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About
Jan Zizka is the CEO and co-founder of Brightpick, a company developing AI robots for warehouses, where he oversees strategy and contributes to the development of robot and AI technologies. He previously co-founded and led Photoneo, a 3D vision company acquired by Zebra Technologies in 2025, and has filed more than 20 patents in areas including 3D sensing and mobile robotics. Zizka holds a PhD in Computer Vision from Comenius University and has conducted research at MIT.
Co-founder & CEO at Photoneo
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Photoneo's investors · 7
AI CapitalDenver · since 2021Alpha Intelligence CapitalSan FranciscoCredo VenturesPrague · $1M – $5M checks · since 2021Earlybird Venture CapitalBerlin · $540K – $12M checksEBRD Venture Capital Investment ProgrammeLondon · $2.2M – $27M checksTaiwania CapitalTaipei · $3M – $85M checksVenture to Future FundBratislava · $440K – $7.7M checks · since 2021
Co-founders at Photoneo
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Jozef VeresFounder
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Tomas KovacovskyCo-founder & CTO
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Michal MalyCo-founder
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Branislav PulisCo-founder & VP of Sales & Marketing
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C++Robotic DesignMachine VisionMobile RoboticsArtificial Intelligence (AI)AutomationMachine LearningProduct DevelopmentHardware DevelopmentStrategyComputer VisionComputational Photography
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- Who is Jan Zizka?
- Jan Zizka is the CEO and co-founder of Brightpick, a company developing AI robots for warehouses, where he oversees strategy and contributes to the development of robot and AI technologies. He previously co-founded and led Photoneo, a 3D vision company acquired by Zebra Technologies in 2025, and has filed more than 20 patents in areas including 3D sensing and mobile robotics. Zizka holds a PhD in Computer Vision from Comenius University and has conducted research at MIT.
- Where does Jan Zizka work?
- Jan Zizka is Co-founder & CEO of Photoneo.
- What companies did Jan Zizka found?
- Jan Zizka founded Photoneo.
- Where did Jan Zizka go to school?
- Jan Zizka studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Computational Cameras, Optics); Univerzita Komenského v Bratislave (PhD, Computer Vision); Univerzita Komenského v Bratislave (Master's, Computer Science).
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology mafia1,221
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Univerzita Komenského v Bratislave mafia7
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Hemant TanejaCEO & Managing Director of General CatalystNat FriedmanCo-lead of Meta Superintelligence Labs; co-founder of NFDGBrad FeldCo-founder of Foundry and TechstarsMatt HuangCo-founder and Managing Partner at ParadigmDelian AsparouhovPartner at Founders Fund and co-founder of VardaDrew HoustonCo-founder & CEO of Dropbox
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Also attended Univerzita Komenského v Bratislave15
Kristina VulganCo-Founder & Managing Partner at Ferocity CapitalMichal ValkoInvestor at KAYAAndy TothVenture Partner, Berlin at Scale CapitalSimon BecicaFund Operations Director at 3TS Capital PartnersKatarina HudakovaFinancial Manager at 3TS Capital PartnersRadoslav TausingerPartner at CVI Dom Maklerski sp. z o.o
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Shared employers
Also worked at Brightpick9
Dan LupuInvestor at Earlybird Venture CapitalVladislav JezBoard Partner at Credo VenturesBruno LusicInvestor at EBRD Venture Capital Investment ProgrammeUday SandhuGeneral Partner - AICP at Alpha Intelligence CapitalCarl ShowalterFund Advisor at TSVCMax KolowratGeneral Partner at Credo Ventures
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Also worked at Photoneo8
Dan LupuInvestor at Earlybird Venture CapitalVladislav JezBoard Partner at Credo VenturesAndrej KiskaBoard Partner at Credo VenturesArnaud BarthelemyPartner and COO at Alpha Intelligence CapitalJozef VeresFounder at PhotoneoTomas KovacovskyCo-founder & CTO at Photoneo
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