In September, Jan Balatka, who has many years of experience in semantic analytics and machine learning in global business from Deloitte Czech Republic, took over as managing director of Semantic Visions in September. He is accompanied by our partner Petr Krajíček.
Diana Rádl Rogerová, who was until recently a partner at Deloitte together with Jan Balatka and is … Read more
We have decided to make a major investment in one of the largest Czech heat pump manufacturers, Acond, to accelerate the transition from gas heating and to support the energy security of the Czech Republic and Europe.
With a nearly one-quarter stake (24.3%), we will accelerate the construction of a new production plant, significantly multiplying our production capacity and our … Read more
From September, we are expanding the partnership structure with Jiří Ponrt, who becomes the fifth member. In ten months with us, Jirka has built our finance and analytics teams almost from scratch and has demonstrated his ability to build a strong finance group with us in a style that has proven successful. Both teams under his leadership are critical … Read more
Prague, August 2022 – Investment company Pale Fire Capital (PFC) has set itself an ambitious target for 2021 and has significantly strengthened. Consolidated turnover reached 1.575 billion CZK. The volume of assets grew to 3.762 billion. The team was expanded with senior reinforcements. PFC expanded its portfolio with significant investments and successfully underwrote bonds worth 750 million CZK for new … Read more
At the beginning of July, we successfully completed our exit from FAVI, with a turnover of 750 mil. as one of the flagship companies in our portfolio in 2021 and with operations in 9 countries.
We entered FAVI just after its inception in 2016 and it was one of our first investments. From the beginning, we helped the founders … Read more
We have entered into an agreement with the American company Groupon over close cooperation. Dušan Šenkypl became a member of the Board of Directors and Jan Barta a member of the Supervisory Board. We are extremely happy about the expansion of our cooperation and look forward to working and communicating closely with the GROUPON CEO Kedar Deshpande.
With approximately 22%, … Read more
The Metronome Festival, which took place in Prague from 23.6. to 26.6. 2022 and offered to the participants artists such as Oh Wonder, Nick Cave, Underworld or Beck and many other foreign and local performers. We hope you enjoyed the festival and we’re glad we could be there with you!… Read more
Philanthropy is a significant topic for us, we donate tens of millions every year to several NGOs and through them, we want to help change the way we live in the Czech Republic. Our vision is to steadily increase our philanthropic activities to hundreds of millions CZK per year. However, we also see the importance of being able to offer … Read more
Prague, 2 May 2022 – Pale Fire Capital continues to invest and has newly increased its stake in Valuo Technologies. The company is engaged in the business of estimating real estate prices based on the analysis of a huge data set. PFC has increased its stake to 37.5%.
Valuo Technologies was founded in August 2017. Its primary focus is on … Read more
At the beginning of this year, we established cooperation with the Klub investorů (Investors Club) and one of the first common activities was a seminar by Jan Barta on “The invisible hedge fund leg of Pale Fire Capital, which beats all the world’s funds”. As a fund, we have a second “invisible” leg – an internal hedge fund that has … Read more
