# Jaroslav Beck

> Jaroslav Beck is a seed investor at BottleCap AI backing Manufacturing and Art. See 12 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [BottleCap AI](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bottlecap-ai)
- Total investments: 12
- Last investment: Apr 2026
- Lead investor: 8%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jaroslavbeck/
- Website: https://x.com/JaroslavBeck
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jaroslav.beck

Jaroslav Beck is a seed investor at BottleCap AI focused on Manufacturing and Art. Jaroslav Beck is based out of Czech Republic, Europe and is the Co-Founder and CEO of BottleCap AI. Jaroslav previously worked at Beat Games as a Co-Founder and Music Director. Jaroslav Beck attended the University of West Bohemia.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $500k–$3.6M |
| Angel | $500k–$1.5M |
| Pre-Seed | $850k–$1.3M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Manufacturing | 2 | 17% |
| Art | 1 | 8% |
| B2B | 1 | 8% |
| Gaming | 1 | 8% |
| Guides | 1 | 8% |

26 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 6 | 50% |
| Angel | 2 | 17% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 17% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 17% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Czech Republic | 6 | 50% |
| United States | 1 | 8% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Zellify | Zellify is a constructing Web2App infrastructure. | $3.6M | Seed | Apr 28, 2026 |  |
| CANS | CANS is a manufacturing company that specializes in non-sweet sparkling, healthy and natural fruit drinks. |  | Seed | Feb 26, 2024 |  |
| ArtMaster | ArtMaster is an online platform that offers individual one-on-one tuition and online courses designed by professionals in art and music. | $500K | Seed | Jan 02, 2024 |  |
| Qerko | Qerko to make it simpler to pay in restaurants, bistros, and cafés. The company provides an electronic payment system that enables customers to pay their bills at a restaurant by scanning a QR code put on their table. Qerko is a fintech start-up from the MITON family. The objective of the company is to offer innovation to the gastro industry whilealso saving time for the company's business partners and clients. | $2.7M |  | Apr 13, 2022 |  |
| Qerko | Qerko to make it simpler to pay in restaurants, bistros, and cafés. The company provides an electronic payment system that enables customers to pay their bills at a restaurant by scanning a QR code put on their table. Qerko is a fintech start-up from the MITON family. The objective of the company is to offer innovation to the gastro industry whilealso saving time for the company's business partners and clients. | $2.7M | Seed | Apr 13, 2022 |  |
| ArtMaster | ArtMaster is an online platform that offers individual one-on-one tuition and online courses designed by professionals in art and music. | $500K | Angel | Mar 23, 2022 |  |
| Zuri | Zuri is a company that builds a hybrid-electric VTOL for inter-city travel. | $1.4M |  | Oct 27, 2021 |  |
| Zuri | Zuri is a company that builds a hybrid-electric VTOL for inter-city travel. | $1.5M | Angel | Oct 27, 2021 |  |
| Outfindo | Outfindo is an all-in-one AI-driven solution designed to enhance the online shopping experience for e-commerce businesses. Our intelligent platform seamlessly combines guided selling, enhanced product data, and localisation of a products across the stores. At the core of our solution is an AI-powered Product Selection Guide that engages customersthrough intuitive, conversational interactions, assisting them in finding the ideal products with ease. By introducing user-centric, insightful dialogues, we see customers gaining more engagement and trust, which leads to higher conversions for our clients. Outfindo handles every aspect of product data—enrichment, structuring, and seamless integration—so our clients can focus on delivering outstanding customer experiences. By simplifying product discovery and enhancing engagement, we drive trust, satisfaction, and ultimately, higher sales. | $1.3M | Pre-Seed | Jul 14, 2021 |  |
| Live Penalty | Live Penalty connect the club´s most valuable physical assets with new digital markets to grow their fan base and sales. | $2.2M | Seed | Dec 11, 2020 |  |

10 of 12 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [MITON](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/miton-cz-s-r-o) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Connect Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/connect-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Credo Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/credo-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Dreamcraft Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dreamcraft-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [EQT](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/eqt-holdings) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [FJ Labs](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fj-labs) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About BottleCap AI

VC Fund

BottleCap AI is a company that focuses on architecture-first, efficiency-focused basic LLMs designed to reason better per unit of CPU and enable previously impossible applications.

3 contacts available at BottleCap AI.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Jaroslav Beck | CEO & Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jaroslav-beck |
| David Herel | Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/david-herel-0323 |
| Tomas Mikolov | Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tomas-mikolov |

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## FAQ

### What does Jaroslav Beck invest in?

Jaroslav Beck invests primarily in Manufacturing, Art and B2B startups, most often at Seed and Angel stage. Most of the 12 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Czech Republic. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Jaroslav Beck's check size?

Jaroslav Beck typically joins rounds of $500k–$3.6M at Seed, $500k–$1.5M at Angel and $850k–$1.3M at Pre-Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Jaroslav Beck participates in.

### When did Jaroslav Beck last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Jaroslav Beck closed in Apr 2026. Shizune tracks 12 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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