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Credo Ventures

Credo Ventures is a Prague-based early-stage VC focused on Central and Eastern Europe. The firm manages about EUR 250m across four funds and is currently investing out of Fund IV, writing initial checks up to roughly EUR 5m.

Credo backs founders from pre-seed to Series A and has supported breakout CEE companies including UiPath, Productboard, and ElevenLabs. Key partners include Ondrej Bartos and Vladislav Jez, alongside partners such as Tomas Burian and Michal Cernocky. The firm is known for hands-on support and long-term follow-on capital in the region.

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UiPath

Bucharest, Romania · Startup

UiPath is a public company (NYSE: PATH) founded in Bucharest and now headquartered in New York, with major operations in Romania. The company has evolved from RPA tooling into an AI-powered business automation platform and in 2024 introduced its agentic automation platform to orchestrate AI agents and workflows. UiPath remains one of Europe’s most visible tech alumni stories, combining global scale with Romanian roots.

StartupPublicAutomationEnterprise SoftwareAI

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Productboard

Prague, Czech Republic · Startup

Productboard is a Prague-founded software company building one of the defining systems of record for modern product management. The platform helps teams collect customer feedback, connect it to feature requests, prioritize product decisions, and communicate roadmaps across engineering, sales, and leadership. That matters because product work often suffers from fragmented information spread across support systems, CRM notes, internal docs, and ad hoc spreadsheets. Productboard turns that sprawl into a more structured workflow for deciding what should be built and why. In the Central and Eastern European ecosystem, it is a particularly strong reference case because it proves that category-leading B2B SaaS products can emerge from Prague and scale globally while retaining a major engineering footprint in the region. It also occupies an important position in the software operating stack of growth companies, since fast-moving startups need better ways to align customer demand with product execution. As a result, Productboard is not only a Czech success story, but also a useful link between early-stage product discipline and later-stage organizational scale.

StartupLate StageSaaSProductivityEnterprise Software

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ElevenLabs

London, United Kingdom · Startup

AI voice synthesis platform creating realistic multilingual speech for dubbing, audiobooks, and virtual agents.

StartupGrowthAIAudio

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ElevenLabs

Warsaw, Poland · Startup

A decacorn AI audio company focused on developing advanced voice AI technology for creators and publishers across various industries.

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IncubatorPre-Seed to SeedDeep TechAIMedical DevicesDigital Health

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Inventoro

Prague, Czech Republic · Startup

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StartupGrowthAIRetailSaaS

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Klosterneuburg, Austria · Incubator

A deep-tech venture fund and incubator, spinning out science-based startups from academic research and providing early-stage capital and support.

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