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Date	Name	Website	Total Raised	Location
07.03.2026	Navigara	navigara.com	$2.5M	United Sta...
24.07.2025	CulturePul...	culturepulse.ai	$1M	Slovakia, ...
08.07.2025	CRUXO	cruxo.io	$885.5K	Czechia, P...
08.07.2025	Valpas	valpashotels.com	$4.29M	Finland, M...
08.07.2025	Raus	raus.life	$6.14M	Germany, B...
24.06.2025	Filuta AI	filuta.ai	$6.8M	-
30.06.2023	Spotawheel	spotawheel.gr	$111.17M	Greece, At...
30.06.2023	Campiri	campiri.com	$4.91M	Czechia, P...
30.06.2023	apaleo	apaleo.com	$41.41M	Germany, B...
30.06.2023	FreewayCam...	freeway-camper.com	$30.66M	Germany, B...
26.01.2022	Lingvist	lingvist.com	$5.92M	Estonia, T...
26.01.2022	Vivere	vivere.io	-	Germany, H...
-	Manifesto ...	manifestomarket.com	-	Czechia, P...
-	Brand Emba...	brandembassy.com	$1M	-
-	Dreadlocks...	dreadlocks.cz	-	Czechia, P...
-	uLékaře.cz...	ulekare.cz	-	Czechia, P...
-	Storyous	storyous.com	-	Czechia, P...
-	ThreatMark	threatmark.com	$23M	Czechia, P...
-	Techloop	techloop.io	$5.95M	Czechia, P...
-	ChytryHonz...	chytryhonza.cz	-	Czechia, P...
-	Productboa...	productboard.com	$261.3M	United Sta...
-	Pex	pex.com	$64M	United Sta...
-	BudgetBake...	budgetbakers.com	$329.62K	Czechia, P...
-	SOCIFI	socifi.com	-	United Kin...
-	sambamarke...	samba.ai	-	Czechia, P...
-	3Dsimo	3dsimo.com	-	Czechia
-	SQLdep	sqldep.com	-	Czechia, P...
-	bezrealitk...	bezrealitky.cz	-	Czechia, P...
-	Gjirafa, I...	gjirafa.com	$8.7M	Kosovo, Pr...
-	Fundlift	fundlift.cz	-	Czechia, P...
-	PRESENTIGO...	presentigo.com	-	United Sta...
-	Voya	voya.ai	-	Germany, H...
-	Creditas	creditas.com.br	$555M	Brazil

Persons 11

Date	First Name	Last Name	Title	LinkedIn	Twitter	Email	Location
-	Karin	Louženská...	COO	linkedin.c...	-	-	-
-	Jakub	Ryba	Fund CFO	linkedin.c...	-	-	-
-	Robert	Chmelař	Rockaway A...	linkedin.c...	-	-	-
-	Eva	Faltusová	Investor		-	-	-
-	Max	Palko	Principal	linkedin.c...	-	-	-
-	Petr	Šmíd	General Pa...		-	-	-
-	Anna	Kreml	Investment...	linkedin.c...	-	-	-
-	Dušan	Zábrodský...	General Pa...	linkedin.c...	-	-	-
-	Joachim	Enegaard	Investor		-	-	-
-	Petr	Mahdal	CTO	linkedin.c...	-	-	-
-	Jakub	Havrlant	CEO Rockaw...	linkedin.c...	-	-	-

News 43

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14.07.2025	Rockaway Ventures at KVIFF: United Europe Tech Villa as a Launchpad for Ideas and Collaboration	During this year’s Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, we opened the doors to the United Europe Tech Villa — a space where technology, science, and venture capital came together to explore what’s next. In a setting that encouraged cre...
24.06.2025	Rockaway Ventures Leads $4.2M Seed Round in Czech AI Startup Filuta AI	Rockaway Ventures has led a $4.2 million (approximately €3.9 million) seed round in Filuta AI, a Czech startup based in Prague that is developing advanced AI solutions for automated game testing. The round also included participation from L...
15.04.2025	New Faces: Eva Faltusová and Joachim Enegaard Join the Team	We are re pleased to welcome Eva Faltusová and Joachim Enegaard to the Rockaway Ventures team. Their arrival brings additional depth, international perspective, and sector-specific experience to our investment activities across Europe. Eva ...
19.03.2025	Forbes Interview: "Rockaway Is No Longer Just About Jakub Havrlant. A New Era Brings Clearer Structure and a Focus on AI"	By Ondřej Kinkor (Forbes Česko): Jakub Havrlant’s Rockaway Capital is no longer a one-man vehicle. The group is entering a new phase defined by a clearer structure, greater autonomy across its divisions, and increased openness toward invest...
06.02.2025	Rockaway Ventures Invests in CulturePulse: Driving Innovation in Behavioral Analysis and Security Risk Prediction Across Europe and Beyond	Rockaway Ventures, a European investment fund under the Rockaway Capital group, has announced its investment in CulturePulse, an innovative American startup specializing in advanced behavioral modeling. By expanding its portfolio with such ...
31.01.2025	Cruxo Revolutionizes Supplier Advertising on E-commerce Platforms, Boosts E-shop Profits Across 6 Countries, and Secures a New CZK 15 Million Investment	Major e-commerce players in Europe are embracing the trend of optimizing their advertising space, where the potential for high-margin revenue lies—a game-changer in a competitive landscape where every percentage counts. Cruxo’s services are...
25.11.2024	Apaleo Secures €20 Million Growth Equity Investment Led by PSG to Accelerate Global Expansion	Apaleo, the API-first open property management platform, today announced it has raised €20 million in a growth equity investment round led by PSG Equity, a leading growth equity firm that specializes in partnering with software and technolo...
11.09.2023	Rockaway Ventures Strengthens German Footprint with Investment in Startup Raus	Raus has become the fourth German startup in the current portfolio of Rockaway Ventures, joining Apaleo, a cloud platform for the hotel industry, Freeway Camper, which specializes in motorhome rentals, and Vivere, a company providing compre...
31.08.2023	Embracing ESG principles is going beyond short-term financial gain	ESG has been with us for a while now. It has been slowly gaining momentum since the principles (Environmental, Social and Governance) were first mandated in financial evaluations through the 2006 United Nations’ PRI report. Initially, 63 in...
26.04.2023	Rockaway Ventures Fund expands its portfolio with the German startup Apaleo	After recent investments in the German FreewayCamper, the Czech platform Campiri or the Greek startup Spotawheel, Rockaway Ventures announced another interesting investment. This time to the German startup Apaleo, which focuses on developin...
13.09.2022	Dušan Zábrodský for Forbes.cz: A Decline is an Opportunity	The year 2021 was a truly an exceptional one for the entire European venture capital ecosystem. Fundraising for growth funds set a new record of EUR 20 billion and venture capital one of EUR 18 billion. Roughly 5300 companies were on the re...
20.06.2022	Rockaway Ventures announces another investment: Thanks to Germany's FreewayCamper it is once again betting on shared caravans	After recent investments in the Czech Campiri platform and the Greek Spotawheel start-up, Rockaway Ventures has announced another interesting investment. This time, it’s into Germany’s FreewayCamper, also supported by the founders of the su...
25.05.2022	Anna Kreml: New talent on a ventures team that's on the move	There are usually two types of university students. There are those who try to fly through their semesters as quickly as possible and give a wide berth to anything else university-related, and then there are those who take advantage of ever...
11.05.2022	Rockaway Ventures bets on Czech startup Campiri	Rockaway Ventures has once again made another important investment. This time it has set it sights on Czech start-up Campiri. The promising caravan sharing web platform, which is also available in Poland, Slovakia, and Greece is aiming to f...
02.05.2022	Rockaway Ventures completes first investment round with almost a quarter of the target amount of EUR 100 million and completes another investment	The Rockaway Ventures Fund (RVF), with a target value of EUR 100 million, has received roughly a quarter of this amount from investors in the first round, about 600 milion CZK. Its current portfolio, with recently completed investments in G...
04.02.2022	Productboard is now the most valuable Czech start-up. It obtained billions in another investment round and became unicorn	The Czech start-up, whose first investor in 2015 was the Rockaway Group headed by Jakub Havrlant, has announced another success. In its Series D investment round, Productboard has obtained $125 million and is now valued at $1.725 billion (C...
22.09.2021	Rockaway Ventures launches a fund focused on ESG investment in startups and announces its first two acquisitions	The investment team behind the Rockaway Capital’s successful investments in start-ups like Productboard, Brand Embassy, Gjirafa, or Storyous is launching a new venture capital fund, the Rockaway Ventures Fund, with a target size of EUR 100 ...
22.04.2021	$ 72 million for Productboard. The Czech start-up is once again stepping on the gas	Productboard helps product managers develop the right products based on customers’ needs and take them to market as quickly as possible. In recent years the company has succeeded in developing comprehensive software used for product develop...
16.04.2021	Andrea Lauren: Why the 160 million that's coming to BudgetBakers from the Netherlands makes me happy	Officially, the relationship between Rockaway and BudgetBakers goes back to 2017, when we made the first investment. But its roots go much deeper – because our portfolio also includes the StartupYard incubator, whose projects we monitor and...
14.04.2021	Start-up Budget Bakers from Rockaway’s portfolio has obtained a record investment from Holland	The EUR 6.25 million investment will span there years, giving the Dutch investors a minority share in BudgetBakers. The objective is to build a new pan-European platform in close cooperation with BudgetBakers and using their PSD2 licence, p...
09.04.2021	ThreatMark CEO Michal Tresner: "Phishing grew by 400 % last year. For us, it's an opportunity."	The now profitable start-up was founded in 2015, and first came to prominence three years later, when CzechInvest and Forbes Magazine named it Start-up of the Year. That ThreatMark is growing is also confirmed by the fact that this year Del...
18.02.2021	Andrea Lauren: How at Rockaway Ventures we're learning to put ESG into practice	I’ll freely admit that in 2005 I really didn’t think about ESG as an investment criterion. At that time I was in London at JPMorgan, working on large mergers and acquisitions and a couple of large IPOs, and none of my clients in any sector ...
15.01.2021	Dušan Zábrodský: How a crazy idea became the "Balkan Amazon" that's tearing down borders	Back then, we got the chance to build something from scratch in a country where nobody was very anxious to invest in similar start-ups. We got this opportunity thanks to Mergim Cahani, a young entrepreneur from Kosovo who decided to use the...
15.01.2021	Interview with Mergim Cahani, CEO of Gjirafa.com: We're changing the entire market, and I like that	His career in product development in New York was going well, but one courageous decision eight years ago changed everything. Back then, at the age of twenty-three, Mergim Cahani went home to visit his parents in Kosovo – and never returned...
14.01.2021	Andrea Lauren: Investor Knows Best? AKA ditching the rules of the game	Last week, CNBC and SDW published a beautiful graph that compared automaker Tesla’s market cap (at that time U$ 665, now already U$ 805 billion) with that of the ten biggest global automakers (U$ 668 billion that same day). The second numbe...
07.01.2021	Rockaway sells its stake in the Techloop start-up to the Finnish Alma Media Group	Today the Techloop start-up, which was founded in 2016 by Joao Duarte, Paul Cooper and Andrew Elliott, operates in the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Slovakia. It focuses on interconnecting companies and IT professionals, thus significantly i...
01.01.2021	Leading European FinTech company SaltPay invests in Storyous, a startup in the Rockaway Capital portfolio	This key investment, whose amount and other details none of the parties will comment on, comes at a time when thanks to the coronavirus pandemic the benefits of the Storyous solution for restaurant operations have become fully evident. This...
10.12.2020	Andrea Lauren: The IPO storm: how the global Covid-19 crisis has helped primary capital markets	Airbnb had repeatedly increased its quoted share price in the last month. After completing its investor roadshow, Airbnb had planned a price of U$ 56-60. But then DoorDash, a seven-year-old US food delivery company set its share price for i...
04.12.2020	Dušan Zábrodský: What's behind on-line grocery shopping and why the Czech Republic is the best at it in Europe	But do you have any idea of everything that has to be done before your weekend shopping makes it to your home, what we have to watch out for, and why the on-line grocery business is so complicated? And did you know that we’re among the very...
20.11.2020	Gjirafa and ThreatMark are among the 50 fastest-growing companies in Central Europe	“The inclusion in Deloitte’s Fast 50 Central Europe for 2020 is a terrific testament to the important work the team at ThreatMark does every day,” said Michal Tresner, ThreatMark’s CEO. “As the world goes through rapid digitalization proces...
10.11.2020	Storyous, Zdeněk Pohlreich, and Liftago have joined forces to present a delivery system that is fair to restaurants, delivery services, and consumers alike	“The OneMenu.cz service has been in operation since the spring wave of the epidemic as a way to order food from a take-away window on-line. Thanks to requests from many restaurants, we are now extending the service to also include delivery,...
09.11.2020	Andrea Lauren: An unexpected stop for the Ant Group IPO, and why the markets are happy with the results of the US election	By doing so it would have broken the record not only of its parent company, Alibaba Group, which in its 2014 IPO issued shares worth U$ 25 billion, but also that of last year’s debut by Saudi Arabia’s state-owned petroleum conglomerate, Sau...
30.10.2020	Andrea Lauren: When sustainability becomes the foundation of business (2/2)	Not everyone realizes that ecology isn’t the only thing meant by sustainability. A related term, ESG, stands for “Environmental, Social, and Governance”, meaning not only the ecological sustainability of what individual companies do or don’...
27.10.2020	Dušan Zábrodský: Restaurateurs, it's now or never: digitalization and adaptation will save your business. Start thinking different now	Originally I wanted to handle this commentary with one piece of advice: digitalize yourself and adapt your operation to demand. Because that’s how simple it is. But at the same time I want us all to understand the entire problem thoroughly ...
23.10.2020	Jakub Havrlant for iHned.cz: Czechs had no problem with the move to on-line; Czech e-commerce is top-notch. Let's accelerate the move to e-government as well	The coronavirus crisis has robbed us all of certainty, thrown our lives into turmoil, and has sent us into a situation that is new for us. Into unexplored territory. Nothing is as it was, the situation is changing from day to day according ...
19.10.2020	Andrea Lauren: Why in business it pays to bet on sustainability, i.e. How a marginal genre became mainstream (1/2)	Sustainability is a key topic that has come to the fore in connection with the global Covid-19 pandemic. Formerly a marginal matter in the eyes of investors and business leaders, it is now taking centre stage. The Financial Times devoted ni...
16.10.2020	"Let's save jobs in the restaurant industry!" Storyous is preparing to offer work to people who have lost their jobs in the restaurant industry	“We want to at least partly support those who will lose their jobs in the coming weeks. In this situation, it’s certainly not the fault of the businesses themselves if they have to close. At Storyous we will be glad to welcome people who ha...
01.08.2020	Jakub Havrlant: Why the state should support young tech companies with private sector investors	This is because a functional ecosystem of tech companies clearly increases the influx of private investment into the economy. It helps create successful companies, a huge number of new jobs, and a labour force with high added value. And, in...
17.06.2020	Rockaway has sold its stake in the German start-up Voya to Volkswagen Financial Services	“The Voya team has invested considerable resources and maximum energy into developing a product that today defines the highest quality in corporate travel management. This is confirmed, for example, by last year’s strategic partnership with...
13.05.2020	Storyous is deploying QR codes in restaurants for ordering and paying with mobile phones	“Every restaurant will obtain unique QR codes that it will place on tables. Customers will scan the code using their phones, choose and order from a digital menu, and will also pay with a card on-line. All will occur in a contactless manner...
03.04.2020	Igor Třeslín from Storyous for Forbes Czech Republic: Half of all pubs may not reopen. Let's do something about it. Order food on-line, pick it up contact-free at a window Government assistance? Ess...	Why is the entire restaurant industry, including Karpíšek, Punčochář, and Pohlreich, already sounding the alarm, when the quarantine is only in its third week? Out of the over 3000 establishments to which Storyous supplies point of sale sys...
26.03.2020	Number of apartments offered for rent on Bezrealitky rises sharply; sales in Prague also increased in March	In March, the number of apartments offered for rent increased by 16% nationwide and by as much as 44% in Prague, i.e. by more than half in comparison with the previous year. In the absolute majority of cases in Prague, this involves apartme...
15.01.2020	productboard raises a $45M Series B led by Sequoia Capital	We couldn’t wish for a better start of 2020. The world’s finest venture investors recognize the opportunity to change how digital products are made. It seems unbelievable that in the era of the digitization of everything, the product teams ...

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Date	Title	Description
08.03.2026	Navigara Secures $2.5 Million to Measure AI's True Impact on Engineering Performance	Navigara launched, securing $2.5 million in seed funding. It empowers engineering leaders. The platform measures AI tool impact and development performance. It offers data-driven insights for productivity and quality. Integrations with GitH...
07.03.2026	Navigara: $2.5 Million Raised For Engineering Performance Measurement Platform	Navigara announced its official launch alongside a $2.5 million seed funding round aimed at helping engineering leaders measure whether AI tools and development processes are actually improving software performance and productivity. The fun...
04.03.2026	Navigara Raises $2.5M in Seed Funding	Navigara, a San Francisco, CA-based developer of an engineering performance measurement layer, raised $2.5M in seed funding. The round was led by Inovo VC, with participation from Rockaway Ventures and QQ Capital. The company intends to use...
30.10.2025	Soft landing in Silicon Valley: how the European Startup Embassy helps CEE founders go global	The rate of startups building a US presence before series A increased from 33 per cent to 64 per cent in the last 5 years. And for CEE founders, the need is even higher: 50 per cent of CEE startups relocate to the US during scaling. On Octo...
23.10.2025	Американо-украинский стартап Vermeer привлек $10 млн на системы навигации дронов	Американско-украинский оборонно-технологический стартап Vermeer завершил раунд финансирования Series A, привлекший $10 миллионов. Раунд возглавила венчурная компания Draper Associates, а также в нем приняли участие AeroX Ventures, Boscolo I...
23.10.2025	Vermeer Reaches $10M in Total Series A Funding	Vermeer, a NYC-based vision navigation and autonomy defense tech startup, closed a $10m Series A funding. The round was led by Draper Associates and joined by AeroX Ventures, Boscolo Intervest, High Point Ventures, Rockaway Ventures, along ...
24.06.2025	Rockaway Ventures Leads $4.2M Seed Round in Czech AI Startup Filuta AI	Rockaway Ventures has led a $4.2 million (approximately €3.9 million) seed round in Filuta AI, a Czech startup based in Prague that is developing advanced AI solutions for automated game testing. The round also included participation from L...
16.05.2025	Rockaway Ventures: A New Dawn for Tech Investment in Central and Eastern Europe	In the heart of Europe, a financial phoenix is rising. Rockaway Ventures, a Czech-based investment fund, has closed its second fund, Rockaway Ventures II, at nearly €55 million. This isn’t just a number; it’s a signal. A signal that the win...
16.05.2025	Anthropic's met monthly with UK tech secretary, Wave Ventures triples fund size, and Gnosis acquires HQ.xyz for $15M	This week we tracked more than 75 tech funding deals worth over €909 million, and over 15 exits, M&A transactions, rumours, and related news stories across Europe. If email is more your thing, you can always subscribe to our newsletter ...
16.05.2025	Czech investment fund Rockaway Ventures targets game-changing tech with new €55 million raise	Prague-based Rockaway Ventures, the investment fund of Rockaway Capital, has announced the final close of its second fund Rockaway Ventures II, raising €55 million to support early-stage startups in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and othe...
16.05.2025	Rockaway Ventures closes €55M Fund to back transformative tech in CEE and beyond	Rockaway Ventures, a European investment fund under the Rockaway Capital group, has closed its second fund, Rockaway Ventures II, at nearly €55 million. The fund targets late-Seed and Series A tech startups with the potential to drive innov...
14.05.2025	Prague-Based Rockaway Ventures Closes Second Fund at Nearly €55M	Czech Republic ~ Company: Czech-based Rockaway Ventures, a European investment fund under the Rockaway Capital group, has announced the closing of its second fund, Rockaway Ventures II, at nearly €55 million. The fund targets late-seed and ...
11.03.2025	+++ FreewayCamper +++ Movinga +++ waterdrop +++ US-Zölle +++ Resilienz +++	Was gibt’s Neues? In unserem #StartupTicker liefern wir eine kompakte Übersicht über die wichtigsten Startup-Nachrichten des Tages (Dienstag, 11. März). #STARTUPLAND SAVE THE DATE: Am 5. November findet unsere zweite STARTUPLAND statt. Es e...
04.12.2024	Apaleo's €20 Million Investment: A Leap into Global Hospitality Innovation	In the bustling world of hospitality, where technology is the backbone of guest experiences, Apaleo has made a significant move. The Munich-based company recently secured €20 million in growth equity funding, led by PSG Equity. This investm...
03.12.2024	Apaleo: Open Property Management Platform Raises €20 Million	Apaleo, an API-first open property management platform, announced it has raised €20 million in a growth equity investment round led by PSG Equity. And existing investors Redalpine, FOMCAP IV, and Rockaway Ventures also participated in the r...
21.11.2024	Apaleo Receives €20M in Growth Equity Funding	Apaleo, a Munich, Germany-based provider of an API-first open property management platform, raised €20M in Growth Equity funding. The round was led by PSG Equity. Existing investors Redalpine, FOMCAP IV, and Rockaway Ventures also participa...
11.05.2022	Czech caravan rental platform rides in €4.64 million for Europe expansion	Czech digital caravan rental platform Campiri has raised an additional €2.7 million to supplement almost €2 million it acquired in the recently completed seed investment round. To date, the startup has raised €4.64 million, which will be us...
02.05.2022	Rockaway Ventures completes first investment round with almost a quarter of the target amount of EUR 100 million and completes another investment	The Rockaway Ventures Fund (RVF), with a target value of EUR 100 million, has received roughly a quarter of this amount from investors in the first round, about 600 milion CZK. Its current portfolio, with recently completed investments in G...
12.01.2022	Czech Rockaway Ventures launches a €100M fund targeting ESG investments	Czech Republic ~ Company: Czech-Republic-based venture capital fund Rockaway Ventures has launched a new fund with the target size of €100 million. The Rockaway Capital group is one of the main investors. The fund is eyeing startups in Cent...
-	Czech caravan rental platform rides in €4.64 million for Europe expansion	Czech digital caravan rental platform Campiri has raised an additional €2.7 million to supplement almost €2 million it acquired in the recently completed seed investment round. To date, the startup has raised €4.64 million, which will be us...

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