Key Facts
- Presto Tech Horizons, the third fund of Czech Presto Ventures, launched in 2024 in partnership with Czechoslovak Group, has invested $1.2 million. Tur.ai founders do not disclose the other investors, noting that they are smaller foreign funds.
- This is the first external funding for Tur.ai, before that the company, founded in April 2022, developed with the founders’ money.
- The startup’s valuation is $10-15 mln.
Context
Tur.ai product is a platform that allows companies to automate complex multi-layered business processes without programming skills. Its basis is RPA technology, robotic automation of processes with the help of AI agents. They independently perform tasks instead of business analysts or RPA specialists. The startup’s product seamlessly integrates with other popular solutions.
Tur.ai’s founders are Ukrainian IT specialists, graduates of the Donbas State Machine-Building Academy Evgeny Myasushkin (CEO) and Pavel Kozhokar (CTO). Myasushkin comes from the service IT business and spent eight years developing WeAreBrain for 65 employees. Since 2017, he has been developing Tur.ai as an external project, and since 2022 he has been fully focused on this startup. Kozhokar worked at WeAreBrain since 2015 and joined the startup’s team in 2023.
The startup team has nine people, with offices in Ukraine and the Netherlands. “Our solution helps companies scale faster and work more efficiently,” says Myasushkin. Funders claim their technology helps businesses cut operating costs by 20% and has saved consumers more than 700,000 labor hours in the last 12 months.
The startup has up to 10 clients – companies from the energy, retail and food industries. Among the well-known ones are the Dutch distributor of marine electronics RadioHolland and the Ukrainian DTEK.
Source: https://forbes.ua
