Portfolio

ROCKAWAY VENTURES FUND

Rockaway Ventures Fund, with a target size of EUR 100 million (CZK 2.5 billion), focuses primarily on start-ups in Central and Eastern Europe and DACH, that are digitalizing traditional industries while following ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) principles.

WE BUILD ON SUCCESSES OF ROCKAWAY VENTURES

productboard

Productboard is a Czech unicorn whose first investor was Rockaway in 2015. It offers a product management system that helps users understand what they need, prioritize what to build, and rally everyone around the roadmap. Based in San Francisco and Prague, they have 3000+ business customers and 7-8 % monthly revenue growth. They raised $18m Series A led by Index Ventures and Kleiner Perkins in 2018 and $45m Series B led by Sequoia Capital and Bessemer Venture Partners in 2019.

Productboard is now the most valuable Czech start-up. It obtained billions in another investment round and became unicorn

$ 72 million for Productboard. The Czech start-up is once again stepping on the gas

Budget Bakers

Prague-based BudgetBakers offers tech solutions that help people save money and lead a richer life. Wallet by BudgetBakers is a worldwide available personal financial assistant that summarizes all information regarding finances, helps with flexible budgeting and tracks spending, so that customers can stay in control and achieve their goals.

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

Andrea Lauren: Why the 160 million that’s coming to BudgetBakers from the Netherlands makes me happy

ThreatMark

ThreatMark is a team of experienced business professionals who have built and secured on-line channels for major financial groups and banks around Europe. Their advanced solution uses AI-powered digital behavior analytics to prevent digital fraud, learn from it, and build models that prevent future fraud across the entire customer journey and across all digital channels.

Rockaway Insider with Kryštof Hilar, co-founder and CTO of ThreatMark

Rockaway Insider with Michal Tresner, CEO of ThreatMark

Manifesto

Manifesto is a hospitality group focusing on F&B, real estate, technology, and culture. Their stylish food markets offer exciting vibes, cultural events, and a high-quality customer experience. By creating and utilizing digital technology products to provide an enhanced customer and tenant experience, Manifesto has become one of the first fully cashless places in Europe.

Rockaway Insider with Martin Barry, CEO of Manifesto Market: Always ask harder questions than everyone else

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

Samba.ai

Samba.ai is an AdTech company developing its own real-time data processing technology. Online marketing is gradually undergoing a major change due to the arrival of smart technologies and autonomous systems, and Samba.ai wants to create technologies that support this change and become an integral part of it.

PresentiGO

Presentigo is a product presentation platform showing companies that presentations don’t have to be boring. Their new generation of presentation software extends the boundaries of traditional presentations into the world of touch devices, interactivity, and 3D to enhance companies’ marketing and sales performance.

PresentiGO wants to change the world of presentations, cutting its clients’ preparation time by 30%. The company is preparing to expand abroad

Jakub Daxner joins the Rockaway Ventures start-up division

Socifi

Socifi is a creator of a monetization and communication platform for 4G/WiFi networks that addresses the challenges of declining profits in commodity services and the greater-than-ever standard customer requirement of free WiFi. Socifi provides advertiser-sponsored Internet service or data packages, providing end users with a free internet connection.

“We had always thought we were a start-up. Except that hadn’t been true for a long time,” said Tobias Walther-Merkwitz, CFO Invia Germany, at the fourth edition of Money Talks

SOCIFI SD Launches the First Ever Blockchain-Based TGE (token generation event)

ROCKAWAY VENTURES FUND IMPLEMENTED FIRST CLOSE IN MARCH 2022

ESG PROCLAMATION OF ROCKAWAY VENTURES FUND

At Rockaway, we see a commitment to Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) principles as both a responsibility and an opportunity. We believe ESG-driven companies not only perform better, they can also bring disruptive innovations to tackle urgent global problems. Here we see our role: in helping startups expand their solutions to meet society’s needs. In 2021, we launched Rockaway Ventures Fund (RVF), a €100m venture capital fund focused on high growth digital economy startups with the potential for positive ESG impact. RVF will invest primarily in businesses in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) across the following sectors: Retail/E-tail, Supply Chain Tech, Telco-Media & Entertainment, Fintech, Digital Health, Cybersecurity & Data Management, Food Tech, Cleantech, Proptech, EdTech and Smart Travel. RVF signed up its first two startups in 2021, Lingvist and Vivere, and our latest investments Campiri, Freeway Camper, and Spotawheel are prime examples of environmentally conscious portfolio companies, as they foster sharing economies, donations to ecological and sustainable projects, and carbon neutral traveling. We select our portfolio companies (where possible but not primarily) based on an ESG-oriented screening and due diligence process that we are continuing to refine together with peers and partners, including fellow members of Venture ESG. In addition to launching RVF, we have also become signatories of the UN’s Principles for Responsible Investment (UNPRI) and are currently driven by the Article 8 with the long term ambition to be compliant with more rigor EU legislation (Article 9), including the EU Taxonomy and the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR). In short, we’ve taken our first steps on this important journey, and are excited to measure and report the benefits it will bring for society, our startups, and our company in the coming years.