# Eduard Kucera

> Eduard Kucera is a seed investor in Prague backing Software and Information Technology. See 21 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Location: Prague, Czech Republic
- Total investments: 21
- Last investment: Nov 2024
- Lead investor: 10%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/eduard-kucera-a447b15

Eduard Kucera is a Member of the Board of Directors at AVAST Software since February 2014. Eduard was the Co-Founder and Chairman of the Board of Directors from the incorporation of AVAST Software a.s. in December 2006 until January 2014. Since 1991, Eduard was responsible for the activities of our predecessor entity, ALWIL Software partnership.From 1991 to 2009, Eduard also served as AVAST Chief Executive Officer, directing day-to-day operations that included the transition to a free software distribution model in 2002. Prior to co-founding AVAST, Eduard was a Computer Hardware Specialist at the Czech Computer Research Institute (VUMS). In 2009, Eduard was named Ernst & Young's "Entrepreneur of the Year 2009" for the Czech Republic. Eduard holds a Ph.D. in Natural Sciences degree in experimental Physics from Charles University in Prague.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $120k–$4.5M |
| Series A | $9.9M–$32M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 4 | 19% |
| Information Technology | 4 | 19% |
| Robotics | 3 | 14% |
| 3D Technology | 3 | 14% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 3 | 14% |

24 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 9 | 43% |
| Funding Round | 4 | 19% |
| Series A | 3 | 14% |
| Angel | 1 | 5% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 5% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 3 | 14% |
| Poland | 2 | 10% |
| Slovakia (Slovak Republic) | 2 | 10% |
| Germany | 1 | 5% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 5% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Photoneo Brightpick Group | Photoneo is a leading provider of robotic vision and intelligence. Based on a patented 3D technology, Photoneo has developed the world’s highest resolution and highest accuracy 3D camera, thus unlocking the full potential of powerful, reliable and fast machine learning and also reducing the training and deployment time. By bringing intelligentrobots into the field, Photoneo helps companies mainly in the automotive, logistics, e-commerce, food and medical industry to improve the performance and efficiency of their manufacturing, fulfillment and assembly process. | $12M |  | Nov 12, 2024 |  |
| Brightpick | Brightpick offers AI robots for warehouses to easily automate every step of their order fulfillment. The innovative Brightpick robots enable warehouses of any size to fully automate order picking, consolidation and dispatch, as well as stock replenishment. Brightpick Autopicker, the company’s award-winning flagship robot, is the only mobile robotin the world that robotically picks and consolidates orders directly in warehouse aisles. The Brightpick solution takes just weeks to deploy and allows companies to reduce their fulfillment labor to a minimum. Headquartered near Cincinnati, OH, Brightpick has more than 200 employees and hundreds of AI robots deployed across the US and Europe. | $12M |  | Nov 12, 2024 |  |
| Keboola | Keboola provides is a cloud-based data preparation platform that helps clients capture, analyze and surface crucial information for their internal analytics projects and data products.The company develops a cloud-based software suite that makes it easier for businesses to analyze their data in the areas of churn prediction, logistics flow, andrevenue prediction, giving customers quick access to vital information for their own internal analytics projects and data products.Keboola was established on July 1, 2007 by Mirek Burkon, Milan Veverka, and Petr Simecek in Prague, Hlavni mesto Praha. | $32M | Series A | Dec 01, 2023 |  |
| Keboola | Keboola provides is a cloud-based data preparation platform that helps clients capture, analyze and surface crucial information for their internal analytics projects and data products.The company develops a cloud-based software suite that makes it easier for businesses to analyze their data in the areas of churn prediction, logistics flow, andrevenue prediction, giving customers quick access to vital information for their own internal analytics projects and data products.Keboola was established on July 1, 2007 by Mirek Burkon, Milan Veverka, and Petr Simecek in Prague, Hlavni mesto Praha. | $4.5M | Seed | Nov 22, 2022 |  |
| PilotGo | PilotGo is a digital assistant for car workshops that handles what nobody likes: phone calls, notes, orders, and quotes. It learns from every conversation, order, and repair to automate repetitive tasks — so staff can focus on fixing cars, helping customers, and growing the business. - Phone calls and scheduling - Quoting and parts ordering -Repair management - Client relationship management | $932K | Seed | Sep 22, 2022 |  |
| PilotGo | PilotGo is a digital assistant for car workshops that handles what nobody likes: phone calls, notes, orders, and quotes. It learns from every conversation, order, and repair to automate repetitive tasks — so staff can focus on fixing cars, helping customers, and growing the business. - Phone calls and scheduling - Quoting and parts ordering -Repair management - Client relationship management | $1M | Pre-Seed | Sep 22, 2022 |  |
| Manta | Manta is the world-class automated approach to visualize, optimize, and modernize how data moves through your organization through code-level lineage. By automatically scanning your data environment with the power of 50+ out-of-the-box scanners, Manta builds a powerful map of all data pipelines to drive efficiency and productivity. | $35M | Series B | May 26, 2022 |  |
| Secfense | Secfense User Access Security Broker is a network traffic broker that learns the traffic patterns related to authentication and builds an additional security layer between users and their applications.Secfense broker is not a 2FA method. Secfense broker is a tool that enables a quick & easy setup of any 2FA method or authentication standardavailable on the market and introduces it without interfering with applications existing code or database.Without Secfense broker, the 2FA integration often requires changes in the apps' code and then manual check, which can take forever when there are hundreds of apps to protect.Secfense broker streamlines the process by taking over the traffic. The broker knows to which app the user wants to log in, and it asks the user to apply the 2FA method that was chosen for this specific app. Thanks to the Secfense broker the 2FA implementation process is quick & painless across the entire organization. Our customers can also easily switch to any other 2FA method available on the market connecting it with any application or device they need. | $2M |  | Mar 24, 2022 |  |
| Secfense | Secfense User Access Security Broker is a network traffic broker that learns the traffic patterns related to authentication and builds an additional security layer between users and their applications.Secfense broker is not a 2FA method. Secfense broker is a tool that enables a quick & easy setup of any 2FA method or authentication standardavailable on the market and introduces it without interfering with applications existing code or database.Without Secfense broker, the 2FA integration often requires changes in the apps' code and then manual check, which can take forever when there are hundreds of apps to protect.Secfense broker streamlines the process by taking over the traffic. The broker knows to which app the user wants to log in, and it asks the user to apply the 2FA method that was chosen for this specific app. Thanks to the Secfense broker the 2FA implementation process is quick & painless across the entire organization. Our customers can also easily switch to any other 2FA method available on the market connecting it with any application or device they need. | $2M | Seed | Mar 24, 2022 |  |
| Photoneo Brightpick Group | Photoneo is a leading provider of robotic vision and intelligence. Based on a patented 3D technology, Photoneo has developed the world’s highest resolution and highest accuracy 3D camera, thus unlocking the full potential of powerful, reliable and fast machine learning and also reducing the training and deployment time. By bringing intelligentrobots into the field, Photoneo helps companies mainly in the automotive, logistics, e-commerce, food and medical industry to improve the performance and efficiency of their manufacturing, fulfillment and assembly process. | $9.9M | Series A | Dec 01, 2018 |  |

10 of 21 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Eduard Kucera invest in?

Eduard Kucera invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and Robotics startups, most often at Seed and Funding Round stage. Most of the 21 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Eduard Kucera's check size?

Eduard Kucera typically joins rounds of $120k–$4.5M at Seed and $9.9M–$32M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Eduard Kucera participates in.

### When did Eduard Kucera last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Eduard Kucera closed in Nov 2024. Shizune tracks 21 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

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