# Tensor Ventures

> Tensor Ventures is a VC fund backing Artificial Intelligence. See 49 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Prague, Czech Republic
- Total investments: 49
- Last investment: Apr 2026
- Lead investor: 41%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/tensor-ventures
- Website: https://tensor.ventures/

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).

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $998k–$4.8M |
| Pre-Seed | $300k–$3M |
| Venture - Series Unknown | $1.7M–$4.9M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Artificial Intelligence | 11 | 22% |
| Information Technology | 9 | 18% |
| Software | 8 | 16% |
| Machine Learning | 7 | 14% |
| Medical | 4 | 8% |

62 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 21 | 43% |
| Pre-Seed | 13 | 27% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 5 | 10% |
| Series A | 1 | 2% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 2% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Czech Republic | 8 | 16% |
| United States | 7 | 14% |
| United Kingdom | 6 | 12% |
| Poland | 2 | 4% |
| Germany | 2 | 4% |

12 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Petr Ulvr | Co-Founder, Chief of Business Development & General Partner | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/petr-ulvr |
| Roman Smola | Founder/General Partner | 5 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/roman-smola |
| Martin Drdul | Co-Founder & General Partner | 4 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/martin-drdul |
| Ondrej Lipold | Principal | 5 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ondrej-lipold |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Cnuic Technologies | Cnuic Technologies has developed a working prototype of a completely new type of photolithography device. | $3M | Pre-Seed | Apr 28, 2026 |  |
| Cnuic Technologies | Cnuic Technologies has developed a working prototype of a completely new type of photolithography device. | $3M | Pre-Seed | Apr 28, 2026 |  |
| GRAI | GRAI is an AI music research company building the intelligence layer for musical intent — transforming music from passive listening into social participation. | $9M | Seed | Apr 21, 2026 |  |
| Edmund | Edmund is an enterprise level system that interconnects all manufacturing technologies, providing a comprehensive view of entire factory. | $2.9M | Seed | Apr 09, 2026 |  |
| ValkaAI | ValkaAI is a B2B platform leading in digital human technology, creating generative content solutions for various industries. It's set to disrupt traditional video production with superior scalability and personalization. | $14.1M | Pre-Seed | Feb 24, 2026 |  |
| AppFactor | AppFactor is an AI powered app modernization platform, designed for architects and engineers to accelerate and optimise the process of applying and delivering the latest cloud-based technology to existing business applications.  Available as an enterprise focused SaaS platform that automatically and intelligently converts legacy applications awayfrom existing virtual and physical infrastructure to cloud-native technology.  Unlike traditional consultative processes that are manual at each step, lack repeatability and predictability, take too long and cost too much, our product ...AppFactor is a continuous, intelligent, AI powered transformation platform to empower architects and engineers to re-factor and re-architect applications to solve legacy infrastructure problems, cut technical debt and dramatically improve application delivery at an accelerated speed and a fraction of the cost. A self-serve optimized platform that systematically identifies heavily entangled dependencies and transformation opportunities with AI/ML approaches, tracks, transforms and delivers modern apps with the controls in place to prevent tech debt from emerging. The next wave of DevOps and lifecycle capabilities that also allow apps over time to leverage the latest technologies in a standardised, repeatable and predictable approach. | $4M | Seed | Feb 04, 2026 |  |
| QC82 | Co-founders of QC82 have established cluster-state entanglement for CVQC implementations, manufactured quantum photonic circuits with 40 entangled modes, and created low-noise single-photon detectors at telecom wavelengths. To overcome fault tolerance and enable practical QC applications, we are creating room-temperature photonic chips with on-chipphoton number-resolving detectors. | $1.5M | Convertible Note | Dec 30, 2025 |  |
| Repsense | Repsense is a data company that mimics user journeys and predicts reactions to content found in search results pages. any of the clients can use the Repsense Index to quickly assess their reputation and compare it to competitors across different geographies and user intents. | $2.3M | Seed | Dec 16, 2025 |  |
| 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 |  |
| QurieGen | QurieGen is a biotechnology company that accelerates drug discovery and development. | $2.4M | Pre-Seed | Apr 08, 2025 |  |

10 of 49 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Tensor Ventures invest in?

Tensor Ventures invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology and Software startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 49 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Czech Republic. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Tensor Ventures's check size?

Tensor Ventures typically joins rounds of $998k–$4.8M at Seed, $300k–$3M at Pre-Seed and $1.7M–$4.9M at Venture - Series Unknown. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Tensor Ventures participates in.

### How do I contact Tensor Ventures?

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### Who are the partners at Tensor Ventures?

The team at Tensor Ventures includes Petr Ulvr (Co-Founder, Chief of Business Development & General Partner), Roman Smola (Founder/General Partner) and Martin Drdul (Co-Founder & General Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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