KAYA
VC Fund
Prague, Czech Republic
KAYA is a VC fund in Prague focused on Software and Internet. KAYA evolved from Enern Investments - a regional financial group formed in Prague in 2010 that grew alongside the CEE ecosystem across clean energy, tech, real estate, and other activities.Ten years and €500m AUM later, Enern remains a holding for diverse investments while KAYA is conceived as a separate, focused successor of Enern Tech for allthings venture capital, with 40+ investments and latest fund of €90.
- Total investments:
- 99
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 19%
- Fund size:
- $82M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries KAYA invests in
Stages KAYA invests in
Countries KAYA invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
| See all 7 contacts → | |||
Round size
- Seed
- $514k–$9.5M
- Pre-Seed
- $132k–$3.8M
- Series A
- $3.6M–$25M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 19 (19%)
- Internet 11 (11%)
- Health Care 11 (11%)
- Artificial Intelligence 10 (10%)
- E-Commerce 9 (9%)
Stage
- Seed 36 (36%)
- Pre-Seed 19 (19%)
- Series A 14 (14%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 4 (4%)
- Series B 2 (2%)
Country
- United States 19 (19%)
- Czech Republic 15 (15%)
- Poland 6 (6%)
- Spain 2 (2%)
- Belgium 2 (2%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Petr Smida
Founding Partner
|
Founding Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Karel Zheng
Partner
|
Partner | Total investments: 4 | Find email | |
Martin Rajcan
General Partner
|
General Partner | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
Pavel Mucha
Founding Partner
|
Founding Partner | Total investments: 8 | Find email | |
Tomas Obrtac
General Partner
|
General Partner | Total investments: 9 | Find email | |
| See all 7 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frontier Computing is a biocomputing company growing large-scale neuronal tissue, living hardware with memory baked in at the cellular level. | $10M / Pre-Seed / Sep 01, 2026 | ||
| Theorema.ai is an AI-powered startup that focuses on autonomous R&D agents for science-intensive industries, including innovative materials, biotech, pharmaceuticals, and chemicals. | $3.3M / Pre-Seed / Mar 27, 2026 | ||
| GenPeach AI develops multimodal AI models for generating and editing images and video content. The company focuses on training large-scale foundation models that can understand and produce visual media, enabling automated creation and manipulation of digital assets. Their work targets applications in content production, creative workflows, andgenerative AI research. | Seed / Jan 01, 2026 | ||
| Jutro Medical offers a combination of online and offline primary care — pairing mobile first telemedicine with physical clinic | $28.2M / Series A / Dec 16, 2025 | ||
| Supernova connects to popular design editors and interprets design systems into data. These data can then be transformed in powerful ways to create code for product development, for literally any coding stack or platform imaginable. These transformations can be fully automated so that when design changes occur, the code is automatically updatedto reflect the changes. Developers can fully control how the code is rendered, literally down to the individual code characters. An ecosystem of Supernova-developed and community-maintained code export packages is available for popular stacks and platforms via the Supernova Store, or teams can choose to create their own — for instance, to support proprietary frameworks or to customize code output to meet any company guidelines. | $9.2M / Series A / Sep 30, 2025 | ||
| Pencil builds a development tool that embeds a visual user interface design canvas directly into code editors, enabling developers to create, adjust, and align UI layouts alongside their code. The platform focuses on streamlining UI iteration and reducing handoff between design and development by keeping both processes in a single workspace. | Pre-Seed / Sep 30, 2025 | ||
| Stormy is an AI tool that boosts productivity by automating tasks and learning from your screen activity. | $500K / Pre-Seed / Sep 09, 2025 | ||
| E2B is constructing the cloud for AI bots a platform and architecture that allows AI bots to operate freely and as first-class citizens. | $21M / Series A / Jul 28, 2025 | ||
| TopK features native support for both vector search and keyword search in a single, unified system. With its powerful query expression language, TopK enables you to build reliable search applications (semantic search, RAG, multi-modal, you name it) without juggling multiple databases or services. Our unified retrieval engine will evolve tosupport document transformation, query understanding (parse metadata filters from user query), and adaptive ranking (provide more relevant results by sending “relevance feedback” back to TopK) under one roof. | $5.5M / Seed / Jul 01, 2025 | ||
| Mesmer provides an AI tool that tracks work inside technology teams. The tool connects with platforms like GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, Figma, Slack, Confluence, and Notion. It monitors team activities and gives updates on progress and problems. The service helps leaders see what is happening without holding meetings. It offers support for managingtasks, tracking risks, and keeping teams accountable. | Seed / Jun 15, 2025 | ||
| See all 99 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does KAYA invest in?
KAYA invests primarily in Software, Internet and Health Care startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 99 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 KAYA's check size?
KAYA typically joins rounds of $514k–$9.5M at Seed, $132k–$3.8M at Pre-Seed and $3.6M–$25M 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 KAYA participates in.
How do I contact KAYA?
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Who are the partners at KAYA?
The team at KAYA includes Petr Smida (Founding Partner), Karel Zheng (Partner) and Martin Rajcan (General Partner), among 7 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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 Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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