Rockaway Capital – Portfolio

ROCKAWAY VENTURES

Regional tech start-ups with cross-border or global scalability

13 portfolio companies having operations in 10 countries

5portfolio companies trading at triple-digit annual revenue growth

4+ osuccessfully exited companies with positive return on investment

ProductBoard

Productboard is the product management system that helps you understand what users need, prioritize what to build, and rally everyone around your roadmap.

15. 1. 2020, Michaela Papežová

productboard raises a $45M Series B led by Sequoia Capital

8. 1. 2020, Adam Rek

Hubert Palán (Productboard) for CzechCrunch: “It is important to choose the right investor”

Manifesto

Manifesto is a hospitality group focusing on food & beverage, real estate, technology, and culture. We create stylish places that provide a variety of food and drinks for people who want to enjoy cool, exciting vibes, cultural experiences and high-quality customer experience. Uniquely, we are one of the first fully cashless places in Europe. That means we create and utilize digital technology products and data to provide an enhanced customer and tenant experience. Manifesto is the brainchild and first hospitality project from landscape architect and entrepreneur Martin Barry. Welcome to the future of retail, food and culture. Welcome to Manifesto Market.

Storyous

Storyous is a revolutionary cloud POS system for restaurants and cafes with a simple vision – to make the lives of its business partners easier. Restaurant owners can track their staff, manage inventory and optimize sales from anywhere, simply by connecting to the Internet and utilising the many clever features of Storyous.

13. 5. 2020, Michaela Papežová

Storyous is deploying QR codes in restaurants for ordering and paying with mobile phones

3. 4. 2020, Michaela Papežová

Igor Třeslín from Storyous for Forbes Czech Republic: Half of all pubs may not reopen. Let’s do something about it.

All Investments

ProductBoard

Productboard is the product management system that helps you understand what users need, prioritize what to build, and rally everyone around your roadmap.

15. 1. 2020, Michaela Papežová

productboard raises a $45M Series B led by Sequoia Capital

8. 1. 2020, Adam Rek

Hubert Palán (Productboard) for CzechCrunch: “It is important to choose the right investor”

Budget Bakers

BudgetBakers is a Prague-based startup that offers tech solutions that help people save money and lead a richer life. Makers of Wallet, a personal financial assistant, which is currently available on Android, iOS and as a web app. Wallet brings all your finances in one place. It helps you budget flexibly and track your spending so that you can stay in control and achieve your goals. Wallet works all over the world, across multiple currencies and multiple accounts, and also allows you to share your finances with your loved ones.

15. 4. 2019, Michaela Papežová

BudgetBakers receives investment from Rockaway for development of a new product for a global clientele

ThreatMark

ThreatMark is a team of experienced business leaders and security experts who have built and secured on-line channels for major financial groups and banks around Europe.

Manifesto

Storyous

13. 5. 2020, Michaela Papežová

Storyous is deploying QR codes in restaurants for ordering and paying with mobile phones

3. 4. 2020, Michaela Papežová

Igor Třeslín from Storyous for Forbes Czech Republic: Half of all pubs may not reopen. Let’s do something about it.

Bezrealitky

Bezrealitky is an online real estate marketplace through which realities can be sold or rented without an intermediary.

Voya

Voya‘s Mission: We radically re-think travel bookings and provide a service that travellers and their businesses love. Via chat, business travellers can plan and book their journey within seconds with a simple message. We combine personal service and artificial intelligence to quickly create hand-picked travel options tailored to the needs of the modern business traveller.

Samba.ai

We’re an AdTech company developing its own real-time technology for processing data. We believe that online marketing is gradually undergoing a major change thanks to the arrival of smart technologies and autonomous systems, and we want to create technologies which support this change and become an integral part of it. Get in touch with us if you’d like to get on board with this change.

13. 5. 2020, Michaela Papežová

Storyous is deploying QR codes in restaurants for ordering and paying with mobile phones

19. 3. 2020, Michaela Papežová

Launch of new projects, operation of emergency call center and extreme load: Jakub Havrlant’s companies face the coronavirus

Techloop

Techloop is a new start-up company founded by a team of experienced professionals in the areas of human resources and IT. The company’s objective is to create a platform tailored for developers, enabling them to organically come into contact with firms and to receive offers involving interesting projects.

13. 5. 2020, Michaela Papežová

Storyous is deploying QR codes in restaurants for ordering and paying with mobile phones

19. 3. 2020, Michaela Papežová

Launch of new projects, operation of emergency call center and extreme load: Jakub Havrlant’s companies face the coronavirus

PresentiGO

We teach companies that presentations don’t have to be boring. We are creating a new generation of presentation software that extends the boundaries of traditional presentations into the world of touch devices, interactivity and 3D. All this is connected with functions for marketing and sales.

13. 5. 2020, Michaela Papežová

Storyous is deploying QR codes in restaurants for ordering and paying with mobile phones

19. 3. 2020, Michaela Papežová

Launch of new projects, operation of emergency call center and extreme load: Jakub Havrlant’s companies face the coronavirus

Socifi

SOCIFI is a creator and operator of monetization and communication platform for 4G/ WiFi networks. Internet operators and providers have to solve complicated problems. On one hand, they face the profit decline in commodity services, such as phone calls; on the other hand, they have no answer for the fact that free WiFi is becoming the standard required by their customers. This problem worries markets of all developed countries. The answer is sponsored Internet connection or data package paid by an advertiser, and the end user gets Internet for free.

13. 5. 2020, Michaela Papežová

Storyous is deploying QR codes in restaurants for ordering and paying with mobile phones

19. 3. 2020, Michaela Papežová

Launch of new projects, operation of emergency call center and extreme load: Jakub Havrlant’s companies face the coronavirus

Leo Express

LEO Express is a privately owned Czech transportation company providing local and regional railway and bus services. The LEO Express credo is to provide better public transport, every day. LEO Express launched its first connections in 2012 from Prague to Ostrava and now connects more than 45 cities in 4 countries, while continuing to grow. LEO Express actively develops door-to-door services with local operators, linking local transport services from railway and bus stations to offer customers the easiest route to their final destination.

3. 12. 2019, Adam Rek

Rockaway Business Dinner vol. II: Luminaries of European business at a venue though which history flowed

1. 10. 2019, Michaela Papežová

Heureka separation is complete, joint-stock company with new board of directors formed

Fundlift

Fundlift is a platform for investment-crowdfunding. Fundlift effectively connects investors and projects that have ambitions to grow. For companies provides a new way to obtain financing, the connection to investors and valuable marketing channel. It allows investing in companies through the purchase of convertible investment certificates or minibonds. Simply helps to support startups and financially participate in their potential success.

13. 5. 2020, Michaela Papežová

Storyous is deploying QR codes in restaurants for ordering and paying with mobile phones

19. 3. 2020, Michaela Papežová

Launch of new projects, operation of emergency call center and extreme load: Jakub Havrlant’s companies face the coronavirus

Exits

Brand Embassy

Brand Embassy is an omnichannel cloud-based customer service platform providing integrated social media, messaging, live chat and AI-powered chatbot service. Customers such as T-Mobile, Vodafone, Alibaba, and Puma in 30+ countries have achieved 69% higher agent productivity, 61% higher sales conversions and have scaled operations by 300% with no additional headcount. Brand Embassy helps companies to accelerate the digital transformation of contact centres in an agile and scalable manner. The fast-growing company is headquartered in Prague, with offices in Boston, San Diego, London and Dubai. (Exited in 05/2019.)

13. 5. 2020, Michaela Papežová

Storyous is deploying QR codes in restaurants for ordering and paying with mobile phones

19. 3. 2020, Michaela Papežová

Launch of new projects, operation of emergency call center and extreme load: Jakub Havrlant’s companies face the coronavirus

SQLdep

Whenever you need to trace the data-lineage in your SQL queries, you spend anywhere between 5 minutes and a few hours on manual SQL code analysis. SQLdep solves this within seconds. An extreme case of an ETL for data-warehouse with 10,000+ queries would take a man months to document. In contrast, our SQL reverse-engineering engine can prepare the metadata daily. (Exited in 07/2019.)

13. 5. 2020, Michaela Papežová

Storyous is deploying QR codes in restaurants for ordering and paying with mobile phones

19. 3. 2020, Michaela Papežová

Launch of new projects, operation of emergency call center and extreme load: Jakub Havrlant’s companies face the coronavirus

Creditas

Creditas (BankFacil), based in São Paulo, Brazil, is an innovative digital lending platform focused on secured lending. Core products include a first-lien product version of home equity and auto loans, secured by the borrowers’ real estate or automibles. BankFacil partners with leading Brasillian lenders to create a lending network that implements cutting edge technoclogy to deliver a client driven, efficient and healthy way to access credit and financial services. BankFacil funds its customer loans both through investors and financial institutions, a proven approach creating efficiency for the entire industry. (The exit was in 2017.)

13. 5. 2020, Michaela Papežová

Storyous is deploying QR codes in restaurants for ordering and paying with mobile phones

19. 3. 2020, Michaela Papežová

Launch of new projects, operation of emergency call center and extreme load: Jakub Havrlant’s companies face the coronavirus

3Dsimo

3Dsimo is the new generation of 3D pen that is able to adapt flexibly to a rapidly developing market with a variety of materials for 3D printing, thus giving the customer space to create. Create models glowing in the dark or models which change color when the temperature changes. Draw in the air! Do not be limited by 2D space. Cultivate your creativity.(The exit was in 2017.)

13. 5. 2020, Michaela Papežová

Storyous is deploying QR codes in restaurants for ordering and paying with mobile phones

19. 3. 2020, Michaela Papežová

Launch of new projects, operation of emergency call center and extreme load: Jakub Havrlant’s companies face the coronavirus

Bileto

Bileto is the creator and operator of a cloud e-commerce platform for carriers and transport aggregators all over the world. Bileto platform offers customers all of the tools that they need for planning (schedules, tariffs) and white – label distribution (e-shop, mobile apps), as well as dispatching the tickets, and managing sophisticated tools such as loyalty program and yield management. So far, the field of public transport has not found a platform which would move it to modern digital era and this is a great chance for Bileto. (Exited 05/2018.)

13. 5. 2020, Michaela Papežová

Storyous is deploying QR codes in restaurants for ordering and paying with mobile phones

19. 3. 2020, Michaela Papežová

Portfolio

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INVIA GROUP

HEUREKA GROUP

Gjirafa

EUROMEDIA GROUP

ROCKAWAY VENTURES

ProductBoard

Manifesto

Storyous

ProductBoard

Budget Bakers

ThreatMark

Manifesto

Storyous

Bezrealitky

Voya

Samba.ai

Techloop

PresentiGO

Socifi

Leo Express

Fundlift

Exits

Brand Embassy

SQLdep

Creditas

3Dsimo

Bileto

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