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Rushed for time? Here is the top 5 Seed investors for Venture Capital startups. Scroll down for more information on these investors or to view the rest of the investors.
Name | Website | Stages | Location | Socials |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Credo Ventures | Early Stage Venture, Seed | Prague, Hlavni mesto Praha, Czech Republic, Europe | ||
StartupYard | Seed | Praha, Hlavni mesto Praha, Czech Republic, Europe | ||
Reflex Capital | Early Stage Venture, Private Equity, Seed | Prague, Hlavni mesto Praha, Czech Republic, Europe | ||
KAYA | Early Stage Venture, Seed | Prague, Hlavni mesto Praha, Czech Republic, Europe | ||
J&T Ventures | Early Stage Venture, Seed, Venture | Prague, Hlavni mesto Praha, Czech Republic, Europe |
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We’ve ranked the top Venture Capital Seed investors in Hlavni mesto Praha. The companies, startups and institutions listed in this article are all exceptional companies, well worth a follow. We have included links to their websites, socials and CrunchBase (if you’re interested in their financials).
We selected the organisations listed in this article based on:
- Track record
- Executive leadership
- Market share
- Innovation
- ESG rating
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Top Venture Capital Investors & Funds (Hlavni mesto Praha)
Credo Ventures
Credo Ventures is a venture capital company focused on early stage investments in Central and Eastern Europe. It is on a mission to identify and back the most interesting early stage companies in the region, support them in their growth plans (including expansion to the U.S. / global market), and help to achieve their objectives. The company is looking for opportunities to invest in high-growth potential companies with international ambitions and competence to execute and deliver. Credo’s industry focus is IT, Internet, and health.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Prague, Hlavni mesto Praha, Czech Republic, Europe
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Information Technology, Internet, Venture Capital
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StartupYard
Established in 2011, StartupYard is the oldest private accelerator in the CEE region, focused on deep tech. So far StartupYard has invested in and accelerated 12 cohorts of 82 startups. Its aim is to help startups grow and gain further investment, while connecting them with partners and mentors to help them launch on the global stage. 40 alumni have raised further investment, for a total of over 40 million euros. 9 companies have been acquired.
Stages: Seed
Location: Praha, Hlavni mesto Praha, Czech Republic, Europe
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain, Consulting, Cyber Security, Finance, Information Technology, Venture Capital, Virtual Reality
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Reflex Capital
Reflex Capital is a group of accomplished entrepreneurs with multiple US$xxx million exits. It only invests its own money so there is no leverage or dependency on third party partners, i.e. decisions are made very quickly. The profile of the partners makes the fund extremely founder friendly.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Private Equity, Seed
Location: Prague, Hlavni mesto Praha, Czech Republic, Europe
Industries: Finance, Venture Capital
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KAYA
KAYA evolved from Enern Investments – a regional financial group formed in Prague in 2010 that grew alongside the CEE ecosystem across clean energy, tech, real estate, and other activities. Ten years and €500m AUM later, Enern remains a holding for diverse investments while KAYA is conceived as a separate, focused successor of Enern Tech for all things venture capital, with 27 investments and latest fund of €70M+.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Prague, Hlavni mesto Praha, Czech Republic, Europe
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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J&T Ventures
J&T Ventures is an early-stage VC fund based in Prague. We support aspiring entrepreneurs in the early stages of their journey with up to €2.5 million funding. We focus predominantly on the CEE, Nordics and Baltics, but won’t say no to the next unicorn that comes from anywhere in Europe. While not sector limited, we especially like solutions for FinTech, PropTech, Retail, IoT/IoE, and Industry 4.0.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed, Venture
Location: Prague, Hlavni mesto Praha, Czech Republic, Europe
Industries: FinTech, Venture Capital
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Presto Ventures
Presto Ventures is a venture capital fund empowering talented CEE start-up founders. They invest in promising technology start-ups, supporting them via the provision of invaluable resources and guidance, enabling them to achieve local and global success. Presto Ventures was founded by Přemysl Rubeš in 2016 and is headquartered in Prague.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Prague, Hlavni mesto Praha, Czech Republic, Europe
Industries: Business Development, Finance, Venture Capital
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ZAKA Startups
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 and US with primary focus on CEE, DACH and Baltics. Current portfolio consists of 12 investments in the field of AI, Analytics, B2B SaaS, Gaming, Consumer apps and Crypto. ZAKA operates primarily from Prague and Bratislava with scouts in Berlin and Baltic region.
Stages: Convertible Note, Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Prague, Hlavni mesto Praha, Czech Republic, Europe
Industries: Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Impulse Ventures
Impulse Ventures is a venture capital investor focused on tech startups in the CE region. The money we invest and the network we provide are just the beginning; our commitment reaches far beyond. As a team of investors, founders, HR experts, and finance and product specialists, we are ready to work alongside the founders with whom we partner up. We are devoted to understanding our portfolio companies’ businesses—which is why we only invest in a selected few standout companies a year. Over the past decade, we’ve helped build and successfully exit major tech companies, including Kiwi.com, Mall.cz or Centrum.cz in combined value exceeding 650 mil EUR. Our focus is on the Seed and Series A stage but we often invest in the follow-up rounds as well, supporting founders throughout the entire journey. Investing our own money allows us to keep our decisions flexible. No fixed investment horizon, no limitations, no artificial rules. Only the impulse to pursue riveting ideas without boundaries.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Prague, Hlavni mesto Praha, Czech Republic, Europe
Industries: Venture Capital
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Metatron Global
Metatron is a global investment firm with the mission to find, fund and foster companies offering solutions to some of the world’s biggest challenges. Our intention is to invest in companies we can fully commit to and go on a journey with as they grow, mature and transform. We invest in exciting paradigm-shifting companies capable of commanding global markets while creating a legacy of positive impact.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Prague, Hlavni mesto Praha, Czech Republic, Europe
Industries: Financial Services, Impact Investing, Venture Capital
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KOOPEO Ventures
KOOPEO Ventures is an investment company focused on pre-seed and seed stage investments within CEE region. We are looking for opportunities to invest especially in emerging projects with potential of high growth of revenues and company value. We only invests our own money which allows us to make investment decisions very quickly. We typically invest up to 500 000EUR especially in the areas of E-commerce, Mobile, Internet, Affiliate marketing and Fintech. Except of financial resources ,we offer for all of our startups, individual approach, support during establishment of business strategy and help with international expansion. We also provide access to our network of advisors, partners and contacts on domestic and foreign markets.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed, Venture
Location: Prague, Hlavni mesto Praha, Czech Republic, Europe
Industries: Finance, Venture Capital
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Tilia Impact Ventures
Tilia Impact Ventures (Prague) supports CEE founders addressing meaningful social and environmental problems at scale. We invest across climate, education, health and social inclusion at pre-seed and seed stage. Tilia helps founders to maximise their impact alongside financial growth and we guide early stage impactful startups to the global investment stage.
Stages: Debt, Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Prague, Hlavni mesto Praha, Czech Republic, Europe
Industries: Impact Investing, Venture Capital
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Creative Dock
Creative Dock is is a professional company builder from Prague. The company builds enterprises for corporates and small-medium enterprises. During the process the team is using the entire toolset of a disruptive startup. Its teams are a mix of seasoned entrepereneurs, passionate founders, technical masterminds, convinced makers, and unconventional thinkers.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Praha, Hlavni mesto Praha, Czech Republic, Europe
Industries: Digital Marketing, Internet, Marketing, Public Relations, Software, Venture Capital
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V-Sharp Venture Studio
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.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed, Venture
Location: Prague, Hlavni mesto Praha, Czech Republic, Europe
Industries: B2B, E-Commerce, FinTech, Logistics, Marketplace, SaaS, Venture Capital
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Keiretsu Forum CEE
We are part of a global network of more than 3,000 angel investors. We are headquartered in Silicon Valley and have 52 branches all over the world, with Prague branch being responsible for the CEE region. This allows us not only to help projects with obtaining funds necessary for their development, but also to provide them with priceless contacts from all business fields in all major financial centers of the world, which can be helpful during the projects’ expansion into new markets. Cooperating with several VC firms, we fill the “grey zone” between FFF and late stages to help companies scale their potential. To our investors we bring a broad exposure to international contacts, deal flow and know-how.
Stages: Convertible Note, Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Prague, Hlavni mesto Praha, Czech Republic, Europe
Industries: Angel Investment, Business Development, Consulting, Financial Services, Funding Platform, Venture Capital
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Biometric Ventures
Biometric Ventures is a venture capital company based in Prague focused on early-stage startups in the field of biometrics or using biometric functionalities. The company was established in 2020 as an internal innovation platform of Innovatrics, a global leader in biometric technology. Our investment approach is a combination of pre-seed financial investment, mentoring, and access to unique biometric technologies of our parent company Innovatrics. Biometric technologies developed by Innovatrics that can be used in our projects consist of: 1) Fingerprint Technology => fingerprint recognition is the process of the verification of a person’s identity by comparing their fingerprints with previously recorded samples. 2) Facial Recognition Technology => facial recognition is a technology capable of matching a human face from a digital image or a video frame against a database of faces to confirm an individual’s identity. 3) Iris Recognition Technology => Iris recognition is an automated method of biometric identification, taking unique patterns within a ring-shaped region surrounding the pupil of each eye. The first two projects developed under the management of BV are Ageware (“AW”) and Elderly Monitoring Systems (“EMS”). Ageware is an age verification software based on state-of-the-art facial recognition designed to prevent underage access to potentially harmful online content. EMS is an automated monitoring system that can be used at home or nursing house to help to prevent and fast notify in the case of a fall or life-threatening situations. We closely cooperate with our parent company Innovatrics which is a top-rated independent provider of trusted biometric solutions for governments and enterprises. Their unique algorithms consistently rank among the fastest and most accurate fingerprint and face recognition categories. Their products are being used in more than 80 countries, benefiting more than a billion people worldwide.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Prague, Hlavni mesto Praha, Czech Republic, Europe
Industries: Biometrics, Venture Capital
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