# Pavel Baudis

> Pavel Baudis is a seed investor at Avast (Prague) backing Robotics and Logistics. See 9 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Avast](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/avast)
- Location: Prague, Czech Republic
- Total investments: 9
- Last investment: Nov 2024
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026

Pavel Baudis is a seed investor at Avast in Prague focused on Robotics and Logistics. Pavel Baudis is based out of Prague, Hlavni mesto Praha and is the Co-founder of Avast. Pavel previously worked at Czech Computer Research Institute as a graphics specialist. Pavel Baudis attended the Prague School of Chemical Engineering.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $2.2M–$2.3M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Robotics | 2 | 22% |
| Logistics | 2 | 22% |
| 3D Technology | 2 | 22% |
| Industrial Automation | 2 | 22% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 2 | 22% |

11 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 3 | 33% |
| Funding Round | 3 | 33% |
| Series A | 2 | 22% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Germany | 1 | 11% |
| United States | 1 | 11% |
| Slovakia (Slovak Republic) | 1 | 11% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Photoneo Brightpick Group | Photoneo is a leading provider of robotic vision and intelligence. Based on a patented 3D technology, Photoneo has developed the world’s highest resolution and highest accuracy 3D camera, thus unlocking the full potential of powerful, reliable and fast machine learning and also reducing the training and deployment time. By bringing intelligentrobots into the field, Photoneo helps companies mainly in the automotive, logistics, e-commerce, food and medical industry to improve the performance and efficiency of their manufacturing, fulfillment and assembly process. | $12M |  | Nov 12, 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. | $12M |  | Nov 12, 2024 |  |
| Photoneo Brightpick Group | Photoneo is a leading provider of robotic vision and intelligence. Based on a patented 3D technology, Photoneo has developed the world’s highest resolution and highest accuracy 3D camera, thus unlocking the full potential of powerful, reliable and fast machine learning and also reducing the training and deployment time. By bringing intelligentrobots into the field, Photoneo helps companies mainly in the automotive, logistics, e-commerce, food and medical industry to improve the performance and efficiency of their manufacturing, fulfillment and assembly process. | $9.9M | Series A | Dec 01, 2018 |  |
| 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. | $2.5M |  | Jul 01, 2016 |  |
| Photoneo Brightpick Group | Photoneo is a leading provider of robotic vision and intelligence. Based on a patented 3D technology, Photoneo has developed the world’s highest resolution and highest accuracy 3D camera, thus unlocking the full potential of powerful, reliable and fast machine learning and also reducing the training and deployment time. By bringing intelligentrobots into the field, Photoneo helps companies mainly in the automotive, logistics, e-commerce, food and medical industry to improve the performance and efficiency of their manufacturing, fulfillment and assembly process. | $2.2M | Seed | Sep 15, 2015 |  |
| Photoneo Brightpick Group | Photoneo is a leading provider of robotic vision and intelligence. Based on a patented 3D technology, Photoneo has developed the world’s highest resolution and highest accuracy 3D camera, thus unlocking the full potential of powerful, reliable and fast machine learning and also reducing the training and deployment time. By bringing intelligentrobots into the field, Photoneo helps companies mainly in the automotive, logistics, e-commerce, food and medical industry to improve the performance and efficiency of their manufacturing, fulfillment and assembly process. | $2.3M | Seed | Sep 15, 2015 |  |
| 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. |  | Series A |  |  |
| Photoneo |  |  | Seed |  |  |
| 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. |  | Seed |  |  |

9 of 9 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Credo Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/credo-ventures) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [RSJ Investments SICAV a.s.](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rsj-private-equity) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Earlybird Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/earlybird-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [EBRD Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ebrd-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Bek Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bek-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Avast

VC Fund · Prague, Czech Republic

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.

5 contacts available at Avast.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Jonathan Beddoes | Director of Engineering | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jonathan-beddoes |
| Michal Pechoucek | Chief Technology Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/michal-pechoucek |
| Pavel Baudis | Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pavel-baudis |
| Phil Marshall | Chief Financial Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/phil-marshall-69d9 |
| Phil Marshall | Chief Financial Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/philip-marshall-0c79 |

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## FAQ

### What does Pavel Baudis invest in?

Pavel Baudis invests primarily in Robotics, Logistics and 3D Technology startups, most often at Seed and Funding Round stage. Most of the 9 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Germany. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Pavel Baudis's check size?

Pavel Baudis typically joins rounds of $2.2M–$2.3M 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 Pavel Baudis participates in.

### When did Pavel Baudis last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Pavel Baudis closed in Nov 2024. 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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