# Lighthouse Ventures

> Lighthouse Ventures is a VC fund backing Software and Information Technology. See 74 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Prague, Czech Republic
- Total investments: 74
- Last investment: Jun 2026
- Lead investor: 55%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/lighthouse-ventures-prague
- Website: https://lhv.vc
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lhvprague/

Lighthouse Ventures is an early-stage and acceleration venture capital, focused on technology projects with predilection to the Czech market.Our mission in Lighthouse Ventures is to nurture inspiring ideas throughout their critical early stage, financially as well as professionally, with an international team of highly experienced tech veterans,bringing together expertise in entrepreneurship, startup mentoring, mergers and acquisitions and media and marketing as well as a strong business network in the Czech Republic and abroad.Lighthouse Ventures benefits from synergies and co-operation with leading Czech startup incubators, tech-partners, universities and governmental institutions for smart cities projects. It also maintains a network of highly skilled and experienced mentors, in benefit of its portfolio companies.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 16 | 22% |
| Information Technology | 9 | 12% |
| E-Commerce | 7 | 9% |
| SaaS | 6 | 8% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 6 | 8% |

87 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 42 | 57% |
| Pre-Seed | 16 | 22% |
| Convertible Note | 2 | 3% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Czech Republic | 33 | 45% |
| United States | 6 | 8% |
| Lithuania | 3 | 4% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 3% |
| The Netherlands | 2 | 3% |

12 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Jiri Janku | Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jiri-janku-37cf |
| Michal Zalesak | Co-Founder & Managing Partner | 22 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/michal-zalesak |
| Ravit Avidor | Partner | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ravit-avidor |
| Robert Reich | Investment Fund Associate | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/robert-reich-d0a4 |
| Vladislav Vintner | Founding Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/vladislav-vintner |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 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. | $2.1M | Seed | Jun 09, 2026 |  |
| BeatpulseLabs | With 500K+ hours of video, speech, and music data, BeatpulseLabs powers generative AI training across audio, video, and multimodal use. | $1.8M | Pre-Seed | Jun 08, 2026 |  |
| Ranketta | Ranketta is a visibility engine driven by AI that makes sure your brand appears first. | $1.2M | Pre-Seed | Nov 27, 2025 |  |
| FleetFox | UpSteam is building the future of car care via disrupting both the user experience, and the business side of car the car care industry. With UpSteam you can get a car wash delivered to your doorstep. It works pretty much like ordering a food delivery from Bolt/Uber. While you’re having a business meeting, our operator cleans your carinside-and-out, right at your parking spot. Also, we’re helping our business users save time on fleet management via offering various car care services such as refueling trips, damage control, car relocating, etc.As of August 2021, we've serviced more than 40K cars in 3 countries. UpSteam is combining the key-strengths of its traditional competitors, as users get the comfort of a self-service wash, the quality of a stationary hand wash, at the price-point of an automatic car wash. UpSteam was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Tallinn, Estonia. | $939.1K | Seed | Oct 27, 2025 |  |
| Deplace AI | Deplace AI collects and annotates human demonstration data and converts it into language guidance for robotics models. The platform helps robots learn from diverse environments. | $200K | Pre-Seed | Oct 07, 2025 |  |
| Talentiqa | JobSider creates an HR platform to assist businesses in finding and hiring the best employees for their operations. | $1.3M | Seed | Sep 29, 2025 |  |
| DeepMark | AI-driven Watermarking Technology | $878.6K | Pre-Seed | Sep 01, 2025 |  |
| TRIFFT Loyalty Platform | Transform your customer engagement experience with TRIFFT's enterprise-grade loyalty solution, thoughtfully developed to empower our partners with the comprehensive resources necessary for success.Our all-inclusive platform features a seamlessly integrated toolkit that includes a powerful LaaS Loyalty Engine, loyalty-focused CRM, real-timecontent management system (CMS), and customisable FEaaS (Front End as a Service) with Web/App/Card solutions—all perfectly aligned to elevate your brand’s identity. With TRIFFT, effortlessly implement groundbreaking loyalty strategies while minimising customer acquisition costs. Propel your revenue growth and uncover new profit opportunities with our state-of-the-art features catering to various loyalty mechanics. Elevate your retail and hospitality business to new heights with TRIFFT today! | $638K | Pre-Seed | Jul 17, 2025 |  |
| DecisionRules | DecisionRules is the decisioning platform build-first institutions rely on. It gives business teams no-code rule design and engineers full API control on a single platform where both collaborate on decision logic.Most enterprises run their decisions in one of two bad places: buried in application code, which only engineers can touch, or spreadacross spreadsheets no one trusts. DecisionRules replaces both with a managed decisioning platform. Business analysts author rules in a visual interface. Engineers integrate through a REST API, version everything in Git, and deploy through CI/CD pipelines. Ops teams monitor execution in production.The platform provides a full toolbox so every decision gets the right model. Decision Tables handle high-volume conditional logic. Decision Trees make branching visible. Decision Flows orchestrate multi-step processes. Scripting Rules cover custom calculations. Lookup Tables centralize reference data.Native AI Agents: turn unstructured documents into structured data. AI Agent is a native rule type that reads, reasons, and returns typed structured output — not a chatbot, not a bolt-on integration. It reads what Decision Tables cannot: contracts, medical reports, policy documents, emails. You define the schema, the AI fills it, and the result flows directly into the next rule downstream. Bring your own model: Google Gemini, OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Vertex AI, or Microsoft Foundry. Use different models for different rules. Enable Explainable AI for confidence scores and source fragments tied back to the original text. Enable caching to cut token costs to zero on repeated inputs. Alongside AI Agent, the embedded AI Assistant helps users create rules, generate test data, write functions, and summarize existing logic — measured ~60% faster rule authoring than building by hand.DecisionRules runs where your workloads run: public cloud, private managed cloud, or self-hosted on your own Kubernetes infrastructure with official Docker images and Helm charts. Integrations include Salesforce, Power Automate, Zapier, n8n, Azure, Oracle, Power BI, and data providers like Equifax, Experian, and LexisNexis.The platform processes 100M+ decisions daily for companies in 30+ countries across financial services, insurance, e-commerce, logistics, healthcare, and government. Recognized on G2 as a Leader in Decision Management Platforms, with badges for Best Estimated ROI and Fastest Implementation. Certified to SOC 2 and ISO 27001. | $1.8M | Seed | May 06, 2025 |  |
| QurieGen | QurieGen is a biotechnology company that accelerates drug discovery and development. | $2.4M | Pre-Seed | Apr 08, 2025 |  |

10 of 74 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Lighthouse Ventures invest in?

Lighthouse Ventures invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and E-Commerce startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 74 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Czech Republic. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Lighthouse Ventures?

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### Who are the partners at Lighthouse Ventures?

The team at Lighthouse Ventures includes Jiri Janku (Partner), Michal Zalesak (Co-Founder & Managing Partner) and Ravit Avidor (Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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