Look AI Ventures Prague, CZ
Prague-based pre-Series A AI venture fund, legally Look AI Ventures SICAV, a.s., acting for Look AI Ventures I Subfund. Its official site dates fund launch to Q4 2022 and identifies Look AI Investments as its operating subsidiary. Primarily European with global investing. EUR250k initial/EUR1m follow-on figures are historical 2024 reporting, rather than verified current limits.
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Type Venture capital 1 Look AI Ventures I Subfund 2023-04-12 2023-04-12 — EUR20m fundraising target; no independently verified final close amount; May2023 PEI closed label lacks amount/first-final distinction.
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team@apexlogos.ai · 4 hours ago
Investment-fund research reviewed 2026-10-06. Publicly identified funds, dates, amounts and fundraising status are below. Undisclosed commitments remain unknown; this is not a complete register of private SPVs or parallel entities.
Fund size and investment stages
| Item | Evidence and qualification |
|---|---|
| Look AI Ventures launch fund / Look AI Ventures I Subfund | €20 million fundraising **target**, reported 2023-04-12/13; no verified final close amount. [The Recursive, 2023-04-12](https://therecursive.com/ai-startup-incubator-launches-a-20m-fund-to-elevate-ai-startup-ecosystem-look-ai-ventures/ ); [Tech.eu, 2023-04-13](https://tech.eu/2023/04/13/czech-republic-has-a-new-investment-fund-for-ai-start-ups/ ). |
| Initial / follow-on checks | Vestbee reported up to €250,000 initially and up to €1 million follow-on on 2024-09-26. These are checks, not fund size. Current public criteria no longer show a numerical limit in the extracted page. [Vestbee](https://www.vestbee.com/insights/articles/ambr-secures-1-1-m ). |
| Close-date caveat | PEI's public institution profile labels one closed fund with May 2023 close date, but its size is behind a subscription. This does not verify that the €20 million target was reached or whether the listed close is first/final. [PEI, undated](https://www.privateequityinternational.com/institution-profiles/look-ai-ventures.html ). |
| AUM / later funds | Current AUM, paid-in capital and newer fund close not verified after checking current official investor/news pages and searches for newer announcements. €20 million remains latest-known public target, not current confirmed AUM. [Investor page, undated](https://lookai.vc/investors/ ); [News, dated entries through 2026-09-22](https://lookai.vc/news/ ). |
| Stages | Current official strategy says pre-Series A; launch reporting specifies pre-seed/seed. Historical participation in Surveily's Series A is explicitly documented below and should not overwrite the early-stage mandate. |
The official investor page describes a SICAV for qualified investors reporting to the Czech National Bank. A search located the [2024 SICAV annual report](https://www.avantfunds.cz/wp-content/uploads/vz-2024_look-ai-ventures-sicav_final.pdf ), whose indexed accounts concern the SICAV entity; corporate registered capital/cash figures must not be mistaken for subfund investable capital. A separately indexed DIBITI Management annual report lists that fund's holdings of LAIV shares, not LAIV's entire fund size. No AUM inference made from either.
Funds recorded in Adex after this review:
| Fund | Disclosed amount | Announcement / filing date |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Look AI Ventures I Subfund | Undisclosed / unverified | 2023-04-12 | SHOW MORE
team@apexlogos.ai · 5 hours ago
Match research 2026-10-06 / LookAIVentures / sha256:abee951a432585ad57a88d9e1fb762f3771fe576223da794dad286070cceb9cd / part 2 of 2
Imported completed research. Baseline Adex/Signal statements describe prior state, not independent verification. Retain cited attribution, date, currency and classification caveats.
**No verified neurotech investment found in the sources checked.** Checked the saved investments, official portfolio/news, Signal and targeted searches pairing the firm with neurotech, brain and neuroscience. No source established neural sensing, brain stimulation, BCI, neuroprosthetics or directly neural technology attributable to this fund. Absence of public evidence is not proof that the firm has never invested in the area.
**ambr** is an adjacent workplace wellbeing investment, not verified neurotechnology. Vestbee's 2024-09-26 report names LAIV in a €1.1 million pre-seed led by Fuel Ventures; at that time ambr analyzed workplace tools to identify employee stress. No neural measurement or intervention was described. The current LAIV portfolio describes voice-AI conversation training, suggesting an evolved product; historical wellbeing positioning should be dated. [Vestbee](https://www.vestbee.com/insights/articles/ambr-secures-1-1-m ); [current official portfolio, undated](https://lookai.vc/ ). Ochy's gait analysis is musculoskeletal biomechanics, not evidence of neurological diagnostics. S-Case's general vital-sign device is not established as neurotech.
## Conflicts, gaps and concrete Adex review notes
1. **Sand AI attribution is unsupported and likely erroneous.** The snapshot cites a KuCoin flash item dated 2026-06-22 about more than $100 million across two rounds. Its investor list names **Look Capital**, Lollapalooza Capital, Jiukun, Matrix Partners China and others; it does not name Look AI Ventures. The official LAIV portfolio and targeted searches supplied no corroboration. Do not retain this as a verified LAIV transaction merely because “Look” appears in the source. Also, the $100 million is aggregate two-round financing, not necessarily one round. [Cited KuCoin item](https://www.kucoin.com/news/flash/sand-ai-secures-over-100m-in-funding-plans-to-launch-open-source-moe-video-model-in-july-2026 ). This syndicated exchange page is used only to audit the existing claim, not as reliable independent transaction evidence.
2. **DigiCust stage needs correction review:** Adex stores Series A; LAIV explicitly calls the €2.3 million round **pre-Series A**, led by Jet Investment, announced 2025-12-19. It is AI customs/document workflow automation; no sufficient evidence to label it deep tech solely because it uses AI. [Official announcement](https://lookai.vc/digicust-secures-2-3m-to-automate-customs-processes/ ). Snapshot FinSMEs URL returned an internal access error in this session.
3. **Surveily snapshot source describes $2 million with no date**, whereas a verified LAIV announcement documents €2.5 million Series A on 2026-03-18. These might be separate financings; do not overwrite or merge without checking the earlier investee post and round identity. Current source provides a concrete dated transaction.
4. Add Embodied AI as a new research lead with the 2026-09-22 announcement; it postdates snapshot creation. Add the verified dates/sizes for Ochy, Electric Sheep, Sodex and ambr after human review. No lead-investor claim supported for LAIV in these rounds.
5. Do not encode €20 million as a closed fund or AUM. Resolve PEI's May 2023 close against an official final-close/subfund capital statement if needed. No public LAIV check disclosed for the named rounds.
6. Preserve distinction between inherited AISI holdings, LAIV fund investments, and partners' outside histories. Update team roles only after checking effective dates; current official site conflicts with older Adex/Signal labels.
## Source handling
All linked sources accessed 2026-10-06. Dates above are publication/announcement dates where available; undated pages use access date only. Official investment announcements establish firm attribution but do not independently audit technical/performance claims. Tech.eu and Vestbee corroborate selected transactions and strategy; commercial directory/Signal pages are leads with access/staleness caveats. This file is research evidence only and authorizes no Adex mutation. SHOW MORE
team@apexlogos.ai · 5 hours ago
Match research 2026-10-06 / LookAIVentures / sha256:abee951a432585ad57a88d9e1fb762f3771fe576223da794dad286070cceb9cd / part 1 of 2
Imported completed research. Baseline Adex/Signal statements describe prior state, not independent verification. Retain cited attribution, date, currency and classification caveats.
# Look AI Ventures
- Exact Adex ID: `LookAIVentures`
- Canonical Adex URL: https://adex.page/firms/LookAIVentures
- Research date / sources accessed: 2026-10-06
- Status: research complete for later Adex review; no database changes made.
## Identity and assessment
Prague-based AI investor, legally Look AI Ventures SICAV, a.s., acting for Look AI Ventures I Subfund. The official site dates the fund launch to Q4 2022 and identifies Look AI Investments, formerly AI Startup Incubator (AISI), as its operating subsidiary. Its current mandate is pre-Series A, primarily European but global, with AI essential to the solution. These are firm claims rather than an independently audited characterization. [Official site, undated](https://lookai.vc/ ).
Strongest documented deep-tech examples are Embodied AI robotics and Sodex Innovations surveying hardware/AI. Ochy and Electric Sheep provide additional computer-vision examples. No verified neurotech investment found in the sources checked. The saved Sand AI investment appears to conflate Look Capital with Look AI Ventures and should be reviewed before use.
## Starting evidence: Adex and NFX Signal
The saved exact-ID snapshot, `data/research/_sources/LookAIVentures.adex.json`, was retrieved 2026-10-06 at 19:29:42 UTC through read-only MCP Search. It describes worldwide pre-seed/seed AI investing, initial tickets up to €250,000 and follow-ons up to €1 million, with empty structured check fields. It lists Sand AI, Ochy, DigiCust, ambr, Surveily, Sodex Innovations and Electric Sheep. These are starting claims, not independent verification.
[NFX Signal firm profile](https://signal.nfx.com/firms/look-ai-ventures ), undated, was directly opened but returned only its title/team shell. Search-index content was accessible: Veronika Argust appears as Senior Associate with a $200,000 sweet spot and $100,000–$250,000 range, and AI, SaaS and DeepTech pre-seed/seed list tags. These appear to be investor-profile data, not an authoritative firm-wide euro-denominated mandate. Do not equate the dollar range with Adex's euro limit. Intro paths require sign-in. Signal's title is stale relative to the official site, which now calls Argust Principal and Andrej Tomčík Investment Analyst; Adex also has duplicate Argust roles. [Official team, undated](https://lookai.vc/ ).
## Fund size and investment stages
| Item | Evidence and qualification |
|---|---|
| Look AI Ventures launch fund / Look AI Ventures I Subfund | €20 million fundraising **target**, reported 2023-04-12/13; no verified final close amount. [The Recursive, 2023-04-12](https://therecursive.com/ai-startup-incubator-launches-a-20m-fund-to-elevate-ai-startup-ecosystem-look-ai-ventures/ ); [Tech.eu, 2023-04-13](https://tech.eu/2023/04/13/czech-republic-has-a-new-investment-fund-for-ai-start-ups/ ). |
| Initial / follow-on checks | Vestbee reported up to €250,000 initially and up to €1 million follow-on on 2024-09-26. These are checks, not fund size. Current public criteria no longer show a numerical limit in the extracted page. [Vestbee](https://www.vestbee.com/insights/articles/ambr-secures-1-1-m ). |
| Close-date caveat | PEI's public institution profile labels one closed fund with May 2023 close date, but its size is behind a subscription. This does not verify that the €20 million target was reached or whether the listed close is first/final. [PEI, undated](https://www.privateequityinternational.com/institution-profiles/look-ai-ventures.html ). |
| AUM / later funds | Current AUM, paid-in capital and newer fund close not verified after checking current official investor/news pages and searches for newer announcements. €20 million remains latest-known public target, not current confirmed AUM. [Investor page, undated](https://lookai.vc/investors/ ); [News, dated entries through 2026-09-22](https://lookai.vc/news/ ). |
| Stages | Current official strategy says pre-Series A; launch reporting specifies pre-seed/seed. Historical participation in Surveily's Series A is explicitly documented below and should not overwrite the early-stage mandate. |
The official investor page describes a SICAV for qualified investors reporting to the Czech National Bank. A search located the [2024 SICAV annual report](https://www.avantfunds.cz/wp-content/uploads/vz-2024_look-ai-ventures-sicav_final.pdf ), whose indexed accounts concern the SICAV entity; corporate registered capital/cash figures must not be mistaken for subfund investable capital. A separately indexed DIBITI Management annual report lists that fund's holdings of LAIV shares, not LAIV's entire fund size. No AUM inference made from either.
## Named previous deep-tech investments
Classification below is a research assessment of technical substance, not a claim that all AI software is deep tech. All amounts are total rounds; LAIV's individual checks are undisclosed.
| Company | Technology rationale and firm attribution | Round/date and supporting source |
|---|---|---|
| **Embodied AI** (Lausanne; embodiedai.ch) | Proprietary soft robotic hardware, teleoperation and task-specific AI learned on factory production lines: clear robotics deep tech. LAIV explicitly says it backed the company; Faber VC led. Do not confuse with US company Embodied, Inc. | Announced 2026-09-22; amount and formal round stage undisclosed in source. [Official LAIV announcement](https://lookai.vc/look-ai-ventures-backs-embodied-ai-robots-manufacturing/ ). |
| **Sodex Innovations** | Machinery-mounted scanning systems plus AI mapping/digital construction-site surveying; integrated hardware, software and physical measurement. LAIV named as new participating investor; Capmont Technology led. | €4 million financing reported 2026-07-13; article does not assign a formal stage. LAIV announcement 2026-07-23. [Tech.eu](https://tech.eu/2026/07/13/sodex-innovations-secures-4m-to-bring-real-time-intelligence-to-construction-sites/ ); [LAIV](https://lookai.vc/look-ai-ventures-sodex-innovations-4m-ai-construction-site-surveying/ ). |
| **Ochy** | Proprietary computer vision estimates running biomechanics from smartphone video, including stride and joint angles. A defensible applied computer-vision example, with depth of scientific moat not independently assessed. Company itself names LAIV as participant, Redstone Social Impact Fund as lead. | €1.7 million pre-seed; release dateline 2025-02-18, webpage publication 2025-02-19. [Official company announcement](https://www.ochy.io/blog/ai-running-gait-platform-ochy-secures-eu1-7m-pre-seed-funding-and-announces-integration-within-adidas-adiclub-program ). |
| **Electric Sheep** (London VFX company) | AI rotoscoping / detailed video foreground-background segmentation; applied computer vision with a technical rather than ordinary workflow premise. This is **not** the similarly named autonomous landscaping robotics business. LAIV explicitly names its own fund's participation alongside Dasein Capital and Spatial Capital. | $500,000 pre-seed, official announcement 2023-08-22; LAIV check unspecified. [Official LAIV announcement](https://lookai.vc/electric-sheep-secures-pre-seed-funding-to-redefine-green-screens-with-ai/ ). |
| **Surveily** | Real-time edge computer vision for industrial hazard detection; on-premises inference without cloud dependency. Applied industrial AI candidate; source does not establish novel foundational research or a hardware moat. LAIV explicitly participated; Momenta led. | €2.5 million **Series A**, 2026-03-18 official announcement. [LAIV](https://lookai.vc/look-ai-ventures-backs-surveily-edge-ai-industrial-safety/ ). |
The official portfolio also names **Saturn Dynamics**, researching physics-based world foundation models for robotics, but the retrieved source has no transaction date, stage or size. It is a promising additional deep-tech lead, with only firm portfolio-level attribution. Older listed examples such as **Miros**, **Trackbar**, **S-Case** and **OpenRefactory** may represent inherited AISI investments; transaction attribution to the LAIV fund is unresolved. [Official portfolio, undated](https://lookai.vc/ ). Launch reporting says LAIV incorporated nine existing AISI startups; do not rewrite those original investor histories without transfer evidence. [The Recursive, 2023-04-12](https://therecursive.com/ai-startup-incubator-launches-a-20m-fund-to-elevate-ai-startup-ecosystem-look-ai-ventures/ ).
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team@apexlogos.ai · 22 days ago
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Embodied AI$— · 2026-09-22
Faber
Kickfund
Techshop Capital
Vento
Surveily
Sand AI
DigiCust
Ochy
ambr