Top 50 Hardware Startup Investors in Czech Republic in May 2026
Top 50 Hardware Startup Investors in Czech Republic in May 2026
| Investor | Hardware Czech Republic investments |
|---|---|
| Credo Ventures | 7 |
| Y Soft Ventures | 7 |
| N1 | 7 |
| Presto Ventures | 6 |
| Reflex Capital | 6 |
| Rockaway Capital | 4 |
| Jaroslav Beck | 3 |
| Dominance Ventures | 2 |
| J&T Ventures | 2 |
| Jan Habermann | 2 |
| Altered Ventures | 2 |
| KAYA | 2 |
| European Space Agency | 2 |
| Ondrej Smolar | 2 |
| Neon DAO | 2 |
| Mike Chalfen | 2 |
| DAO Maker | 2 |
| Wave Digital Assets | 2 |
| MITON | 2 |
| Michael Rostock-Poplar | 2 |
| Quanti | 1 |
| Damir Špoljarič | 1 |
| Illuminate Financial | 1 |
| Sunfish Partners | 1 |
| Technology Agency of Czech Republic | 1 |
| Vit Vrba | 1 |
| 280 Capital | 1 |
| Paul Sallaberry | 1 |
| PRO-ZETA a.s. | 1 |
| Boris Renski Jr. | 1 |
| Jan Barta | 1 |
| Oktogon Ventures | 1 |
| Jiri Hlavenka | 1 |
| Vit Horky | 1 |
| Kiwi.com | 1 |
| Wave Digital Assets | 1 |
| Honza Široký | 1 |
| Somnium Space | 1 |
| Jakub Nesetril | 1 |
| QQ Capital | 1 |
| Impulse Ventures | 1 |
| The Venture Reality Fund/VRF | 1 |
| Technogym | 1 |
| Springtide Ventures | 1 |
| Senovo | 1 |
| ORBIT Capital | 1 |
| Accelerasia Ventures | 1 |
| Sony Innovation Fund | 1 |
| LEVERAGE | 1 |
| Prusa Research | 1 |
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, United Kingdom, Czech Republic
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- UiPath — Reinvent your workplace with the leading robotic process automation platform and learn how UiPath can help your company become a fully automated enterprise.
- Segron — From Network Engineering , where new services and components need active testing via Rollout and Installation , to ensure correct functionality after...
- Theorema — Autonomous R&D agents for biotech, pharma, chemicals, and materials. Theorema analyzes data, recovers R&D costs, and accelerates discovery. #1 on BixBench.
At Y Soft Ventures, we invest in innovative B2B hardware and software startups in Central and Eastern Europe, seeking global impact and market validation.
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- Video, Virtual Reality, Internet of Things
- Funding Round, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Czech Republic, Slovakia (Slovak Republic)
Portfolio highlights
- RoboTwin — Easy robot teaching for spray painting, powder coating, grinding, sanding, polishing, general motion teaching. 3 steps & 1 minute to automation.
- 24 Vision System — We are an intelligent end to end visual quality inspection with deep learning function which significantly improve quality rate.
- Arbo Technologies — Data-based care for non-forest greenery.
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- Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- 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.
- GoodAccess — Secure & Simplify your Team's access to cloud resources and systems. Secure Access Service Edge (SASE). Dedicated gateway. Access control. Try it Free.
- DOT Glasses — Get high-quality, affordable prescription glasses from Dot Glasses. Stylish, durable, and budget-friendly eyewear for clear vision. Buy Now, Wear Now!
We're a Prague-based VC firm investing in fast growing tech companies and empowering talented startup founders from Central and Eastern Europe.
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- SaaS, Software, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Czech Republic, United States, Estonia
Portfolio highlights
- Corn — Corn is a new Ethereum Layer 2 network that aims to be the best platform for utilizing Bitcoin.
- PilotGo — Developer platform for secure data sharing with multiple partners powered by Digital Twins.
- The New Era® of Shopping — The New Era® of Shopping helps merchants make their catalogues discoverable and shoppable inside AI assistants. Key features of the platform include two-way catalog syncing with PIMs/ERPs, SKU-level intelligence to measure AI visibility and ranking of products inside LLM responses, user prompts analysis for trends and volume insights, andautomated content optimization to improve how products rank in conversational answers. The product is already integrated with all major eCommerce platforms like Shopify, WooCommerce, Magento, BigCommerce, Wix, etc, as well as main AI discovery platforms: ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Google AI Mode, and Perplexity.
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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- Gaming, Art, FinTech
- 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.
Dominance is a venture firm that invests and partners with the most ambitious founders focused on Web 3 innovation.
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- 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 — Agnostic develops a blockchain data cloud platform. The company platform is an app development and analytics technology that helps businesses bring proper blockchain data to customers, DevOps, and executives.
- Gunzilla Games — Gunzilla Games is an independent, innovative, and player-focused developer of AAA games.
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.
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- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Czech Republic, United States, Croatia
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- 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.
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.
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- Artificial Intelligence, Software, Internet
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United Kingdom, United States, Serbia
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- 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.
- Explain Everything — Free online whiteboard for teaching. Record video tutorials, create interactive presentations. Join 24+ million users of Explain Everything.
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.
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- Gaming, eSports, Blockchain
- Funding Round, Seed
- Mexico, Czech Republic
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- Victoria VR — Build immersive 3D worlds with AI. No-code creation for games, business, and entertainment across PC, VR, and mobile.
- Qapla Gaming — We help gaming creators grow their audience and build an engaging community
- Henchman & Goon —
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.
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- Software, Health Care, Internet
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Czech Republic, Poland
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- Slevomat — Slevomat is an online retailer that offers discounts for mass purchases to more than 1.3 million registered customers. Every day, over 200 new offers are launched in cooperation with business partners. The companies that publish their event help Slevomat to make it visible, sell, and fill capacities. Slevomat proved to be the fastest growingcompany in the Czech Internet to reach an annual turnover of 1 billion crowns in less than four years since its inception. About 200 colleagues, who, like Slevomat, follow the motto Road to Experiences
- Pencil — Pencil fundamentally increases your engineering speed by bringing designing directly into your preferred IDE.
- Sensible Biotechnologies — Engineering cells to make better mRNA.
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.
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- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Grant, Pre-Seed, Seed
- Germany, United Kingdom, Sweden
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- 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 — Hula Earth is a tech start-up revolutionizing biodiversity monitoring by combining satellite data and IoT measurements for precise reporting and verification.
- 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.
Ondrej Smolar - Board Member @ Gruveo
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- Software, SaaS, Sales
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Czech Republic, United Kingdom
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- Retailys.com — Retailys Business Platform connects data, communication, and AI agents into one ecosystem for managing your business across Europe.
- Boost.space — Combining the power of a Cloud-based Database with an intuitive Integration Platform, we make it easy to streamline and enhance your workflows. Imagine the simplicity of Airtable fused with the connectivity of Zapier. Experience the future of no-code Data Management, today.
- Safetica Technologies — Safetica Intelligent Data Security protects sensitive enterprise data wherever your team uses it.
A DAO focused on the metaverse and NFTs
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- Blockchain, Gaming, 3D Technology
- Seed, Funding Round
- United States, Austria, Czech Republic
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- 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.
- Optic — Optic monitors blockchains to reveal the origins of any NFT and how it’s been reimagined, remixed, or copied.
Mike Chalfen is based out of London, England, and is the Founder & Partner of Chalfen Ventures and also Board of Director of SurrealDB. Mike previously worked at Advent Venture Partners as a General Partner. Mike Chalfen attended Harvard University. Mike Chalfen has received the award of The Midas List.
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- Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United Kingdom, United States, Germany
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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.
- AtomicJar — Integration testing made easier for developers
- CrateDB — CrateDB is the leading open-source, distributed SQL database, empowering customers to turn data into business value
DAO Maker creates growth technologies and funding frameworks for startups, while simultaneously reducing risks for investors
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- 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.
- Finceptor — Become an early investor of Web3's top projects with over 250,000 other backers.
- web3intelligence — Build wealth and trust in the world of crypto with intelligent financial tools, data and infrastructure.
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.
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- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United States, Switzerland, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- HIFI — HiFi Bridge is a cryptocurrency payments platform that allows customers to buy and sell cryptocurrencies, trade NFT's, borrow loans, and connect their bank accounts all-in-one.The startup offers equity, cryptocurrency, and options trading, as well as cash management accounts. The company provides the accessibility for traditional financialusers to gain access to modern decentralized finance tools through it's mobile and web platform.Zach Walsh and Mohamed Afifi founded the company in New York City in 2021.
- Maestro — Advanced UTxO-indexing data layer to supercharge Defi on Bitcoin, Cardano & Dogecoin.
- Crypto Valley Exchange — The first portfolio risk capable platform for Options & Futures trading in DeFi, offering 1000x+ leverage based on margin offset.
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.
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- Software, E-Commerce, Internet
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- Czech Republic, United Kingdom, Poland
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- Kolay Randevu — Kolay Randevu is an online beauty booking marketplace and salon management software for salons.
Michael is a founding partner of the company. In last five years Michael completed a number of cross-border M&A projects and advised on several private equity investments. Before founding Venture Investors in 1999, he worked as a legal counsel for WoodCommerz. Prior to that he participated on the first issue of eurobonds in the CEE region (theissuer was the Czech power company ČEZ). He also worked for PPF (First Privatization Fund), where he took part in the preparation of several privatization projects in Russia and Bulgaria. He is also a member of the supervisory board of iMall, large online retailer and a member of the advisory board of Tuesday Business Network.Michael studied Law at Charles University in Prague and went on to pursue graduate studies at St Anthony's College, Oxford (Soros scholar) and Hughe's Hall, Cambridge (Chevening Scholar), where he obtained his masters degree in law (focus on corporate finance law). He specialized in securities and exchanges law and regulation of financial markets. He founded and presided the Central European Society at Cambridge University.Michal speaks Czech, English, Russian and Polish. Among projects he worked on recently there were several sell mandates from IT and telecommunications companies, acquisition of private University and work for Western European Private Equity funds on the acquisition of Czech Telecom.
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- Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Czech Republic, United Kingdom
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- Boost.space — Combining the power of a Cloud-based Database with an intuitive Integration Platform, we make it easy to streamline and enhance your workflows. Imagine the simplicity of Airtable fused with the connectivity of Zapier. Experience the future of no-code Data Management, today.
- DecisionRules — DecisionRules is a lightweight and innovative business rules engine that lets you easily manage business rules in a secure cloud.
- Safetica Technologies — Safetica Intelligent Data Security protects sensitive enterprise data wherever your team uses it.
Quanti is an Information Technology company which develops flexible and bespoke software and hardware solutions.
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- Aerospace, Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality
- Funding Round
- Czech Republic
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- VRgineers — Built by industry experts, virtual reality systems are the No. 1 choice for realistic flight simulations and training for professionals and the military.
Damir Špoljarič is the founder of SnackHost.
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- Computer, Database, Aerospace
- Funding Round, Seed
- Czech Republic, United Kingdom
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- 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.
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- FinTech, Software, Financial Services
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, Singapore
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- Waffo —
- Turnstile — Turnstile takes the hassle out of managing your revenue lifecycle.
- Crossover Markets Group — Crossover Markets Group, Inc is a digital asset exchange designed to meet the liquidity needs of institutional clients trading cryptocurrencies.
Sunfish Partners is an early stage VC that invests in Polish deep tech startups.
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Poland, United Kingdom
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- Zaitra — Zaitra reduces data transmission costs while also providing spaceship onboard and artificial intelligence services.
- mysite.ai — mysite.ai is your first AI employee — built to run your business’s online presence. We start by instantly creating your website, and soon, we’ll handle your social media, ads, and lead generation too. No code. No hassle. Just real outcomes for small business owners.
- Asynchronics — Asynchronics is an open-source platform for high-fidelity digital twins, aimed at accelerating spacecraft system development.
The Technology Agency of the Czech Republic was founded on the support of research, experimental development and innovation.
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- 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.
Vit Vrba
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- 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.
280 Capital serves as the Web3 investment arm of the Huang, Liu, and Chen Family Office, managing a $2 billion portfolio. With roots the Web3 domain since 2014, the family currently manages a $400 million digital assets portfolio, anchored by an early acquisition of Bitcoin, showcasing a profound commitment to advancing the blockchain industry.
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- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Singapore, Spain
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- BRKT — Join the fun on BRKT! Make predictions on sports, pop culture, and more!
- GAIB — GAIB is the economic foundation for the future of artificial intelligence and computers. GAIB is a crypto-AI platform under development that tokenize GPUs, making AI computing—the processing power required to train and run AI models—more accessible.
- Yala — Yala operates a multi-token system and unlocks a thriving and interconnected DeFi ecosystem on Bitcoin.
Paul Sallaberry is the Chairman of the Board at Seal Software.
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- Software, Information Technology, Internet
- 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.
Prozeta offers a wide range of network hardware including Cisco systems, Arista Networks and HPE products.
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- Computer, Network Security
- Seed
- Czech Republic
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- Blindspot Technologies — Blindspot Technologies provides DDoS protection solutions, Based on the latest Deep Learning and Cloud technologies.
[Boris Renski is the Founder of FreedomFi. He previously worked at Mirantis as a Co-Founder and CMO. Boris Renski attended Santa Clara University.
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- Aerospace, Electronics
- Seed
- Czech Republic
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- 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.
Jan Barta is a Partner at ePojisteni.cz.
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- E-Commerce, Hotel, Gaming
- Funding Round, Seed, Angel
- Czech Republic, United States
Portfolio highlights
- FAVI —
- 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.
- Tapomat — Fast and affordable online service for mobile store fronts. We allow online stores to have a super fast mobile friendly online store up and running in a few minutes. Currently operating in the Czech Republic, soon launching in other countries around the world.
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
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- 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 — An influencer marketing platform built for brands that want to discover creators, run campaigns, and measure performance with ease.
Jiri Hlavenka - Co-founder & Investor @ Kiwi.com
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- 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.
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.
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- 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 — Acquire new customers across Europe. Access their detailed data profiles. Target the best outlets. Manage teams and create lead lists with user-friendly tools.
- 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.
Founded by Oliver Dlouhý and Jozef Képesi in 2012, Kiwi.com is an online search engine allowing users to combine transportation from non-cooperating carriers. It is powered by its proprietary algorithm (Virtual Interlining) that allows users to combine flights and ground transportation from over 800 carriers, accompanied by industry-leadingKiwi.com Guarantee. Today, the company sees more than 100 million searches every day and employs over 2,000 people worldwide. Kiwi.com ranked seventh in the 2017 Deloitte Technology Fast 500 EMEA list, becoming the highest-ever rated Czech company. Following the previous success, Kiwi.com ranked fifth in the very same program in 2018. In November 2019, the company announced a change in its vision of becoming the first Virtual Global Supercarrier and won the People’s Choice Award at Phocuswright Conference in Miami. In March 2020, Kiwi.com was selected as part of the FT1000; Europe’s fastest-growing companies, ranking first among companies from the Czech Republic.
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- Aerospace, Web Design, Advertising
- Seed, Funding Round
- Czech Republic
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- UNIFER — UNIFER helps businesses with online success. They focus on creating websites, e-shops and web applications, online marketing, graphic design, videos, public and media relations, as well as building entire brands.
- 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.
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.
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- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- United States, Switzerland, Canada
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- HIFI — HiFi Bridge is a cryptocurrency payments platform that allows customers to buy and sell cryptocurrencies, trade NFT's, borrow loans, and connect their bank accounts all-in-one.The startup offers equity, cryptocurrency, and options trading, as well as cash management accounts. The company provides the accessibility for traditional financialusers to gain access to modern decentralized finance tools through it's mobile and web platform.Zach Walsh and Mohamed Afifi founded the company in New York City in 2021.
- Maestro — Advanced UTxO-indexing data layer to supercharge Defi on Bitcoin, Cardano & Dogecoin.
- Criptonite Asset Management — Criptonite Asset Management's exists to offer qualified & institutional investors a tailored, liquid and proven approach to cryptocurrency investments.
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.
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- Health Care, Health Diagnostics
- Pre-Seed
- Czech Republic
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- 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.
A World Beyond Reality
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- Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, Hardware
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- France, Israel, Czech Republic
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- 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.
Jakub Nesetril
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- Aerospace, Electronics, Graphic Design
- Seed, Angel
- Czech Republic
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- 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.
QQ Capital is a family venture office in Prague, Czech Republic, that backs bold entrepreneurs building the future through technology.
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- Information Technology, Gaming, Artificial Intelligence
- Pre-Seed, Angel, Seed
- Czech Republic, Slovakia (Slovak Republic), United Kingdom
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- 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 — Your engineering org, measured. Clear signals on code quality, team output, and how tools shape delivery.
We focus on businesses either based in the CEE region or with a strong regional footprint.
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- Software, Private Cloud, Cloud Security
- Seed
- Czech Republic
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- taikun.cloud — Taikun CloudWorks is an Advanced Platform for Delivering Kubernetes & Applications Seamlessly Across Multi Cloud Environments
The Venture Reality Fund drives innovation and investment at the intersection of immersive, spatial, and intelligent computing for consumer and enterprise sectors.
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- Virtual Reality, Software, Augmented Reality
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Finland, Australia
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- Lilac — Access interruptible enterprise GPUs from idle capacity at up to 40% below standard rates. Same enterprise hardware, spot economics.
- Oasiz — Oasiz is pioneering what it calls “playable content”—a new category where AI-powered tools enable users to generate games in seconds and share with the same speed and cultural resonance as memes or short videos. Unlike traditional game platforms, Oasiz is designed for viral discovery: creators can layer in the subtle cues, humor, and authenticitythat fuel TikTok’s cultural waves, but now in the form of games.
- Windup Minds — Stay: Forever Home is a heartwarming virtual pet game where you meet Ember, a magical companion bringing joy, adventure, and connection. Discover her emerging world, uncover hidden treats, and build your forever home together!
Technogym, the leading designer of gym equipment & fitness solutions trusted by thousands of gyms, fitness centres and home owners around the world
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- Fitness, Wellness, Apps
- Seed, Series A
- Spain, Italy, United States
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- Quainted — A charming and memorable name that evokes feelings of nostalgia, familiarity, and community. Quainted plays beautifully on the word Acquainted, suggesting social connection and networking, while also drawing on Quaint to imply unique charm
- Hussle — Gym membership with total flexibility. Gym passes to no contract gym memberships that you can use in thousands of gyms across the UK. Gym and swim wherever you want to. Stop and start whenever you like.
- ARENA — The ultimate home gym unit. Designed by athletes and coaches to drive growth & fitness in as little as 10 minutes per day. Proudly manufactured in the USA.
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.
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- Software, Cyber Security, SaaS
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- Israel, United States, Czech Republic
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- OpenLoop Health — Servicing all 42,000 zip codes nationwide, OpenLoop accelerates the delivery of patient care by matching our trusted community of certified clinicians and insurance partners with innovators in the digital health space.
- NetOp.Cloud — Simplify your network operations with AI-driven automation to predict, detect, and resolve network issues like never before - Try the NetOp AI solution and optimize your business network performance.
- 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.
Senovo is an early-stage VC funding global B2B SaaS category-leaders from Europe in Seed or Series A fundraising rounds. The fund invests into enterprise software startups in the areas of process optimization, industry 4.0 and data-enabled solution. The investor supports tech entrepreneurs in scaling marketing, sales, organisation, finance and KPIs.
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- Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- Germany, United States, Sweden
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- FINDIQ — FINDIQ is a young company based in the heart of the Ostwestfalen-Lippe industrial zone. We have developed a novel strategy as a software producer to intelligently integrate knowledge management and help solutions for machine service. FINDIQ develops its service solution with the industry, whether for machine makers, operators, or service providers.
- synthavo — synthavo: Identifizieren Sie jedes Ersatzteil mit nur einem Smartphone-Foto in unter 2 Sekunden.
- FlowFuse — FlowForge is an open-source and low-code development platform for integration and automation at enterprise scales, built on Node-RED. The company was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.
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.
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- Leasing, Sales, EdTech
- Funding Round, Debt Financing, Series B
- Czech Republic, Belgium, Germany
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- 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.
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.
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- E-Commerce, FinTech, Software
- Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Singapore, Czech Republic, United Kingdom
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- 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
Sony Innovation Fund is investing in technology-driven transformational companies shaping the future of business, entertainment and society.
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- Artificial Intelligence, Software, Health Care
- Funding Round, Series B, Series A
- United States, Japan, United Kingdom
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- VaultN — VaultN's smart distribution platform enables automated self-service distribution of game keys, digital assets, and more. Unlock efficiency, secure revenue, and scale with confidence.
- Agility — Agility develops humanoid robots and automation platforms for warehouse, manufacturing, and logistics operations. It provides robotic deployment solutions and software platforms that support industrial automation and the handling of repetitive tasks. The company also offers software platforms to manage and support robotic operations in industrialenvironments.
- Talespin — Talespin is building the XR platform to power knowledge transfer and skill alignment for the future of employment
LEVERAGE build exceptional internet companies. We invest our own experience, time and capital. We are looking for new ambitious projects!
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- B2B, E-Commerce, Retail Technology
- Seed
- Czech Republic
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- 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.
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.
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- Aerospace, Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality
- Funding Round
- Czech Republic
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- VRgineers — Built by industry experts, virtual reality systems are the No. 1 choice for realistic flight simulations and training for professionals and the military.
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