Top 20 Retail Startup Investors in Czech Republic in April 2025
A list of 20 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Retail startups based in Czech republic. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Retail companies from Czech republic. We update this investor list every month.Top 20 Retail Startup Investors in Czech Republic in April 2025
Investor | Retail Czech Republic investments |
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Marton Szoke | 2 |
Presto Ventures | 2 |
N1 | 2 |
Patero | 1 |
V-Sharp Venture Studio | 1 |
ZAKA VC | 1 |
J&T Ventures | 1 |
Rockaway Capital | 1 |
PortfoLion Capital Partners | 1 |
V Ventures | 1 |
Tomas Cupr | 1 |
Invester Group Holding s.r.o. | 1 |
Patero | 1 |
Ferdinando Falco | 1 |
Jinej fond | 1 |
ORBIT Capital | 1 |
Falco Global Partners | 1 |
Jiri Hlavenka | 1 |
Czech Founders VC | 1 |
Radka Vaculíková | 1 |
An entrepreneur and investor with a business background and solid technical experience. Founded several startups, the latest being Indextools, a software company specializing in enterprise on-demand web analytics software. In April 2008 Indextools got acquired by Yahoo! Inc. At the time of the acquisition, Indextools was recognized as one of thetop five web analytics vendors world-wide by Forrester / Jupiter Research. Mr. Szőke served at Yahoo for three years to lead integration efforts and to realign Indextools’ business model.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Software, EdTech
- Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Hungary, Switzerland, Czech Republic
Portfolio highlights
- Ydistri — Digital tool for slow moving inventory problem
- Logiscool — International franchise network teaching kids programming
- Nesnězeno — Nesnezeno is a platform that helps restaurants, shops, and hotels eliminate the waste of quality food. Through their mobile platform, they sell day-of treats that are nearing their expiration date.
We're a Prague-based VC firm investing in fast growing tech companies and empowering talented startup founders from Central and Eastern Europe.
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Investment focus
- SaaS, Software, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Czech Republic, United States, Estonia
Portfolio highlights
- BlueQubit — BlueQubit is on a mission to democratize Quantum Computing and make it accessible to everyone. Through our BQ platform users can develop, test and run programs on Quantum Computers.
- Corn — Corn is a new Ethereum Layer 2 network that aims to be the best platform for utilizing Bitcoin.
- Bavovna AI — Bavovna Inc., a Delaware C-corp, is a dual-use tech company primarily focusing on AI-driven alternative navigation for Unmanned Vehicles operating in GPS-denied and Electronic Warfare (EW) threatened environments. Bavovna combines fully NDAA complaint modular hardware and SaaS AI software for aerial, surface, and subsurface UV platforms to addressmalicious and natural challenges to Position, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) systems. Bavovna has tested its solutions widely in Ukraine, EMEA, and the US for different types of UAVs, including VTOL, fixed-wing, multi-copters, and surface and underwater vehicles.
Nation 1 VC is a Prague and Brno based venture capital firm focused on investing in seed-stage startups operating in the Czech Republic.The firm seeks to invest in the fintech, insurancetech, artificial intelligence, customertech, ecommerce and travel sectors.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
- Czech Republic, Germany, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Hedepy — Online therapy works. Research has proven that what matters is the conversation, not where the conversation happens.
- Daytrip — Daytrip is a platform for traveling with local drivers. It allows independent travelers to get the most out of their vacation by connecting them to local drivers, who drive them from one city to another with their own cars, discovering local sights and culture on the way.It gives travelers an opportunity to see otherwise unreachable countrysidesights, meet real locals and get to know local history, culture and current affairs first-hand. Daytrip is an entirely new approach to traveling, combining the comfort of package holidays with the flexibility of independent planning and authenticity of backpacking.
- Myriad AI — Myriad AI solves regulatory enterprise compliance using autonomous AI agents.
Patero is an investment firm that invests in modern technologies.
Patero is headquartered in Praha, Czech Republic.
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Investment focus
- Machine Learning, Software, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Czech Republic
Portfolio highlights
Investing our own money allows us to act flexibly. With investments of up to 1 million EUR, we provide support to fintech, logistics and e-commerce start-ups in pre-seed, seed and Series A stages.
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Investment focus
- Mobile Apps, Apps, EdTech
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Czech Republic, Lithuania
Portfolio highlights
ZAKA Startups is a private pre-seed and seed venture capital company. It is focused on early-stage software driven investments across the whole EU with primary focus on CEE, DACH and Baltics. ZAKA operates primarily from Prague and Bratislava with scouts in Berlin and Baltic region.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Germany, United Kingdom, Austria
Portfolio highlights
- Webel — Webel is an on demand Home Services Marketplace (cleaning, nannies, tutors...) where clients can search, book, compare, pay and review these services. Thanks to a deep analysis of the current methods for hiring these services and the competition outlook, we have created a unique and revolutionary business model that will outperform the market.
- Miros — Revolutionizing ecommerce with AI-powered visual search and semantic search. Seamless, tagless, and intuitive product discovery for all shoppers.
- Olio Labs — Olio Labs utilizes AI for combo therapeutics, optimizing and minimizing side effects through automated discovery of protein interactions.
J&T Ventures is an early-stage Prague-based Venture Capital fund, which invests in promising startups from the CEE and SEE region. Our strategy is industry agnostic, but we primarily focus on companies in the seed stage with proven product market fit. Our average ticket size is between EUR 0.5m - EUR 2.5m.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Czech Republic, United States, Croatia
Portfolio highlights
- XUND — Answer the most important health questions with AI-powered technology from XUND. Medically certified and CE marked.
- Wultra — Wultra helps the leading banks and fintech companies to secure their digital systems and bring trust to the customer journeys. Our security-related software technologies cover the whole digital banking application stack, be it on the web or mobile platforms.
- Grid.online — Grid.online is building transportation infrastructure as a service that will unlock the huge free transportation capacity of cities and allow it to be shared efficiently.
We focus on investing and building Internet businesses not only in CEE. We believe in innovations and technologies. We create some added value. We are the next generation of entrepreneurs.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Software, Fashion
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Czech Republic, Germany, United States
Portfolio highlights
- DoDo — DoDo is the smart delivery service specializing in last-mile and same-day delivery of goods to the end customer. DoDo is currently the technological leader with its data-driven solution and agile processes. We already managed to ensure long-term contracts and pilot projects with multiple high-profile retail and gastro customers ensuring us asubstantial turnover growth and margins. In DoDo we plan to invest in its SW system architecture to further optimize the delivery process based on big data, AI and automatization. The goal is to be the prime provider with its scalable solution. Same-day-delivery is expected to be an important service for all retail players and DoDo plans to continue with the acquisition of these clients especially in the Central European region. The indisputable advantage is easy implementation into the existing solution. Our flexible procedures and processes are easily adaptable to meet exactly what partner´s business needs. DoDo is managing over 600+ cars, 1300+ couriers in 4 countries.
- Spotawheel — Spotawheel is a trusted high-tech used cars B2C platform that redesigns the whole buy-sell process from scratch, ensuring value, transparency and customer satisfaction at the highest levels throughout.
- FreewayCamper — FreewayCamper offers the new digital platform with a large selection of top campers and additional services, with a direct booking option. They have the latest models to rent - fully equipped, fully covered, directly available, and easy to book. They give it at fair price guarantee & all kilometers included. They have short-term and long-termrentals and, it is flexible and offers to rebook.
Portfolion is a CEE-focused multi-stage investor with a flexible fund structure that allows it to back companies from or before 1st client until the end of their journey. The fund manager has backed some of the CEE region’s most successful companies including SEON, Novakid, Tresorit, Packhelp, and Starschema.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Big Data
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- Hungary, Poland, United States
Portfolio highlights
- UVIONIX — Uvionix deploys Autonomous Flying Robots (AFRs) to monitor and report live data, ensuring a comprehensive view of operations, workflow efficiency, and near 100% inventory level accuracy. The system creates live digital twins of warehouse spaces, meticulously tracking each material movement. Delivering precise, unbiased data, and being immune to human error, the platform drastically enhances material planning, reduces stock losses, and lowers labor costs.
- Kodesage — Kodesage captures your company's collective knowledge to help understand and modernize legacy code
- Coding Giants — Put description here
Vventures support cutting-edged technology investment focus on sustainability, urbanization and life-science on AI and quantum based. In the heart of SEA, Vventures operates in Singapore and Thailand while invested worldwide in USA, UAE, Israel, Singapore, Hong Kong and China.
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Investment focus
- Software, Transportation, Apps
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- United Kingdom, China, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- Wobby — Wobby is changing the way professionals use data in a variety of industries. Locating public official data and connecting your own is simple with our all-in-one platform.
- Deemples — Deemples isn't just for finding golf buddies? It allows you to book your golf games, pay in advance, and find the best rates online. One app does it all.
- SCREENSHOT Media — SCREENSHOT Media is a media company, social-first publisher and full-service agency that simply gets Gen Z
Tomas Cupr is the Group Chief Executive Officer at Rohlik. Additionally, Tomas Cupr has had 3 past jobs including Partner at KAYA.
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Investment focus
- Food and Beverage, Grocery, E-Commerce
- Funding Round, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Czech Republic
Portfolio highlights
- Rohlik — Rohlik is an innovative grocery delivery startup that offers a 90-minute same-day delivery service. Since its inception, Rohlik has been growing and is on track to EUR 300 mil. revenues in 2020. Rohlík was founded in 2014 by Marek Sacha and Tomas Cupr and is headquartered in Karlín, Hlavni mesto Praha, Czech Republic.
- Keboola — A dataops platform built to set up data practitioners for success. Sign up today and create a free account!
- Le Premier — Le Premier is a manufacturer and seller of tailor-made shirts, handmade suits and ties, and a wide range of men's wardrobe accessories.
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Investment focus
- Retail, Fashion, Swimming
- Pre-Seed
- Czech Republic
Portfolio highlights
- Swimsuit Czech — Designer swimwear eCommerce with selected brands of swimwear.
Private owned Investment company
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Investment focus
- B2B, SaaS, Retail
- Pre-Seed
- Czech Republic
Portfolio highlights
- Yieldigo — Yieldigo is AI pricing platform that lets omnichannel retailers optimize their pricing strategies and predict KPIs. Learn more about how the new retail will look.
Ferdinando Beccalli-Falco is the President & Chief Executive Officer at General Electric.
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Investment focus
- Retail, Software, Logistics
- Pre-Seed
- Czech Republic
Portfolio highlights
- Ydistri — Digital tool for slow moving inventory problem
Jinej fond is an investment firm focused on investing in early stage companies, projects, and startups.
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Investment focus
- Internet, Information Technology, iOS
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Czech Republic, Slovakia (Slovak Republic)
Portfolio highlights
- Goodbye — Online funeral provider, online wills and death related support services
- Twigsee — All a school needs in one simple app, including complete communication from the preschool to parents.
- CloseRocket — CloseRocket offers an AI-powered platform to build and manage global B2B sales teams, connecting businesses with top sales reps worldwide.
Orbit Capital is an investment firm focused on the technology and software ScaleUps: new category between venture capital and private equity worlds.Over the past 10 years we experience explosion of startup businesses taking advantage of the technology developments and digital revolution. Now they are maturing into ScaleUps.Our financingsolutions are designed to support and accelerate their growth.
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Investment focus
- Leasing, Sales, Mobile Apps
- Funding Round, Debt Financing, Series B
- Czech Republic, Belgium, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Preply — Looking for a tutor? Preply is the best platform for private online lessons with a flexible payment system and affordable prices. Book your first lesson.
- Twisto — Twisto is on a mission to challenge the status quo of everyday finances via exceptional customer experience by being at the forefront in delivering cutting edge technology. Pay simply, fast and securely.
- Manifesto Market — Manifesto is a hospitality platform at the intersection of technology, data science, gastronomy, and real estate. We create high–footfall and cashless large format, multi-vendor food markets. We value sustainability, creativity, innovation, and deliver unique customer experiences to our community. We are developing and utilizing technology andtransaction data to enhance customer experience, increase tenant turnover, and drive customer traffic. Awarded by Mastercard for Best Customer Experience 2018, finalist of Internorga Future Award 2020 + 2021, Tripadvisor Travellers' Choice 2020. Published in The New York Times, Financial Times-fDi Intelligence, Monocle, Dezeen, The Guardian, Evening Standard, and more.
Falco Global Partners combines financial and operational excellence to create long-term and sustainable value with each portfolio partner.
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Investment focus
- Retail, Software, Logistics
- Seed
- Czech Republic
Portfolio highlights
- Ydistri — Digital tool for slow moving inventory problem
Jiri Hlavenka - Co-founder & Investor @ Kiwi.com
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Mobile Apps
- Seed, Funding Round, Angel
- Czech Republic, Lithuania, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Fabini — Fabini is a manufacturing and retail company that offers cookware products.
- Amio — AI chatbot platform for support automation. No-code builder that supports web-chat, mobile chat, messengers like WhatsApp, and email.
- Dishboard — Dishboard's goal is to help restaurant owners better understand their overall business picture, track profits, and to enable them to dive deep into their costs while automating manual labor with such features as automatic invoice recognition so, at the end of the day, owners open the app and immediately see their real-time financial breakdownwith all revenues and all costs (including supplies and salaries) without doing a thing.Our ultimate vision is to become a fin. tech service provider for the restaurant market, where the first step is to start using the data we collect for scoring mechanisms and offer our clients short-term loans to prevent the cash gaps they face so often.
We help Central European founders who aim high. A pre-seed startup investors by founders to founders.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Pre-Seed, Seed
- Czech Republic, United States, Italy
Portfolio highlights
- Openvibe — Interact With Anyone On The Open Internet. All Decentralised Social Networks, Single Timeline.
- Flowlance — Flowlance help you automate your business with long-term clients
- Edmund — Edmund is an enterprise level system that interconnects all manufacturing technologies, providing a comprehensive view of entire factory.
Radka Vaculíková is the CEO of Fabini.
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Investment focus
- Retail, Manufacturing, Home Appliances
- Seed
- Czech Republic
Portfolio highlights
- Fabini — Fabini is a manufacturing and retail company that offers cookware products.
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