# Rasty Turek

> Rasty Turek is a seed investor at Pex backing Security and Aerospace. See 3 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: Pex
- Location: Los Angeles, United States
- Total investments: 3
- Last investment: Sep 2024
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/synopsi
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/synopsi
- Website: http://turek.co
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/synopsi

Rasty Turek is a seed investor at Pex in Los Angeles focused on Security and Aerospace. Rasty Turek is the founder and CEO of Pex

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Security | 1 | 33% |
| Aerospace | 1 | 33% |
| Electronics | 1 | 33% |
| Manufacturing | 1 | 33% |
| Cyber Security | 1 | 33% |

10 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 1 | 33% |
| Angel | 1 | 33% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 33% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 2 | 67% |
| Czech Republic | 1 | 33% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Arcjet | Arcjet helps developers protect their apps in just a few lines of code. Implement rate limiting, bot protection, email validation, and defense against common attacks. | $3.6M | Seed | Sep 10, 2024 |  |
| Zuri | Zuri is a company that builds a hybrid-electric VTOL for inter-city travel. | $1.5M | Angel | Oct 27, 2021 |  |
| Aimful | Aimful cloud-based platform intended for meeting management. It encourages meeting culture transformation, augments calendar to protect time, collects topics before meetings, and asks invitees to come prepared. | $347.9K | Pre-Seed | Oct 26, 2021 |  |

3 of 3 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Andreessen Horowitz](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andreessen-horowitz) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Climate Change Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/climate-change-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [V-Sharp Venture Studio](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/v-sharp-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Pex

VC Fund · Los Angeles, United States

Pex specializes in digital rights technology. It ensures transparency and accuracy in attribution by bringing together all stakeholders and industries to license and manage content. Its advanced technology operates at unprecedented speed and scale, enabling transactions that were previously thought impossible. By radically simplifying licensingon a global scale, Pex empowers digital platforms to make real-time decisions about content, enables creators to utilize copyrighted content without fear, and ensures rightsholders can be properly credited and compensated. Pex builds solutions and technologies that are inclusive and equitable.

5 contacts available at Pex.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Amadea Taby | COO | — |
| Bob Barbiere | Head of Digital Rights | — |
| Eric Daugherty | Senior Engineer | — |
| Jake Handy | Product Manager II | — |
| Rasty Turek | Founder & CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rastislav-turek |

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## FAQ

### What does Rasty Turek invest in?

Rasty Turek invests primarily in Security, Aerospace and Electronics startups, most often at Seed and Angel stage. Most of the 3 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Rasty Turek?

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### When did Rasty Turek last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Rasty Turek closed in Sep 2024. Shizune tracks 3 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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