# Roman Smola

> Roman Smola is a pre-seed investor at Tensor Ventures (Prague) backing Banking and FinTech. See 5 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Tensor Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tensor-ventures)
- Location: Prague, Czech Republic
- Total investments: 5
- Last investment: Dec 2025
- Lead investor: 40%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/romansmola

Roman Smola is a pre-seed investor at Tensor Ventures in Prague focused on Banking and FinTech. Roman Smola is the Founder/General Partner at Tensor Ventures.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Banking | 2 | 40% |
| FinTech | 2 | 40% |
| Software | 2 | 40% |
| Information Technology | 2 | 40% |
| PaaS | 1 | 20% |

21 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Pre-Seed | 3 | 60% |
| Seed | 2 | 40% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Czech Republic | 3 | 60% |
| Slovakia (Slovak Republic) | 1 | 20% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| PangeAI | PangeAI functions as an agentic layer over various types of geospatial data. The platform processes satellite imagery, vector geometries, and coordinate systems to answer physical-world questions. Artificial intelligence agents execute spatial analysis tasks directly for enterprise users. The system accepts natural language queries to evaluatedifferent physical environments. The technology removes the requirement for dedicated geographic information system teams during standard operations. The software identifies specific locations for new infrastructure projects. The application assesses environmental variables like flood zones across multiple land sites. The tool integrates earth observation datasets to generate standard spatial reports. | $1M | Pre-Seed | Dec 11, 2025 |  |
| Wultra | Wultra provides easy-to-deploy post-quantum authentication solutions for financial institutions, ensuring secure and seamless access to digital services. Our developer-friendly technology, powered by NIST-endorsed quantum-resistant cryptography, delivers bulletproof security, a passwordless user experience, and compliance with global regulations —all deployable in just 8 weeks. Trusted by financial institutions worldwide, Wultra’s solutions meet stringent standards like PSD3/PSR1 and eIDAS 2.0 while offering cutting-edge protection against evolving cyber threats. | $3.1M | Seed | Jan 15, 2025 |  |
| DYNANIC | DYNANIC is an IT firm that provides custom development, consulting, and training for programmable logic and its verification. | $580.8K | Pre-Seed | Nov 28, 2024 |  |
| Blockmate | Blockmate is a unified API that provides premium insights into aggregated financial views for accounts, risk and credit scoring, and regulatory compliance. The company provides Blockmate Link, a fast, efficient app that can be installed in minutes. | $1.6M | Seed | Sep 14, 2023 |  |
| Tatum | Tatum is a blockchain development platform designed to assist developers in building applications on the blockchain.The company is a platform for building blockchain infrastructure that offers developers an easy-to-use application programming interface (API), allowing them to incorporate blockchain into their products quickly and effortlessly.Tatum was established on June 4, 2018 by Jiri Kobelka and Samuel Šramko in London, England. | $120K | Pre-Seed | Oct 07, 2019 |  |

5 of 5 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Seed Starter ČS](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/seed-starter-%C4%8Ds) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [BADideas.fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/badideas-fund) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [DEPO Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/depo-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Diaspora Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/diaspora-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Elevator Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/elevator-ventures-by-raiffeisen-bank-international) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Grouport Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/grouport-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Tensor Ventures

VC Fund · Prague, Czech Republic

Tensor Ventures is a Prague-based venture capital company Investing in Deep Tech and Sustainable innovation in the CEE+. Supported by AI-based discovery technology, we continuously scout new talent, projects, founders, and early-stage startups at leading universities and in the CEE startup ecosystem. Our link to undiscovered talent, technology,and university projects gives us the edge in finding winners early. Beyond Central Europe, our global network of direct connections to Silicon Valley and Asia venture capital offers support and potential synergies to our core projects. With our business development support, we connect localized projects with global opportunities. We offer a bridge between Seed and Series A stages by investing in opportunities that have high potential, but are not yet ready for larger funding rounds and gives us access to early value-creation opportunities. Investment size up to $2 million per target in Fund II (Fund I is fully invested).

4 contacts available at Tensor Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Petr Ulvr | Co-Founder, Chief of Business Development & General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/petr-ulvr |
| Roman Smola | Founder/General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/roman-smola |
| Martin Drdul | Co-Founder & General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/martin-drdul |
| Ondrej Lipold | Principal | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ondrej-lipold |

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## FAQ

### What does Roman Smola invest in?

Roman Smola invests primarily in Banking, FinTech and Software startups, most often at Pre-Seed and Seed stage. Most of the 5 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Czech Republic. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Roman Smola last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Roman Smola closed in Dec 2025. Shizune tracks 5 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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