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The EU will lack 500,000 IT specialists in a year. The improved Techloop platform helps firms with direct recruitment of employees

Techloop, a start-up focused on bringing firms together with IT professionals, thus significantly increasing the efficiency of recruiting new employees, has launched a new version of its platform. The improved service offers significant innovations, thanks to which firms can select from a database of 15,000 IT workers and directly offer them available positions, while also creating a company profile and working on building their brands as employers. Firms thus receive a tool that will help them cope with the critical shortage of IT specialists.

Hubert Palán for Forbes Česko: “In the future, Productboard can have a value much greater than a mere billion dollars”

Hubert Palán is the founder and CEO of Productboard, one of the most promising and best-financed Czech start-ups, as evidenced by the Startup of the Year 2019 title recently awarded to it by the magazine Forbes Česko. Productboard develops software that makes life easier for product managers and helps them to make the right decisions. Rockaway Ventures was the first investor to give Productboard a larger financial injection, which occurred in 2015. To date, investors have put nearly USD 20 million into the firm.

Brand Embassy becomes part of international giant NICE, bringing forth a revolutionary product with broadest coverage of channels and global use

The new owner is NICE (NASDAQ: NICE), the global leader in digitalisation of customer care. Brand Embassy’s original founders, Vít Horký and Damián Brhel, and all investors including Rockaway Capital and Reflex Capital sold their shares.