| Date | Title | Description |
| 28.11.2024 | From Twisto to RockawayQ: Michal Šmída’s Vision to Transform B2B with AI | Prague, Czech Republic ~
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Michal Šmída’s entrepreneurial journey started more than 10 years ago, with Twisto. A buy-now-pay-later solution founded in 2013, when online shopping was not a fraction of its current size, and when the ma... |
| 01.08.2024 | Crypto Lending Firm Morpho Bags $50M in Funding Round Led by Ribbit Capital | Morpho did not disclose a valuation based on the funding, which was raised by a private token sale.
Morpho previously raised $18 million in 2022, when the DeFi firm’s CEO, Paul Frambot, was still in his third year at college.
Morpho, a dece... |
| 10.07.2024 | Valpas: Hotel And Rental Bedbug Safety Company Secures €4 Million | Valpas, a provider of a tech-based solution for bedbug-safe stays in hotels and rentals, announced it has secured €4m in seed funding led by Zenith VC along with Icebreaker VC, Finnish Industry Investment, Canon Marketing Japan MIRAI Fund, ... |
| 13.06.2024 | 24 Czech VCs Investing in CEE Tech Startups at Different Stages | Czech Republic ~
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Central and Eastern European countries have been in the spotlight of early-stage venture capitalists for a while now. With 26K startups, their combined enterprise value has grown by x2.4 in the past 5 years, from €... |
| 17.11.2022 | 20+ Czech Early-Stage VC Funds You Should Know Before Your First Fundraising | Czech Republic ~
Central and Eastern European countries, including the Czech Republic, have been in the spotlight of early-stage venture capitalists for a while now. Moreover, during the past five years, the recognized potential of the deve... |
| 11.11.2022 | 3 Startups From the Czech Republic to Watch in 2023 | Czech Republic ~
The Czech Republic remains a vibrant place for the Startup ecosystem. The combination of a strong educational system, particularly in technical areas, with a cosmopolitan environment, and a young traveling population has dr... |
| 28.06.2022 | Motorhome rental company Campiri raises €4.64 million for further expansion | Car rental platform Campiri has raised €4.64 million to date The recent funding was led by Rockaway Ventures Fund, with the participation of Miton and Purple Ventures Czech-based company is looking to expand across Europe
Lukáš Janoušek, C... |
| 12.01.2022 | Czech Rockaway Ventures launches a €100M fund targeting ESG investments | Czech Republic ~
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Czech-Republic-based venture capital fund Rockaway Ventures has launched a new fund with the target size of €100 million. The Rockaway Capital group is one of the main investors. The fund is eyeing startups in Cent... |
| 05.04.2021 | “Everything started from a university dorm”: How Kosovo startup Gjirafa became the Western Balkan’s Amazon | The Western Balkans were very much neglected by tech giants like Google and Amazon, when Mergim Cahani, founder of Gjirafa, started his company in 2011. His goal – to utilize Albanian language (his mother tongue) into the digital market and... |
| 15.01.2021 | Interview with Mergim Cahani, CEO of Gjirafa.com: We're changing the entire market, and I like that | His career in product development in New York was going well, but one courageous decision eight years ago changed everything. Back then, at the age of twenty-three, Mergim Cahani went home to visit his parents in Kosovo – and never returned... |
| 07.01.2021 | Rockaway sells its stake in the Techloop start-up to the Finnish Alma Media Group | Today the Techloop start-up, which was founded in 2016 by Joao Duarte, Paul Cooper and Andrew Elliott, operates in the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Slovakia. It focuses on interconnecting companies and IT professionals, thus significantly i... |
| 01.01.2021 | Leading European FinTech company SaltPay invests in Storyous, a startup in the Rockaway Capital portfolio | This key investment, whose amount and other details none of the parties will comment on, comes at a time when thanks to the coronavirus pandemic the benefits of the Storyous solution for restaurant operations have become fully evident. This... |
| 30.12.2020 | Rockaway Insider with Tomáš Braverman, CEO Heureka Group: It’s an Illusion to Think That Success Will Arrive Immediately | This post was originally published on Rockaway Capital’s website. Rockaway Capital’s team kindly agreed to republish what we think is of great value to our readers.
The Rockaway Insider is a regular newsletter in which the experienced pers... |
| 20.11.2020 | Gjirafa and ThreatMark are among the 50 fastest-growing companies in Central Europe | “The inclusion in Deloitte’s Fast 50 Central Europe for 2020 is a terrific testament to the important work the team at ThreatMark does every day,” said Michal Tresner, ThreatMark’s CEO. “As the world goes through rapid digitalization proces... |
| 10.11.2020 | Storyous, Zdeněk Pohlreich, and Liftago have joined forces to present a delivery system that is fair to restaurants, delivery services, and consumers alike | “The OneMenu.cz service has been in operation since the spring wave of the epidemic as a way to order food from a take-away window on-line. Thanks to requests from many restaurants, we are now extending the service to also include delivery,... |
| 16.10.2020 | "Let's save jobs in the restaurant industry!" Storyous is preparing to offer work to people who have lost their jobs in the restaurant industry | “We want to at least partly support those who will lose their jobs in the coming weeks. In this situation, it’s certainly not the fault of the businesses themselves if they have to close. At Storyous we will be glad to welcome people who ha... |
| 17.06.2020 | Rockaway has sold its stake in the German start-up Voya to Volkswagen Financial Services | “The Voya team has invested considerable resources and maximum energy into developing a product that today defines the highest quality in corporate travel management. This is confirmed, for example, by last year’s strategic partnership with... |
| 13.05.2020 | Storyous is deploying QR codes in restaurants for ordering and paying with mobile phones | “Every restaurant will obtain unique QR codes that it will place on tables. Customers will scan the code using their phones, choose and order from a digital menu, and will also pay with a card on-line. All will occur in a contactless manner... |
| 26.03.2020 | Number of apartments offered for rent on Bezrealitky rises sharply; sales in Prague also increased in March | In March, the number of apartments offered for rent increased by 16% nationwide and by as much as 44% in Prague, i.e. by more than half in comparison with the previous year. In the absolute majority of cases in Prague, this involves apartme... |
| 15.01.2020 | productboard raises a $45M Series B led by Sequoia Capital | We couldn’t wish for a better start of 2020. The world’s finest venture investors recognize the opportunity to change how digital products are made. It seems unbelievable that in the era of the digitization of everything, the product teams ... |
| 11.03.2016 | Gjirafa raises $2 million to level up Albanian web search | The Albanian search startup Gjirafa has just raised $2 million series A round by Rockaway Capital. In brief, Gjirafa is the Albanian version of Google, helping Albanian speakers have better search experience when browsing the web. The start... |
| 15.02.2016 | Gjirafa Raises $2M | Gjirafa, Inc., an Albanian language search, content, and community platform, raised $2m in funding.
The round was led by Rockaway Capital.
The company intends to use the funds to grow online search, e-commerce, and online advertising infras... |
| 26.10.2015 | Rockaway Capital to Acquire Netretail and Heureka for over €200M | Rockaway Capital, a global investment firm based in San Francisco, Prague and Sao Paolo, reached an agreement to acquire 100% of Netretail Holding B.V. and Heureka.
– Netretail Holdings is an online retail business in Central Europe, includ... |
| 26.10.2015 | Naspers sells its stakes in European e-commerce firms Netretail and Heureka to Rockaway Capital for more than €200 million | Rockaway Capital, a global investment firm based in San Francisco, Prague and Sao Paolo, today announced that it has reached an agreement to acquire 100% of Netretail, a big European online retailer, as well as online price comparison busin... |
| 27.05.2015 | Rockaway Capital Opens in San Francisco | Rockaway Capital, a venture capital firm focused on investing and building Internet companies in emerging markets, entered the U.S. market with its first office in San Francisco’s SOMA district.
Led by Jakub Havrlant, CEO, the firm has inve... |