Source:https://www.investujeme.cz/tiskove-zpravy, published on 20/1/2026
Venture Club, an investment and social club of investors, closed 2025 with investments totaling 138,480,000 crowns. After the record year 2024, when the club invested over 161 million crowns, the past year was more balanced. The year 2025 brought not only new investment opportunities and strengthened collaborations. It also showed that investing is not only about growth, but also about the ability to get through tougher periods and protect investors’ interests at times when some projects are not doing as planned.
In 2025, Venture Club focused on active work with its portfolio and on closer cooperation with the teams of the companies its investors enter. It continued developing partnerships with the Tensor Ventures funds and at the same time expanded its investment offering so that, alongside growth stories, it would also offer projects with ongoing yield. An important role was also played by the community part of the club, connecting investors, founders and experts and enabling projects to draw, in addition to capital, also experience and contacts.
Among the notable moments was the May Pitch Night event, in a new guise already as the Venture Club Disrupt Awards. The event brought new talent, contacts and investment impulses in the form of the company DynaNIC Semiconductors, in which Venture Club decided to invest after the competitive contest of innovative startups. At the end of the year, the first part of the entry in the amount of EUR 600 thousand was carried out, while the club has the option to increase the investment in 2026. The entry was carried out as a co-investment with the Tensor Ventures Fund 2 fund.
Part of the year was also follow-up cooperation precisely with the Tensor Ventures funds. Venture Club has a contracted investment within TVF2 in the amount of EUR 2.25 million. Through this, Venture Club primarily strengthens access to co-investments into deep-tech projects with global potential.
Cooperation also continued with the biogas plant in Velké Meziříčí, where Venture Club holds a minority stake. The project is undergoing a technological transformation towards biomethane and the club is working with the outlook of another strategic step in 2026, when the conclusion of negotiations with a strategic investor is expected.
But 2025 also openly showed the other side of investing. For selected projects, Venture Club devoted itself during the year to resolving receivables and related legal steps, and at the same time negotiations continued with the aim of reaching an agreement in the investors’ favor. At the end of the year, the club additionally found itself in a challenging situation around ZEBRA GROUP, where an insolvency petition was filed. A solution is currently being sought which, depending on the course of the proceedings and the further actions of the participating parties, maximizes the chance of recovery for investors.
“The year 2025 was marked by diligent work with the portfolio. On the one hand, we advanced new investment opportunities and strengthened collaborations; on the other hand, we also devoted ourselves fully to the more difficult situations that also inseparably belong to investing, although they are not talked about as much. For us it is important to be completely transparent, to say openly what worked and what did not, and to always act with the aim of protecting the long-term interest of our investors,” said Petr Šedivý, CEO Venture Club Invest s.r.o. and chairman of the committee of Venture Club z.s.
Venture Club enters 2026 as its jubilee tenth year of operation. The long-term ambition remains to further develop the investment offering, increase the quality of projects, and be prepared to handle even more demanding market developments. Ideally so that the club, in the coming years as well, brings investors meaningful opportunities and companies capital, going hand in hand with experience and active support.
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