Soulmates Ventures

Managing Partner Michal Sikyta leads day-to-day investment activity, while founder Hynek Sochor provides strategic oversight. The firm operates a deliberate, selectivity-driven process that screens for both commercial viability and quantifiable environmental impact, publishing detailed portfolio theses on its website.

The firm runs its own ecosystem of acceleration programs, hackathons like GreenHack, and Sustainability Hub Prague — a physical co-working space — which generate proprietary top-of-funnel deal flow. A strategic partnership with Toronto's TBDC provides a cross-border pipeline into North America.

It is both. Soulmates Ventures operates a formal venture capital fund while simultaneously running an acceleration program for portfolio companies. This hybrid architecture lets the team provide operational support, ESG-compliance guidance, and market-access introductions that exceed typical board-level VC engagement.

The firm exclusively makes direct seed-stage equity investments with initial tickets up to €3 million. It leads rounds and co-invests alongside specialist funds and angels — for example, IndieBio New York on the FluoSphera round — but does not operate a fund-of-funds program.

The firm targets Seed and Seed-to-Series-A stage companies. Its mandate seeks 10 new investments per year, with follow-on capacity demonstrated through multiple portfolio companies including eAgronom, which received additional capital infusion.

The firm's Article 9 SFDR mandate restricts it to eight sustainability streams: air, water, energy, mobility, food and agriculture, education, healthcare, and circular economy. It does not invest in fossil-fuel energy, armaments, or extractive industries, and its ESG screen eliminates any company without a measurable environmental or social benefit.

Article 9 is the EU's highest sustainable-finance standard, requiring that every portfolio company contribute demonstrably to environmental or social objectives. Soulmates Ventures voluntarily adopted this classification for its €50 million fund, which means ESG due diligence is mandatory pre-investment and portfolio companies must maintain sustainability reporting throughout the holding period — a constraint the firm views as a competitive filter rather than a burden.