We Energize Ideas and Motivate Founders
We help strong founders turn ideas into meaningful businesses. We are a newly established accelerator that focuses primarily on the potential of the founders, then on the idea. We work fast, directly, and with trust in founders whose ambition lets us pursue a shared goal.
About Us
S-Tech Ventures a.s. is built on a simple principle: when we meet a strong founder, we know how to jointly turn an idea into a functional business model and validate it on the market. We look for people with vision, ambition, and the desire to create something meaningful. Their commitment is crucial to us. We believe a good founder can weather a change of direction, adapt to the market, and when needed reassess their original idea.
Our experience and value for projects rest on commerce, marketing, and finance. We can identify a project’s strengths, find its customer, and help craft a strategy that makes sense. We cooperate with a strong industrial partner, giving us access to specialists and infrastructure for analysis, testing, and validation within a network of business contacts.
The core of our cooperation with founders is the S‑Tech acceleration program, which lasts approximately six months. During this period, we work intensively to prepare the project for new investment and market entry. Within the program, we help build a commercial strategy, fine‑tune marketing and the numbers, prepare a prototype and capacities for serial production, and validate the business model with the market.
Forms of Cooperation
Our philosophy: key responsibility and the company’s long‑term development remain in the hands of the founder and their team. Our goal is to support the creation and growth of the project, not to manage it executively over the long term.
In justified cases we may enter 100% ownership of a project always with the goal of later handing a majority stake back to the founding team and investors. Our role is to kick‑start, connect, add commercial experience, and create an environment in which the project can succeed on the market and continue to grow.
Typical form of cooperation
- S‑Tech acceleration program
- Establishing SPV structures for pilot phases of projects
- Creating spin‑off companies, especially in connection with academia or the corporate sphere
- Joint ventures with clearly defined roles
- Licensing or technological partnerships
- Equity investment with a preference for a minority stake
Ideas We Help Develop
S‑Tech Ventures was launched at the end of 2024 as a new accelerator with the aim of connecting projects that have real business potential. We are a fresh team with a clear vision and a practical approach we work quickly, purposefully, and with respect for every idea that makes sense.
Since launch we’ve supported a broad range of initiatives, from light mentoring and preparing investor materials, to setting up SPV structures or taking full execution during a company’s kick‑off, always according to what a given project needed and the founding team’s ambition. We commit only to ideas where we see market potential and founders with the will to truly build something.
Selected Projects We Are Currently Working On
Mission-driven helicopter leasing for critical aerial operations. Ready when it matters most
skyriseleasing.comA platform for components and technological solutions.
componentas.euIntegration of unmanned ground and aerial systems (UGV & UAV).
cyberdronesolutions.comComputer vision in modern warfare.
noontide.euUGV with autonomous driving for rescue missions.
hecthor.comDevelopment of drones with applications across various industrial sectors.
prolabengineering.comEmpowering European Resilience
Team
Anna Růžičková
Founder & CEO
Role:
Anna is the driving force behind the creation of S-Tech Ventures and sets its direction and values. Within the accelerator, she focuses on working with founders—their motivation and inner energy. She believes the founder’s personality is decisive, and she helps them develop leadership, team potential, and the ability to turn ideas into real business.
Background:
Over twenty years of experience delivering transformation projects in industrial companies. Specialises in post-acquisition integrations, corporate culture change, and people development. Worked at PricewaterhouseCoopers and founded her own successful advisory firm. Known for quickly recognising strong personalities and supporting their growth.
Roman Drhovský
M&A and Fundrising Director
Position:
Roman's responsibilities at S-Tech Ventures include managing investments, M&A transactions, and capital structuring. He is involved in evaluating investment opportunities, project valuation, and executing acquisitions and minority investments. In collaboration with Anna Růžičková, he combines a strategic perspective on projects with financial and transactional discipline.
Background:
He has accumulated over two decades of professional experience in the fields of M&A, corporate finance, and investment consulting. He spent a significant part of his career at PPF Group, where he participated in international acquisitions, financing large transactions, and restructuring across Europe and emerging markets. His professional background combines strong analytical expertise with practical experience in executing complex transactions in the public and private sectors.
Ondřej Chlupáček
Public & General Affairs Director
Role:
Ondřej is responsible for strategic communications and public affairs at S-Tech Ventures. He brings key narratives of European technological resilience into the public sphere, ensuring consistent understanding of these narratives across projects, as well as with the media, the public and partners. He ensures that communication is grounded in the practical aspects of business, the technological nature of projects, and the broader political, security, and regulatory context.
Background:
He has experience in strategic communications for industrial groups, technology companies and start-ups in growth and transformation phases. He has also worked in the media and politics, focusing on public opinion and crisis communications. He also worked at the communications agency Hero & Outlaw, where he collaborated with major industrial clients.
Oleksandr Striamets
Strategic Advisor for Ukraine
Role:
Strategic Advisor for Ukraine, Oleksandr focuses on identifying growth opportunities and technology development paths for companies operating in the Ukrainian market. He advises at the intersection of defense tech, R&D, and the startup ecosystem, helping organizations decide where to invest, how to scale, and how to integrate advanced technologies in the Ukrainian context.
Background:
He holds a PhD in Computer Science with deep expertise in information systems and technical data modeling. He has worked on evaluating and integrating emerging technologies and startups into industrial environments, including military R&D projects in high-stakes settings. He also has extensive experience conducting high-level negotiations with government, diplomatic, and academic stakeholders across Europe and Asia.
Lumír Swiech
Legal Advisor
Role:
Lead legal partner at S-Tech Ventures, primary liaison to our partner law firm, Pure Legal. Oversees the legal architecture of founder collaborations, from founder/shareholder structures and licensing agreements to investment frameworks and joint ventures.
Background:
Many years of experience in M&A, commercial, and corporate law; an indispensable member of the team. Together with the Pure Legal colleagues, provides end-to-end legal support with top-tier specialization across practice areas.