For Startups

Get your innovations on the domestic and global markets

Show us what makes you exceptional. We will show you the path that your business can take.

We are CzechInvest. We support start-ups and innovative entrepreneurs who bring forth new ideas, concepts and technologies. We are aware of their importance for economic development and the growth of the Czech economy, and we strive to give them the necessary support.

We accompany startups on the path of doing business. We help them in the early phases of their development, with introduction of initial prototypes to the market, with formulating a proper sales strategy, with addressing domestic and foreign partners, customers and investors, and with establishing branches around the world.

Our ecosystem comprises not only hundreds of startups, but also experts at home and abroad.

We have been helping startups since 2011

395

supported startups

startups sent abroad every month

branches established abroad

700

CZK million of investments in startups

What we help with

Do you want to clarify which direction to take with your startup?

Our mentors can overcome obstacles in technological development, assist you with setting up a business strategy and advise you on employee recruitment, marketing and finance.

Space for your stellar ideas

Via the European Spaces Agency Business Incubation Centre (ESA BIC), we support young companies that are bringing space technologies back to Earth or developing new technologies for use in space.

Other Activities

Czechstartups.org

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Creative Business Cup 2020

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Startup Europe

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Mentors

Liliana Berezkinová

Liliana spent seven years as head of the nanotechnology startup Nanopharma, for which she created a business model and IP portfolio and acquired a number of B2B strategic partners. She now runs the consulting firm Pipette & Chart and helps research and development companies advance from the laboratory to international B2B markets. As a mentor, she helps startups to identify new opportunities and innovations, create high-quality B2B presentations, validate technologies in practice, and lead and motivate teams.

Michal Hanych

Michal is an attorney and tax advisor. He most enjoys business and advises clients on how to prosper. He provides advice on business strategies and acquisitions, as well as on disputes, exits and international taxation. He is not afraid to deal with problems associated with new technologies and he understands that reality is different from written law.

Petr Pouchlý

As the captain of the independent company Court of Moravia, Petr has collaborated with more than 300 clients, from giant telco companies such as TowerCom to micro-projects with a team of two people. He dedicated himself to “fit to market” and business strategy for more than 100 projects. In connection with business mentoring, he works with company owners on addressing issues pertaining to operations management. Petr’s long-term clients currently include the security director of a major bank in Singapore and the head of the non-profit Czechitas.

David Miklas

David has more than seven years of experience with developing his own companies. His most significant achievements include the company be3D, which he successfully integrated into a multinational corporation and subsequently exited. He now focuses on building KeelCraft electric boats, co-owns a flight simulator, helps companies with innovations and advises startups. During the coronavirus crisis, he was behind the COVMASK project, which supplied Czech doctors and healthcare workers with more than 22,000 protective respirators made from snorkelling masks.

Blake Wittman

Blake has extensive experience in management and business from internet startups and global companies such as Philip Morris and Citibank. He is the creator of the passive job-search application GoodCall, which has become the market leader. He currently works at Goodcall, Recruitment Academy and Datacruit, where he is responsible for expansion and strategic partnership, with focus on commercialisation and marketing initiatives.

Jaroslav Trojan

Jaroslav has been a venture-capital and angel investor, mentor and consultant for startups in Central and Eastern Europe for more than nine years. He was previously a founding employee of Credo Ventures. He is currently the managing partner at Nation 1 VC, a fund that invests in startups. Among other things, he has served as a mentor in the startup accelerators Seedcamp, Wayra and StartupYard. Jaroslav focuses mainly on technology sectors, especially software, the internet and mobile technologies.

David Svoboda

David conducts innovative workshops in the United Kingdom and the Czech Republic focusing on presentation skills, the basics of graphic design for non-designers and mind maps. He collaborates with the TEDx Prague team on the preparation and training of Czech and foreign speakers. He has more than fifteen years of foreign experience from Intel, where he was responsible for preparing the market for future products and helped to implement innovative communication within the company. He is currently focused on visual communication within the Design-Restart project.

Karel Raiser

Karel is a financial specialist with many years of mentoring and teaching experience. He managed a project with turnover of USD 54 million, dealing with customer segmentation, price harmonisation, salesforce efficiency, investment optimisation and KPI reporting. He helps startups and newly established companies to define and manage their financial processes and prepare financial analyses for investors. He has experience with preparing investment incentives and negotiating with investors.

Are you interested in our mentors? Write to us at podporastartupu@czechinvest.org, and we will introduce them to you.

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