As part of its initial activities, Jet Investment has already invested €1.25 million in PARTORY, a Czech digital factory. Jet Ventures marks Jet Investment’s first foray into venture capital. With assets under management totaling €600 million and nearly 30 years of experience managing mature industrial companies and industrial real estate, Jet Investment is a major player in the region’s alternative asset market.
Led by seasoned managers and angel investors Kamil Levinský and Roger Dorsch, the international Jet Ventures team invests into early-stage start-ups with an established market presence and proven traction through growing customer base and revenue. Jet Ventures will focus on the industrial sector like its parent company, Jet Investment, specifically targeting industrial-tech / B2B start-ups. These start-ups, leveraging cutting-edge technologies, are positioned to enhance the competitiveness of industrial companies in production, supply chains, and distribution. The fund will invest in the industrial heartland of Europe, i.e Czechia, Slovakia, Poland, Austria, and Germany, aiming to raise €50 million from individual and institutional investors.
Igor Fait, managing partner of Jet Investment, shared his vision: “With nearly three decades of experience transforming mature industrial companies, we see supporting young industrial innovators—whose breakthrough technologies can drive further modernisation and growth across the European economy—as a natural extension of our investment strategy. Our mission is to boost European industry, which has fallen behind the U.S. in integrating high-tech innovations into traditional sectors and is losing its competitive edge. Central Europe, the industrial heart of the continent, boasts a vast pool of technical and IT talent, combined with lower operational costs, making it the perfect incubator for innovative technologies.”
First Step Towards Innovation: Jet Investment Invests in PARTORY
Alongside the Jet Ventures fund launch, Jet Investment has made its first investment of €1.25 million in the pre-Series A round of the Czech start-up PARTORY (formerly Factoree.online), founded by brothers Milan and Jakub Málek. PARTORY is a B2B platform utilising AI and machine learning to streamline the procurement process for low-cost metal parts purchased in high volumes.
Milan Málek, co-founder of PARTORY, highlights the platform’s benefits: “The procurement of custom metal parts—such as beams, frames, brackets, or fasteners—often places an unnecessary burden on companies. The associated logistics, communication, and warehouse management are frequently inefficient in terms of time and cost. PARTORY is a digital factory with unlimited machinery. Customers upload a simple technical drawing, and our algorithm selects the most suitable technology and machinery from our network of audited European suppliers, provides real-time pricing within 24 hours, verifies, and secures available machine capacity, and takes into account manufacturers’ experience with the requested materials. With PARTORY, customers can reduce costs by up to 15%, and onboarding new suppliers is reduced from months to days. The onboarding process covers everything from samples to packaging and quality control approvals.“
Kamil Levinský, partner at Jet Ventures, comments: “PARTORY is a perfect fit for our investment strategy, rooted in the industry and built on two decades of industrial experience of its founders. With a solid customer base and year-on-year revenue growth of 300%, PARTORY helps European industrial companies enhance supplier efficiency and significantly reduce costs. We see great potential in PARTORY, thanks to its deep market knowledge, strong customer references, and validated product success as demonstrated by its accelerating revenue growth—not only in Europe but also globally.”
Jakub Málek, co-founder of PARTORY, adds: “This investment will allow us to develop our software platform further and expand into international markets. We will focus on hiring native speakers in target countries and onboarding new suppliers and transform them into ESG-compliant businesses. At the same time, we will improve the use of AI-driven pricing and procurement management, which will increase the efficiency of the entire supply chain.”
Today, PARTORY collaborates with 1,500 European manufacturers of engineering parts, with clients such as Honeywell and Thyssenkrupp. The company is also beginning to work with businesses within Jet Investment’s portfolio. Levinský further remarks: “With the Jet Ventures fund, we aim to provide start-ups not only with capital and industrial expertise but also synergies with other Jet Investment companies, business collaboration, or the opportunity to test technologies in the real environment of our manufacturing companies.”
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Jet Ventures 1 Fund
Fund for qualified investors
Regional focus: Czechia, Germany, Austria, Poland, Slovakia
Industry focus: Industrial-tech /B2B, advanced manufacturing systems, deep tech, Internet of Things (IoT), artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI & ML), cybersecurity, robotics and drones, 3D printing, and supply chain technologies.
Planned fund size: €50 million
Planned return for investors: 20% p.a. net
Company stage: pre-Series A, Series A, and potentially Series B
Expected number of portfolio companies: 16-20
