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Rockaway Blockchain Fund joins Wintermute’s $20M Series B investment round together with Pantera Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners and others

Rockaway Blockchain Fund announces another investment in a promising startup – together with Pantera Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners and others, it is investing $20 million in Series B in Wintermute, a professional liquidity provider and market maker for digital assets. For the blockchain fund from the Rockaway Capital family, this is one of the largest investment rounds in which it has participated so far.

Euromedia Group to be headed by new CEO František Mala, who will move the book group toward greater digitalization

Euromedia Group, the largest player on the Czech book market and owner of the Luxor bookstore chain, is getting ready to change its CEO. The new CEO, František Mala, who has spent many years in the telecom business, where he worked for subsidiaries of Deutsche Telekom in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Romania, is arriving to help with further growth and digitalization.

Interview with Mergim Cahani, CEO of Gjirafa.com: We’re changing the entire market, and I like that

With the help of the Rockaway, Mergim Cahani is developing the internet economy in the Balkans. The current situation, which favours on-line shopping, is one of the reasons why his Gjirafa content and e-commerce platform overtook plans by an entire year.

Jan Hanuš has become the new CEO of MALL Group

Effective 1 January 2021, Jan Hanuš is the new CEO of the MALL Group. Prior to coming to MALL he spent two years as CEO of Telenor Hungary. Jakub Havrlant remains Chairman of the Board, and will continue to be responsible for the strategic development of the MALL Group.

Rockaway sells its stake in the Techloop start-up to the Finnish Alma Media Group

The Rockaway Capital investment group is sending another of its start-ups out into the world and selling its stake in the Techloop.io tech start-up, in which it invested in 2017 and 2018. Techloop will become part of LMC, which is part of the Finnish Alma Media Group. Both parties agreed to refrain from providing details of the transaction.

Rockaway Insider with Jitka Dvořáková, CEO CZC.cz: I don’t want to be a captain, but rather a helmsman

Jitka Dvořáková is the general manager of CZC.cz, known as the “proud number two” e-shop with electronics, and until recently was also MALL Group’s regional director for Slovenia and Croatia. Jitka, who by the way is a passionate traveller, is one of the most successful managers in the Czech Republic and according to Forbes Magazine also one of the 50 most influential women in this country.

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