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.

Eduard Kucera

Partner

Roman Novacek

Partner

Vojta Roček

Partner

Premysl Rubes

Founder and Managing Partner

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Wolf3D

Seed Round in 2020
Wolf3D creates 3D avatars of people for VR/AR communication and games using a smartphone. It uses a 3D scanning technology to create realistic avatars of people for creating game characters and custom mannequins used in VRs and games. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Tallinn, Estonia with an additional offices in Los Angeles, California.

Okredo

Seed Round in 2021
Okredo is open data platform providing data and insights for sales increase and credit risk mitigation. Okredo offers services - in freemium and premium levels (freemium - free of charge, Premium - paid services). Currently we are operating in Lithuania, but we are scaling to Latvia, Poland, UK and other European countries.

Inventoro

Seed Round in 2022
Inventoro offers AI-driven sales forecasting, replenishment optimization, and industry-standard inventory management. Inventoro's sales predictions are reliable than those of its competitors in the inventory management SaaS market. It was founded in 2020 and is based in Praha, Hlavní město Praha.

Woltair

Seed Round in 2019
Digitisation of the heating installation process - from lead generation, through sales and installation, to after-sales support.

Oddin.gg

Seed Round in 2020
Gaming, Betting, AI, Machine learning, Analytics

CloudTalk

Seed Round in 2019
Create a virtual phone system for sales and customer service teams from anywhere in the world.

Go Real Travel

Seed Round in 2019
Our mission is to allow customers to travel independently and authentically without needing to plan or prepare. We have developed an itinerary builder that allows users to automatically create their own intelligent trips. We’ve sold millions of dollars of these trips with the help of our technology and unique know-how. The future of planning a vacation won’t be the disjointed experience of booking flights, hotels, restaurants and places to visit as isolated events. We believe that next-generation online travel experiences will propose holistic itineraries that leverage many different online resources in one place.

FeedYou

Seed Round in 2018
Feedyou s.r.o. develops chatbot technology solutions that automate repeating activities in HR. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is based in Pardubice, Czech Republic.

Genster

Seed Round in 2019
Genster is the first online shopping and styling service for men in the Czech Republic. Startup was founded in 2017 by former Unilever Media Manager Michael Kloudová and co-founder of Ask Designers Ryan Cole graphic studio.

GoRamp

Pre Seed Round in 2020
GoRamp is an online transport management system designed to centralize information exchange between all members of the supply chain – in real-time. GoRamp simplifies logistics processes by automating information flow, offering different allocation strategies to reduce costs, reducing the chance of human error and offering detailed report creation tools for logistics managers. GoRamp's dedicated team bring over 23 years of experience in Logistics & Supply Chain Management, and 14+ years in IT product development – we understand industry pain points, and how to solve them. Our goal: to provide a single cloud solution for manufacturing companies, saving time and money. And the best part? Implementing GoRamp is a 10-minute job.

Coolticket

Seed Round in 2017
Free Daily Coupons in One App

Simpleway

Series A in 2015
Simpleway is an internationally renowned provider of customized unified passenger information platform used at airports, railways, marine ports and within public transportation networks. Their platform processes data and presents it to passengers through a wide array of channels ranging from high quality human voice audio messages, displays & kiosks to mobile devices, ensuring your passengers re

Getpin

Seed Round in 2023
Getpin is a location marketing automation platform that helps businesses manage their online presence — publish information, control reputation, analyze users' behavior, and manage local ad campaigns. The company was founded in Ukraine but serves business in Poland, Germany, the US, and more than 20k locations (small-medium businesses and large enterprises) are managed on the platform. Also worth mentioning, that Getpin is Google GMB Featured Partner (1 of 89 in the world) and Foursquare Syndicate Partner.

GoRamp

Seed Round in 2023
GoRamp is an online transport management system designed to centralize information exchange between all members of the supply chain – in real-time. GoRamp simplifies logistics processes by automating information flow, offering different allocation strategies to reduce costs, reducing the chance of human error and offering detailed report creation tools for logistics managers. GoRamp's dedicated team bring over 23 years of experience in Logistics & Supply Chain Management, and 14+ years in IT product development – we understand industry pain points, and how to solve them. Our goal: to provide a single cloud solution for manufacturing companies, saving time and money. And the best part? Implementing GoRamp is a 10-minute job.

IP Fabric

Series B in 2023
Automated Networks Assurance Platform fully maps complete network infrastructure, providing hyper-converged visibility and a single point of truth for global networks, provides advanced visualization for troubleshooting issues, and simulates network behavior to infer deviation from policy or infer risks which could cause an outage in the future.

Fnatic

Venture Round in 2022
Fnatic is a global esports entertainment brand focused on seeking out, leveling up, and amplifying gamers and creators. Founded by Sam and Anne Mathews in 2004 in the early days of the professional video gaming industry, Fnatic has since helped shape the new world sport into a fast-growing phenomenon. Today, driven by its ability to advance esports performance, Fnatic is the channel through which the most forward-thinking brands communicate with young people. It delivers content, experiences, and activations through offices and facilities in cities between Los Angeles and Tokyo.

Keboola

Seed Round in 2022
A privately-owned company based out of Prague, Czech Republic, with North American headquarters in Vancouver, BC, as well as offices in London and Singapore. Keboola provides is a cloud based data preparation platform that helps clients capture, analyze and surface crucial information for their internal analytics projects and data products. Building on knowledge already plentifully available in the market such as SQL and R, we are able to achieve unparalleled Time to Value with our implementations. Many of our customers are completely self-serving from the inception of their project. We partner with professional service companies to build the right solutions for our clients. Our Developer partners build apps that seamlessly integrate their services and algorithms into our structure, making functions like predictive analytics and machine learning instantly available to our customers with no integration work required. We cast technology alliances with platforms that help our customers consume the data and insights in the ways most suitable to their particular use cases.

zypl.ai

Pre Seed Round in 2022
zypl.ai applies 'no data' AI at scale to advance financial inclusion in emerging and frontier markets. Our SaaS solution enables banks and microfinance organizations to instantly and accurate underwrite loans, both offline and digitally, to consumers with limited or no credit history. zypl's proprietary approach includes training AI models on synthetically generated data with simulation of 'black swan' conditions, providing stable and adaptable SaaS in spite of macro volatility in developing markets. Apart from analyzing traditional variables such as social, demographic, and professional background of clients, our SaaS reviews device metadata, psychometrics, web trace, and macroeconomic factors to arrive at credit decisions. In the process, we fully customize AI models to risk appetite of each individual enterprise partner with the goal of reflecting their competitive market advantages. Additionally, we offer complete flexibility on mode of integration through either cloud or on-premise deployment based on enterprise preference. We only deploy explainable AI models with embedded 'weight-of-evidence' interpretation of each decision made by the software, complying with emerging regulatory requirements on credit scoring. Having launched our beta last year, we have scaled presence to 10 enterprise clients in 4 markets across Central Asia. In this time, we have underwritten >$9 million in consumer and small business (services, trade, agriculture) loans to over 12 thousand consumers with staggeringly low 0.7% portfolio-at-risk rate. Since booking first revenue earlier this year, we have surpassed 25% compounded monthly growth rate and reached financial break-even this month. As a complement to credit scoring, our product team has ventured into churn prediction in telecom sector through partnerships with 3 leading telcos in Central Asia. Our rapid product iteration and development is a result of an AI Academy that we have launched to nurture talent internally. zypl.ai was ideated at Stanford University's Startup Garage and recently completed the Silkway Accelerator by Google for Startups and Astana Hub. Our startup was launched with a grant from the Islamic Development Bank as part of the Transform Fund. With our pre-seed capital raise, we plan on globalizing our AI SaaS solution by expanding to new markets in MENA, Southeast Asia, and Eastern Europe.

Trusted Twin

Seed Round in 2022
Trusted Twin is a digital, cloud-based space for secure, reliable, and verifiable digital twin storing and sharing.

Okredo

Seed Round in 2022
Okredo is open data platform providing data and insights for sales increase and credit risk mitigation. Okredo offers services - in freemium and premium levels (freemium - free of charge, Premium - paid services). Currently we are operating in Lithuania, but we are scaling to Latvia, Poland, UK and other European countries.

GoRamp

Seed Round in 2021
GoRamp is an online transport management system designed to centralize information exchange between all members of the supply chain – in real-time. GoRamp simplifies logistics processes by automating information flow, offering different allocation strategies to reduce costs, reducing the chance of human error and offering detailed report creation tools for logistics managers. GoRamp's dedicated team bring over 23 years of experience in Logistics & Supply Chain Management, and 14+ years in IT product development – we understand industry pain points, and how to solve them. Our goal: to provide a single cloud solution for manufacturing companies, saving time and money. And the best part? Implementing GoRamp is a 10-minute job.

Finmap

Seed Round in 2023
Finmap is financial management tool that allows business owners to see the state of their company without special knowledge of finance and studying of complex systems. By using 3 simple buttons - income, outcome and transfer - all analytics appears in a few clicks at a glance: how much the company earned, which projects more profitable, a statement of cash flows, accounts receivable and payable of the company. Finmap makes it possible to see the business situation on one sheet, removes chaos in financial management and gives the business owner the opportunity to make the right decisions

Jeff

Seed Round in 2024
Jeff is a personalized loan broker that matches borrowers and lenders through alternative data. Jeff's mission is to help the unbanked to access financial services. In the absence of credit history and bank transactions, Jeff gathers alternative data from sources like smartphones, social media, behavioral patterns, geolocation, and other types of digital footprint. Jeff then puts this information to good use and find ways on how alternative data points can prove creditworthiness and build trust, building new ways of accessing financing and evolving an alternative credit score. The company was founded in 2019 and is located in Riga, Latvia.

CloudTalk

Seed Round in 2020
Create a virtual phone system for sales and customer service teams from anywhere in the world.

MADMONQ

Seed Round in 2022
MADMONQ is a European startup whose innovative food supplement, developed and produced in the heart of Europe supports complex mental and physical performance needs of top level gamers.

Spenfi

Seed Round in 2022
UAB Haslle develops a spending and expenses management software solution. The company offers a business-to-business software solution, Haslle, which provides application programming interface (API) integrations, business travel expenses, administrative expenses, subscription management, digital advertising, vendor payments, invoice processing, and automated expense reporting services. It also provides onboarding, purchase approvals, software as a service (SaaS) subscriptions, and real time analysis. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Vilnius, Lithuania.

Finmap

Seed Round in 2022
Finmap is financial management tool that allows business owners to see the state of their company without special knowledge of finance and studying of complex systems. By using 3 simple buttons - income, outcome and transfer - all analytics appears in a few clicks at a glance: how much the company earned, which projects more profitable, a statement of cash flows, accounts receivable and payable of the company. Finmap makes it possible to see the business situation on one sheet, removes chaos in financial management and gives the business owner the opportunity to make the right decisions

Intiaro

Seed Round in 2020
Intiaro INC develops cloud-based configuration and visualization software tools for retailers and brands. Its platform is used to create and share custom furniture to help interior design professionals and in-store sales associates; to generate compelling photorealistic visualization; to build configurations with 4K zoom functions, 360-degree rotations, and top-down views; and to build room suites and render them in a photorealistic style to capture customer’s attention. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Greensboro, North Carolina.

Persoo

Pre Seed Round in 2019
We developed tool for small and middle eCommerce business to provide them deep visitor and customer analytics, real-time personalizations, targeting, marketing automation. At average, it increases revenue by 10-15%. Simple example (personalized search results): from the visitor behaviour we predict gender, price level, we remember favourite colors, sizes, brands. So when visitor search i.e. "shoes", we display man shoes to men, woman shoes to women, even relevant brand, color, ...

Behavio

Seed Round in 2021
Behavio is a research company that focuses on subconscious cognition. They create strategies for capturing subliminal motivations. Behavio is headquartered in Prague, Holešovice and was founded in 2015.

Secfense

Venture Round in 2022
Secfense User Access Security Broker is a network traffic broker that learns the traffic patterns related to authentication and builds an additional security layer between users and their applications. Secfense broker is not a 2FA method. Secfense broker is a tool that enables a quick & easy setup of any 2FA method or authentication standard available on the market and introduces it without interfering with applications existing code or database. Without Secfense broker, the 2FA integration often requires changes in the apps' code and then manual check, which can take forever when there are hundreds of apps to protect. Secfense broker streamlines the process by taking over the traffic. The broker knows to which app the user wants to log in, and it asks the user to apply the 2FA method that was chosen for this specific app. Thanks to the Secfense broker the 2FA implementation process is quick & painless across the entire organization. Our customers can also easily switch to any other 2FA method available on the market connecting it with any application or device they need.

SENS

Series A in 2020
SENS Foods GmbH manufactures and sells food made from cricket flour in Europe. The company offers peanut butter and cinnamon bars, dark chocolate and sour cherry bars, chocolate protein blends, and cricket protein powders. Its sells its food products online. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Berlin, Germany.

IP Fabric

Series A in 2020
Automated Networks Assurance Platform fully maps complete network infrastructure, providing hyper-converged visibility and a single point of truth for global networks, provides advanced visualization for troubleshooting issues, and simulates network behavior to infer deviation from policy or infer risks which could cause an outage in the future.

Sharry

Seed Round in 2019
Sharry Europe is a company based in Prague, Central Europe, developing innovative software for premium office buildings. We create mobile apps and content for digital signage. We are specialists for integration of smart solutions such as parking or shared services.

GoRamp

Pre Seed Round in 2019
GoRamp is an online transport management system designed to centralize information exchange between all members of the supply chain – in real-time. GoRamp simplifies logistics processes by automating information flow, offering different allocation strategies to reduce costs, reducing the chance of human error and offering detailed report creation tools for logistics managers. GoRamp's dedicated team bring over 23 years of experience in Logistics & Supply Chain Management, and 14+ years in IT product development – we understand industry pain points, and how to solve them. Our goal: to provide a single cloud solution for manufacturing companies, saving time and money. And the best part? Implementing GoRamp is a 10-minute job.

Yieldigo

Pre Seed Round in 2016
Yieldigo helps retailers such as supermarkets, drugstores, and pharmacies to set optimal non-promotional prices to increase profitability. This is done by a proprietary machine learning algorithm that creates a model of consumer’s purchasing behavior, combines it with retailers’ business objectives and creates optimal prices based on both perspectives. As a result, Yieldigo creates a profit uplift for their customers of 5-15% while preserving their revenues and price index.

Domotron

Seed Round in 2017
Domotron is your personal smart home designer. Its AI analyses the way you live and creates automation tailored to you. It quickly adapts to any changes in your life, giving you an ever-evolving smart home. Sign up today and be one of the first to enjoy the future of smart home.

CloudTalk

Series B in 2024
Create a virtual phone system for sales and customer service teams from anywhere in the world.

Choice

Seed Round in 2024
Choice – SaaS for hotels and restaurants, allowing them to digitize their operations, increase revenue and reduce costs

Keboola

Series A in 2023
A privately-owned company based out of Prague, Czech Republic, with North American headquarters in Vancouver, BC, as well as offices in London and Singapore. Keboola provides is a cloud based data preparation platform that helps clients capture, analyze and surface crucial information for their internal analytics projects and data products. Building on knowledge already plentifully available in the market such as SQL and R, we are able to achieve unparalleled Time to Value with our implementations. Many of our customers are completely self-serving from the inception of their project. We partner with professional service companies to build the right solutions for our clients. Our Developer partners build apps that seamlessly integrate their services and algorithms into our structure, making functions like predictive analytics and machine learning instantly available to our customers with no integration work required. We cast technology alliances with platforms that help our customers consume the data and insights in the ways most suitable to their particular use cases.

RoyaltyRange

Venture Round in 2023
RoyaltyRange is an intellectual property royalty rate database. The database provides royalties and licensing terms data of licence agreements covering Europe

Oddin.gg

Series A in 2022
Gaming, Betting, AI, Machine learning, Analytics

Choice

Seed Round in 2022
Choice – SaaS for hotels and restaurants, allowing them to digitize their operations, increase revenue and reduce costs

MADMONQ

Seed Round in 2023
MADMONQ is a European startup whose innovative food supplement, developed and produced in the heart of Europe supports complex mental and physical performance needs of top level gamers.

CityPay.io

Seed Round in 2023
Cryptocurrency Payment Gateway for any Type of Businesses. For online payments CityPay has a ready solution for online API integration, E-mail billing (without API integration) as well as POS App (iOS and Android) for physical sales. Currently payment gateway enables merchants to accept payments in 6 cryptocurrencies (BTC, LTC, DASH, ZEC, BTG, BCH), and to get paid exact amount in 4 fiat currencies including regional currencies (USD, EUR, GEL, TRY). To control business activities CityPay offers an intuitive and easy to use platform where business can monitor and control cryptocurrency receiving. It takes only few minutes to register, set up and verify the business and start receiving the crypto. Our interface is simple while providing a variety of features which can be customized according to the business needs. CityPay operates in Georgia and Turkey.

Spenfi

Seed Round in 2023
UAB Haslle develops a spending and expenses management software solution. The company offers a business-to-business software solution, Haslle, which provides application programming interface (API) integrations, business travel expenses, administrative expenses, subscription management, digital advertising, vendor payments, invoice processing, and automated expense reporting services. It also provides onboarding, purchase approvals, software as a service (SaaS) subscriptions, and real time analysis. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Vilnius, Lithuania.

KLIPY - Clips, GIFs & Memes

Pre Seed Round in 2022
KIKLIKO is the World's largest library of GIFs with Sounds. Using our Mobile Apps, Website or Browser Extensions you can Create, Search or Share your favorite moments from Movies or Videos to any Social Network.

Elin

Pre Seed Round in 2024
Elin.ai develops an AI-driven engagement tracker for teams in Slack, making remote teams productive and successful. Elin.ai's performance measurement and tracking software lets its users to create and compare teams, tag users, and get weekly insights on improving metrics by analyzing their team communication and getting actionable insights on building high-engagement culture, allowing managers to check how their teams are doing in the real-time.