ValkaAI, a Czech DeepTech startup developing real-time generative AI technology for digital personas, has extended its pre-seed funding round to €13 million. The latest investment was backed by Look AI Ventures, alongside ff Venture Capital.
In February 2026, the company announced its first external funding of €12 million in a pre-seed round led by Rockaway Ventures. Other investors included J&T Ventures, Tensor Ventures, BD Partners, Fond Naše Česko, and Petr Zámečník.
Founded in 2025 by Vlastimil Venclík (CEO) and Miloš Lokajíček (COO), ValkaAI is developing AI technology that allows digital characters to understand live events and respond through speech, facial expressions, and body movements.
“Live entertainment is built around reactions, personalities, and emotion. Today, delivering that experience to every audience is difficult to scale. We’re developing AI that can change that, but it requires solving research challenges that existing models weren’t designed for. Look AI Ventures understands both the technical ambition and the commercial opportunity behind what we’re building,” said Venclík, CEO and co-founder of ValkaAI.
The company aims to build a new category of AI-powered entertainment by making digital personas more interactive and responsive during live experiences. Its technology is designed for sports, esports, gaming, and media, where content can be adapted for different audiences, languages, and platforms.
ValkaAI has already launched its first product, ValkaAI Commentator, which generates live sports and esports commentary using real-time event data.
“For eighty years, sports broadcasting has been a monologue: one commentator, one script, millions of viewers. ValkaAI is turning it into a conversation. Its digital personas react to the game live and speak directly to each viewer. Today, anyone can make a flashy AI clip in a couple of clicks. Few can build an entire business on AI video, and that’s what we’re backing,” said Angelo Burgarello, Partner at Look AI Ventures.
Unlike companies that build their products on existing generative AI models, ValkaAI is developing its own technology across three research areas: video generation, audio generation, and event understanding.
Its goal is to combine these capabilities so digital personas can react naturally to live events in real time, with synchronized speech, expressions, and movements.
The company will use the new funding to accelerate research and development in real-time video and audio generation, hire experienced AI researchers, and expand commercial partnerships to bring its technology to market.
