The American Groupon has a new CEO. One of the partners of Pale Fire Capital, Dušan Šenkypl, will fully dedicate himself to managing the company’s transformation.
The board of directors of the American company Groupon has appointed Dušan Šenkypl as interim CEO. In this executive role, Šenkypl will actively lead the transformation of Groupon and oversee the daily operations … Read more
Prague, January 9, 2023 – The largest Czech auction portal Aukro.cz will be headed by Peter Topor from January 1, 2023. The current CEO Jan Sadílek will continue his work at Aukro and will now be in charge of the Collectors’ and Antiques area and will become Marketing Director.
Aukro is strengthening its management team. Peter Topor, who previously … Read more
After more than four years, Roivenue and our paths have diverged. We have found a strategic investor, ScanmarQED, who is buying 100% of the company.
ScanmarQED has its own portfolio of marketing analytics products. Roivenue will help with sales to its own clients as well as expansions into Western European and North American markets where it has built … Read more
Following the announcement of PFC’s first investment in Groupon in January this year, and the addition of partners Dušan Šenkypl and Jan Barta to Groupon’s Board of Directors, PFC is collaborating closely with the Groupon leadership team to help build a strong technology team to transform the company’s overall strategy.
Vojtěch Ryšánek, who previously served as CTO of Aukro.cz … Read more
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
