INVESTOR / DATA TO 30 SEPTEMBER 2026
Czech Founders VC
5 venture rounds in the first 9 months of 2026, at 5 companies in 2 countries.
Czech Founders VC is an investor headquartered in Czechia.
The scope is Central and Eastern Europe: every venture round since January 2024 at startups from the ten CEE countries our funding reports cover, in which public sources name Czech Founders VC as an investor. Rounds we have seen outside CEE are listed separately, under the table. It is built from the same record as our quarterly funding reports, and updated with them.
At a glance
SHOW DATA
| Row | Pre-seed | Seed | Series A | Growth | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 9 |
| 2025 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 11 |
| 9M 2026 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
9M 2026 runs to 30 September 2026.
| Investor | Rounds together |
|---|---|
| Lighthouse Ventures | 3 |
| Jan Široký | 2 |
| Nextech Ventures | 2 |
| Ory Weihs | 2 |
| Patero | 2 |
| Reflex Capital | 2 |
| Rockaway Ventures | 2 |
| Tensor Ventures | 2 |
Investors in two or more of the same rounds.
Countries and sectors
A company counts where it is headquartered, or where it started if it later moved abroad.
SHOW DATA
| Row | 2024 | 2025 | 9M 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Marketing and media | 5 | 2 | 3 |
| AI | 2 | 5 | 2 |
| Enterprise software | 2 | 3 | 0 |
| Fintech | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Mobility and logistics | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Health and bio | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Defence and security | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Food and agri | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Other | 1 | 1 | 0 |
A company can sit in several sectors, so sector counts overlap. Other: no sector on record.
Every round on record
Newest first. Czech Founders VC led 8 of them. Each company links to the announcement of the round.
| Company | Country | Month | Stage | Round size | Led | Co-investors |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Merchantee | Czechia | Jun 2026 | Seed | €1.2m | Reflex Capital, Lighthouse Ventures | |
| AdSpawn | Slovakia | Apr 2026 | Pre-seed | €0.5m | Rockaway Ventures | |
| Spicy Cells | Czechia | Feb 2026 | Pre-seed | €0.0m | Yes | - |
| Carta Genum | Czechia | Jan 2026 | Pre-seed | €0.0m | Yes | - |
| Maxfusion | Czechia | Jan 2026 | Pre-seed | €0.5m | Ory Weihs, Vit Horky, Vaclav Pavlecka, Sintija Meissner, Ivan Kristel | |
| Lemondia | Czechia | Sep 2025 | Pre-seed | €0.3m | Nextech Ventures | |
| Lemondia | Slovakia | Sep 2025 | Pre-seed | €0.3m | Yes | Nextech Ventures |
| Lignufy | Czechia | Aug 2025 | Pre-seed | €0.0m | Yes | - |
| OWASmooth | Slovakia | Jul 2025 | Pre-seed | Undisclosed | Yes | - |
| Veriteus | Czechia | Jul 2025 | Pre-seed | €0.0m | - | |
| AdSpawn | Slovakia | Jun 2025 | Pre-seed | €0.0m | Yes | - |
| DecisionRules | Czechia | May 2025 | Seed | €1.6m | Lighthouse Ventures, BD Partners, Chilli Ventures, Ory Weihs, Michael Rostock-Poplar | |
| Edmund | Czechia | Feb 2025 | Pre-seed | €0.5m | Lighthouse Ventures, Tensor Ventures, Borovicka Capital | |
| Lemondia | Czechia | Jan 2025 | Pre-seed | €0.1m | - | |
| Openvibe | Czechia | Jan 2025 | Pre-seed | €0.7m | Tensor Ventures, Jan Široký, Automattic | |
| Yedem | Czechia | Jan 2025 | Pre-seed | €0.5m | JCI Ventures, Patero | |
| Cruxo | Czechia | Nov 2024 | Seed | €0.6m | Rockaway Ventures | |
| Flowlance | Czechia | Nov 2024 | Pre-seed | €0.5m | Patero, Purple Ventures, Miroslav Uďan | |
| Impactso | Czechia | Oct 2024 | Pre-seed | €0.0m | Yes | - |
| Zaitra | Czechia | Oct 2024 | Pre-seed | €0.7m | Sunfish Partners, Jan Široký | |
| Edmund | Czechia | Aug 2024 | Pre-seed | €0.0m | Yes | - |
| Yedem | Czechia | Aug 2024 | Pre-seed | €0.5m | JIC, PATERO | |
| Flowlance | Czechia | Apr 2024 | Pre-seed | €0.0m | - | |
| Mamio | Czechia | Feb 2024 | Pre-seed | €0.3m | PurposeTech | |
| Merchantee | Czechia | Feb 2024 | Pre-seed | €0.6m | Reflex Capital |
Exits
Companies Czech Founders VC backed that were sold or listed, or where a new investor bought out the earlier ones. Each links to its announcement.
No exits on record.
How this list is made
- A round is listed when a company, investor or press announcement, or a startup database, names Czech Founders VC among its investors. Each listed round links to its announcement where one is on record.
- Amounts are the size of the whole round, not the part Czech Founders VC invested. Amounts are in euros, converted at about 1.10 US dollars to the euro.
- Stages follow the funding reports: the label the company announced, placed by size where the label clearly does not fit.
- Rounds that were never announced, or that do not name their investors, are not here, so the list is a floor.
The whole market: CEE startup funding report. Next update: January 2027.
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