh enables safer, easier crypto transfers and payments from 300+ leading exchanges and wallets, all without leaving your platform

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

Investment focus

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

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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.

The Technology Agency of the Czech Republic was founded on the support of research, experimental development and innovation.

Investment focus

Software, Machine Learning, Internet of Things
Grant
Czech Republic

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Zaitra — Zaitra reduces data transmission costs while also providing spaceship onboard and artificial intelligence services.
Neuron Soundware — Neuron Soundware uses Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in combination with the analysis of sound and other physical parameters.

First partner to exceptional teams everywhere

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Series A, Series B, Series C
United States, India, United Kingdom

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Spinny — Spinny is a tech-powered new-age used car buying platform enabling trustworthy and hassle-free transactions in used cars. It also brings absolute trust and simplicity to the Indian used car market. They follow a full-stack business model to offer value, transparency, and simplicity to their customers. Spinny's goal is to help our customersbuy a car that matches their aspirations. It was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Gurgaon, Haryana, India.
ApnaMart — ApnaMart is a shop and online retail store.
Swish Robotics — Embodied Intelligence for the Home

Eshop by Prusa Research a.s., company founded by Josef Prusa, one of the RepRap core developers. We're selling Original Prusa 3D printers (incl. Prusa MK4, Prusa XL), filaments (especially our in-house made Prusament), resins, and other accessories for 3D printing.

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.

A World Beyond Reality

Investment focus

Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, Hardware
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
France, Israel, Czech Republic

Portfolio highlights

Lynx — Lynx is the ultimate device for Mixed-Reality. It is the first standalone headset capable of both Augmented-Reality and Virtuality-Reality. Lynx is GDPR compliant, with a privacy-by-design philosophy. Lynx is an open platform.
VRgineers — Built by industry experts, virtual reality systems are the No. 1 choice for realistic flight simulations and training for professionals and the military.
HyperVision — Reality Visual Engines: human Field of View, 60+PPD, big Eyebox, edge to ddge sharpness, Vergence Accommodation Correspondence, high Dynamic Range, compact size.

David Wu Is The Partner At Maveron.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Mobile
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, Singapore

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LIV — LIV is your complete toolset for VTubing, Mixed Reality Capture and VR native utilities like in-headset stream chat, alerts and notifications!
Echo AI — Pathlight helps customer-facing teams hit their goals and grow faster, by giving every employee the data and communication they need to be successful.
Volta — Design, perform and stream your own mixed reality experience in just minutes.

The Amazon Alexa Fund is Amazon’s venture capital fund investing in artificial intelligence, frontier tech, voice, robotics, and digital health across consumer and enterprise. We invest in early- to growth-stage companies globally. To learn more, visit us at alexafund.com.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Canada

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Heeyo — Talking AIs that helps kids learn and play!
Sunrise — Sunrise aims to bring simple answers to millions of people suffering from sleep disorders.We have developed a 3-gram sensor to diagnose sleep with gold standard quality. The technology offers a revolutionary new way to measure brain commands at night, with published clinical results never seen before. Studies demonstrate Sunrise is as accurate asin-lab sleep studies, at a fraction of the cost.Affecting one in three people, sleep disorders are extremely common. Sleep apnea is the most prevalent disease with almost 1 billion persons concerned. This condition leads to great body damage over time and yet remains undiagnosed in 80% of the cases.Patients, caregiver and insurers stand to benefit greatly from a solution to current highly cumbersome, expensive and time-consuming diagnostics systems.
Imbue — We want machines that learn the way humans do.Our mission is to build human-like general intelligence and make it safely accessible in order to foster a more abundant, equitable, and unconstrained society.We take a first-principles approach, starting from simple self-supervised architectures and evolving them to tackle human developmentalmilestones of increasing complexity.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Banking, Logistics
Seed, Funding Round
Czech Republic

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CodeNOW — Value Stream Delivery Platform to boost your software delivery overnight. Powered by Kubernetes, runs on-prem, withing AWS, GCP or Azure subscriptions and automates everything.
SharpGrid — SharpGrid is a data and technology business that is redefining on-trade and hospitality market research. To create an accurate and full picture of the on-trade channel, we collect data from all on-trade outlets (restaurants, bars, pubs, or cafés) on the market. SharpGrid's data-driven technologies help companies like Coca-Cola, Heineken, andMakro achieve commercial efficiency and growth.
techloop.io — Techloop.io is a marketplace connecting software developers directly with hiring companies. Developers remain anonymous while companies pitch for them. They receive relevant offers, including salary information, and get a €500 bonus with their new job.

Vit Vrba

Investment focus

SaaS, Software, Messaging
Seed
Czech Republic

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Survio —
Smartsupp — Respond to your visitors from one place and turn them into happy customers.

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

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Series B, Series C, Funding Round
United States, Czech Republic

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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.

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.

Prozeta offers a wide range of network hardware including Cisco systems, Arista Networks and HPE products.

Investment focus

Computer, Network Security
Seed
Czech Republic

Portfolio highlights

Blindspot Technologies — Blindspot Technologies provides DDoS protection solutions, Based on the latest Deep Learning and Cloud technologies.

Sunfish Partners is an early stage VC that invests in Polish deep tech startups.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed
Poland, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Zaitra — Zaitra reduces data transmission costs while also providing spaceship onboard and artificial intelligence services.
1.security — Simplify and secure the Microsoft 365 ecosystem by providing transparency and control in managing the complex system of access permissions ecosystem.
Codejet — Codejet helps builders code 50% faster by converting designs to production ready code. Create a project in Figma, and Codejet will convert it into clean and open TypeScript code (along with RWD and unit testing).

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