Czech startup Daytrip receives funding for further growth

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Despite the pandemic, the travel startup Daytrip is gaining additional capital for its development. Prague-based Pale Fire Capital is joining the existing investors J&T Ventures and Nation1. The money will be used to further develop the product and to position the company for the new growth of the travel market.

“In 2020, we were able to manage cash flow and Read more

LitFin Capital receives another 5 million Euros, this time from an investment group Pale Fire Capital

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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 announces an acquisition of a monitoring service UptimeRobot

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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.

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Pale Fire Capital invests in an operator of sauna worlds Saunia

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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

Pale Fire Capital invests in a Czech project AgData

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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

Pale Fire Capital and Martin Rozhoň invest in Scuk.cz

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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

We invested 600 thousand EUR in Czech startup Zuri

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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