The Studio That Never Took a Kč of Outside Money: How STRV Built Tinder's Apps From Karlín
How four Czech friends built STRV—an app studio for Tinder and Porsche—without outside funding, and why founder Lubo Smid now owns it outright.
Startups
Reporting on the Czech startup ecosystem: regional clusters like Brno's cyber security scene, the state and bank-funded support machine behind them, and the persistent gap between seeding companies and scaling them internationally.
From a Bucharest Apartment to the Nasdaq: How Romania's Consulting Sector Produced CEE's Biggest Tech Exit
UiPath started as a Bucharest outsourcing shop. Its Nasdaq IPO and Cluj-Napoca's tech cluster show Romania's consulting-to-product pivot.
Prague's Quietest Unicorn Just Raised $300 Million. Most People Still Think It's Dutch.
Mews raised $300M at a $2.5B valuation — the largest European hotel-tech round yet. Why is Europe's business press calling it Dutch?
After Selling Zásilkovna, Simona Kijonková Is Quietly Buying Up the Next Generation
Packeta sold to CVC and Emma Capital in 2024. Its founder's investment vehicle has since bought into healthcare devices, e-commerce and US health tech.
Six Million Copies Later: How a Medieval Bohemian RPG Became the Czech Tech Sector's Best Export
Kingdom Come: Deliverance II sold 6 million copies. The Prague and Brno studio cluster behind it predates most of Czech tech's VC-funded scene.
From CubeSats to a Climate Satellite: How Czech Space Startups Quietly Built a Second Ecosystem
Czech space startups have gone from instruments to full satellite subsystems. ESA funding math still trails Poland — here's the gap.
Who's Actually Writing the First Cheque? Inside Czechia's Venture Capital Bench
Credo Ventures closed its largest-ever fund. A look at the small group of Prague-based VCs deciding which CEE founders get funded first.
Prague's Unicorn Class of 2026: Which Czech Tech Companies Are Actually Scaling
Beyond Rohlik and Productboard: the Czech-founded companies actually converting technical strength into scale.
CzechInvest, JIC and Start it @ČSOB: Grading the State's Startup Support Machine
Comparing CzechInvest, JIC and Start it @ČSOB: strong at seeding startups, weaker at scaling-stage capital.
Brno's Cybersecurity Cluster: Inside the Region Investors Call "the CEE Fort Knox"
Inside Brno's cyber security ecosystem: JIC's infrastructure, the capital gap holding it back, and companies to watch.