About Lighthouse Ventures

technology projects with global vision. Our mission at Lighthouse Ventures is to nurture inspiring ideas throughout their critical early stage, financially as well as professionally, with an international team of partners, bringing together expertise in entrepreneurship, startup mentoring, mergers and acquisitions and operations as well as a strong business network in the Czech Republic and abroad. We also run the Lighthouse Accelerator, which offers startups initial funding of up to EUR 200,000 as well as follow-on funding, a rich educational program, a network of experienced mentors and access to potential customers.

About PEKAT VISION

PEKAT VISION is a provider of solutions for automated visual inspection in manufacturing, based on its homegrown world-class AI-based anomaly detection algorithm and image processing, wrapped into an easy-to-use solution for automated recognition of defects and imperfections in physical products. Thanks to highly accurate performance, PEKAT VISION’s solutions help manufacturers to improve production processes, accelerate process cycles, reduce personnel costs and as a result save money.

Investment to support PEKAT VISION’s global expansion.

Read more about our investment in PEKAT VISION also in CzechCrunch

Lighthouse Ventures (www.lhv.eu.com), an early stage venture capital firm, based in Prague, announced today that it has completed an investment in PEKAT VISION (www.pekatvision.com), a provider of artificial intelligence (AI) based quality assurance solutions for industrial manufacturing (Industry 4.0). Investment in range of hundreds of thousands EUR values Brno-based PEKAT VISION as multi-million EUR startup.

This is the first completed investment for Lighthouse Ventures, which is looking to invest from idea-stage to revenue-generating technology startups with global vision. From a fund size of EUR 23 million, at least EUR 4 million will be invested in idea-stage startups. “Our investment in PEKAT VISION, marks the initial step in a long list of investment Lighthouse is actively looking to make in the coming years,” said Michal Zálešák, Managing Partner at Lighthouse Ventures. “We have previously announced our commitment to support startups throughout their critical early-stage and today we deliver on our promise. PEKAT VISION has built an impressive application of computer vision in industry 4.0, already proven by international pilot customers, and is ready for scaling. ”

Brno-based PEKAT VISION has developed AI-powered tools that recognize imperfections of physical objects, to solve industrial manufacturers’ quality assurance pain, with high accuracy and particular strong performance in small particles, where human quality assurance is ineffective. Current customers and partners include global players in machine vision industry.

“We are excited to have Lighthouse Ventures as our investors and honored to be the first startup to be chosen for investment by the fund,” said Petr Šmíd, Founder and CEO of PEKAT VISION. “The professional support provided to us by Lighthouse Ventures, already throughout the investment process, has proven to us the value of having them as our investor, beyond the financial need. We are looking forward to continue this mutually beneficial cooperation.”