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The Rockaway Blockchain Fund is making massive investments thanks to the market decline, and has made 12 investments in just the last two months

The Rockaway Blockchain Fund, the largest VC fund focused on blockchain and DeFi in Europe, with a $100 million dollar target, has taken advantage of the situation on the crypto market and is making massive investments. While in April, when the market was at its peak, the team led by fund founder Viktor Fischer made no investments, over the past two months it has invested in a total of 12 projects. One of these is the Figure start-up, which focuses on loans via blockchain.

Rockaway Insider with Jan Jírovec, Rockaway Capital Investment Partner: You can’t build a business relationship without humility and respect

For Jan Jírovec, good relationships, humility, and respect to one’s colleagues as well as one’s “opponents” are alpha and omega – which is why it’s logical that as an investment partner at Rockaway Capital, he focuses mainly on business development, thus ensuring fulfilment of its long-term vision and management of strategic activities. And all this usually from early in the morning and with a virtually empty mailbox.

New Rockaway and Ackee joint project to focus on blockchain security

Ackee Blockchain is a new company that wants to make Prague a key global player in the field of blockchain. This ambition is supported by the Ackee development agency and the largest VC investment fund in Europe focusing on digital assets, the Rockaway Blockchain Fund, which aside from exclusive contacts is also providing the company an initial investment of CZK 14 million, giving it an initial valuation of CZK 35 million.

Rockaway Insider with Patrick Gotzler, CEO Bringmeister: Any decision that isn’t based on clear numbers will be a bad one

As the head of German on-line supermarket Bringmeister, which Rockaway Capital acquired at the start of the year, he is teaching Germans to buy groceries over the internet (and he’s succeeding: this year Bringmeister has set a revenue target of over EUR 100 million!), and he’ll teach you, among other things, how to enjoy life even without hacking it.

Rockaway Insider with Jan Hanuš, CEO MALL Group: If you don’t have enthusiastic, energetic people around you, you won’t be able to do a thing

Jan Hanuš loves adrenaline and major challenges – that’s why in his professional life he’s often been in charge of companies that needed major changes, and in his private life he loves wild downhill bike riding. Now he’s at the helm of the e-commerce MALL Group, where he became CEO in January of this year.

Rockaway Insider With Michal Kratochvíl, CEO Budgetbakers: When you switch on the right brains, you come up with unexpected things

Last year BudgetBakers had their dream come true. They were the first application in the world to to provide management of finances as well as direct payment. And although its CEO, Michal Kratochvíl, is part of a young collective, as opposed to others, he thinks that more important than an original business idea is the team itself and the experience of every member.

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