Prague · Pre-Seed–Late Stage · 15 people tracked
Investment thesis
KAYA invests early in visionary founders and stays involved through their growth toward market leadership. The firm backs teams with the ambition to disrupt and reshape their industries, supporting them from inception onward. KAYA describes itself as an equal partnership and a cohesive, founder-focused team that emphasizes close, supportive relationships with the companies it backs.
Source: firm website, verified Aug 3, 2026.
Team · 15 people
from the firm's website & public directories
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Founder mafia
4 people who came through KAYA went on to found or lead other companies.
What they invest in
from 44 of 117 portfolio companiesAI & Machine Learning ×20SaaS ×12Digital Health ×9Healthtech ×9Enterprise Software ×8Marketplaces ×8Developer Tools ×7E-commerce ×7
HQs:United States×9Czechia×8United Kingdom×3Austria×1Canada×1Switzerland×1
Who they back
founder profiles across 25 portfolio companiesFounding team size:solo founder×82 founders×113 founders×54+ founders×1
Where their founders studiedfrom 22 founders with education data
University of Cambridge ×4Cambridge Judge Business School ×2Charles University ×2Imperial College London ×2Technical University of Munich ×2The Wharton School ×2UniCEUB - Centro Universitário de Brasília ×2
Where their founders worked beforefrom 21 founders with career history
Banco Original ×2Imperial College London ×2Origin ×2Shopify ×2University of Oxford ×2
Accelerator rootsportfolio companies that came through a program
2 founders hold a PhD · 2 hold an MBA (of 23 with degree data)
Investments · 117 tracked
founders shown can be your intro pathBy year:2025 · 12024 · 12023 · 24 dated
Upheal is an AI-native electronic health record (EHR) platform for therapists that generates clinical progress notes from sessions and includes scheduling, billing, telehealth, and compliance tools.
AI & Machine LearningDigital HealthMental HealthNew York, US
Juraj Chrappa(Executive Officer, Director)Karolina Mrozkova(Director)Martin Horvath(Executive Officer, Director)
Board seatTomas Pacinda· per SEC Form D
Co-investorsCalm/Storm VCCredo Ventures
Co-investorsInovo VC
Allonic is a robotics company founded by roboticists and engineers building tools to design and develop robots.
Deep TechHardwareRobotics
David Hollo(Founder)in
Co-investorsDay One CapitalVisionaries Club
Co-investorsKogito Ventures
Artificial Agency is an AI company applying reinforcement learning to build agent technology for video games, drawing on research and gaming-industry expertise.
AI & Machine LearningDeep TechGamingEdmonton, CA
Alex Kearney(Co-Founder & Head of Agents)Brian Tanner WebSummit Vancouver Google IO(Founder)Michael Johanson(Founder)Brian Tanner(Co-Founder & CEO)Greg Canessa(Chief Operating Officer)Mark Jaskiewicz(Head of Game Technology (Founding))
Co-investorsEdmonton UnlimitedFlying Fish VenturesRadical VenturesSamsung NextTIRTA VenturesToyota Ventures
Awell provides a platform for building, automating, and orchestrating clinical care flows, using drag-and-drop or natural language AI prompts to design, deploy, and optimize workflows.
AI & Machine LearningDigital HealthHealthtechSaaS
Co-investorsMoonfire VenturesOctopus Ventures
Better Stack is an observability and monitoring platform offering log management, metrics, incident alerting, and status pages for engineering teams, positioned as a cheaper alternative to Datadog.
Data & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsSaaS
Juraj Masar(Founder)inVeronika Kolejak(Founder)in
Co-investorsAternusK5 GlobalCredo VenturesSusa Ventures
Leading consumer digital bank in Spain.
Guillermo Vicandi(Founder)Juan Antonio Rullan de la Mata(Founder)in
Co-investorsDigital HorizonDigital Horizon VCDN CapitalRoosh VenturesStratMindsVARIV+2 more
Booksy is a free mobile app for discovering and booking appointments with beauty and wellness service providers such as barbers, hairdressers, massage therapists, and manicurists.
ConsumerMarketplacesChicago, US
Konrad Howard(Executive Officer)Stefan Batory(Founder & CEO)Kristina Salen(Executive Officer)Ripsy Bandourian(Executive Officer)Ewelina Macewicz(Executive Officer)Selim Dogguy(Executive Officer)
Co-investorsAternusCoelius CapitalEndeavor CatalystInovia CapitalInovo VCManta Ray Ventures+8 more
Cardiomatics develops AI solutions for cardiac diagnosis and treatment.
AI & Machine LearningDigital HealthHealthtechMedical Devices
Co-investorsNina CapitalNovaCapital
Food delivery platform operating in Prague that connects customers with over 1,800 local restaurants, offering ordering via web and mobile app with delivery or in-store pickup.
FoodTechLogistics & Supply ChainMarketplacesPrague, CZ
DasLab focuses on enabling intelligent and personalized healthcare through data exchange capabilities.
Data & InfrastructureDigital HealthHealthtech
Co-investorsAcurio Ventures
Docplanner operates a healthcare platform connecting patients with doctors and providing software for medical practices to manage appointments, online presence, and reputation.
Digital HealthMarketplacesSaaSAmsterdam, NL
Co-investorsAspire11AternusBY Venture PartnersD&FG ElementsEBRD Venture Capital Investment ProgrammeEndeavor Catalyst+4 more
E2B provides open-source, secure cloud sandboxes (built on Firecracker microVMs) where AI agents and LLMs can run untrusted, AI-generated code, use terminals and browsers, handle files, and access the internet.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingDeveloper Tools
Co-investorsCortical VenturesDecibel PartnersDeep AcreOperator CollectiveInsight Partners
Eversports is a booking platform and app for discovering and reserving yoga, fitness, and sports activities such as classes, workshops, and courts at local studios and facilities.
MarketplacesSports TechWellness & FitnessWien, AT
Hanno Lippitsch(Geschäftsführer)Philipp Braunsberger(Geschäftsführer)Stefan Feirer(Geschäftsführer)
Finances small businesses that cannot access bank credit lines
Co-investorsDN CapitalManta Ray VenturesPoint NineEnernFasanara CapitalFly Ventures+2 more
Co-investorsCredo Ventures
GenPeach develops AI models, referencing diffusion models running on GPU clusters.
AI & Machine LearningZürich, CH
Artsiom Sanakoyeu(Founder)
Co-investorsMätch VCSarah Smith
Co-investorsMITON
Co-investorsAligo Venture Capital
Healee provides a virtual care platform that helps healthcare organizations and providers deliver telehealth and manage patient interactions.
AI & Machine LearningDigital HealthHealthtechSaaSChicago, US
Josif Dishliev(Co-founder & CEO)inHristo Kosev(Co-founder & CTO)inPlamen Petrov(Executive Officer, Director)inIrina Simeonova(Executive Officer)in
Co-investorsNina Capital
Intiaro builds a 3D visual configure-price-quote (VCPQ) platform with photorealistic 360° and sectional configurators for the furniture industry, connecting manufacturers, retailers, designers, and end-users.
AI & Machine LearningE-commerceRetail TechSaaSSales Tech
Michał Stachowski(Founder)inPawel Ciach(Co-founder & CEO)Michal Stachowski(Co-founder & CCO)
Co-investorsAlfabeatBHM GroupInovo VCPresto VenturesCredo Ventures
Jutro Medical operates primary care clinics (POZ) in Poland offering telemedicine and in-person visits under the public NFZ system, with an app for booking appointments and accessing prescriptions, test results, and recommendations.
Digital HealthHealthtechWellness & Fitness
Adam Janczewski(Founder)in
Co-investorsInovo VCKogito VenturesMarket One CapitalnaturalX Health VenturesRheingau FoundersWarsaw Equity Group+4 more
Aproplan is a document management platform for construction teams that centralizes storage, versioning, and collaboration on project documents such as drawings, reports, and plans.
Construction TechEnterprise SoftwarePropTechSaaS
Co-investorsEntourage Ventures
The page promotes an online gambling brand ("VIP88") offering games such as slots, live casino, sportsbook, arcade, online lottery, and poker.
Gaming
MediSearch provides instant answers to medical questions sourced from reliable medical information.
AI & Machine LearningDigital HealthHealthtechWellness & FitnessLondon, GB
Eduard Oravkin(Founder)inMichal Pándy(Founder)in
Co-investorsAmino CapitalY CombinatorZAKA VC
Co-investorsChange VenturesKarma VenturesSpecialist VCSpring Capital
Mesmer builds an operating system for engineering teams that uses AI and ground-truth data from code and tickets to provide visibility into engineering work and automate management tasks.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSaaSSan Francisco, US
João de Paula(Founder)inSergio Oliveira Bergmann(Founder)inLucas Silva(Founder)in
Co-investorsImagination CapitalY Combinator468 CapitalIntel CapitalTrue Ventures
Minerva Humanoids builds Roger, a humanoid robot designed for hazardous energy operations in explosive atmospheres, extreme weather, and continuous outdoor industrial environments.
EnergyHardwareRobotics
Nautal operates an online marketplace for boat rentals, connecting owners with customers seeking to charter sailboats, yachts, motorboats, and other vessel types across global destinations.
MarketplacesSports TechTravel & Hospitality
Co-investorsCriteria Venture TechMarket One CapitalSeedRocket
Nestpick is a search engine aggregating millions of furnished apartment listings from over 200 providers across 3000+ cities worldwide.
MarketplacesPropTechBerlin, DE
Fabian Dudek(Co-Founder & CEO)inPatricia Moubarak(Co-Founder & COO)inPeter Hofman(Co-Founder & CTO)in
Co-investorsKeadynRocket Internet SE
NuvoAir provides virtual-first specialty care for patients with complex heart and lung (cardiopulmonary) conditions, offering proactive and continuous remote and in-person care.
Digital HealthHealthtechMedical DevicesBoston, US
Lorenzo Consoli(Founder)inHakan Sjunnesson(Director)Daniel Spasic(Director)Simon Cartmell(Director)Erik Lystedt(Executive Officer)
BoardGary Kurtzman(Director)
Co-investorsAlbionVCHikma VenturesIndustrifonden
Peak21 partners with founders to scale their consumer and e-commerce businesses, providing hands-on operational and growth support in exchange for partnership stakes.
ConsumerE-commerce
Co-investorsNordic Eye Venture Capital
Riptides provides identity, access control, and audit trails for AI agents and traditional workloads, enforcing security at the Linux kernel level so workloads receive short-lived, just-in-time credentials instead of holding long-lived API keys.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityDeveloper ToolsBudapest, HU
Janos Matyas(Founder)Marton Sereg(Founder)
Co-investorsOktogon Ventures
Rohlík is an online grocery marketplace offering over 20,000 products from farmers and supermarkets with free delivery for orders above 1,500 CZK and promised delivery within 60 minutes in Prague.
E-commerceFoodTechMarketplacesPrague, CZ
Tomáš Čupr(Founder)in
Co-investorsIndex VenturesSofinaTCF Capital
Sensible Biotechnologies develops a cell-based mRNA design and manufacturing platform that produces pure, low immunogenicity mRNA therapeutics for drug development.
AI & Machine LearningBiotechDeep TechHealthtechOxford, GB
Miroslav Gasparek(Founder)inMarian Kupculak(Founder)in
Co-investorsCivilization Ventures Management, LlcRecode VenturesY CombinatorZAKA VCBlueYard Capital
Stormy is an AI workflow automation platform that handles creator outreach, negotiation, and campaign management for marketing teams.
AI & Machine LearningCreator EconomyEnterprise SoftwareMarketing TechSaaSSan Francisco, US
Robert Lukoszko(Founder)inAlex Pokras(Founder)in
Co-investorsY Combinator
Superlinked builds SIE, an open-source inference engine that runs specialized AI models on shared GPUs, enabling organizations to reduce API costs and improve control over their AI infrastructure for search and document processing workloads.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsSan Francisco, US
DanielBen
Co-investorsIndex VenturesSamsung NextTheory VenturesEpisode1Firestreak VenturesMMC Ventures+4 more
Supernova provides a design system platform that supplies context and ground truth data to AI agents, enabling developers and designers to improve agent outputs while reducing token costs through scoped, updatable contexts distributed via MCP endpoints.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwarePrague, CZ
Oskar Koristka(Founder)inJiri Trecak(Founder)in
Co-investorsReflex CapitalTaiwania CapitalY CombinatorCredo VenturesEQT Ventures
TopK is a search platform that vertically integrates retrieval, inference, and document processing to run search over structured and unstructured data, built on object storage for lower cost and scale.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeveloper Tools
Jerguš Lejko(Founder)in
Co-investorsEarlybird Venture Capital
TrueClaim provides a modern insurance platform designed to reduce administrative errors and claims processing failures.
HealthtechInsurTechSan Francisco, US
Barbora Howell(Founder)inBobby Bayer(Founder)in
Co-investorsHeadwater VenturesThe MBA FundY CombinatorOrange CollectiveRebel Fund
Co-investorsInven CapitalMovens Capital
Yoneda Labs applies AI/ML and high-throughput experimentation (HTE) to chemical reaction optimization, including cross-coupling reactions, for the life sciences and pharmaceutical research market.
AI & Machine LearningBiotechDeep TechEnterprise SoftwareSan Francisco, US
Michał Mgeładze-Arciuch(Founder)inJan Oboril(Founder)inDaniel Vlasits(Founder)in
Co-investors500 Emerging EuropeDG Daiwa VenturesOlive Tree CapitalY Combinator468 CapitalKhosla Ventures
Zeta Labs builds Viktor, an AI employee that operates inside Slack and Microsoft Teams, connecting to a company's tools (CRM, Drive, calendar, analytics) to autonomously complete tasks such as building decks, dashboards, and web apps, running scheduled reports, and cross-checking systems.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSaaS
Exits · 1
IPOs and acquisitions across the tracked portfolioNestpickacq. by Blueground
Portfolio news
latest coverage across their companies
Supernova · indiasnews.net · Jul 15, 2026
E2B · nasdaqprivatemarket.com · Apr 3, 2026
MediSearch · trysignalbase.com · Mar 24, 2026
Intiaro · furnituretoday.com · Mar 2, 2026
Stormy · accuweather.com · Jan 17, 2026
Docplanner · trysignalbase.com · Jan 15, 2026
Jutro Medical · techfundingnews.com · Dec 16, 2025
Frequently asked questions
- How many investments has KAYA made?
- KAYA has 116 tracked investments, including 1 dated in the last 24 months.
- What stage does KAYA invest at?
- KAYA invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A, Late Stage stages.
- What is KAYA's typical check size?
- KAYA typically writes checks of $108K – $3.2M.
- What sectors does KAYA focus on?
- KAYA focuses on AI & Machine Learning, Biotech, Climate Tech, Defense Tech, Energy, Enterprise Software, Fintech, Healthtech, SaaS, Sector Agnostic.
- Where is KAYA located?
- KAYA is headquartered in Prague, CZ.
- Does KAYA lead rounds?
- KAYA typically participates in rounds rather than leading them.
- Who does KAYA co-invest with?
- KAYA most often shares deals with Y Combinator, Inovo VC, Aternus, among 90 tracked co-investors.
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