Czech investment group Pale Fire Capital has bought a majority stake in Arpem Networks S.L., a Spanish company based in Madrid, which operates the insurance comparison platform Arpem. The PFC investment group now controls 83% of Arpem.
PFC is building on a long tradition in the online insurance sector, with which it has many years of experience – PFC … Read more
Jiří Ponrt, former CFO of Alza.cz, is joining Pale Fire Capital as Group CFO. His main task will be to manage the group’s finances, support the financial management of individual companies in the portfolio and look for new investment opportunities.
Hard-working, talented and ambitious people with high moral values and a desire to learn grow, help, listen, share know-how … Read more
PFC announces another investment, this time in the Slovak CF Group j.s.a. The group is behind, among others, the concepts Regal Burger, Poke Bistro, La Garnacha, Chuck&Frida and now Banh-mi-Ba. Pale Fire Capital’s investment in CF Group amounts to 2.3 million EUR and includes the sale of PFC’s stake in Banh-mi-Ba. This gives CF Group a majority stake in … Read more
A week ago we announced the issuance of the bonds. Within one week, the originally planned volume of 500 million CZK was sold out, so we are increasing the volume to 750 million CZK. “We are delighted by the trust that investors have put in us – it is a great reward for our work to date in building Pale … Read more
The Digitics Group, which owns the Mubi.pl insurance comparator, launched its operations in 2018 and launched a campaign for the comparator in July 2019. Mubi – the current number two on the Polish market, based in Warsaw – is the fastest growing online insurance comparator. PFC is acquiring a 22.4% stake in Mubi. The total market for compulsory liability and … Read more
The story of Pale Fire Capital has been written since 2015, with four founding members (see photos). Dušan Šenkypl specializes in setting up effective organizational structures, sales teams and product development, David Holý creates marketing strategies for portfolio companies, Jan Barta is dedicated to finding and analysing investment opportunities, and Petr Krajíček deals primarily with accounting and tax aspects and … Read more
We are buying the Czech company Virtual Training, the company behind the indoor cycling and running training app ROUVY.
Both companies have extensive experience in the online environment, deep market knowledge and have experienced teams. Mutual synergies while maintaining an agile business approach is a condition for achieving the set goals – to strengthen the team, to … Read more
Jan Sadílek is leaving the position of Alza´s Marketing Director and becoming the new CEO of Aukro. Within four years, he wants to reach a turnover of 20 billion CZK, which is five times this year’s plan.
“Auctions account for 85 percent of transactions and have huge potential for the future, as it is the truest pricing for both … Read more
Few sports fans nowadays are able to keep their attention on the match throughout its whole duration. Today, sports compete for their place with many other forms of easily accessible entertainment. Our attention is shrinking. Primarily, we want to have fun, we want to witness whatever is the most interesting.
We are more and more likely to search for sports … Read more
Pale Fire Capital and David Šiška establish a new seed fund & studio Purpose Ventures, focused on ambitious technological startups that tackle the issues of sustainability, physical and mental health and strengthening the dignity of each individual.
They have CZK 100 million of their own capital for the first investments, which they are ready to gradually increase. The fund … Read more
