Eduard Kučera (born 11 January 1953) is a Czech software engineer and an entrepreneur.

He is the co-founder of the computer security company Avast along with Pavel Baudiš.

Kučera is the 13th wealthiest person in the Czech Republic as of 2023 according to Forbes, with a net worth of more than 29.8 billion Czech koruna.

[1] Kučera studied in Charles University before co-founding Alwil Software with Baudiš.

The company was renamed to Avast Software and Avast Antivirus became one of the most used computer security software applications.