Prague-based Filuta AI, an organization that develops instruments based mostly on synthetic intelligence (AI), has raised $4.2M (roughly €3.6M) in a seed funding spherical led by Rockaway Ventures.
Rockaway Ventures is a enterprise capital fund underneath the Rockaway Capital funding group, investing in startups which are remodeling conventional industries via next-generation applied sciences with synthetic intelligence on the forefront.
A part of Jakub Havrlant’s funding platform, the fund systematically identifies and helps late-seed and Collection A founders throughout Central Europe and the DACH area.
It additionally seeks out founders from the Czech and Slovak diaspora in Western Europe and the U.S.
“The Filuta AI staff has created a technologically dominant product, however most significantly, they’re concentrating on a transparent drawback space confronted by sport builders and enabling them to attain important price financial savings. Moreover, we’ve got discovered that this drawback isn’t distinctive to sport builders, and so Filuta AI has the chance to succeed in a good bigger market sooner or later,” says Max Palko, Principal at Rockaway Ventures.
Different traders, together with Tarpan Capital and Lion Beat Capital, additionally participated within the spherical.
The Czech firm will use the funds primarily to create new jobs and speed up the corporate’s progress.
“We’ll considerably develop our staff – in September, we must always develop from 33 as much as 43 folks, together with 20 PhDs in arithmetic and synthetic intelligence and 4 professors specialising in synthetic intelligence, who’re recognised as internationally acclaimed leaders of their area. It will create one of many strongest AI growth groups within the Czech Republic. It’s going to enable us to considerably shorten product growth cycles and additional speed up our progress,” says Filip Dvořák, founding father of Filuta AI.
The corporate is planning to arrange for a Collection A funding spherical within the second half of 2026.
Filuta AI: Commercialising Composite AI throughout industries
ArtiLed by Filip Dvořák, Filuta AI develops superior instruments for utilizing composite synthetic intelligence in enterprise.
The corporate gives a platform that helps create complicated AI options, together with autonomous brokers for testing digital simulations.
Based on the corporate, the principle advantage of deploying composite AI is a multi-fold improve in effectivity.
Composite AI combines completely different AI applied sciences — symbolic AI (rule-based, explainable programs) and subsymbolic AI (neural networks and statistical fashions) right into a unified framework.
Based on the corporate, this hybrid method gives the transparency and logic-driven accuracy of symbolic reasoning with the adaptability and suppleness of contemporary deep studying.
Filuta’s core innovation lies in automating this composition, giving rise to programs that may purpose, talk, and remedy issues throughout complicated domains.
Because of this, it will possibly remedy extremely complicated duties and is each sooner and extra correct than typical machine studying, which continues to be usually equated with AI.
“A particular instance from the gaming trade illustrates this. Right here, a complete of 72 testers wanted three weeks to check a brand new sport, whereas the deployment of AI makes it doable to scale back this time to 2 days,” explains Filip Dvořák. “Our purpose is to seize greater than ten per cent of the worldwide market on this space.”
Filuta AI has a number of patents defending its expertise in areas like gaming, digital toys, aviation, automotive, and defence (particularly navy simulators).
The founding staff has expertise in AI departments at Google and Microsoft, working in academia (Stanford, Charles College), and at US authorities businesses and analysis centres (DARPA, PARC).
A yr after its inception in 2022, the corporate secured a record-breaking pre-seed funding of almost CZK 56M.
