Everywhere Ventures (fka ''The Fund'') is a first-of-its-kind early-stage venture fund created ​by founders for founders​ to support the next generation of entrepreneurs. Everywhere Ventures is a community-powered venture investing platform that integrates the capital, expertise, and mentoring of experienced founders and operators across ten micro funds. The Fund's $70M+ under management comes almost exclusively from the over 500 founders and operators who are its limited partners. Everywhere Ventures operates from the belief that those who have actually built successful companies are best suited to advise and support early-stage startups. Everywhere Ventures invests in pre-seed deals globally usually in the first financing round the company raises. Emphasis is placed on purpose-driven teams across money, health and work verticals.

Everywhere Ventures

BADideas.fund is an early-stage angel syndicate providing €50k-€100k funding for CEE startups. We are founders and operators ourselves. And we get a kick out of helping founders find their PMF faster, build scalable growth engine, and fundraise from the best investors.  Among our members/investors - founders and operators, who’ve been building such companies as Wise ($1.3B raised), Veriff ($192.3M), Vimeo ($450M funding), Printify ($54M), Pandadoc ($51M), Pipedrive ($90M), Bolt ($1.3B funding), Apollo.io ($151M), Bird ($783M funding), Shopify ($122M), Whimsical ($30M), Lokalise ($56M), Deel ($679M), Printful ($130M), Twilio ($614M), Interactio ($30M).

BADideas.fund

Tera Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Tallinn, Estonia and focused on exceptional founders from Baltics, Scandinavia and CEE, disrupting digital space globally. Tera builds presence and networks in the markets where our portfolio companies want to expand to - the UK, the US, and Asia. With presence in Estonia, Finland, and California, Tera Ventures is supported by a global advisory network and provides portfolio companies with access to expertise and hands-on support necessary to grow from pre-seed and seed stage to successful exit. While investing we do not take a controlling shareholding as they believe that the management of the company should be adequately motivated by its shareholding in the company.

Tera Ventures

AI Startup Incubator (AISI) is a part of Look AI Ventures (LAIV), the first investment fund in the Czech Republic focusing exclusively on early-stage AI startups. Our mission is to empower ambitious teams to realize their business goals and utilize the power of AI. At AISI, we do not believe in a one-size-fits-all approach. Instead, we tailor cooperation to the needs of every startup and offer our portfolio companies both business and technical/AI expertise in addition to the investment. Based in Prague, the Czech Republic, and operating since 2017, AISI has now integrated its diverse portfolio, network, AI expertise, resources, and proven unique data-driven methodology into the LAIV structure, leading operational processes from within the fund. We invest in pre-seed and seed startups addressing major markets with AI-driven solutions at their core. The tickets go up to 250,000 EUR with the possibility of reinvestment.  Our extensive community of international AI & ML experts offers time and resource-efficient solutions to drive the success of our portfolio companies. AI will soon permeate every aspect of our lives across various industries, and AISI aims not only to drive innovation but also to focus on responsible AI.

AI Startup Incubator

ZAKA VC is family office in vesting in pre-seed and seed startups. It is focused on early-stage software driven investments across the whole EU with primary focus on UK, DACH, Baltics and CEE.  ZAKA VC is based in Prague with scouts in Berlin, UK, Baltic, Balkan and Turkish region.

ZAKA VC

Look AI Ventures (LAIV) is the first investment fund in the Czech Republic focusing exclusively on early-stage AI startups. Our goal is to nurture the AI startup ecosystem by investing in a new portfolio of promising early-stage AI startups. LAIV is built on the foundation of AI Startup Incubator (AISI), integrating AISI's diverse portfolio, network, AI expertise, resources, and proven unique methodology into its structure. We invest in pre-seed and seed startups addressing major markets with core AI-driven solutions. We are industry and geography-agnostic (but primarily focused on EU-based startups). We invest tickets of up to €250K with a possibility of follow-up investment of up to €1M. We do convertibles and priced rounds upon company fair market valuations. Our team of seasoned managers, entrepreneurs, and technology and AI experts tailors cooperation to the unique needs of every AI startup. We provide technical support & governance, assigning a tech and business resource to the founding team. Founded in 2022 in Prague, the LAIV fund is backed by AISI's demonstrated capabilities and network of AI & ML experts. Everything from the evaluation process to the partner ecosystem is built to identify and grow the most disruptive AI solutions and maximize the chances of generating superior, long-term investment returns.

Look AI Ventures

We are dedicated to identifying, investing in and collaborating with entrepreneurs and management teams that have the vision, ambition and technology to build world-class companies and become global leaders in their markets. We are stage agnostic and invest in early and growth stage companies alike.  Our ticket size is between €2 to €25 million over the lifetime of the investment.

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Miros

Miros utilizes advanced AI technology to analyze shopper behaviors, identifying key interactions like scrolls and clicks to enhance user experience. This innovative feature allows customers to browse the store without typing, improving engagement and simplifying the shopping process. Miros also offers insights and expert blogging on leveraging AI for product discovery to help grow e-commerce businesses.   --- eCommerce loses half of its sales because in this industry nobody knows how to make the products findable. If you can’t find, you can’t buy. No universal taxonomy exists to describe visual items. Shoppers do not know the right words to search for what they like. Meanwhile, because you can’t filter products by how much you like them, you’ll have to browse thousands of products – many of which you’ll dislike. When shopping feels tedious, the shopper quits. Miros gives shoppers a new language to express what they are looking for - far richer and more accurate than any existing search technology.

Miros offers AI-powered product discovery solutions for ecommerce platforms. The company's technology combines visual and semantic AI capabilities to analyze shopper behaviors, including scrolls, clicks, and searches, to identify items that attract customer attention. The platform operates with response speeds of 50-300ms based on query complexity. The company provides implementation through JavaScript widgets or GraphQL API integration, with the complete setup process taking approximately two weeks and requiring less than one engineering week from the client side. The system includes reporting features for tracking user behavior, engagement, and business performance metrics. Miros' technology is modular, allowing clients to use it for core site search, product recommendations, or as add-on widgets, either individually or in combination.

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Miros offers AI-powered product discovery solutions for ecommerce platforms. The company's technology combines visual and semantic AI capabilities to analyze shopper behaviors, including scrolls, clicks, and searches, to identify items that attract customer attention. The platform operates with response speeds of 50-300ms based on query complexity. The company provides implementation through JavaScript widgets or GraphQL API integration, with the complete setup process taking approximately two weeks and requiring less than one engineering week from the client side. The system includes reporting features for tracking user behavior, engagement, and business performance metrics. Miros' technology is modular, allowing clients to use it for core site search, product recommendations, or as add-on widgets, either individually or in combination.

Intelligence Node is a leading provider of retail analytics solutions that leverages artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies. The company offers dynamic pricing and market analytics tools to help businesses navigate the complexities of ecommerce, set competitive prices, and better understand market trends.
At the core of Intelligence Node's offerings is a massive database containing over 3.5 billion unique product SKUs across 1,400 categories and 29 languages. This extensive dataset, combined with proprietary algorithms and advanced matching capabilities, enables the company to provide highly accurate real-time insights into pricing, product availability, and market trends.
Intelligence Node's solutions are designed to address key challenges faced by retailers, such as the inability to effectively track competitors, difficulties in pricing products optimally, and identifying gaps in product catalogs. The company's tools collect and analyze real-time data on pricing, discounts, and catalog movements across the retail landscape, allowing decision-makers to benchmark against competitors and make informed pricing decisions.
In addition to pricing analytics, Intelligence Node also offers solutions for content optimization and product listing enhancement. By leveraging generative AI capabilities, the company helps retailers create compelling and search-optimized product descriptions, improving visibility and conversion rates across online channels.
Intelligence Node has formed strategic partnerships with major retailers to enhance the online shopping experience and empower third-party sellers. The company's solutions enable retailers to provide clearer and more informative product listings, better insights into product performance, and improved search rankings across digital marketplaces.

Intelligence Node

Obsess is an experiential ecommerce platform that leverages augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) technology to create immersive, shoppable 3D virtual retail environments for brands and retailers. The platform allows companies to construct photorealistic digital spaces where customers can explore products in a visually engaging and interactive manner. Obsess' virtual stores aim to drive product discovery, customer engagement, clickthrough rates, session duration, average order value, and conversion for its clients.
Obsess' proprietary technology enables brands to offer seamless and memorable branded virtual experiences without requiring customers to download an app or use a headset. The platform supports various features such as walking and talking avatars, gamification elements, educational content, and social media integrations to enhance the shopping experience. As of February 2023, Obsess had created virtual stores in over 45 countries, supporting more than 30 languages.
The company has partnered with renowned brands across industries, including Sam's Club, Charlotte Tilbury, Diesel, Dior, Party City, Tommy Hilfiger, J.Crew, and Elizabeth Arden, to launch immersive virtual shopping experiences. In June 2023, J.Crew unveiled the "Virtual Beach House," a 360-degree virtual store celebrating the brand's 40th anniversary, featuring themed rooms, product displays, historical catalogs, and interactive games. Similarly, Elizabeth Arden launched a shoppable virtual store in May 2023 to engage younger, tech-savvy consumers and showcase its heritage through digital storytelling.
Key customers and partnerships
In February 2024, Mytheresa, an ecommerce platform, collaborated with Obsess to launch an exclusive visionOS app for Apple's Vision Pro headset. The app offers users a hyper-realistic digital luxury shopping experience in virtual environments like Capri and Paris, featuring curated collections from brands such as Loewe, Valentino, and Saint Laurent. The partnership aims to transform traditional ecommerce into an emotional and engaging shopping journey.

Obsess

Namogoo is a pioneer in the Digital Journey Continuity platform space. The company offers a platform that autonomously adapts to each customer visit in real-time, shaping the customer journey to fit each shopper's needs while eliminating any distractions along the way. Namogoo's proprietary machine learning technology predicts each visitor's intent by learning from their unique digital behavior signals, empowering enterprises to act on this intent and ensure online shoppers complete their journeys.
The platform collects data from visitors' devices and their journeys, segmenting them into real-time audiences. It surfaces high-converting audiences that are 3-10 times more likely to purchase than average visitors. Additionally, Namogoo identifies user populations that do not convert due to UX conflicts, browser issues, or site design flaws, enabling brands to rectify these problems seamlessly.
In April 2022, Namogoo launched the "Customer Journey OS," a revolutionary software platform that enables ecommerce teams to deliver hyper-personalized journeys based on shoppers' real-time needs. It orchestrates all digital services running on the customer journey to work cohesively toward shared goals. The platform leverages Namogoo's vast network of over one billion unique visitors to provide real-time insights based on industry benchmarks.
Namogoo's solutions have been successfully implemented by leading brands such as Victoria's Secret, Neiman Marcus, ASICS, Marks & Spencer, Kurt Geiger, Carhartt, Eddie Bauer, GlassesUS.com, and Ariat, consistently driving uplifts in conversion rates, revenue per visitor (RPV), and overall revenue. The company was founded in 2014 and has raised USD 81 million to date.
In January 2023, Namogoo made a second round of layoffs, parting ways with 15% of its workforce, following an earlier round in November 2022 where 25% of employees were let go. Despite these cutbacks, the company reported continued growth and profitability.

Namogoo

Yalo is a software platform that utilizes AI-powered conversational agents to optimize the customer journey, driving increased conversions and customer satisfaction. Its technology facilitates direct communication between businesses and customers through popular messaging applications like WhatsApp. Yalo's platform empowers teams to collaborate on managing and tracking campaigns, automating workflows with insightful metrics.
Primarily catering to marketers, small, and medium enterprises, Yalo's conversational commerce approach seamlessly guides customers through the purchasing process while maximizing product potential. By combining customer service and sales support, the platform offers a unique and engaging experience for users.
As of November 2023, Yalo reported having 1.6 million companies utilizing its platform to manage customer interactions via messaging channels. The company's innovative solutions have garnered a diverse clientele, including industry giants like Coca-Cola, Nestlé, Mondelez, Coppel, Banco Azteca, and GPA.
In May 2021, Yalo secured a USD 50 million Series C funding round led by B Capital Group, bringing its total raised capital to USD 75 million since its inception in 2015. The funds were allocated to expand operations in Latin America and Southeast Asia while developing new products, such as a conversational marketing solution.
Key customers and partnerships
Yalo has established partnerships with major global brands across various industries. Notable customers included Unilever, Nestlé, Coca-Cola, and Walmart. Specifically, John Santa Maria, CEO of Coca-Cola FEMSA, acknowledged the significant sales uplift achieved through their conversational commerce partnership with Yalo, with nearly half a million corner stores placing orders via WhatsApp.

Yalo

NewStore is a modular, mobile-first omnichannel cloud platform that provides an Omnichannel-as-a-Service solution for retail brands worldwide. The platform enables retailers to deliver seamless shopping experiences across online, mobile, and in-store channels, leveraging modern technologies such as iOS devices for point-of-sale, inventory management, and order fulfillment.NewStore's platform comprises several modules, including POS, order management, clienteling, inventory, and native consumer apps. The order management and store fulfillment solutions utilize proprietary routing logic to allocate orders across a brand's brick-and-mortar locations and distribution centers based on predefined criteria, optimizing shipping times, inventory accuracy, and sell-through rates.The platform facilitates omnichannel capabilities like buy online, pick up in-store (BOPIS), buy online, return in-store (BORIS), and endless aisle, enhancing the customer experience while driving store traffic. NewStore's solutions seamlessly integrate with existing tech stacks, such as Salesforce systems and middleware platforms like MuleSoft and Azure.Prominent retail brands like Burton, Faherty Brand, G-Star RAW, Marine Layer, Roots Canada, Scotch &amp; Soda, UNTUCKit, and Vince have adopted NewStore's platform, benefiting from its comprehensive omnichannel retail solution. In March 2023, NewStore expanded its offerings to a global scale, assessing the omnichannel competence of 275 retail brands across Australia, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and the UK

NewStore

Solutions for retailers that offer insights to improve the product assortment they offer on their digital shelves, increase sales, improve conversions, and boost brand trust

Platforms for retailers and brands to build immersive ecommerce shopping experiences commonly leveraging AR, AI, digital twin, and 3D technologies

Solutions for retailers to enhance online shopping experiences, personalization, and conversion rates while delivering analytics on individual customer journeys to improve shopper engagement

Offers insights to retailers and brands by aggregating and analyzing data across multiple sales channels to boost sales

Solutions providing analytics for brands and retailers to improve competitive position, such as competitor pricing and assortment insights, high-level customer insights to reduce churn, and optimize web traffic

Platforms that provide retailers and brands with greater visibility on overall ecommerce operations to enhance decision-making—commonly through dashboards—including sales forecasting

Virtual stores may leverage digital twins to deliver immersive shopping experiences

Retail enhancement solutions can be offered in a B2B SaaS model

Retail enhancement solutions leverage AI to deliver better insights to businesses, to enable decision making

Improves the personalized offerings for retail customers

Virtual store solutions leverage 3D and AR to create an immersive digital shopping experience

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