From the beginning, we’ve been selecting promising projects for the Rockaway Ventures portfolio – as evidenced by the fact that a few days ago Czech FinTech startup BudgetBakers received an investment of almost CZK 160 million. In my view this is excellent news, and so I’ve decided to share a few details from the background of the entire story.
Czech FinTech start-up BudgetBakers, developer of the Wallet and Board applications and in which the ventures division of the Rockaway Capital investment group invested in 2017, has received an investment of almost CZK 160 million (EUR 6.25 million) from Jasper Anderluh and Niels Klok, co-founders of European on-line broker DEGIRO. The investment aims to support further growth of BudgetBakers on the European market, not only through development of the Wallet application itself, but also to make BudgetBakers technology accessible to third parties via an API.
One of Rockaway’s investment partners describes how he became a passionate participant in extreme sports, and how this helps him in his life.
Software that runs in the background of a banking application to check whether someone is trying to steal your money – this is a product from Brno startup ThreatMark. We talked with Michal Tresner, its CEO, about expanding to America and what’s behind the scenes of modern on-line security.
A year under lockdown brought many changes to the companies in the Rockaway portfolio. In addition to many purely business-related aspects, it is also changing the entire area of leadership – and Jitka Dvořáková, CEO of CZC.cz, described how these changes are being reflected in its management.
This Slovak native son is like a walking power plant, with energy to spare. He runs the successful Mall.tv internet TV channel, is co-CEO of the Czech News Center media house, and he apparently has the most subscriptions of anyone in the Czech Republic – that’s because due to his profession and interest in women’s fashion magazines Juraj subscribes to a total of 19 services and media from around the world. For the curious: No, he doesn’t have time to read it all.
