Co-Founder & Managing Partner at ZAKA VC · Joined 2019
View Live Interactive Profile →Jan Kasper, written Ján Kasper in Slovak and Czech sources, is Co-Founder and Managing Partner of ZAKA VC. The firm's team page describes him as an experienced entrepreneur who built more than 70 companies across seven countries and seven industries including energy, marketing, mobility and leisure and hospitality. ZAKA's own January 2025 profile of him instead says he spent four decades in traditional business building a portfolio of 52 companies with annual cumulative sales approaching EUR 700 million across media, real estate, development, car dealership and leisure and hospitality, and states that together with Peter Zalesak he shifted his attention to venture capital in 2019 and established ZAKA VC. CzechCrunch reported in November 2022 that the Kasper family was active in 45 companies, mainly in marketing and later energy, hospitality and car sales. No education, board seat or personally attributed investment could be sourced.