Top 20 Retail Startup Investors in Czech Republic in May 2026
Top 20 Retail Startup Investors in Czech Republic in May 2026
| Investor | Retail Czech Republic investments |
|---|---|
| Czech Founders VC | 2 |
| Marton Szoke | 2 |
| Presto Ventures | 2 |
| N1 | 2 |
| Jana Florentýna Zatloukalová | 1 |
| Invester Group Holding s.r.o. | 1 |
| Jiri Hlavenka | 1 |
| Portfolion Capital Partners | 1 |
| ORBIT Capital | 1 |
| Falco Global Partners | 1 |
| Martin Rozhon | 1 |
| J&T Ventures | 1 |
| Patero | 1 |
| Patero | 1 |
| V-Sharp Venture Studio | 1 |
| ZAKA VC | 1 |
| Rockaway Capital | 1 |
| Ferdinando Falco | 1 |
| Jinej fond | 1 |
| Tomas Cupr | 1 |
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- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Czech Republic, United States, Italy
Portfolio highlights
- Maxfusion — Maxfusion offers a platform for creating video ads utilizing AI-generated actors. The system allows users to type a script, and the AI actors speak in the video. Product images can be added to the video for demonstrations or promotions. The platform offers a variety of AI actors to choose from for different video styles. Users can also createvideos for social media ads and other commercial uses.
- VR Vitalis — VR Vitalis aids in the development of cognitive functions, activation of the upper and lower limbs, breathing, relaxation, and posture adjustment. A number of medical and rehabilitation facilities, as well as businesses and institutions, are already using the product as part of employee preventive care.
- Veriteus Technology — Veriteus is an AI platform that detects deception by analyzing behavioral signals across audio, video, and digital interactions.
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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- 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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- SaaS, Software, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Czech Republic, United States, Estonia
Portfolio highlights
- Corn — Corn is a new Ethereum Layer 2 network that aims to be the best platform for utilizing Bitcoin.
- PilotGo — Developer platform for secure data sharing with multiple partners powered by Digital Twins.
- The New Era® of Shopping — The New Era® of Shopping helps merchants make their catalogues discoverable and shoppable inside AI assistants. Key features of the platform include two-way catalog syncing with PIMs/ERPs, SKU-level intelligence to measure AI visibility and ranking of products inside LLM responses, user prompts analysis for trends and volume insights, andautomated content optimization to improve how products rank in conversational answers. The product is already integrated with all major eCommerce platforms like Shopify, WooCommerce, Magento, BigCommerce, Wix, etc, as well as main AI discovery platforms: ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Google AI Mode, and Perplexity.
NATION 1 IS “DAY 0” INVESTOR, THE 1ST CHOICE FOR THE 1ST INVESTOR & PARTNER FOR BUILDING A SUCCESSFUL COMPANY.
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- Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
- Czech Republic, Germany, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Liki24 — Liki24 is a logistics company that features a software platform that utilizes deep integration with partner pharmacies, clinics, and insurance companies. Its software is designed for logistics team coordination, task management, and data management.
- GoodAccess — Secure & Simplify your Team's access to cloud resources and systems. Secure Access Service Edge (SASE). Dedicated gateway. Access control. Try it Free.
- DOT Glasses — Get high-quality, affordable prescription glasses from Dot Glasses. Stylish, durable, and budget-friendly eyewear for clear vision. Buy Now, Wear Now!
Jana Florentýna Zatloukalová is an author.
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- 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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- Retail, Fashion, Swimming
- Pre-Seed
- Czech Republic
Portfolio highlights
- Swimsuit Czech — Designer swimwear eCommerce with selected brands of swimwear.
Jiri Hlavenka - Co-founder & Investor @ Kiwi.com
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- Software, Mobile Apps, Information Technology
- 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.
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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- Software, Information Technology, Big Data
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- Hungary, Poland, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Novakid — Novakid - an online English school for children. Engaging and fun classes with native speakers for children 4-12 y.o.
- Tree.ly — Tree.ly does climate protection through the projects in European forests through its SaaS platform and hyperlocal CO2-credits.
- Mindgram — Mindgram is a science-based platform and mobile app for complete mental wellness.
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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- Leasing, Sales, EdTech
- 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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- Retail, Software, Logistics
- Seed
- Czech Republic
Portfolio highlights
- Ydistri — Digital tool for slow moving inventory problem
Martin Rozhon
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- Software, E-Commerce, Health Care
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Czech Republic, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Fabini — Fabini is a manufacturing and retail company that offers cookware products.
- snuggs — In Europe alone, there are over 300 million people with a vagina. Half of them are of reproductive age and they menstruate. For many, it is often connected with struggle, stress, and discomfort. And they seek a change.
- Puravia — Puravia provides food supplements. They also provide omega-3 fatty acids, multivitamins, minerals, proteins, digestive enzymes, cannabinoids, antioxidants, medicinal mushrooms, Probiotics, prebiotics, herbal food supplements, and glutathione.
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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- 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.
Private owned Investment company
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- B2B, SaaS, Retail
- Pre-Seed
- Czech Republic
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- 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.
Patero is an investment firm that invests in modern technologies. Patero is headquartered in Praha, Czech Republic.
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- Software, Machine Learning, SaaS
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Czech Republic
Portfolio highlights
- Yedem — We eliminate problems associated with with overcrowded parking lots, lack of available parking in cities and high car pollution. Our goal is to make commuting efficient, convenient and sustainable. Striving for a happier and greener life for us all.
- Flowlance — Flowlance help you automate your business with long-term clients
- Boost.space — Combining the power of a Cloud-based Database with an intuitive Integration Platform, we make it easy to streamline and enhance your workflows. Imagine the simplicity of Airtable fused with the connectivity of Zapier. Experience the future of no-code Data Management, today.
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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- Apps, Mobile Apps, EdTech
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Czech Republic, Lithuania
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- Leya AI — Supercharging your English confidence is simple. Leya AI can help as your personal coach to make you confident faster! Just 10 minutes everyday and you'll learn English in no time.
- Ydistri — Digital tool for slow moving inventory problem
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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- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Germany, United Kingdom, Austria
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- DeepSeq.AI — Explore DeepSeq.AI - revolutionizing protein screening and drug design with cutting-edge AI. We empower researchers to accelerate discoveries and transform healthcare.
- Bullseye Biosciences — Bullseye Biosciences is a therapeutics discovery company revolutionizing drug development through robotics and evolution. Our platform operationalizes cutting-edge directed evolution technology by incorporating automation and Next Generation Sequencing. By targeting challenging drivers of human dise
- Sensible Biotechnologies — Engineering cells to make better mRNA.
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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- 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.
Ferdinando Beccalli-Falco is the President & Chief Executive Officer at General Electric.
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- 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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- 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 — Generate more leads, automate outreach, and fill your CRM automatically. AI-powered B2B sales platform used by O2, Global Payments and more.
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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- 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.
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- 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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