Michal Pechoucek
Chief Technology Officer @ Avast
Prague, Czech Republic
Michal Pechoucek is a seed investor at Avast in Prague focused on Information Technology and Artificial Intelligence. Michal Pechoucek joined Avast as CTO in September 2019. Mr. Pechoucek leads the core technology and R&D teams supporting the work of the Avast Threat Labs, Big Data and innovation teams. He is also responsible for the company’s scientific research in the fields of Artificial Intelligence, machine learning, and cybersecurity.Before joiningAvast, Mr. Pechoucek spent over twenty years as a professor at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering at the Czech Technical University (CTU) in Prague, during which time he led the Department of Computer Science and founded the Artificial Intelligence Center in 2001. He also co-founded a research-oriented study programme, Open Informatics, which offers a choice of different subjects, combines different areas of informatics and approaches and continues to be taught today.Mr. Pechoucek has authored more than 400 high impact publications and contributed numerous innovative AI applications to research in computer science. Before joining Avast, he was the prime mover behind the creation of the Avast Chair of Cybersecurity at CTU, and in 2019, he also helped to establish the Avast funded joint CTU/Avast AI and Cybersecurity Laboratory. Today, Mr. Pechoucek continues to lecture at CTU and lead the Artificial Intelligence Center.
- Total investments:
- 5
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 20%
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Industries Michal Pechoucek invests in
Stages Michal Pechoucek invests in
Countries Michal Pechoucek invests in
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Round size
- Seed
- $2.8M–$10M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Information Technology 2 (40%)
- Artificial Intelligence 2 (40%)
- Banking 1 (20%)
- Computer 1 (20%)
- Internet 1 (20%)
Stage
- Seed 2 (40%)
- Series A 1 (20%)
- Series B 1 (20%)
Country
- United States 3 (60%)
- Czech Republic 1 (20%)
Investments
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GetReal Security
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GetReal Labs is on a quest to defend companies throughout the world from the risks posed by the malicious use of modified and synthetic information. | $17.5M / Series A / Mar 26, 2025 | |
Augment Code
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Augment Code builds AI agents that understand entire codebases to generate, review, and manage software. It offers deep contextual code comprehension, IDE and CLI integration, and automated task coordination. Developers can also leverage semantic code analysis, remote agents, and personalized prompt suggestions to streamline complex projects. | Series B / Nov 04, 2024 | |
Resistant AI
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Resistant AI is a fraud detection company that specializes in document fraud detection and transaction monitoring. Resistant Documents. Document fraud detection solution checks any document, from anywhere, for fraud and authenticity (in seconds). Resistant Transactions. Transaction monitoring solution upgrades existing rules-based TM systems,targeting advanced fincrime typologies with 80+ AI models. We analyze everything (from submitted documents to ongoing customer behaviors), uncovering and preventing: Document forgery Large-scale serial fraud Synthetic identities Account takeovers Money mules Laundering APP fraudWith adaptive AI reasoning, we can even combat previously unknown financial threats!Customers see a 3x increase in doc fraud prevention, 5x faster review times, 90% cut in manual reviews, and a 5x increase in second line analyst productivity. We’ve worked with some of the world’s leading financial institutions, including: Dun & Bradstreet, Payoneer, Close Brothers, PennyMac, Bank of Valetta and Finom. Investors include GV (formerly Google Ventures), Index Ventures, Notion Capital, and more. Visit Resistant.ai or connect on LinkedIn to learn more. | $2.8M / Seed / Apr 30, 2020 | |
zecOps
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ZecOps is a mobile security automation firm that finds attackers' mistakes to discover the course of action and objectives of the entire campaign, burn the threat actors exploits and persistence mechanisms, and increase the attacker's campaign costs. For more details about ZecOps Mobile EDR and Mobile DFIR solutions visit: www.zecops.com | $10.2M / Seed / Nov 19, 2019 | |
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zecOps
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ZecOps is a mobile security automation firm that finds attackers' mistakes to discover the course of action and objectives of the entire campaign, burn the threat actors exploits and persistence mechanisms, and increase the attacker's campaign costs. For more details about ZecOps Mobile EDR and Mobile DFIR solutions visit: www.zecops.com | $3.5M / Seed / Jul 31, 2018 |
Co-Investors
About Avast
Avast is the global leader in digital security products for consumers and businesses, protects over 400 million people online. Avast offers products under the Avast and AVG brands, that protect people from threats on the internet with one of the most advanced threat detection networks in the world. Avast digital security products for Mobile, PC, orMac are top-ranked and certified by VB100, AV-Comparatives, AV-Test, OPSWAT, ICSA Labs, West Coast Labs, and others. Avast is backed by leading global private equity firms CVC Capital Partners and Summit Partners.
Avast Contacts
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Jonathan Beddoes
Director of Engineering
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Michal Pechoucek
Chief Technology Officer
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Pavel Baudis
Co-Founder
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Phil Marshall
Chief Financial Officer
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Phil Marshall
Chief Financial Officer
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What does Michal Pechoucek invest in?
Michal Pechoucek invests primarily in Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence and Banking startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 5 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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Michal Pechoucek typically joins rounds of $2.8M–$10M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Michal Pechoucek participates in.
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When did Michal Pechoucek last invest?
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