Startup ValkaAI secures new investment and presents AI Komentátor for sports matches
Czech startup ValkaAI has secured a new investment from ff Venture Capital and Look AI Ventures, bringing the company's total funding to 13 million euros, according to the company. The company also presented AI Komentátor, which generates live commentary for sports and esports matches.
Czech startup ValkaAI has announced a new investment from the American fund ff Venture Capital and the Czech Look AI Ventures. According to the company, this brings the total investment amount to 13 million euros (approximately CZK 317 million), following a previous round from February worth 12 million euros led by Rockaway Ventures, which was also joined at the time by J&T Ventures, Tensor Ventures, BD Partners, Naše Česko, and Petr Zámečník.
The startup also presented its first product, AI Komentátor, which generates live commentary for sports and esports matches based on game data. The technology creates digital characters that speak in real time, change facial expressions, and react to the course of the match, and according to the company it is designed to address each viewer individually instead of a single monologue commentary.
ValkaAI was founded in 2025 by Vlastimil Venclík, previously the founder of the esports company Oddin.gg, and Miloš Lokajíček. According to its own statements, the company has a team of 50 people in Prague, San Francisco, and Dubai, including researchers who previously worked at Meta and DeepMind. The company plans to use the funds raised for further development of real-time video and audio generation, hiring researchers, and its first commercial deployments, potentially also in cooperation with its sister company Oddin.
Why it matters
The case shows that investors are putting increasingly larger amounts into generative AI for live video and audio, and that a Czech startup with researchers from Meta and DeepMind is among the recipients of such capital. For the sports and esports broadcasting industry, this is a signal that technology capable of replacing or complementing traditional human commentary with personalized AI content for individual viewers is emerging.
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For a business
For companies in the sports broadcasting and esports sector, a new category of AI-generated commentary vendors is emerging, which could influence future procurement of live broadcast technology and is worth tracking in the investment market for generative AI for video and audio.
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