The newest deal comes from Filuta AI based in Karlín and Prague, Czech Republic.
👯 Founder(s): CEO Filip Dvořák (PhD from Charles University, ex-Google and PARC), and CTO Martin Doušek (former senior software engineer at Microsoft)
📅 Founding year: 2022
🏭 Industry: Gaming predominantly, with possible applications in automotive and defense
💥 Problem: Game and simulation developers need scalable, intelligent agents to test and optimize complex environments faster than manual labor allows.
📣 Solution: Filuta AI uses “composite AI” to automate thousands of game actions, reducing weeks of human testing to mere days with higher accuracy.
👥 Customers: Game studios (holding over 10% of global gaming market share)
🎳 Team size: Over 40 (including 20 PhD graduates and 4 professors)
🌱 Stage: Seed, preparing for Series A
💰 Investment amount: €3.7M
🚀 Funded by: Rockaway Ventures, Lion Beat Capital, Tarpan Capital
👁️🗨️ Investor’s perspective:
“Beyond gaming, the potential for this tech to expand into areas like defense and automotive is clear. With Filip Dvořák, Slavomír Švancár, and their strong team already talking to some big names in gaming, the future looks very promising.” — posted Petr Smid, General Partner of Rockaway Ventures.
💡 It will be spent on… Team expansion, particularly top AI talent from academic institutions.
💬 In their own words:
“It is one of the strongest partners in the market, they have an excellent name and can help us with further growth abroad.” — said Filip Dvořák for Czech Hospodářské noviny.
💪 Their specialty… Composite AI capable of reliably executing thousands of sequential actions, significantly outperforming conventional AI in autonomy and planning.
🔑 Business model: B2B – Paid collaborations and contracts with studios and industry partners
📊 Traction: Paid contracts with major global studios; they have core patents filed in the US across gaming, aerospace, automotive, and defense. Aiming for >€4M annual turnover before Series A.
📈 Funding so far: €5.96M
