# Karel Obluk

> Karel Obluk is a seed investor in Zurich backing Security, Cyber Security and Software. See 9 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Location: Zurich, Switzerland
- Total investments: 9
- Last investment: Jun 2023
- Lead investor: 11%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/karelobluk
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/karelobluk
- Website: https://x.com/karelobluk

Karel Obluk is a seed investor in Zurich focused on Security and Cyber Security. Karel Obluk is the Partner at Evolution Equity Partners. He previously worked as the CTO and acting CEO at AVG Technologies.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.1M–$5M |
| Series A | $1.4M–$13M |
| Series B | $20M–$30M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Security | 4 | 44% |
| Cyber Security | 4 | 44% |
| Software | 3 | 33% |
| Network Security | 2 | 22% |
| Information Technology | 2 | 22% |

20 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 3 | 33% |
| Series A | 3 | 33% |
| Series B | 3 | 33% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Czech Republic | 2 | 22% |
| Spain | 1 | 11% |
| Denmark | 1 | 11% |
| Germany | 1 | 11% |
| United States | 1 | 11% |

6 countries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Localazy | Translation as a service delivered to your digital product. | $1.1M | Seed | Jun 29, 2023 |  |
| Panaseer | Panaseer is the first Continuous Controls Monitoring platform for enterprise cybersecurity. Our platform shows you every asset, application, user and data set across your IT estate in real-time. This identifies gaps in controls coverage, aligns security with framework standards and substantiates regulatory compliance. Our automated reportssignificantly reduce reporting time and tailor insights to stakeholders at every level, enhancing decision-making from the boardroom to the analyst. These reports can also be mapped to the organisation’s structure, so you can prioritise risk based on impact to the business.Enterprise security leaders around the world trust our platform to help them make better security decisions. | $26.5M | Series B | May 11, 2021 |  |
| Guardsix | Logpoint is the creator of a reliable, innovative cybersecurity operations platform — empowering organizations worldwide to thrive in a world of evolving threats. By combining sophisticated technology and a profound understanding of customer challenges, LogPoint bolsters security teams’ capabilities while helping them combat current and futurethreats. Logpoint offers SIEM, UEBA, SOAR and SAP security technologies converged into a complete platform that efficiently detects threats, minimizes false positives, autonomously prioritizes risks, responds to incidents, and much more. Headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark, with offices around the world, Logpoint is a multinational, multicultural, and inclusive company. For more information, visit http://www.logpoint.com | $30M | Series B | Sep 30, 2020 |  |
| CounterCraft | Advanced adversaries and targeted attacks threaten large organisations on a daily basis. CounterCraft is a pioneering provider of full-spectrum cyber deception, ground-breaking threat hunting and cyber counterintelligence to detect, investigate and control targeted attacks. The award-winning solution combines powerful campaign automation withcontrolled synthetic environments to allow attackers to penetrate organizations without doing real damage. CounterCraft’s Threat Deception platform builds and deploys buffer zones that fool threat actors into engaging with false information and fake digital assets instead of real operational systems and data. The solution uses groundbreaking security engineering for Threat Detection, Threat Intelligence and Threat Response. Key stakeholders get more time to respond to advanced and rapidly evolving threats. The platform continuously generates highly relevant threat intelligence elicited from threat actors. Defenders benefit as CounterCraft integrates with incident response workflows and proactively reconfigures defensive systems in real time to mitigate risks from ongoing attacks.CounterCraft operates in Fortune500 companies globally, including major financial institutions, critical infrastructures, governments and Law Enforcement Agencies. Founded in 2015, the company is present in London, Madrid and Washington DC, with R&D in San Sebastian. | $5M | Seed | Jun 17, 2020 |  |
| SecurityScorecard | SecurityScorecard is a global leader in cybersecurity ratings and the only service with over a million companies continuously rated. Founded in 2013 by security and risk experts Dr. Alex Yampolskiy and Sam Kassoumeh, SecurityScorecard’s patented rating technology is used by over 1,000 organizations for self-monitoring, third-party risk management,board reporting, and cyber insurance underwriting; making all organizations more resilient by allowing them to easily find and fix cybersecurity risks across their externally facing digital footprint. SecurityScorecard is the only provider of instant risk ratings that automatically map to vendor cybersecurity questionnaire responses - providing a true 360-degree view of risk. SecurityScorecard continues to make the world a safer place by transforming the way companies understand, improve, and communicate cybersecurity risk to their boards, employees, and vendors. | $20M | Series B | Jun 23, 2016 |  |
| SecurityScorecard | SecurityScorecard is a global leader in cybersecurity ratings and the only service with over a million companies continuously rated. Founded in 2013 by security and risk experts Dr. Alex Yampolskiy and Sam Kassoumeh, SecurityScorecard’s patented rating technology is used by over 1,000 organizations for self-monitoring, third-party risk management,board reporting, and cyber insurance underwriting; making all organizations more resilient by allowing them to easily find and fix cybersecurity risks across their externally facing digital footprint. SecurityScorecard is the only provider of instant risk ratings that automatically map to vendor cybersecurity questionnaire responses - providing a true 360-degree view of risk. SecurityScorecard continues to make the world a safer place by transforming the way companies understand, improve, and communicate cybersecurity risk to their boards, employees, and vendors. | $12.5M | Series A | Apr 10, 2015 |  |
| Codasip | Codasip, a founding member of the RISC-V Foundation (riscv.org) and a devoted supporter of open standards, has been the first IP vendor to provide tool for automatically tailored RISC-V processor IP. Codasip’s silicon-proven Studio™ tool suite enables IoT developers to easily produce RISC-V processors optimized for specific software applications,supporting creation of truly extraordinary devices for the IoT.Codasip began operations as a spinout from the Brno University of Technology in 2006. Initial development was based on the PhD thesis of Codasip’s founder Karel Masarik(CEO/CTO), and in early 2014, their technology was ready for commercial deployment so they formed Codasip and raised the first funding round of $2.8M led by Credo VC with additional investment by the founders of AVAST and AVG Technologies managers. | $2.8M | Seed | Apr 23, 2014 |  |
| Cognitive Security | COGNITIVE SECURITY (COSE) develops innovative products in the domain of Network Behavior Analysis (NBA) in order fight against modern sophisticated attacks in today's cyberspace which include Advanced Persistent Threats (APT), exploit kits, zero-day attacks, molymorphic malware or trojans inside the client's network. COSE line of productsis based on the latest, US Army funded R&D and integrates Artificial Intelligence techniques (statistical analysis, autonomic/agent-based computing, ensamble classification, game-theoretic self-optimization) within the framework of distributed, intelligent, and forward-thinking security architecture. COSE solutions are deployed as an appliance, with an optional embedded network probe, virtual appliance or an OEM software module for integration with third-party products. It relies only on NetFlow/IPFIX inputs, ensuring easy integration with any networks.Cognitive Security provides network security solutions for enterprises and small- to medium-sized business markets. | $1.4M | Series A | Apr 25, 2011 |  |
| Guardsix | Logpoint is the creator of a reliable, innovative cybersecurity operations platform — empowering organizations worldwide to thrive in a world of evolving threats. By combining sophisticated technology and a profound understanding of customer challenges, LogPoint bolsters security teams’ capabilities while helping them combat current and futurethreats. Logpoint offers SIEM, UEBA, SOAR and SAP security technologies converged into a complete platform that efficiently detects threats, minimizes false positives, autonomously prioritizes risks, responds to incidents, and much more. Headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark, with offices around the world, Logpoint is a multinational, multicultural, and inclusive company. For more information, visit http://www.logpoint.com | $10M | Series A |  |  |

9 of 9 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Karel Obluk invest in?

Karel Obluk invests primarily in Security, Cyber Security and Software startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 9 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 Karel Obluk's check size?

Karel Obluk typically joins rounds of $1.1M–$5M at Seed, $1.4M–$13M at Series A and $20M–$30M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Karel Obluk participates in.

### When did Karel Obluk last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Karel Obluk closed in Jun 2023. Shizune tracks 9 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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