Top 50 Hardware Startup Investors in Czech Republic in November 2024
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 November 2024
Investor | Hardware Czech Republic investments |
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Credo Ventures | 7 |
Y Soft Ventures | 7 |
N1 | 6 |
Presto Ventures | 5 |
Rockaway Capital | 4 |
Reflex Capital | 4 |
J&T Ventures | 3 |
MITON | 3 |
Jaroslav Beck | 3 |
DAO Maker | 2 |
Wave Financial Group | 2 |
Dominance Ventures | 2 |
Mike Chalfen | 2 |
European Space Agency | 2 |
Altered Ventures | 2 |
Jan Habermann | 2 |
Neon DAO | 2 |
Technology Agency of Czech Republic | 1 |
Sunfish Partners | 1 |
Honza Široký | 1 |
LEVERAGE | 1 |
Rikard Steiber | 1 |
Grouport Ventures | 1 |
Taiwania Capital Management Corporation | 1 |
Hiro Capital | 1 |
Accel | 1 |
Somnium Space | 1 |
Wave Digital Assets | 1 |
BITKRAFT Ventures | 1 |
Senovo | 1 |
Palmer Luckey | 1 |
Syner | 1 |
Paul Sallaberry | 1 |
Right Side Capital Management | 1 |
Olive Tree Capital | 1 |
Tilia Impact Ventures | 1 |
Technogym | 1 |
Clark Golestani | 1 |
PRO-ZETA a.s. | 1 |
Seedcamp | 1 |
DEPO Ventures | 1 |
Daniel Vávra | 1 |
David Wu | 1 |
Amazon Alexa Fund | 1 |
Vit Horky | 1 |
Kiwi.com | 1 |
KAYA | 1 |
The Venture Reality Fund/VRF | 1 |
Impulse Ventures | 1 |
QQ Capital | 1 |
We partner with outstanding technology founders from Central and Eastern Europe to help them realize their global ambitions.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, United Kingdom, Czech Republic
Portfolio highlights
- Picogrid — Picogrid builds a unified platform for autonomous systems. Connect, command, and monitor sensors and autonomous systems at global scale.
- Collabwriting — Collabwriting is a simple browser extension that helps you share, comment and collaborate on content you find online
- Delta Green — Aggregating household assets in large controllable block of flexibility.
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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Investment focus
- Video, Virtual Reality, Internet of Things
- Funding Round, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Czech Republic, Slovakia (Slovak Republic)
Portfolio highlights
- Scase — Scase is a portable, point-of-care, medical device.
- VRgineers — Built by industry experts, virtual reality systems are the No. 1 choice for realistic flight simulations and training for professionals and the military.
- Arbo Technologies — Data-based care for non-forest greenery.
Nation 1 VC is a Prague and Brno based venture capital firm focused on investing in seed-stage startups operating in the Czech Republic.The firm seeks to invest in the fintech, insurancetech, artificial intelligence, customertech, ecommerce and travel sectors.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
- Czech Republic, Germany, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Hedepy — Online therapy works. Research has proven that what matters is the conversation, not where the conversation happens.
- Daytrip — Daytrip is a platform for traveling with local drivers. It allows independent travelers to get the most out of their vacation by connecting them to local drivers, who drive them from one city to another with their own cars, discovering local sights and culture on the way.It gives travelers an opportunity to see otherwise unreachable countrysidesights, meet real locals and get to know local history, culture and current affairs first-hand. Daytrip is an entirely new approach to traveling, combining the comfort of package holidays with the flexibility of independent planning and authenticity of backpacking.
- Myriad AI — Myriad AI solves regulatory enterprise compliance using autonomous AI agents.
We'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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Investment focus
- SaaS, Software, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Czech Republic, Estonia, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Tur.ai — Tur.ai offers a platform as a service that allows organizations to design, build, and operate business-friendly AI solutions. Tur.ai is on a mission to span a chasm between AI and businesses, making intelligent automation accessible, effective, and understandable by enterprises.Our product, platform as a service, allows organizations to design,build, and operate business-friendly AI solutions.With Tur.ai, business users and digital consultants are put into the driver’s seat and are in the lead throughout the entire implementation lifecycle.Unlike many others in the field, Tur.ai provides: - solutions accessibility and transparency to non-tech users - calculable implementation risks and suitable piloting experience - ROI coming from low running costs and multi-purpose use - technology vendor flexibility with a vast range of integrated communication platforms, cognitive tools, and pluginsThe Tur.ai platform is actively used by Fortune 500 companies and keeps delivering positive results in cost reduction, process effectiveness, and revenue generation in Customer Experience, HR, and Procurement.Business — reach out to our expert team to discuss consulting & implementation options. Investor — reach out to discuss how you can help us grow.
- Zerops — Zerops is a cloud platform that builds, deploys, runs and manages your apps, no matter the size or environment.
- Jeff — Jeff is a personalized loan broker that matches borrowers and lenders through alternative data. Jeff's mission is to help the unbanked to access financial services. In the absence of credit history and bank transactions, Jeff gathers alternative data from sources like smartphones, social media, behavioral patterns, geolocation, and other typesof digital footprint.Jeff then puts this information to good use and find ways on how alternative data points can prove creditworthiness and build trust, building new ways of accessing financing and evolving an alternative credit score.The company was founded in 2019 and is located in Riga, Latvia.
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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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.
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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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Czech Republic, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Apify — Cloud platform for web scraping, browser automation, and data for AI. Use 2,000+ ready-made tools, code templates, or order a custom solution.
- Merchantee — We're on a mission to revolutionize how e-commerce players expand and manage marketplaces as their commerce channel. We envision ourselves as the guiding AI powered co-pilot for online sellers across the globe. By providing them with the tools to navigate the fragmented world of marketplaces and markets and equip them with the insights andautomated tools necessary for the profitable management of their marketplace channels.
- Choice — Choice is a modern restaurant tool: digital menu, QR-code payment, table reservations, order to table, food delivery and pick-up, feedback service. A universal approach to marketing and service in restaurants.
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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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Enterprise Software
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Czech Republic, United States, Croatia
Portfolio highlights
- Apify — Cloud platform for web scraping, browser automation, and data for AI. Use 2,000+ ready-made tools, code templates, or order a custom solution.
- Choice — Choice is a modern restaurant tool: digital menu, QR-code payment, table reservations, order to table, food delivery and pick-up, feedback service. A universal approach to marketing and service in restaurants.
- SprayVision — SprayVision is company focused on spray pattern digitalization, analysis, evaluation, process control and non contact thickness measurement.
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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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, Marketplace
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- Czech Republic, United Kingdom, Poland
Portfolio highlights
- 100ks — The 100ks.cz initiative emerged from a desire to surround oneself with current Czech art and get to know the artists of our generation.
- GRAET — Make your mark in the sports and earn money on the first platform for prospective hockey players.
- VOS.health (AI Mental Health App) — Boost mental health and wellbeing with VOS.health. Conquer stress, anxiety, and depression while enhancing productivity through personalized plans and mood tracking. Join VOS, a community that understands and supports your journey.
Jaroslav Beck is a Co-Founder and Head Of Music at Beat Games. He attended the University of West Bohemia.
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Investment focus
- Gaming, Art, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- 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 — ArtMaster is an online platform that offers individual one-on-one tuition and online courses designed by professionals in art and music.
DAO Maker creates growth technologies and funding frameworks for startups, while simultaneously reducing risks for investors
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Gaming, Software
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- Spain, Vietnam, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Edu3Labs — Edu3Labs combines education and blockchain technology to create a platform where content creators, learners, and NFE token holders can all benefit. Edu3Labs is a new and innovative way to make learning more engaging and rewarding for everyone.Also, Edu3Labs is a brand-new blockchain ecosystem aimed at the education sector, with the mission ofboth giving ownership and rewarding all parties in the ecosystem. The Edu3Labs ecosystem, which currently has an education and publishing-focused NFT marketplace and metaverse platform, is also planning to provide blockchain solutions to educational institutions.A short description of Edu3Labs; A new learning experience created by the integration of the online education sector and the blockchain technology.
- 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.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Financial Services, FinTech
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United States, United Kingdom, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Blu — Blue is a blockchain security platform. They offer KYC/AML trading on DeFi protocols like uniswap and curve, as well as wrap and trading services with secured KYC. They provide intermediary services for banks and brokerages.
- MynaSwap — Myna Swap is a platform built by collectors, for collectors, that empowers goods to be traded beyond their physical form. MynaSwap allows users to trade in real-time with other collectors around the globe without the hassle of managing the logistics of physical assets. Myna's Avalanche-native platform allows you to trade collectibles inreal-time with both digital and fiat currencies, low latency, and industry-low fees. Support for other chains such as Ethereum, Polygon and more coming soon.
- Criptonite Asset Management — Criptonite Asset Management's exists to offer qualified & institutional investors a tailored, liquid and proven approach to cryptocurrency investments.
Dominance is a venture firm that invests and partners with the most ambitious founders focused on Web 3 innovation.
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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 — Discover a new era of blockchain technology with Agnostic. Simplify your queries, enhance your experience.
- Gunzilla Games — Gunzilla Games is an independent, innovative, and player-focused developer of AAA games.
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.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Series C
- United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Flexciton — Flexciton is the ultimate scheduling optimization solution for semiconductor wafer fabs. Flexciton applies cutting-edge technology to optimize the planning and scheduling decisions for the world's most complex manufacturing process - semiconductor wafer fabrication.
- Time is Ltd. — Time is Ltd. was founded in 2017 to improve the everyday productivity of large corporations and companies. An easy way to integrate solution for companies which are going through the process of adopting a diverse number of cloud tools, it allows them to understand the performance data behind their productivity.Powered by machine learning, theplatform brings the data from a number of tools, such as Office 365, G Suite, and Slack, amongst others, together in one. By unlocking the hidden gems in this combined data, it reveals a company’s successful working patterns and allows organizations to operate more effectively.Time is Ltd. is a Prague-based startup founded by serial entrepreneurs Jan Rezab and Cyril Höschl.
- AtomicJar — Integration testing made easier for developers
The European Space Agency (ESA) is Europe’s gateway to space. Its mission is to shape the development of Europe’s space capability and ensure that investment in space continues to deliver benefits to the citizens of Europe and the world. ESA is an international organisation with 22 Member States. By coordinating the financial and intellectualresources of its members, it can undertake programmes and activities far beyond the scope of any single European country.ESA’s budget for 2017 is €5.75 billion. ESA operates on the basis of geographical return, i.e. it invests in each Member State, through industrial contracts for space programmes, an amount more or less equivalent to each country’s contribution. There are around 2200 staff working for ESA, from all the Member States and include scientists, engineers, information technology specialists and administrative personnel.
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Investment focus
- SaaS, Information Technology, Software
- Grant, Seed, Pre-Seed
- United Kingdom, Germany, Finland
Portfolio highlights
- Zaitra — Zaitra reduces data transmission costs while also providing spaceship onboard and artificial intelligence services.
- ExoMatter — ExoMatter is a digital materials development startup. They employ artificial intelligence algorithms to find better and more sustainable materials for their application. Their customized platform contains all material data in one location. They use scientific data on materials to develop enhanced and environmentally friendly materials. Theirmaterials research platform generates a customized list of materials for each client's application.
- OroraTech — OroraTech provides global real-time information services. The first target market is early detection and monitoring of wildfires, extended by a proprietary constellation of thermal imaging nanosatellites equipped with in-space AI image processing. At the beginning of 2020, OroraTech launched an MVP called Wildfire Service (WFS) that enables quickdetection and monitoring of wildfires on a global scale. The combination of existing thermal-infrared satellite data with external data layers, such as fuel, wind, and risk maps results in an automatic generation of fire alerts and the display of current fire perimeters for users. The MVP was launched in early 2020 and has gained increasing traction with governmental and large corporate customers all over the world.
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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Investment focus
- Gaming, eSports, Blockchain
- Funding Round, Seed
- Mexico, Czech Republic
Portfolio highlights
- Victoria VR — Victoria VR is the first Blockchain-based MMORPG in Virtual Reality with Realistic Graphics built and owned by its users.
- Qapla Gaming — We help gaming creators grow their audience and build an engaging community
- Henchman & Goon —
Jan is a founding partner of Credo Ventures. Before becoming a venture capitalist, he co-founded and operated several companies and later served as an M&A advisor representing the sellers as well as the acquirers. He is a member of Kauffman Fellowship, a highly sought-after program and network dedicated to the world of innovation investing.
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Investment focus
- Artificial Intelligence, Software, Internet
- 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.
Neon DAO is a for-profit DAO for the Metaverse
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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.
The Technology Agency of the Czech Republic was founded on the support of research, experimental development and innovation.
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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.
Sunfish Partners is an early stage VC that invests in Polish deep tech startups.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Poland, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Zaitra — Zaitra reduces data transmission costs while also providing spaceship onboard and artificial intelligence services.
- 1.security — Simplify and secure the Microsoft 365 ecosystem by providing transparency and control in managing the complex system of access permissions ecosystem.
- Codejet — Codejet helps builders code 50% faster by converting designs to production ready code. Create a project in Figma, and Codejet will convert it into clean and open TypeScript code (along with RWD and unit testing).
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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Investment focus
- Health Care, Health Diagnostics
- Pre-Seed
- Czech Republic
LEVERAGE build exceptional internet companies. We invest our own experience, time and capital. We are looking for new ambitious projects!
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Investment focus
- B2B, E-Commerce, Retail Technology
- Seed
- Czech Republic
Portfolio highlights
- Nulisec — Nulisec is on a mission to make European manufacturers of Fast Moving Consumer Goods more accessible to the world. They are starting with Foods & Beverages because this industry produces the most waste and loss from the inefficient matching of supply and demand from manufacturers to distribution and retail. They provide the technologyinfrastructure and marketing reach to help emerging brands and other businesses to leverage the power of new technology to engage with their users and customers and operate in a more efficient way. Retailers get access to a whole new dimension of products, through a unified ordering system which streamlines purchasing processes.
I am an entrepreneurial and experienced CEO. I have successfully built, launched, and grown multiple new global businesses at companies such as Google (Internet), Modern Times Group (media), and HTC VIVE (VR). Proven ability to successfully create and communicate corporate visions and strategies, hire and motivate top talent, and lead global sales,marketing, and product teams.Board member of companies such as Cision (software), Scandic Hotels (hotels), and Raymond (solar). Trusted advisor to large firms such as Ericsson and EQT, and cutting-edge startups like Einride (electric trucks), Jetson (flying cars), and Elonroad (electric roads).World class keynote speaker at international conferences such as MWC, GDC, IBC, CES, and invited speaker at Harvard, Stanford, and MIT. I am a future astronaut with Virgin Galactic, and the founder of WIT Global Women In Tech network and events.
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Investment focus
- Virtual Reality, Sports, Electric Vehicle
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- Sweden, United States, Czech Republic
Portfolio highlights
- WEIQ — WEIQ is an application that offers an ordering and payment solutions for restaurants.
- Elonroad — Elonroad charging solutions allow for vehicle agnostic conductive charging, providing freedom and flexibility by charging while driving or parked.
- Jetson Aero — Your personal aircraft in aluminium and carbon fibre, powered with eight powerful electric motors.
Grouport is a dynamic and versatile fund with a unique approach – it combines direct engaged involvement in terms of project portfolio with an attractive return on investment. As such, the Investor enters the startup ecosystem and becomes a member of a unique network of fellow Angels investing their financial means and know-how into progressivestartups shaping the 21st century.Further, Grouport allows you to enter the startup ecosystem without the need to abandon or divert from your current job occupation and career. Grouport – engaged involvement in progressive startups that have the potential to significantly affect our future Grouport – bringing together a remarkable group of people with a common goal and allowing them to grow.Grouport – unique investment opportunity for those seeking new challenges and creating projects from scratch.
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Investment focus
- Apps, SaaS, E-Commerce
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
- Czech Republic, United Kingdom, Lithuania
Portfolio highlights
- Beem — Beem lets musicians, performers and influencers live stream themselves in Augmented Reality and have their followers see those broadcasts wherever they are.
- Leya AI — Feel and sound like an English native in 3 months
- Oxus.AI — AI-driven speech analytics software aiming to cover 6,000 languages, and every member of your sales team. Get every agent in your team performing like your best reps.
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Software, Artificial Intelligence
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- United States, Taiwan, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- ARRIS — ARRIS is an industrial engineering company that specializes in the fields of machinery manufacturing, automotive, and aerospace. It provides next-gen composites for mass-market applications including aerospace, automotive, sports, and consumer products. The company was founded in 2017 and headquartered in Berkeley, California.
Founded by Luke Alvarez, Ian Livingstone and Cherry Freeman, Hiro Capital is a Luxembourg/London technology Venture Capital fund which invests in European and UK innovators in Games, Esports and Digital Sports.
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Investment focus
- Gaming, Video Games, Software
- Series A, Funding Round, Seed
- United States, United Kingdom, India
Portfolio highlights
- Atom Switch — Atom Switch is an independent developing studio providing design, development, and consulting for mobile and web apps, games, advertising.
- Loric Games — Loric Games operates as a gaming studio that offers players story-driven experiences. The company aims to inspire players that seek adventure within fantastical worlds that are brought to life through shared story-driven experiences.
- Incredibuild — Incredibuild accelerates your development on-prem and the cloud to give you shorter builds, faster iterations, and better products.
First partner to exceptional teams everywhere
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Series A, Series B, Series C
- United States, India, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Dash0 — Dash0 is modern OpenTelemetry Native Observability, built on CNCF Open Standards such as PromQL, Perses and OTLP with full cost control
- Billy — At Billy, we believe that artists, producers and events creators have the power to create moments we'll remember forever. Founded in 2022, Billy is dedicated to provide event organizers with the best event platform to grow their brands and engage their communities. Our advanced SaaS solutions enable event organizers to transform websitesinto event shops to easily sell tickets, merchandising, bundles, experiences, fan-pack and boost their revenues.
- Melio — Pay and get paid for invoices quickly, simply, and without any of the usual costs. Increase cash-flow and reduce hassles with Melio Payments.
A World Beyond Reality
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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.
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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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- United States, Switzerland, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- 1Kin Labs — Get early access to in-development games, claim rewards, and take your digital assets with you wherever you go - all with a single sign-on.
- Omega — Omega enables users to leverage cross-chain digital assets and enhance their yield through modular DeFi opportunities in a decentralized and secure manner
- Crypto Valley Exchange — The first portfolio risk capable platform for Options & Futures trading in DeFi, offering 1000x+ leverage based on margin offset.
We provide early- and mid-stage venture capital and expertise for extraordinary founders in gaming, esports, and interactive media.
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Investment focus
- Gaming, Video Games, Blockchain
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Germany, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Anzu.io — Anzu is an in-game advertising platform that introduces native, creative, and dynamically-updated ads to video games and esports.
- Infinite Canvas — Infinite Canvas is a publisher for user-generated, creator-led games.
- Scriptic — Scriptic, interactive story games on mobile.
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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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- Germany, Sweden, Austria
Portfolio highlights
- Monda — Monda is the easy-to-use, all-in-one data monetization platform. Build a safe, fast-growing, and sustainable data business with Monda. Trusted by data-as-a-service (DaaS) companies across the globe.
- CultureAI — Measure and improve human cyber risks and security behaviours to prevent security incidents. Go beyond security awareness training, start your free trial today.
- Dive — Discover SPH fluid simulation software accessible on the cloud and on a browser from anywhere. No hardware, no maintenance - just engineering.
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.
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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 the early access layer for Virtual Reality Get access to the latest Oculus Quest Games Oculus App Lab games lots of free apps on applab and sideload
Syner is a civil engineering company that specializes in the construction of sports facilities and industrial areas.
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- Sports, Virtual Reality
- Funding Round
- Czech Republic
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- 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.
Paul Sallaberry is the Chairman of the Board at Seal Software.
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- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Series B, Series C, Funding Round
- United States, Czech Republic
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- Time is Ltd. — Time is Ltd. was founded in 2017 to improve the everyday productivity of large corporations and companies. An easy way to integrate solution for companies which are going through the process of adopting a diverse number of cloud tools, it allows them to understand the performance data behind their productivity.Powered by machine learning, theplatform brings the data from a number of tools, such as Office 365, G Suite, and Slack, amongst others, together in one. By unlocking the hidden gems in this combined data, it reveals a company’s successful working patterns and allows organizations to operate more effectively.Time is Ltd. is a Prague-based startup founded by serial entrepreneurs Jan Rezab and Cyril Höschl.
- Oportun — Get affordable personal loans, effortless savings tools, credit-building credit cards, and smart budgeting tools to strengthen your finances.
- Bitwise — Bitwise Asset Management is a trusted partner to individuals, wealth managers, family offices, investment managers, and institutions in navigating cryptocurrency. Bitwise develops funds, indexes, insight, and other services. The team behind Bitwise has backgrounds in technology, security, and finance. The firm’s origins are in technology and itprides itself on having a deep understanding of protocols while seeking to build understanding and help the technical and non-technical alike participate.
Systematic Pre-Seed Startup Capital
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- Software, SaaS, Health Care
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
- United States, Canada, United Kingdom
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- 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.
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.
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- Health Care, FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Series C
- United States, India, Nigeria
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- 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
Tilia Impact Ventures is a Czech impact fund that supports purpose-driven founders and companies with scalable business models and high environmental or social impact potential.
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- SaaS, Waste Management, B2B
- Pre-Seed, Seed
- Czech Republic, Italy, Poland
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- 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.
- Deafcom — DEAFCOM is a modern application for instant sign language interpretation and spoken word transcription which effectively replaces the need for interpreters to be physically present.
- BLISKO — The Village is SaaS enabled Marketplace that reaches two target groups. It connects parents looking for high-quality childcare and childcare providers. As the result, it facilities the process of mothers returning to work after maternity leave and creates new jobs (e.g. by professionalising nanny services and giving homestay moms the opportunity tohave their micro-businesses).
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 — Surveys and reports do not improve employee engagement. Solving problems do.Quainted improves employee engagement by identifying problems, assigning a person to fix these and allowing your employees to find and implement the solutions there and then.Their customers are medium - large companies that has to improve their employees'engagement.
- 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.
Clark Golestani is Managing Director of C Sensei Group since 2018. He attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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- CRM, SaaS, Computer
- Seed, Series A
- United States, Czech Republic
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- BalkanID — BalkanID leverages data science to provide **visibility of risky entitlements** and simplifies the access review & certification process across the SaaS and Public Cloud landscape.
- Time is Ltd. — Time is Ltd. was founded in 2017 to improve the everyday productivity of large corporations and companies. An easy way to integrate solution for companies which are going through the process of adopting a diverse number of cloud tools, it allows them to understand the performance data behind their productivity.Powered by machine learning, theplatform brings the data from a number of tools, such as Office 365, G Suite, and Slack, amongst others, together in one. By unlocking the hidden gems in this combined data, it reveals a company’s successful working patterns and allows organizations to operate more effectively.Time is Ltd. is a Prague-based startup founded by serial entrepreneurs Jan Rezab and Cyril Höschl.
- Curavit Clinical Research — Curavit is a “virtual CRO”, purpose-built to design and execute decentralized clinical trials. The company works with our clients to design their trials from first principles, based on the team’s decades of experience in research and digital health technologies. For each trial, they assign an experienced principal investigator, who is an expert inthe specific disease area, to develop the protocol and drive the regulatory submission process. Curavit manages participant recruitment, enrollment, and consent. Under the direction of the PI, their clinical study team executes the entire decentralized clinical trial.
Prozeta offers a wide range of network hardware including Cisco systems, Arista Networks and HPE products.
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- Computer, Network Security
- Seed
- Czech Republic
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- Blindspot Technologies — Blindspot protects your network from DDoS attacks with advanced technology. Uses machine learning to analyze, filter and protect your application from malicious traffic.
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.
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- Software, FinTech, SaaS
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United Kingdom, United States, Germany
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- 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.
DEPO Ventures is an angel network and VC (Grouport and DEPO Angels Fund II), which connects world of startups and investors.
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Czech Republic, United States, Estonia
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- 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
Daniel Vávra - Co-Founder and Creative Director @ Warhorse Studios
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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.
David Wu Is The Partner At Maveron.
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- Software, Health Care, Mobile
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada, Singapore
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- LIV — LIV is your complete toolset for VTubing, Mixed Reality Capture and VR native utilities like in-headset stream chat, alerts and notifications!
- Echo AI — Pathlight helps customer-facing teams hit their goals and grow faster, by giving every employee the data and communication they need to be successful.
- Volta — Design, perform and stream your own mixed reality experience in just minutes.
The Amazon Alexa Fund is Amazon’s venture capital fund investing in artificial intelligence, frontier tech, voice, robotics, and digital health across consumer and enterprise. We invest in early- to growth-stage companies globally. To learn more, visit us at alexafund.com.
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, Canada
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- Heeyo — Talking AIs that helps kids learn and play!
- Sunrise — Sunrise aims to bring simple answers to millions of people suffering from sleep disorders.We have developed a 3-gram sensor to diagnose sleep with gold standard quality. The technology offers a revolutionary new way to measure brain commands at night, with published clinical results never seen before. Studies demonstrate Sunrise is as accurate asin-lab sleep studies, at a fraction of the cost.Affecting one in three people, sleep disorders are extremely common. Sleep apnea is the most prevalent disease with almost 1 billion persons concerned. This condition leads to great body damage over time and yet remains undiagnosed in 80% of the cases.Patients, caregiver and insurers stand to benefit greatly from a solution to current highly cumbersome, expensive and time-consuming diagnostics systems.
- Imbue — We want machines that learn the way humans do.Our mission is to build human-like general intelligence and make it safely accessible in order to foster a more abundant, equitable, and unconstrained society.We take a first-principles approach, starting from simple self-supervised architectures and evolving them to tackle human developmentalmilestones of increasing complexity.
Vit Horky, Brand Embassy's co-founder and CEO, loves an unforgettable customer experience. Whether it's service with a smile at a Starbucks near you (he's always traveling) or the perfectly timed tweet that draws him back to a company he forgot about, he knows customer experiences are at the heart of customer service. That's whyBrand Embassy was built. Between speaking at international conferences, and cheering on his growing team, you’ll find him musing about the fascinating life of bees.
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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 — 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.
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- Aerospace, Electronics
- Seed, Funding Round
- Czech Republic
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, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Czech Republic, United States, Poland
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- GRAET — Make your mark in the sports and earn money on the first platform for prospective hockey players.
- Woltair — Digitisation of the heating installation process - from lead generation, through sales and installation, to after-sales support.
- E2B — Sandboxed cloud environments for AI agents & AI apps with a single line of code
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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- GRACIA.AI — AI-powered ultra-photorealistic volumetric videos for VR, MR and more
- Astrocade AI — Astrocade AI is an AI-powered social gaming platform that allows anybody to create games and interactive experiences.
- Eggscape Entertainment — Eggscape is designed as a playful and social experience where players explore vibrant interactive environments integrated with the real world.
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 a.s. — Taikun CloudWorks is an Advanced Platform for Delivering Kubernetes & Applications Seamlessly Across Multi Cloud Environments
QQ Capital is a family venture office in Prague, Czech Republic, that backs bold entrepreneurs building the future through technology.
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- Internet, SaaS, Gaming
- Angel, Pre-Seed, Seed
- Czech Republic, Slovakia (Slovak Republic), United Kingdom
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- Eseye — Innovative IoT cellular connectivity, versatile hardware, and technical consultancy to unlock the potential of IoT for your organisation
- 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.
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