Technology Companies Correspondent, Czech Business Review
Tomáš Král covers Czech technology companies and enterprise technology for Czech Business Review, with a focus on AI adoption, software, digital transformation and commercial deployment.
His beat follows what companies are actually shipping, buying and operating, separating product announcements from customer evidence and sustained commercial use.
Tomáš approaches technology stories from the point at which enthusiasm has to become economics. Funding announcements, AI pilots and digital-transformation programmes are useful starting points, but his reporting follows what happens next: whether customers appear, hiring changes, capital is deployed and a product becomes part of a durable business rather than remaining a launch narrative.
His beat also gives him a regional lens on Prague and Brno as business ecosystems rather than simply startup locations. He looks at how Czech founders compete for talent and capital across Central Europe, how foreign investors evaluate the market, and which local advantages remain meaningful once a company begins selling internationally.
Czech Business Review survey data show 73% rate automation and robotics as very important or critical to capex, while 77% expect more factory, automation or logistics investment.
A practical guide to forming a Czech s.r.o., including founders, CZK 1 minimum registered capital, Commercial Register entry and business-authorisation requirements.
Czech Startup Week runs 19 to 23 October 2026 in Prague and will host technology leaders selected from nine African countries through Cool Czechia.
A sourced guide to major technology employers in Prague, including software, engineering and product companies, with employer evidence and Czech company context.
CzechBusiness combines CzechInvest and CzechTrade, creating a single agency for startups, investors and exporters from August 2026.
A practical guide to 15 Czech startups to watch in 2027, covering AI, SaaS, fintech, travel technology, industrial software and deep tech.
Czechia spent over CZK50bn on public-sector digitalisation from 2020 to 2024, yet only 18% of eligible services were fully online.
Women were 12.9% of ICT specialists in Czechia in 2025, the lowest share in the EU, according to Eurostat.
Twenty Czech AI companies and startups to know, covering document AI, fraud detection, industrial machine learning, healthcare, language technology and enterprise automation.
How Productboard founders Hubert Palan and Daniel Hejl built one of Czechia’s best-known software scale-ups from a product management problem into a global company.
How Kiwi.com founders Oliver Dlouhý and Jozef Képesi built the Brno travel technology company around virtual interlining and expanded it globally.
Czech industrial output rose 2% year on year in May as electronics recovered and new manufacturing orders increased 4%.
How Rossum founders Tomas Gogar, Petr Baudis and Tomas Tunys built a Prague AI company for document processing and reached an acquisition by Coupa.
Czech economic confidence rose to 101.0 in June as consumer and industrial sentiment improved, although construction confidence weakened.
CzechInvest and the Ministry of Industry and Trade briefed Czech organisations on the tenth wave of Digital Europe calls spanning AI, health data and cybersecurity.
A CZK 1.85bn Czech funding call targets industrial R&D in AI, semiconductors, quantum technology, biotech, clean tech and defence systems.
The Czech government backed participation in Europe's AI Gigafactory competition, opening a route to a specialised AI data-centre project with tens of thousands of accelerators.
The Year of AI 2026 initiative is taking practical AI guidance to Czech SMEs and sole traders as the country's adoption gap remains widest outside large enterprises.
NÚKIB recorded 12 cyber-security incidents in May 2026, with DDoS, phishing, ransomware, intrusion, malware and information leaks all represented.
NÚKIB published guidance for Czech public authorities on using AI safely and effectively, shifting the public-sector debate from experimentation toward governance.
Czech Semicon Days 2026 connected domestic semiconductor organisations with European and global industry participants across Prague, Brno and Ústí nad Labem.
CzechInvest's URBIS 2026 programme in Brno brought cities, innovation and business together around mobility and urban technology, highlighting public infrastructure as a technology market.
Taiwanese company i-TRANS Global is preparing a European logistics centre in the Ústí region for chemicals used by the semiconductor industry.
CzechInvest highlighted new Digital Europe opportunities for Czech companies and public-sector organisations in AI, software and advanced technologies.
The Czech National Semiconductor Cluster, Czech Semiconductor Centre and CzechInvest agreed to coordinate efforts to strengthen Czechia's role in semiconductors.
The Czech AI Factory launched in Ostrava as Czechia's node in Europe's AI Factory network, combining supercomputing, data and expert support for companies and researchers.
NÚKIB said Czechia again has a national cryptographic product evaluated at EU level, strengthening a specialised layer of sovereign security capability.