# Top 50 Hardware Startup Investors in Czech Republic in May 2026

## Credo Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Prague, Hlavni mesto Praha, Czech Republic
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology

We partner with outstanding technology founders from Central and Eastern Europe to help them realize their global ambitions.

## Y Soft Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Brno, Jihomoravsky kraj, Czech Republic
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Video, Virtual Reality, Internet of Things

Y Soft Ventures is a VC arm of Y Soft Corporation, investing in people who build innovative B2B hardware & software startups in Central and Eastern Europe. Y Soft Ventures provides invested companies with the necessary capital, resources and expertise to accelerate their path to the global markets. We focus on solutions in the areas of Internetof Things, Cyber Security, Big Data and Augmented & Virtual Reality, with applications in industry, retail, cities and offices.

## N1
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Prague, Hlavni mesto Praha, Czech Republic
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Health Care

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.

## Presto Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Prague, Hlavni mesto Praha, Czech Republic
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology

We're a Prague-based VC firm investing in fast growing tech companies and empowering talented startup founders from Central and Eastern Europe.

## Rockaway Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Prague, Hlavni mesto Praha, Czech Republic
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Fashion

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.

## Reflex Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Prague, Hlavni mesto Praha, Czech Republic
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology

Doing business may resemble a jungle survival. You better be prepared and have the right reflexes! It's also useful to have someone with real experience around. We at Reflex Capital are entrepreneurs, just like you. We built our own companies, negotiated with investors, and took part in plenty of transactions.

## J&T Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Prague, Hlavni mesto Praha, Czech Republic
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS

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 likesolutions for FinTech, PropTech, Retail, IoT/IoE, and Industry 4.0.

## MITON
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Prague, Hlavni mesto Praha, Czech Republic
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Internet

Company builders operating from Czech Republic and focusing on Central and Eastern Europe. We prefer building consumer facing businesses.

## Altered Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Valley Cottage, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Gaming, eSports, Blockchain

Altered Ventures is an early-stage seed venture capital fund that helps creators develop and publish video games, AR, and VR.The VC fund supports new projects with a focus on developers in and making games, augmented, and virtual reality for emerging markets and invests in developers with all the funds they need to make and publish their games,without the need to give up equity in the studio. However, developers will need to share revenue with the group.In 2016, Mario Valle founded the Silicon Valley, San Francisco-based firm.

## Neon DAO
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Blockchain, Gaming, Information Technology

Neon DAO is a for-profit DAO for the Metaverse

## Jaroslav Beck
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Gaming, Art, Information Technology

Jaroslav Beck is a Co-Founder and Head Of Music at Beat Games. He attended the University of West Bohemia.

## Dominance Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Apps, Gaming, Mobile

Dominance is a venture firm that invests and partners with the most ambitious founders focused on Web 3 innovation.

## DAO Maker
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Blockchain, Gaming, Software

DAO Maker creates growth technologies and funding frameworks for startups, while simultaneously reducing risks for investors

## Mike Chalfen
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series C
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence

Mike Chalfen is a solo early stage investor who backs teams building remarkable software-driven companies. He often partners with them from the start of their journeys and invest significant cheques in a small number of companies. He invested early in a wide range of great companies including King.com, Houzz, Fizzback, The Foundry, Ubiquisys,Boxed, eDreams, QXL.com and SuSE Linux. More recently he has invested early in emerging platforms like Crate.io, Harbr, Illumio and Tray.io, “intelligent software” startups like Moogsoft and Seal Software, other exciting startups such as Snyk and Time is Ltd, as well as several unannounced investments. In November 2017, he was honoured to be included at number six in Forbes' first Midas List Europe.

## Wave Financial Group
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Financial Services, FinTech

Wave Digital Assets offers early-stage investment, asset management, treasury management, and strategy consulting to further the growth of the crypto and digital asset ecosystem.

## P&J Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Mala Strana, Stredocesky kraj, Czech Republic
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Aerospace, Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality

We are venture capital investors. We bring passion, know-how and money to a wide range of industries in the Central European region, in both established and high-potential growth businesses.

## Impulse Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Prague, Hlavni mesto Praha, Czech Republic
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Software, Private Cloud, Cloud Security

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. Weare 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.

## The Venture Reality Fund/VRF
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Virtual Reality, Software, Augmented Reality

The Venture Reality Fund drives innovation and investment at the intersection of immersive, spatial, and intelligent computing for consumer and enterprise sectors.

## ORBIT Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Prague, Hlavni mesto Praha, Czech Republic
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series B, Series C
- Focus: Leasing, Sales, Mobile Apps

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.

## Hiro Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Gaming, Video Games, Software

Founded by Luke Alvarez, Ian Livingstone and Cherry Freeman, Hiro Capital is a Luxembourg/London technology Venture Capital fund which invests in European and UK innovators in Games, Esports and Digital Sports.

## Accelerasia Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Retail Technology, Artificial Intelligence

AccelerAsia Ventures is our hands-on investment arm. Find out more about our selection criteria for investment and how we could help your business with our accelerator.

## Tilia Impact Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Prague, Hlavni mesto Praha, Czech Republic
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: SaaS, Waste Management, B2B

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 globalinvestment stage.

## Olive Tree Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series C
- Focus: Health Care, FinTech, Financial Services

Olive Tree Capital started as the foreign investment arm of the single member family office. With a diverse mandate, we are able to seek worthwhile global investment opportunities without asset class restrictions; we seek public market opportunities with discrepancies between market perception and fundamental reality, and we enjoy privatelyinvesting in and collaborating with partners who share our passion, dedication, and clarity. More philosophically, we live by the Golden Rule; thus, we especially love entrepreneurs, artists, and businesses that are positively contributing to humanity in parallel with pursuing profitability.

## Technogym
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Cesena, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Fitness, Wellness, Apps

Technogym, the leading designer of gym equipment & fitness solutions trusted by thousands of gyms, fitness centres and home owners around the world

## Prusa Research
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Prague, Hlavni mesto Praha, Czech Republic
- Relevant deals: 1
- Focus: Aerospace, Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality

Eshop by Prusa Research a.s., company founded by Josef Prusa, one of the RepRap core developers. We're selling Original Prusa 3D printers (incl. Prusa i3), filaments (especially our in-house made Prusament), resins, and other accessories for 3D printing.

## Illuminate Financial
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Financial Services, Software, FinTech

Illuminate Financial is a venture capital firm dedicated to enterprise fintech and B2B software companies building technology solutions for financial services.

## Springtide Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Prague, Hlavni mesto Praha, Czech Republic
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Cyber Security, SaaS

Springtide Ventures is a venture capital company that helps to bring start-ups to life, materialize their visions, and global ambitions. It has a relentless drive for success, overcoming challenges and learning while, above all, preserving its integrity and sticking rigorously to ethical norms. Naturally, they value such qualities in entrepreneursand teams we support as they take on the challenges of building their next enterprise.The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Prague, Czech Republic.

## Jan Habermann
- Type: Angel
- Location: Prague, Hlavni mesto Praha, Czech Republic
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning

Jan is a founding partner of Credo Ventures. Before becoming a venture capitalist, he co-founded and operated several companies and later served as an M&A advisor representing the sellers as well as the acquirers. He is a member of Kauffman Fellowship, a highly sought-after program and network dedicated to the world of innovation investing.

## Somnium Space
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, Hardware

We are Open, Social & Persistent VR world. Buy land, build or import objects, instantly monetize and simply have fun. Universe shaped entirely by players!

## BITKRAFT Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Gaming, Video Games, Blockchain

We provide early- and mid-stage venture capital and expertise for extraordinary founders in gaming, esports, and interactive media.

## Accel
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C
- Focus: Software, SaaS, E-Commerce

First partner to exceptional teams everywhere

## Right Side Capital Management
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Health Care

Right Side Capital Management is a venture capital firm that helps startups build their company. It invests exclusively in the pre-seed round of technology startups and makes 75-100 investment per year. The firms prefers to invest in diversified technology sectors such as the internet and cloud companies.RSCM was established in 2010 and is basedin San Francisco, California.

## Daniel Vávra
- Type: Angel
- Location: Prague, Hlavni mesto Praha, Czech Republic
- Relevant deals: 1
- Focus: Aerospace, Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality

Daniel Vávra - Co-Founder and Creative Director @ Warhorse Studios

## Seedcamp
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, FinTech, SaaS

Seedcamp is Europe's seed fund, identifying and investing early in world-class founders attacking large, global markets and solving real problems using technology. The Seedcamp Nation includes over 400 startups building breakout businesses that change the way people live, interact and buy and includes publicly listed UiPath, Wise, and unicornsRevolut, Hopin, Sorare, Pleo, and wefox along with fast-growing businesses such as Grover, viz.ai and Ezra. Seedcamp fast-tracks a founder's vision and creates value through immediate access to smart capital, a lifelong community of support and a global network built upon more than a decade's experience backing exceptional talent.Seedcamp fast-tracks a founder's vision and creates value through immediate access to smart capital, a lifelong community of support, and a global network built upon more than a decade's experience backing exceptional talent.

## Palmer Luckey
- Type: Angel
- Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Virtual Reality, Gaming, Hardware

Palmer Luckey is the Founder of Anduril Industries. He is also the designer of the Oculus Rift, a virtual reality head-mounted display, and the founder of Oculus VR.Frustrated with the inadequacy and high cost of the existing HMDs on the market, Palmer began experimenting with his own designs in 2009 at the age of 16. In 2012, he formed OculusVR, which was acquired two years later by Facebook for $2.3b.Palmer began attending Golden West College and Long Beach City College at the age of 14, and studied at California State University, Long Beach before dropping out to found Oculus VR.His deep interest in defense technology was driven by his time at the USC ICT MxR lab, where he built hardware used to research immersive PTSD treatment for US veterans. He continued to support various military applications of VR during his time at Oculus, informing his belief that radical modernization of US military technology is a prerequisite for preserving our way of life.

## Senovo
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: München, Bayern, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology

Senovo is an early-stage VC funding global B2B SaaS category-leaders from Europe in Seed or Series A fundraising rounds. The fund invests into enterprise software startups in the areas of process optimization, industry 4.0 and data-enabled solution. The investor supports tech entrepreneurs in scaling marketing, sales, organisation, finance and KPIs.

## Rikard Steiber
- Type: Angel
- Location: Atherton, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: Virtual Reality, Electric Vehicle, Sports

Rikard Steiber is the Founder & President of Viveport & he attedned SDA Bocconi in 1993.

## Quanti
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Brno, Jihomoravsky kraj, Czech Republic
- Relevant deals: 1
- Focus: Aerospace, Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality

Quanti is an Information Technology company which develops flexible and bespoke software and hardware solutions.

## PV 110 s.r.o.
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Focus: Aerospace, Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality

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## LEVERAGE
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Prague, Hlavni mesto Praha, Czech Republic
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: B2B, E-Commerce, Retail Technology

LEVERAGE build exceptional internet companies. We invest our own experience, time and capital. We are looking for new ambitious projects!

## KAYA
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Prague, Hlavni mesto Praha, Czech Republic
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Health Care, SaaS

We are committed to supporting founders at every stage of their journey, from studio projects and pre-seed through to Series A and follow-ons.

## Samsung NEXT
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Mountain View, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Blockchain, Information Technology

Samsung NEXT Ventures is an investment arm of Samsung NEXT, a multifaceted innovation group within Samsung Electronics dedicated to identifying new growth opportunities that will define the next decade. The firm prefers to invest in artificial intelligence, fintech, blockchain, health technology, infrastructure, and media technology sectors.

## Clark Golestani
- Type: Angel
- Location: Delray Beach, Florida, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: CRM, SaaS, Computer

Clark Golestani is Managing Director of C Sensei Group since 2018. He attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

## Syner
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Liberec, Liberecky kraj, Czech Republic
- Relevant deals: 1
- Focus: Sports, Virtual Reality

Syner is a civil engineering company that specializes in the construction of sports facilities and industrial areas.

## Paul Sallaberry
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series B, Series C
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence

Paul Sallaberry is the Chairman of the Board at Seal Software.

## European Space Agency
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Grant, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Aerospace, SaaS, AgTech

The European Space Agency (ESA) is Europe’s gateway to space. Its mission is to shape the development of Europe’s space capability and ensure that investment in space continues to deliver benefits to the citizens of Europe and the world. ESA is an international organisation with 22 Member States. By coordinating the financial and intellectualresources of its members, it can undertake programmes and activities far beyond the scope of any single European country.ESA’s budget for 2017 is €5.75 billion. ESA operates on the basis of geographical return, i.e. it invests in each Member State, through industrial contracts for space programmes, an amount more or less equivalent to each country’s contribution. There are around 2200 staff working for ESA, from all the Member States and include scientists, engineers, information technology specialists and administrative personnel.

## Vit Vrba
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: SaaS, Software, Messaging

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## Wave Digital Assets
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology

Wave Digital Assets offers early-stage investment, asset management, treasury management, and strategy consulting to further the growth of the crypto and digital asset ecosystem.

## DEPO Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Prague, Hlavni mesto Praha, Czech Republic
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning

DEPO Ventures is an angel network and VC (Grouport and DEPO Angels Fund II), which connects world of startups and investors.

## Amazon Alexa Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Seattle, Washington, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things

The Amazon Alexa Fund is Amazon’s venture capital fund investing in artificial intelligence, frontier tech, voice, robotics, and digital health across consumer and enterprise. We invest in early- to growth-stage companies globally. To learn more, visit us at alexafund.com.

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