# Matej Říha

> Matej Říha is a seed investor at Venture to Future Fund backing Software. See 7 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Venture to Future Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/venture-to-future-fund)
- Location: Slovenský Grob, Slovakia (Slovak Republic)
- Total investments: 7
- Last investment: Jul 2024
- Lead investor: 57%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/matej-%C5%99%C3%ADha-a8131a1b/

Matej Říha is a seed investor at Venture to Future Fund in Slovenský Grob focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. Matej Říha

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 3 | 43% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 3 | 43% |
| SaaS | 2 | 29% |
| Health Care | 2 | 29% |
| Internet of Things | 2 | 29% |

23 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 2 | 29% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 14% |
| Series A | 1 | 14% |
| Series B | 1 | 14% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 14% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 2 | 29% |
| Slovakia (Slovak Republic) | 2 | 29% |
| Romania | 1 | 14% |
| The Netherlands | 1 | 14% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| .lumen | dotLumen is a research startup that uses AI, robotics, and neuroscience to empower the blind. dotLumen was founded in 2020 and was headquartered in Cluj, Romania. | $5.5M |  | Jul 17, 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. | $19M | Series B | Jan 17, 2023 |  |
| Powerful Medical | Powerful Medical's PMcardio® is an AI-powered cardiovascular diagnostics and care coordination platform that transforms any 12-lead ECG—paper, scan, image, or digital—into an instant, expert-level diagnostic tool on any smartphone or computer. Powered by Queen of Hearts™, our FDA breakthrough-designated STEMI detection model, PMcardioidentifies true STEMI and STEMI-equivalent patterns with far greater accuracy than traditional criteria. Already used by 100,000 clinicians and detecting 36,000 heart attacks in H1/25 alone, PMcardio has been recognized as a strategic EU priority with a $46M non-dilutive R&D grant, and we are now seeking a $25M partner to commercialize in the U.S.Trained on 2.5 million clinically validated ECGs and proven in 15+ clinical studies, Queen of Hearts™ delivers twice the sensitivity for early STEMI detection and reduces false positives by 90%, cutting door-to-balloon times by an average of 48 minutes. PMcardio closes critical diagnostic gaps—especially in non-PCI and rural settings—ensuring faster, more accurate triage and timely access to life-saving PCI therapy.Powerful Medical has been recognized by the AHA, Google for Startups, and has won the 2025 MedTech Innovator Program! | $9.5M | Seed | Sep 28, 2022 |  |
| Spaceti | Spaceti is the only All-In-One Workplace Experience technology platform powered with AI used by corporate and commercial real estate managers to gather and manage all of their data in one place. Spaceti offers an all‐in‐one platform for building digitization that can work stand‐alone or be integrated with a sensor network to act as a completesmart building IoT solution. Spaceti offers its client adaptability, scalability and the possibility to customize their solutions based on their key organizational priorities like White-Labeling and Single Sign-On through software integrations.Spaceti aims to revolutionise and optimise how commercial real estate is managed and operated. Spaceti innovates how people interact with the indoor built environment and improves the employee experience at work while providing tangible cost savings. Customers pay via monthly subscription per active user and sensor. Spaceti offers 24/7 customer support and is dedicated to delivering a high quality and reliable service to their customers. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | May 23, 2022 |  |
| Simplicity | Simplicity is a cloud-based digital transformation company, providing Smart-City communication platform for municipalities and their residents. We are integrating all traditional communication channels into one simple system that strengthens trust and builds informational transparency. | $8.5M | Seed | Aug 19, 2021 |  |
| SEC-Technologies | SEC Technologies focuses on Stand-off detection and identification of airborne chemicals. Small concentrations, far distances in kilometers and precision matched only by point detectors will give you an unparalleled advantage. With our flagship product, Falcon 4G, you can simply visualize cloud in 3D image without necessity to have two detectorsaligned for triangulation. With consumption bellow 25W it becomes reliable partner working tirelessly for the whole day on the battery. Very important as Falcon 4G will be the only stand-off detector that will see the secondary cloud. Long time after it became invisible for all passive systems due to lost of its temperature difference in the environment. Based on pulsed - low energy lasers Falcon 4G is undetectable on the battlefield. | $3.6M | Series A | Feb 21, 2021 |  |
| Powerful Medical | Powerful Medical's PMcardio® is an AI-powered cardiovascular diagnostics and care coordination platform that transforms any 12-lead ECG—paper, scan, image, or digital—into an instant, expert-level diagnostic tool on any smartphone or computer. Powered by Queen of Hearts™, our FDA breakthrough-designated STEMI detection model, PMcardioidentifies true STEMI and STEMI-equivalent patterns with far greater accuracy than traditional criteria. Already used by 100,000 clinicians and detecting 36,000 heart attacks in H1/25 alone, PMcardio has been recognized as a strategic EU priority with a $46M non-dilutive R&D grant, and we are now seeking a $25M partner to commercialize in the U.S.Trained on 2.5 million clinically validated ECGs and proven in 15+ clinical studies, Queen of Hearts™ delivers twice the sensitivity for early STEMI detection and reduces false positives by 90%, cutting door-to-balloon times by an average of 48 minutes. PMcardio closes critical diagnostic gaps—especially in non-PCI and rural settings—ensuring faster, more accurate triage and timely access to life-saving PCI therapy.Powerful Medical has been recognized by the AHA, Google for Startups, and has won the 2025 MedTech Innovator Program! | $3.3M | Pre-Seed | Jun 01, 2020 |  |

7 of 7 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Zero One Hundred](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/zero-gravity-capital-0c47) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [bpd partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bpd-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Kolowrat Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kolowrat-group) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Alpha Intelligence Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alpha-intelligence-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Arieli Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/arieli-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [CB ESPRi](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cb-investment-management-d1d1) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Venture to Future Fund

VC Fund · Bratislava, Slovakia (Slovak Republic)

Venture to Future Fund is a joint initiative of EIB, the Ministry of Finance of the Slovak Republic, and the Slovak Investment Holding. It is the first venture capital fund of its kind in the CEE region that has lured EIB´s capital. We like hi-tech scaleups, however our focus is more generalistic. Our approach is more comprehensive and whatcounts the most is the innovation level, the overall uniqueness of the presented solution, and, of course, a skilled team with excellent execution power.We look for SMEs (Seed, Series A and beyond)) with at least a partially functioning and viable product that has been proved on the market and has first paying customers or signed contracts for the upcoming months.The minimum ticket is €0,5 million, average participation ranges from €1.5 – 2 million. We always invest alongside independent private co-investors based on the pari passu principle (50:50). Primary choice of preference are Slovak-incorporated SMEs or EU companies with capital link to Slovakia.

5 contacts available at Venture to Future Fund.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Martin Banský | Investment Manager / Vice Chairman of the Board of Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/martin-bansk%C3%BD |
| Martin Mecele | Investment Analyst; Investment Analyst | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/martin-mecele |
| Matej Říha | Investment Manager / Chairman of the Board of Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/matej-%C5%99%C3%ADha |
| Miriama Kovacova | Member of the Board of Directors | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/miriama-kovacova |
| Roman Horváth | Senior Investment Analyst | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/roman-horv%C3%A1th |

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## FAQ

### What does Matej Říha invest in?

Matej Říha invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and SaaS startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 7 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Matej Říha last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Matej Říha closed in Jul 2024. Shizune tracks 7 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?

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