# Top 35 Software Angel Investors in Czech Republic in May 2026

## Martin Rozhon
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: E-Commerce, Health Care, Software

Martin Rozhon

## Jude Gomila
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, Biotechnology, Information Technology

Jude Gomila is currently CEO and Founder of the startup Golden.

## Marton Szoke
- Type: Angel
- Location: Budapest, Budapest, Hungary
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Pre-Seed, Series B
- Focus: Information Technology, Software, EdTech

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.

## 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.

## 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.

## 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.

## Lachy Groom
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Internet, Artificial Intelligence

i did some stuff at stripe. chairman of Compound.

## Liu Jiang
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Blockchain, B2B

Liu Jiang

## Juraj Masar
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: SaaS, Software, Health Care

Juraj Masar is the Co-Founder and CEO of Better Stack, Co-Founder of Wallmine, and Founder of Customer.guru. He is a former Software Engineer at Prizeo. Juraj Masar attended Charles University.

## Jakub Jurovych
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Developer APIs, Cloud Management

Jakub Jurovych

## Zachary Sims
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Information Technology

Zach is the cofounder and CEO of Codecademy, the leading online education company closing the skills gap by teaching programming. Codecademy has reached millions of users in every country in the world. Codecademy’s investors include Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers, Index Ventures, Richard Branson, Yuri Milner, and more. Zach has worked withGroupMe (acq. by Skype) and drop.io (acq. by Facebook). Zach was named to Inc. Magazine and Forbes Magazine’s 30 Under 30 lists, was selected as a Technology Pioneer by the World Economic Forum, and was voted as one of TIME Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People of 2013.

## Lucjan Samulowski
- Type: Angel
- Location: Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: SaaS, Internet, Software

Lucjan Samulowski - Cofounder & CPO @ DocPlanner

## Isaac Applbaum
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Mobile, E-Commerce

Isaac Applbaum joined MizMaa Ventures Limited as Founder and Partner in 2016.Isaac Applbaum is a founding General Partner of Opus Capital, a billion dollar early stage venture fund, .focusing his efforts on finding Israeli-based investments for the firm. Previously, Isaac was a Partner and Managing Director for Israel at Lightspeed Venture Partnersan early stage venture capital firm with over two billion dollars under management.Prior to joining Lightspeed, Mr. Applbaum was the founder and CEO of Concorde Solutions Inc. (CSI). In 1998 Mr. Applbaum sold CSI to Bank of America becoming a Senior Vice President at the bank with responsibility for running the bank’s E-ventures group and an advisor to the strategic investments group.Before founding Concorde Solutions, Mr. Applbaum was responsible for running US operations for Advanced Technology International, a large Israeli software development company.Mr. Applbaum currently serves as a Senior Advisor for Philanthropy to the Mayor of Jerusalem, Nir Barkat. Mr. Applbaum is President of the Board of the California Israel Chamber of Commerce, Chairman of The Western Wall Heritage Foundation, is on the board of directors of: The Koret Israel Economic Development Funds, the Shalem Institute, the Modern Bank and is on the National Council of AIPAC. Mr. Applbaum is a member of the Young Presidents Organization.

## Ondřej Fryc
- Type: Angel
- Location: Prague, Hlavni mesto Praha, Czech Republic
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: SaaS, Software, Information Technology

Ondrej Fryc was born in 1973 in Prague. Ondrej Fryc is a Managing Partner at Reflex Capital SE. He graduated from the University of Economics, Department of Information Management.He started his career in business started Ondrej Fryc already studying at university as patrol seller of canned fish imported from the Baltic region. After severalpairs of worn out shoes rather then after he moved to the Netherlands Chamber of Commerce, where he worked as a project manager for international market research company. In 1997 he co-founded market research agency, where he served as managing director. After five years, sold its share.Andrew was in 2000 one of the three co-founders bilezbozi.cz, predecessor MALL.CZ. The company went through all the positions of the driver rozvozového vehicles to the current position of Chief Executive Officer Netretail Holding BV , under which we have passed, as well as all our foreign colleagues, the first February 2008 . Ondrej also significantly contributed to attracting investors for MALL.CZ, including Intel.In 2003 Ondrej elected to the board of the Association for Electronic Commerce in the Czech Republic and in 2007 was elected to the Supervisory Board CZ.NIC organization.Ondrej is married and has three children. His main hobbies include hiking, motorcycles, traveling on my own and of course MALL.CZ.

## Michael Stoppelman
- Type: Angel
- Location: Greater Los Angeles Area, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Internet, SaaS

Michael Stoppelman is an active angel/seed investor in Los Angeles. He's the former Senior Vice President of Engineering at Yelp. He started at Yelp as a software engineer working on the search engine. He took over as head engineering in 2012 after serving as a manager and Director of Engineering in the proceeding years. He scaled theengineering team from 30 to over 500 engineers. Prior to Yelp he was a software engineer at Google for 3.5 years and served as the tech lead for the AdSense Traffic Quality team. He received his BS in Computer Science from Purdue in West Lafayette, Indiana in 2003.

## Sara Varni
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Graphic Design, Developer Tools

Creative marketing leader with a track record for driving awareness and demand for enterprise software products. Effective at building high-functioning teams across creative, campaign management, PR, and product marketing. Experience building partner ecosystems and empowering start-ups to become marketing powerhouses.

## Michal Pechoucek
- Type: Angel
- Location: Prague, Hlavni mesto Praha, Czech Republic
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Machine Learning, Network Security, Artificial Intelligence

Michal Pechoucek joined Avast as CTO in September 2019. Mr. Pechoucek leads the core technology and R&D teams supporting the work of the Avast Threat Labs, Big Data and innovation teams. He is also responsible for the company’s scientific research in the fields of Artificial Intelligence, machine learning, and cybersecurity.Before joiningAvast, Mr. Pechoucek spent over twenty years as a professor at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering at the Czech Technical University (CTU) in Prague, during which time he led the Department of Computer Science and founded the Artificial Intelligence Center in 2001. He also co-founded a research-oriented study programme, Open Informatics, which offers a choice of different subjects, combines different areas of informatics and approaches and continues to be taught today.Mr. Pechoucek has authored more than 400 high impact publications and contributed numerous innovative AI applications to research in computer science. Before joining Avast, he was the prime mover behind the creation of the Avast Chair of Cybersecurity at CTU, and in 2019, he also helped to establish the Avast funded joint CTU/Avast AI and Cybersecurity Laboratory. Today, Mr. Pechoucek continues to lecture at CTU and lead the Artificial Intelligence Center.

## David Wu
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Mobile

David Wu Is The Partner At Maveron.

## Tomas Cupr
- Type: Angel
- Location: Prague, Hlavni mesto Praha, Czech Republic
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Food and Beverage, Grocery, E-Commerce

Tomas Cupr is the Group Chief Executive Officer at Rohlik. Additionally, Tomas Cupr has had 3 past jobs including Partner at KAYA.

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

Vit Vrba

## 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.

## Michal Smida
- Type: Angel
- Location: Prague, Hlavni mesto Praha, Czech Republic
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Mobile Apps, Mobile Payments

Michal Smida - Founder & CEO @ Twisto

## Matej Turek
- Type: Angel
- Location: Prague, Hlavni mesto Praha, Czech Republic
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Developer APIs, Cloud Management

Matej Turek - COO and Co-Founder @ Trisbee

## Jeremy Yap
- Type: Angel
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning

Jeremy is a full time angel from Singapore who invests in the Europe, North America, and Israel.

## Tim Soulo
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: SaaS, Internet, Software

Tim Soulo is the Chief Marketing Officer and Product advisor at Ahrefs (an industry leading SEO tool, powered by Big Data). With almost 10 years of practical experience in SEO and digital marketing, he's the author of many data-driven SEO research studies and a number of detailed SEO guides.

## Ryan Petersen
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Financial Services

Ryan Petersen is the CEO and Founder of Flexport. Prior to starting Flexport to fix the user experience in global trade, Ryan was co-founder and CEO of ImportGenius.com, a data-as-a-service business for global shipping. He holds a degree in economics from the University of California, Berkeley and an MBA from Columbia University.

## Robert Kyncl
- Type: Angel
- Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Art, FinTech, Payments

Robert Kyncl is the current Chief Business Officer of YouTube. He previously worked at Netflix as a Vice President, Content. Robert Kyncl attended Pepperdine Graziadio Business School.

## 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

## Daniel Dines
- Type: Angel
- Location: Dover, Delaware, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence

Daniel Dines is Co-founder and CEO of UiPath, the fastest growing and leading provider of Robotic Process Automation (RPA) and AI software worldwide. Dines started UiPath in 2005 with the goal of building a solution that could help humans reduce the time and stress that come from menial, administrative business tasks. Today, Dines’ vision is tomake software robots, powered by computer vision and AI, as common as PCs in the workplace -- a vision dubbed One Robot for Every Person.Dines is committed to ushering in the “automation first” era, helping businesses of all sizes digitize everyday business operations and apply AI to drive true digital transformation. This era brings tremendous value to businesses and new career opportunities for people – which is why Dines aims to democratize RPA via free training and software, as well through UiPath’s Academic Alliance program, which trains and certifies university students, youth, and traditionally underrepresented groups – with an eye toward preparing people for the jobs of the future.Since incorporating UiPath in 2015, and moving its headquarters to New York in 2017, Dines has led the company through substantial growth – delivering intelligent automation solutions to thousands of companies around the world, including government agencies and many of the Fortune 500. He has raised more than $1B from top-tier venture capital firms, with a post-money valuation of $7B.Dines began his engineering career at Microsoft where he designed and developed the SQL Server Agent. Still a hacker at heart, he is active in driving the company’s RPA platform and supporting the 250,000 developers who are building automations on UiPath’s RPA platform.

## Eduard Kucera
- Type: Angel
- Location: Prague, Hlavni mesto Praha, Czech Republic
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence

Eduard Kucera is a Member of the Board of Directors at AVAST Software since February 2014. Eduard was the Co-Founder and Chairman of the Board of Directors from the incorporation of AVAST Software a.s. in December 2006 until January 2014. Since 1991, Eduard was responsible for the activities of our predecessor entity, ALWIL Software partnership.From 1991 to 2009, Eduard also served as AVAST Chief Executive Officer, directing day-to-day operations that included the transition to a free software distribution model in 2002. Prior to co-founding AVAST, Eduard was a Computer Hardware Specialist at the Czech Computer Research Institute (VUMS). In 2009, Eduard was named Ernst & Young's "Entrepreneur of the Year 2009" for the Czech Republic. Eduard holds a Ph.D. in Natural Sciences degree in experimental Physics from Charles University in Prague.

## Klara Losert
- Type: Angel
- Location: Prague, Hlavni mesto Praha, Czech Republic
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: EdTech, Education

Klara Losert is a Co-founder of Talkbase.

## Petr Zamecnik
- Type: Angel
- Location: Prague, Hlavni mesto Praha, Czech Republic
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Mobile Apps, Travel, FinTech

Petr Zamecnik - Chief Content Officer @ EMA data

## 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.

## Martin Rajcan
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Graphic Design, Developer Tools

Martin Rajcan is a General Partner at KAYA VC. He Attended Middlebury College.

## 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.

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