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Top 50 Hardware Startup Investors in Czech Republic in September 2025

Last updated: Sep 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 September 2025

Investor	Hardware Czech Republic investments
Credo Ventures	7
Y Soft Ventures	7
N1	7
Reflex Capital	6
Presto Ventures	6
Rockaway Capital	4
Jaroslav Beck	3
Neon DAO	2
Mike Chalfen	2
DAO Maker	2
Wave Digital Assets	2
Ondrej Smolar	2
Michael Rostock-Poplar	2
MITON	2
Dominance Ventures	2
European Space Agency	2
J&T Ventures	2
Jan Habermann	2
Altered Ventures	2
Acequia Capital (AceCap)	1
Clark Golestani	1
Seedcamp	1
Right Side Capital Management	1
Palmer Luckey	1
Technology Agency of Czech Republic	1
Vit Vrba	1
280 Capital	1
Paul Sallaberry	1
PRO-ZETA a.s.	1
Patero	1
JIC Ventures	1
Gi21 Capital	1
Boris Renski Jr.	1
Jan Barta	1
Matej Turek	1
Jakub Mahdal	1
Oktogon Ventures	1
Cyril Vancura	1
Jiri Hlavenka	1
Vit Horky	1
Kiwi.com	1
Olive Tree Capital	1
Czech Founders VC	1
Wave Digital Assets	1
DEPO Ventures	1
Taiwania Capital Management Corporation	1
Honza Široký	1
Somnium Space	1
Syner	1
P&J Capital	1

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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

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 The outdated pen-and-paper method is replaced with a HIPAA compliant state of the art digital application, complemented with a desktop portal that serves as an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.
Kontext — Complete configuration with SSR, responsive design, fast refresh and image optimization.

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

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.

NATION 1 IS “DAY 0” INVESTOR, THE 1ST CHOICE FOR THE 1ST INVESTOR & PARTNER FOR BUILDING A SUCCESSFUL COMPANY.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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, 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.

Ondrej Smolar - Board Member @ Gruveo

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Sales
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Czech Republic, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Retailys.com — Retailys.com is a unified cloud platform for multiple online stores, social media and global marketplaces management
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.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Cloud Computing, SaaS
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Czech Republic, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

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.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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.

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 — Hula Earth provides the data layer for nature investments by blending IoT with satellite insights.
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.

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.

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.

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 —

We are a leading early-stage investment platform. We are at the center of a global ecosystem that attracts and fuels the technical founders and product teams building the next wave of global businesses.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Uthana — Uthana operates as a 3D character animation studio that uses generative AI.
Dead Astronauts — Dead Astronauts reinvents open-world game experiences with technical innovation at the core of the company and PLAYER CREATIVITY at the core of the games we make.
Rainmaker Technology — Rainmaker uses drone-based cloud seeding to increase rainfall, restore ecosystems, and fight drought. Learn how our scalable weather technology brings water to the West.

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.

Seedcamp is Europe's seed fund, identifying and investing early in world-class founders attacking large, global markets and solving real problems using technology. The Seedcamp Nation includes over 400 startups building breakout businesses that change the way people live, interact and buy and includes publicly listed UiPath, Wise, and unicornsRevolut, Hopin, Sorare, Pleo, and wefox along with fast-growing businesses such as Grover, viz.ai and Ezra. Seedcamp fast-tracks a founder's vision and creates value through immediate access to smart capital, a lifelong community of support and a global network built upon more than a decade's experience backing exceptional talent.Seedcamp fast-tracks a founder's vision and creates value through immediate access to smart capital, a lifelong community of support, and a global network built upon more than a decade's experience backing exceptional talent.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, SaaS
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Sylvera — Sylvera Carbon offset ratings make offset quality and risks transparent. We make offsets auditable for offset sellers, intermediaries, buyers and investors.
Outverse — A community platform that's easier to use, better organised and designed for real interaction.
Dust — Dust is a platform for creating sophisticated processes based on large language models and semantic search.

Systematic Pre-Seed Startup Capital

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Health Care
Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Averi — Averi is an AI-powered marketing management platform that combines proprietary AI models for marketing strategy and content creation.Design modern strategy, analyze massive amounts of data, create endless content from ads and social posts to blogs and whitepapers, build perfect-fit teams of marketing experts, and manage your entire growthoperation in one seamless experience.
UBILD — A.I powered construction workforce and vendor procurement platform
Hutsy — Hutsy is your go-to financial app, offering personalized financial guidance based on your unique situation. Our mission is to help you improve your financial health through tailored advice on spending, savings, credit building, investing, debt management, and more.

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.

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Investment focus

SaaS, Software, Messaging
Seed
Czech Republic

Portfolio highlights

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.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Singapore, Spain

Portfolio highlights

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.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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.

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.

Patero is an investment firm that invests in modern technologies. Patero is headquartered in Praha, Czech Republic.

Investment focus

Software, Machine Learning, Supply Chain Management
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
Czech Republic

Portfolio highlights

Yedem — A reservation tool for corporate parking and employee carpooling. It allocates parking spaces and makes carpooling to work easier, saving money for everyone.
Flowlance — Flowlance help you automate your business with long-term clients
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.

JIC Ventures is an investment company which providing venture capital investments to graduates of its parent company's JIC programs.

Investment focus

Parking, Software, GreenTech
Seed
Czech Republic

Portfolio highlights

Yedem — A reservation tool for corporate parking and employee carpooling. It allocates parking spaces and makes carpooling to work easier, saving money for everyone.
Casinvent Pharma — Casinvent Pharma develops new therapeutic options for the treatment of selected malignancies.
Customerscore.io —

Founded as a family office investment firm in 2022, Gi21 has quickly established a portfolio of successful companies with several notable exits.

Investment focus

Software, Cloud Data Services, Art
Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
Czech Republic, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

TRIFFT Loyalty Platform — Build lasting customer relationships with TRIFFT's powerful loyalty platform. Drive engagement and boost retention with customizable programs. Learn more!
Zerops — Zerops is a cloud platform that builds, deploys, runs and manages your apps, no matter the size or environment.
ArtMaster — Learn music in a effective and fun way.

[Boris Renski is the Founder of FreedomFi. He previously worked at Mirantis as a Co-Founder and CMO. Boris Renski attended Santa Clara University.

Investment focus

Aerospace, Electronics
Seed
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.

Jan Barta is a Partner at ePojisteni.cz.

Investment focus

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 — Get full access to this domain. Easy, seamless transactions. Zero percent financing available.

Matej Turek - COO and Co-Founder @ Trisbee

Investment focus

FinTech, Lending, Aerospace
Seed, Pre-Seed
Czech Republic

Portfolio highlights

E2B — Add code interpreting in your AI apps and AI agents.
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.
Flowpay — Flowpay offers operating loans to entrepreneurs who use one of our partner platforms.

I'm the Founder of Safetica Technologies - the recognized CEE Data Leak Prevention company. I've been honored to be selected by Forbes as Czech's 30 Under 30.

Investment focus

Software, Database, Security
Seed, Funding Round
Czech Republic

Portfolio highlights

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.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Surveily — Surveily applies Artificial Intelligence to increase safety in manufacturing plants. It integrates with existing CCTV infrastructure to minimise deployment cost. It detects threats in real-time and allows for early prevention and mitigation. We cater to the most dangerous sectors that require an ever increasing safety parameters such as chemical,gas and oil.
Boost.space — Combining the power of a Cloud-based Database with an intuitive Integration Platform, we make it easy to streamline and enhance your workflows. Imagine the simplicity of Airtable fused with the connectivity of Zapier. Experience the future of no-code Data Management, today.
Hypefy — B2C companies working with Instagram and TikTok influencers run top performing influencer marketing campaigns with minimal effort.

Cyril is Partner at imec.xpand, an early stage VC fund investing in nano electronics-based innovation powered by imec, the world-leading R&D hub for nanoelectronics and digital technology. Before joining imec.xpand, Cyril was Investment Principal at Robert Bosch Venture Capital GmbH (RBVC), the corporate venture arm of Robert Bosch GmbH. AtRBVC he was based in Germany and in the affiliate office in Silicon Valley. Prior to that, Cyril worked at the Research and Technology Center of Bosch in Palo Alto, on novel MEMS processes, power harvesting for autonomous systems, and photovoltaic technologies. Cyril holds a Ph.D. and a diploma (masters) in physics from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich, Switzerland. At ETH he conducted research in the area of CMOS-based MEMS sensors for biological and chemical applications.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Semiconductor, Machine Learning
Series A, Series B, Seed
France, Germany, United States

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Q.ANT — Q.ANT develops photonic processors for AI and high-performance computing, utilizing light for information processing. The company also produces quantum sensors offering ultra-high magnetic field sensitivity in a compact form factor. These products aim to enable more intelligent and sustainable systems across various sectors like data centers,aerospace, and medical technology.
Pealock — Electronic lock for sport equipment such as a bike, skis, e-scooter etc. (HW) In our App, it will be possible to insure the equipment, pay-as-you-go. (Insurtech)
Wise Integration — Wise Integration is a developer of GaN-integrated solutions to miniaturize power supplies and improve energy efficiency.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Fabini — Fabini is a manufacturing and retail company that offers cookware products.
Amio — AI chatbot platform for support automation. No-code builder that supports web-chat, mobile chat, messengers like WhatsApp, and email.
Dishboard — Dishboard's goal is to help restaurant owners better understand their overall business picture, track profits, and to enable them to dive deep into their costs while automating manual labor with such features as automatic invoice recognition so, at the end of the day, owners open the app and immediately see their real-time financial breakdownwith all revenues and all costs (including supplies and salaries) without doing a thing.Our ultimate vision is to become a fin. tech service provider for the restaurant market, where the first step is to start using the data we collect for scoring mechanisms and offer our clients short-term loans to prevent the cash gaps they face so often.

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

Portfolio highlights

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.

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.

Investment focus

Aerospace, Web Design, Advertising
Seed, Funding Round
Czech Republic

Portfolio highlights

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.

Olive Tree Capital started as the foreign investment arm of the single member family office. With a diverse mandate, we are able to seek worthwhile global investment opportunities without asset class restrictions; we seek public market opportunities with discrepancies between market perception and fundamental reality, and we enjoy privatelyinvesting in and collaborating with partners who share our passion, dedication, and clarity. More philosophically, we live by the Golden Rule; thus, we especially love entrepreneurs, artists, and businesses that are positively contributing to humanity in parallel with pursuing profitability.

Investment focus

Health Care, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Series C
United States, India, Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

Curacel — Curacel creates APIs & tools that enable businesses to embed insurance in digital channels and to administer claims cost-effectively.
AOA — AOA based in Boston, New York, and London developing cancer diagnostics in the field of women’s health.AOA is a female-led company, is committed to bringing the first accurate early-stage liquid biopsy ovarian cancer diagnostic test to market that will improve clinical practice, help reduce patient mortality and deliver cost savings to payers.
DermBiont — Leading a Revolution in Dermatology

We help Central European founders who aim high. A pre-seed startup investors by founders to founders.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
Czech Republic, United States, Italy

Portfolio highlights

Lignufy — Lignufy is revolutionizing the timber trade by digitizing and streamlining the buying and selling of wood materials. It addresses the inefficiencies and fragmentation in traditional wood trading by offering an online marketplace that connects buyers and sellers across the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Austria, and Germany. The platform provides toolsfor listing products, managing orders, and handling communications, while also assisting with logistics and administrative tasks. Lignufy aims to make wood trading more accessible and efficient, fostering a more connected and transparent industry.
VR Vitalis — VR Vitalis aids in the development of cognitive functions, activation of the upper and lower limbs, breathing, relaxation, and posture adjustment. A number of medical and rehabilitation facilities, as well as businesses and institutions, are already using the product as part of employee preventive care.
Veriteus Technology — Veriteus is an AI platform that detects deception by analyzing behavioral signals across audio, video, and digital interactions.

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, Cryptocurrency, Software
Funding Round, Seed, 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.

DEPO Ventures is an angel network and VC (Grouport and DEPO Angels Fund II), which connects world of startups and investors.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
Czech Republic, United States, Estonia

Portfolio highlights

NOLD — NOLD provides a platform that users may locate an exceptional and one-of-a-kind, an outfit with a past that can tell a new tale and take them on a trip. The company was based in Bulgaria.
Ringil — Ringil is a digital platform for the management of freight logistics and transportation.
scoutlabs — We're building the world's densest digital trap network to accurately gauge insect pest pressure. This helps millions of farmers in precisely combating crop-eating insects, accelerating a transition to more sustainable methods. Good for the farmer, the environment and for our food security

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Investment focus

Biotechnology, Software, Artificial Intelligence
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, Taiwan, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

All eyes on screens — AdScanner made its mission to empower data-driven TV advertising to increase effectiveness, transparency, speed, reduce manual, complicated, delayed reports and also to make TV more interconnected and comparable with digital channels. Our approach is to combine proprietary technologies and data.
DataPelago — DataPelago provides big data analytics solutions. They also provide a data analytics platform that offers hardware and software based products. The platform also provides solutions for extracting insights from data of, speed, or structure at performance and cost levels unsurpassed in the industry.
Path Robotics — We create manufacturing robots that autonomously scan, position, and weld your parts without the need for skilled welders or robot programmers.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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