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About Investor

Ján “Jano” Búza is a Partner and early-stage investor at ZAKA VC, a Czech-Slovak fund backing global startups from bases in Silicon Valley, London, Prague and Bratislava. His investment range is $100K to $350K, with a sweet spot around $250K, and he focuses on pre-seed and seed companies in B2B SaaS, marketplaces, biotech, digital health, security, developer tools and related sectors. At ZAKA he is involved in building the firm’s first institutional fund and has been part of deploying millions of euros across dozens of startups on multiple continents, with a growing emphasis on healthcare, life sciences and deeptech. Earlier, he gained international business and management education through the CEMS program and is active as a lecturer and mentor for accelerators, where he teaches founders about fundraising, team foundations and go-to-market strategy.