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The largest tool for complete communication between cities, municipalities and citizens, Munipolis, changes its ownership structure. The current leader of the project Ondrej Svrcek is selling the majority of his ownership to an investment firm of Jan Barta, Dušan Šenkypl and David Holy Pale Fire Capital. A transaction involving tens of millions CZK will enable Munipolis to finalise the … Read more

LitFin Capital, a company that specializes in financing court cases and arbitrations, receives another 5 million Euros from an investment firm Pale Fire Capital. 

LitFin is a Central European pioneer in so-called litigation financing, meaning investing in court litigations. Since its inception in 2018, the company of the founder Maroš Kravec has invested in more than 14 domestic and foreign … Read more

Pale Fire Capital (PFC) together with a trio of experienced managers Jan Biras, Michal Tomek and Petr Kropáček are founding a project of agile outsourcing of ICT specialists teamIT. The cornerstone of the new project is the acquisition of the bodyshop division of YOUR SYSTEM, which in 2019 had a total of 140 ICT specialists supplied to its … Read more

Furniture search engine, news and misinformation analysis, auction portal, sauna world and now also a website monitoring service. These are currently the five pillars on which the domestic investment group Pale Fire Capital, led by Jan Barta, Dušan Šenkypl and David Holý, is building. They established the last mentioned pillar thanks to the purchase of the UptimeRobot.com service.

Jan Barta … Read more

Financial group Pale Fire Capital SE (“PFC”) invests a total of CZK 150 million in Saunia, s.r.o. (“Saunia”). In exchange for its investment, PFC will acquire a 20% stake, which values ​​the entire company at three-quarters of a billion crowns.

Saunia currently operates seven sauna worlds throughout the Czech Republic and another seven are currently under construction. All branches are … Read more

For more than 100 million CZK, we have acquired a majority stake in the domestic auction portal Aukro. Aukro has more than four million registered users. Seven years ago it had a turnover of six billion CZK a year, last year it was only 1.5 billion.

The full article can be found, for example, on Hospodářské noviny.… Read more

Adgata originally started as a simple application for creating legal records, but in less than three years it has evolved into a comprehensive agricultural business management system with both web and mobile applications. It uses GPS units, weather sensors and soil probes or chips to collect important data from which the user can then read, for example, which areas are … Read more

In addition to the Miton investment group, Martin Rozhoň and Pale Fire Capital are newly involved in the further development of the community internet marketplace Scuk.cz, acquiring a combined 25% stake in Scuk.

Scuk.cz, which was previously a gastronomic guide, has had its first 8 months of operation as a community farmers’ marketplace. An eightfold increase in sales compared … Read more

Zuri is a startup with the goal of changing passenger flight transportation. It was founded in 2017 by Michal Illich. The startup is developing an unmanned aircraft for passenger transportation with vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) technology. The startup now employs 7 people and several freelancers.

“At Pale Fire Capital, we enjoy supporting radical projects that are not afraid of … Read more

Roivenue is creating an analytics tool for more effective marketing and claims that its clients will increase their return on investment (ROI) by 15% and turnover by 30% year-on-year. The startup Roivenue has created a learning algorithm that evaluates all marketing channels in one place, even though each of them uses its own measurement. It can compare them against each … Read more