KAYA

Martin Rajcan bridges U.S. climate innovation and Central/Eastern European tech as GP and venture partner, leveraging former Priori Data CFO experience in SaaS metrics and startup finance to advise founders.

Pavel Mucha, an early-2010s CEE venture investor, brings unusually deep, cycle-tested perspective, co-founded a VC and now leads a €500m pension-backed growth fund reinventing long-term tech capital.

Tomas Obrtac has spent over a decade building the Central and Eastern European VC ecosystem and prioritizes investing in entrepreneurs from his firm's network, creating an alumni-driven talent greenhouse.

Tomas Pacinda is a founder-first investor who backs long-term missions through valleys of death, reports a failure rate of 10–20% versus ~50% typical, and focuses on team-building and global expansion.

Jakub Jurovych is founder and CEO of Deepnote, a data workspace where humans and AI agents collaborate to generate insights. With a background in human-computer interaction, he focuses on how people and AI share workspaces and coordinate tasks. Deepnote has over 500,000 data professionals using the platform and open-sourced its core in November 2025.

Juraj Masar is co-founder and CEO of Better Stack. He has been recognized as a Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree.

Martin Schmid is CEO and co-founder of EquiLibre Technologies. He previously held the position of senior research scientist at DeepMind and research scientist at IBM Watson, where he co-authored DeepStack, a program that defeated professional no-limit poker players, and Player of Games, which demonstrated strong performance across perfect and imperfect information games. He currently serves as an advisor at Kontext.

Michal Valko is a founding researcher at Isara Labs and a tenured researcher at Inria, where he also serves as a lecturer in the MVA master's program at ENS Paris-Saclay. His research focuses on algorithms requiring minimal human supervision, including deep reinforcement learning, bandit algorithms, and self-supervised learning, with recent work on representation learning and large language model fine-tuning and alignment. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh and has previously contributed to establishing Google DeepMind Paris alongside Rémi Munos.

Tomáš Čupr is CEO of Rohlik Group, which operates same-day grocery delivery platforms across Central and Eastern Europe, and co-founder of duvo.ai. He serves as a non-executive board member at Keboola and has over ten years of experience in startup development, board administration, and strategic growth. His background includes founding TCF Capital.

Julie Hucikova holds a Finance & Operations role at KAYA VC, where she manages fund finance and operations. She previously worked as a financial investment manager overseeing multiple development funds and projects, and has experience in controlling, financial planning, and analysis from Big Four and corporate finance roles. Outside her professional work, she volunteers with Vlny Štvanice, a Prague-based riversurfing non-profit, serving as a surf instructor and financial overseer.