Independent Startups & Technology Contributor, Czech Business Review
Michal Vaněk is an independent journalist and contributor focused on the company-level side of the Czech technology economy: founders, funding, product adoption and the transition from startup to scaled business.
His reporting is built around company disclosures, funding evidence and sector research, with particular attention to Czech-founded companies expanding beyond the domestic market.
STRV says a year of using AI coding agents on production mobile codebases changed its view of software delivery. The important work is increasingly context, verification, planning and review rather than raw code generation.
Czech rail exports depend on a deep layer of component makers, engineering businesses and specialist suppliers behind the better-known rolling-stock brands.
Czechia recorded the EU's sharpest monthly diesel-price increase in August, a move that matters beyond motorists because road freight sits inside the cost base of much of the economy.
Czech game companies generated CZK 9.08 billion in 2025. The industry now counts 178 active studios and 3,092 workers, according to GDACZ.
A guide to 20 leading SaaS companies founded in Central and Eastern Europe, including Czech, Polish, Romanian, Estonian, Slovak and Ukrainian success stories.
How Lubo Smid and STRV grew a Prague-founded software studio into an international app-development business, with the company's Czech origins and growth history explained.
Czechia's games industry includes 178 active studios. See the latest industry data plus the founders and growth stories behind Warhorse Studios and Bohemia Interactive.
ČEZ cut unplanned outages roughly 12% with predictive maintenance AI. Inside the utility's smart-grid build-out — and how it differs from the data-centre story.
Beyond Rohlik and Productboard: the Czech-founded companies actually converting technical strength into scale.
Comparing CzechInvest, JIC and Start it @ČSOB: strong at seeding startups, weaker at scaling-stage capital.
Demand forecasting, dynamic pricing and same-day delivery: AI's most commercially proven Czech use case.
Škoda's battery push and AI-driven logistics are forcing Czech automotive suppliers through a double transition.
Inside Brno's cyber security ecosystem: JIC's infrastructure, the capital gap holding it back, and companies to watch.
A founder-focused guide to venture capital firms investing in Czech startups, including Credo, KAYA, Presto, Purple Ventures, Tensor Ventures and Czech Founders VC.
The story of Mews founder Richard Valtr, CEO Matthijs Welle and the Prague-born hospitality software company that scaled into a global hotel technology platform.
The story of Czech-founded ZoomSphere, from Jakub Mach's early social media analytics project in 2010 to a broader platform for scheduling, approvals, analytics and agency workflows.
Examples of Czech companies succeeding in Germany, from Škoda and Rohlik to software, travel and technology businesses selling directly into the German market.
Czech MPs have backed a new electronic sales registry expected to raise CZK 14bn a year, bringing EET back into the business debate.
Who founded STRV, when the Czech software company started, how it grew from Prague and Brno, and what its company history says about Czech software exports.
Czech farmers expect the basic cereal harvest to fall almost 16% in 2026 after spring drought and extreme early-summer heat.
How Rohlik founder Tomas Cupr built the Czech online grocery company into a European scale-up and one of Central Europe’s best-known unicorn stories.
How Czechia and Germany are connected through automotive production, Škoda, suppliers, exports, engineering and the transition to electric vehicles.