Rockaway Capital – Portfolio

Mall Group

Leading e-commerce platform in CEE

4.3 million unique visitors on our websites in 2019

9.4 million orders dispatched in 2019

1100+ pick-up points

www.mallgroup.com

INVIA GROUP

Pan-European online travel agency

1.5 billion euros in total transaction value in 2019

3 million passengers in 2019

290 million visitors on our booking websites in 2019

www.invia.com

HEUREKA GROUP

Largest comparison shopping platform in CEE

9 base countries

20 million users per month

55 thousands e-shops in our network

heureka.group

Gjirafa

As an Internet services juggernaut, Gjirafa is a video content, e-commerce and community platform targeting the Balkan region.

3+ billion ads served through gjirafa adnetwork

317% Compound annual growth rate in 2015-2019

4+million minutes content consumed on a daily basis

www.gjirafa.com

EUROMEDIA GROUP

Leading vertically integrated book publisher in the Czech Republic

25 million books passed through our warehouse in 2019

750+newly published books in 2019

40 Luxor bookstores

www.euromedia.cz

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.

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

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.

GastroTech Hackathon: 37 developers, seven projects and two days nonstop

Storyous connects with the biggest gastro suppliers on the market and innovates tedious stock-keeping

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.

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

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.

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

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.

GastroTech Hackathon: 37 developers, seven projects and two days nonstop

Storyous connects with the biggest gastro suppliers on the market and innovates tedious stock-keeping

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.

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

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

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. The company’s founders, Joao Duarte, Paul Cooper and Andrew Elliott, have many years of experience in the field of human resources and recruitment, having previously established the personnel agency Hagen Human Capital.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.)

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

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

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.)

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

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

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.)

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

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

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.)

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

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

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.)

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

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

Rockaway Blockchain

Rockaway Blockchain is a pan-European private investor with global reach.

We invest in promising blockchain start-ups, which we help to grow. We are a long-term investor that applies traditional venture capital investing to crypto.

Origo Network

Origo is the world first decentralized application platform that protects your privacy.

Rockaway Blockchain organised the first global blockchain hackathon in Prague, hackers from 12 countries attended

Rockaway Blockchain invests in high-performance blockchain TOP Network

Aergo

AERGO is an open platform that allows businesses to build innovative applications and services by sharing data on a trustless and distributed IT ecosystem.

Rockaway Blockchain organised the first global blockchain hackathon in Prague, hackers from 12 countries attended

Rockaway Blockchain invests in high-performance blockchain TOP Network

QuarkChain

QuarkChain is an innovative permissionless blockchain architecture that aims to meet the global-wise commercial standard. It provides a secure, decentralized, and scalable blockchain solution to deliver 100,000+ on-chain TPS.

Rockaway Blockchain organised the first global blockchain hackathon in Prague, hackers from 12 countries attended

Rockaway Blockchain invests in high-performance blockchain TOP Network

www.rockawayblockchain.com