J&T Ventures

J&T Ventures is an early-stage venture capital fund founded in 2014 and based in Prague, Czech Republic, managing EUR 40 million and investing in promising startups from the CEE, SEE, Nordics, and Baltics regions. The fund operates from the J&T Banka building in Prague's Karlin district and is structured as an independent VC where the partners have personally invested in the fund's success rather than operating as salaried professionals managing someone else's capital. Managing Partner Adam Kocik leads a team of eight including two partners. The firm leads rounds and deploys EUR 300,000 to EUR 2.5 million per company across pre-seed to Series A stages. J&T Ventures takes a sector-agnostic approach with primary focus areas including fintech, healthcare, education, IoT, smart city, data analytics, AI, cybersecurity, climate technology, gaming, and proptech. Over more than ten years of operation, the firm has invested in approximately 31 companies across seven countries with five successful exits. Notable portfolio companies include Apify, a web scraping platform backed by Y Combinator; Wultra, a digital security company that raised EUR 3 million in January 2025; Born Digital in conversational AI; SprayVision, a precision agriculture company that raised $2 million at seed stage in June 2024; and Daytrip, a city-to-city transfer platform. Exits include Dotykacka, a POS system that completed an IPO; 720 Degrees; Dateio; Scratch Wars; and FetView. The most recent investment was in ValkaAI in February 2026. J&T Ventures averages approximately two new investments annually, reflecting a deliberate pace that allows the partnership to engage deeply with each portfolio company. The fund's partner-as-LP structure aligns incentives with founders, and its decade-long track record across multiple European technology cycles has established it as a consistent seed-stage investor in the Central and Eastern European startup ecosystem.