Directory

Czech Republic startup ecosystem

The directory currently lists 65 organisations across 3 cities.

65 entries.

Adam

Prague, Czech Republic · Startup

Adam is a marketplace for tradespeople, effectively an on-demand platform for home renovation and construction services. Customers can book vetted painters, electricians, or renovation crews, while providers receive steady demand and streamlined scheduling. The company has expanded across Europe, including the UK, Spain, and France. By 2026, Adam is a visible Czech marketplace success in the home services sector.

Agile Prague

Prague, Czech Republic · Event Organisator

Community organiser behind the annual Agile Prague conference, one of the first agile-focused conferences in Central Europe. It brings together international speakers and local practitioners for two days of technical and practical talks, Open Space sessions, and a Coaches Clinic on agile, Scrum, and team practices.

Agile Prague (Sept 2026)

Prague, Czech Republic · Event

Agile Prague is one of the first agile-focused conferences in the heart of Europe, gathering more than 25 international speakers across two days at the OK System Conference Center on Pankrác. It blends technical and practical talks with a mid-day Open Space and a Coaches Clinic running through the breaks, fostering direct conversation on agile, Scrum, and team practices.

Apify

Prague, Czech Republic · Startup

Apify turns the web into an API by providing a platform where developers build and monetize “actors” that extract data from websites. It has become a critical part of the AI data supply chain, powering scraping, monitoring, and automation at scale. The company bootstrapped to profitability before raising capital and maintains a strong open developer ecosystem. By 2026, Apify is a global leader in web automation infrastructure.

Better Stack

Prague, Czech Republic · Startup

Better Stack is a Prague-founded observability platform built by engineers for engineers, led by Juraj Masar (CEO) and Veronika Kolejak (COO). The company is known for combining speed, lower cost, and strong product design in a unified stack that covers uptime monitoring, log management, incident response, and status pages. Its technical positioning emphasizes standard SQL over proprietary query languages and high-performance analytics on ClickHouse-based infrastructure. Better Stack's January 2024 Series A and extension brought total funding to about $28.6M, with Creandum, KAYA Ventures, and Susa Ventures among key investors plus notable angels from Box, Flexport, Neo4j, Yelp, Codecademy, and UiPath. Publicly shared company metrics reported more than 200,000 developers and 4,000+ customers, and by 2026 Better Stack is widely viewed as one of the strongest Czech global DevTools contenders.

Choice

Prague, Czech Republic · Startup

Choice provides QR payments and digital menus for restaurants, enabling faster ordering and higher table turnover. The platform is growing quickly across CEE and Eastern Europe as restaurants digitize front-of-house operations. It reduces staffing overhead while giving restaurants richer customer data. By 2026, Choice is a fast-scaling Czech restaurant-tech player.

Credo Ventures

Prague, Czech Republic · Venture Capital

Credo Ventures is a Prague-based early-stage VC focused on Central and Eastern Europe. The firm manages about EUR 250m across four funds and is currently investing out of Fund IV, writing initial checks up to roughly EUR 5m. Credo backs founders from pre-seed to Series A and has supported breakout CEE companies including UiPath, Productboard, and ElevenLabs. Key partners include Ondrej Bartos and Vladislav Jez, alongside partners such as Tomas Burian and Michal Cernocky. The firm is known for hands-on support and long-term follow-on capital in the region.

Cyrkl

Prague, Czech Republic · Startup

Cyrkl is a circular-economy marketplace described as “Tinder for industrial waste.” It enables factories to sell scrap materials such as plastics or metals to recyclers instead of landfilling them. The platform improves pricing transparency and accelerates reuse of materials across industrial supply chains. By 2026, Cyrkl is a recognized circular-economy player in CEE with growing cross-border adoption.

Czech Startup Week 2026 (Oct 2026)

Prague, Czech Republic · Event

Czech Startup Week is a unified, English-language platform initiated by CzechInvest that brings together startup founders, investors, corporates, and researchers for a week of keynotes, panels, workshops, pitch sessions, and networking. The programme includes the Technology Incubation and ESA BIC CZ Demo Day, Tech Happy Hours, and an investment conference across Prague.

CzechInvest

Prague, Czech Republic · Event Organisator

Investment and Business Development Agency of the Czech Republic, supporting startups, foreign investment, and innovation programmes. CzechInvest initiates Czech Startup Week, a unified English-language platform bringing founders, investors, corporates, and researchers together for keynotes, workshops, pitch sessions, and demo days.

Datamole

Prague, Czech Republic · Startup

Data, IoT and AI company building custom and pre-made machine-learning solutions for industrial clients in agriculture, manufacturing, biotech and foodtech, with a team of 80+ across Prague and Brno.

Daytrip

Prague, Czech Republic · Startup

Daytrip provides door-to-door private car transfers between cities, pairing long-distance travel with local driver-guides. The model serves tourists who want flexible, comfortable intercity travel without the hassle of trains or buses. The company is profitable and has expanded globally, including the US and Asia. By 2026, Daytrip is a recognized Czech travel-tech export.

DecisionRules

Prague, Czech Republic · Startup

Cloud-native no-code/low-code business rules engine (BRMS) for decision automation in pricing, credit scoring, claims, fraud and data validation; processes 100M+ decisions daily for clients in 30+ countries.

Deepnote

Prague, Czech Republic · Startup

Deepnote is a collaborative, browser-based data notebook often described as “Figma for data scientists.” It enables teams to explore data, build analyses, and share results in real time without the friction of local environments. By 2026, it is a default tool for modern data teams and has significant traction in the US market. The company is a Czech-born SaaS success story with global adoption.

DEPO Ventures

Prague, Czech Republic · Venture Capital

DEPO Ventures is a Prague-based angel investment platform and early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2016 by Michal Ciffra and Petr Sima. The firm focuses on pre-seed and seed-stage tech startups from the CEE and Baltic regions, with an emphasis on artificial intelligence, fintech, and tech marketplaces, and has invested over €10 million across its three angel funds, the largest of which targeted €20 million. Beyond capital, DEPO Ventures accelerates portfolio companies and facilitates access to its broader angel investor network.

DevConf.CZ 2026

Brno, Czech Republic · Event

Free, annual community conference organized by Red Hat Czech Republic, focusing on open source, Linux, cloud, and containerization. Attracts 1,800+ developers to Brno's Faculty of Information Technology. An essential event for open-source startups and developer hiring in the CEE region.

EURUKO 2026

Brno, Czech Republic · Event

European Ruby Conference hosted at Hotel Passage in Brno: two days of Ruby talks, community sessions, and international developer networking, preceded by an early-registration meetup on September 16.

Frontendisti.cz

Prague, Czech Republic · Event Organisator

Czech frontend developer community that organises FrontKon, Prague's frontend conference. The bilingual programme spans web technologies, accessibility, architecture, and AI across multiple stages plus workshops, drawing hundreds of developers and designers each edition.

FrontKon 2026 (Oct 2026)

Prague, Czech Republic · Event

FrontKon is Prague's frontend conference, returning to O2 Universum with more than 30 talks across three stages plus workshops and around 900 attendees. The bilingual programme (Czech with English interpretation for international speakers) goes beyond frontend basics to cover web technologies, accessibility, architecture, and AI.

GUG.cz

Prague, Czech Republic · Event Organisator

GUG.cz is the Czech Google Developer Group community and organiser of DevFest.cz, Prague's community developer conference. The volunteer-run organisation hosts meetups and an annual conference covering AI, Android, web, cloud, Flutter, security, and open source for the local developer community.

Hedepy

Prague, Czech Republic · Startup

Hedepy is an online therapy platform connecting patients with certified psychotherapists via video. It has expanded across more than ten European markets, offering multilingual access and flexible scheduling. The service addresses mental health capacity shortages by making therapy easier to access and scale. By 2026, Hedepy is a leading Czech health-tech company in digital mental health.

Inventoro

Prague, Czech Republic · Startup

Inventoro provides AI-driven sales forecasting and inventory optimization for SMB retailers. The platform recommends what to order, when to reorder, and how to reduce dead stock, helping merchants improve margins. It integrates with POS and ecommerce systems to automate demand planning without enterprise complexity. By 2026, Inventoro is a fast-growing Czech AI retail-tech company.

Karel Zheng

Prague, Czech Republic · Person

General Partner at KAYA VC, the Prague-headquartered early-stage fund focused on Central and Eastern Europe, which closed a €70M fund in 2025. He joined KAYA in 2018, founded a B2B SaaS startup in between, and now invests from pre-seed to Series A in AI, developer tools and vertical software.

KAYA Ventures

Prague, Czech Republic · Venture Capital

KAYA is a Prague-based venture capital firm that invests early in ambitious founders building category-defining technology companies, staying involved from inception through to market leadership. Operating as an equal partnership, it backs Central European and international startups across software and deep tech.

Keboola

Prague, Czech Republic · Startup

Keboola provides an all-in-one data operations platform for connecting, cleaning, and orchestrating data pipelines. It is known for flexibility, modularity, and an enterprise-grade pay-as-you-go model. The company has been profitable for years and raised a late Series A to accelerate global expansion. By 2026, Keboola is a trusted DataOps layer for mid-market and enterprise customers.

Kiwi.com

Brno, Czech Republic · Startup

Kiwi.com is a Brno-founded online travel agency that uses proprietary Virtual Interlining technology to combine flights from airlines that do not formally codeshare, creating unique multi-carrier itineraries unavailable on traditional booking platforms. The platform searches across 750+ carriers including low-cost airlines, trains, and buses to find the cheapest routes. Founded in 2012 by Oliver Dlouhy, the company grew rapidly and became one of the largest travel booking platforms in Europe, processing tens of millions of bookings annually. Kiwi.com also offers a Guarantee product that protects travelers on self-transfer connections.

Kontent.ai

Brno, Czech Republic · Startup

Kontent.ai is a Brno-based headless CMS platform that decouples content creation from front-end presentation, enabling enterprises to manage and deliver content across websites, mobile apps, kiosks, and IoT devices through a unified API. Originally spun out of Kentico Software by founder Petr Palas, the platform combines structured content modeling with AI-powered features for personalization and workflow automation. Kontent.ai serves mid-market and enterprise customers globally, competing with Contentful and Storyblok in the composable digital experience space.

Liftago

Prague, Czech Republic · Startup

Liftago is a Prague-based ride-hailing and delivery marketplace founded in 2012 that connects passengers and businesses with licensed professional taxi drivers and courier services. Unlike Uber and Bolt, Liftago works exclusively with regulated taxi operators, positioning itself as a compliant alternative in the Czech market. The platform expanded into last-mile delivery and B2B logistics, helping restaurants and retailers fulfill same-day orders. Liftago has become one of the most widely used mobility apps in Prague, with a strong network of professional drivers and fleet partnerships.

Malcom Finance

Prague, Czech Republic · Startup

Malcom Finance (formerly 4Trans) provides factoring and financing for truck drivers and logistics SMEs. Its underwriting leverages real-time telematics and operational data to assess risk more accurately than traditional banks. This enables faster payouts and more flexible credit for transport operators who are cash-flow constrained. By 2026, Malcom is a fast-growing Czech fintech focused on the logistics economy.

Manta

Prague, Czech Republic · Startup

Manta is a data lineage and metadata-management platform that gives organisations visibility into their data environments by automatically scanning the data stack and mapping data flows, sources, transformations and dependencies. By generating this lineage and an audit trail, it helps businesses trace where data originated and how it evolved, and can discover and anonymise sensitive data to reduce regulatory risk. Founded in Prague in 2016, Manta was acquired by IBM in October 2023 and its data lineage was integrated into IBM's watsonx data and AI governance portfolio.

Manuel Matuzović

Prague, Czech Republic · Person

Web developer, author, and trainer specialising in web accessibility, HTML, and CSS. A recognised voice in the accessibility community and a confirmed speaker at FrontKon 2026 in Prague, where he covers building inclusive, standards-based web interfaces.

Mewery

Brno, Czech Republic · Startup

Mewery is a food-tech and biotech startup cultivating pork meat using microalgae-based processes. The hybrid approach reduces the cost and complexity of lab-grown meat by combining cell cultivation with plant inputs. This positions the company to deliver cultured meat products faster and at lower price points than traditional cellular agriculture methods. By 2026, Mewery is a notable Central European pioneer in sustainable protein.

Mews

Prague, Czech Republic · Startup

Mews is a cloud-native property management system built to replace legacy hotel software with an API-first platform. It powers hotel operations from booking and pricing to payments and guest communications, enabling chains to modernize at speed. By 2026, Mews is aggressively acquiring smaller travel-tech vendors and expanding global enterprise contracts, positioning itself as the default operating system for modern hospitality. The company is a Czech-born unicorn with a strong international footprint and deep Prague engineering roots.

Oddin.gg

Prague, Czech Republic · Startup

Oddin.gg is a B2B provider of esports odds feeds, risk management, and trading tools. It supplies real-time probabilities for esports titles such as Counter-Strike and League of Legends, enabling betting operators to price markets reliably. The company has become a global leader in esports wagering infrastructure. By 2026, Oddin.gg is one of the Czech Republic’s most internationally recognized gaming-tech exports.

Open Source Summit Europe 2026 (Oct 2026)

Prague, Czech Republic · Event

Open Source Summit Europe is the Linux Foundation's premier vendor-neutral conference for the global open-source ecosystem, featuring keynotes, breakout sessions, and a Solutions Showcase. The 2026 edition is hosted in Prague, convening maintainers, developers, technologists, and community leaders shaping the future of open source, with co-located events on the preceding days.

Patron GO

Prague, Czech Republic · Startup

AI-powered personal finance app that detects unnecessarily high payments and subscriptions in users' bank accounts and recommends better offers. Operating in Czechia and Slovakia, it has passed 350,000 users.

Pavel Lukeš

Prague, Czech Republic · Person

Technology leader heading IT at Direct pojišťovna / Direct Technologies, where he led the rebuild of the insurer's core systems around AI and multi-agent delivery. A confirmed speaker at FrontKon 2026 in Prague on AI-first software delivery.

Productboard

Prague, Czech Republic · Startup

Productboard is a Prague-founded software company building one of the defining systems of record for modern product management. The platform helps teams collect customer feedback, connect it to feature requests, prioritize product decisions, and communicate roadmaps across engineering, sales, and leadership. That matters because product work often suffers from fragmented information spread across support systems, CRM notes, internal docs, and ad hoc spreadsheets. Productboard turns that sprawl into a more structured workflow for deciding what should be built and why. In the Central and Eastern European ecosystem, it is a particularly strong reference case because it proves that category-leading B2B SaaS products can emerge from Prague and scale globally while retaining a major engineering footprint in the region. It also occupies an important position in the software operating stack of growth companies, since fast-moving startups need better ways to align customer demand with product execution. As a result, Productboard is not only a Czech success story, but also a useful link between early-stage product discipline and later-stage organizational scale.

Recombee

Prague, Czech Republic · Startup

AI-powered real-time recommendation and personalized search engine offered as a SaaS API; uses 100+ proprietary ML models and the ReQL query language, serving media, streaming, e-commerce and marketplaces.

Resistant AI

Prague, Czech Republic · Startup

Resistant AI focuses on AI-driven fraud detection for financial services, specifically identifying manipulated documents used in KYC and onboarding. Its models detect fake paystubs, doctored IDs, and synthetic documents that bypass traditional checks. As digital fraud grows more sophisticated, Resistant AI has become a critical partner for fintechs and banks. By 2026, it is a leading Czech player in the FinTech security category.

Riki Fridrich

Prague, Czech Republic · Person

Veteran Czech-Slovak JavaScript developer and educator with two decades of frontend experience across companies such as Outreach, Mall.cz, TopMonks, and Economia. He teaches JavaScript through public and corporate courses and speaks regularly at conferences; a confirmed speaker at FrontKon 2026 in Prague.

Rockaway Capital

Prague, Czech Republic · Venture Capital

Rockaway Capital is a Prague-based investment group founded in 2013 by Jakub Havrlant, focusing on e-commerce, e-travel, media, fintech, and blockchain ventures across DACH, CEE, and the Balkans. The group's portfolio companies have generated aggregated revenues exceeding €2.5 billion and employ more than 5,000 people in 17 European countries. A notable exit was the sale of its stake in Mall Group, a leading CEE e-commerce platform, to Allegro for $1.13 billion.

Rohlik Group

Prague, Czech Republic · Startup

Rohlik Group is the Czech Republic's flagship ecommerce and logistics scale-up, often compared to Ocado for its vertically integrated model. The company dominates online grocery across Central Europe and operates the Knuspr brand in Germany and Austria, pairing premium assortment with fast delivery windows. By 2026, Rohlik is heavily automating fulfillment to push down unit economics while expanding warehouse capacity across CEE. Its influence is outsized locally, acting as a talent magnet and a repeat-founder factory for the Prague ecosystem.

Rossum

Prague, Czech Republic · Startup

Rossum specializes in intelligent document processing, moving beyond basic OCR to cognitive data capture. Its AI reads invoices, shipping manifests, and other structured documents with human-like accuracy, automating workflows for logistics, manufacturing, and finance. The company is scaling rapidly in the US market and positioning itself as the backbone for enterprise document automation. By 2026, Rossum is one of the Czech ecosystem's most credible soonicorns.

Sara Polak

Prague, Czech Republic · Person

Archaeologist turned technology strategist and futurist who writes and speaks about artificial intelligence, the future of work, and how emerging technology reshapes society. A confirmed speaker at FrontKon 2026 in Prague.

Sewio

Brno, Czech Republic · Startup

Sewio is a Brno-based company specializing in ultra-wideband (UWB) real-time location systems (RTLS) for indoor tracking of assets, vehicles, and people in industrial environments. Its platform delivers centimeter-level positioning accuracy inside warehouses, factories, and logistics centers where GPS signals cannot reach. Sewio's technology is used for workflow optimization, safety zone enforcement, and forklift fleet management by manufacturers and logistics operators worldwide. The company is a recognized leader in the European RTLS market and was acquired by Siemens subsidiary Enlighted in 2022.

Signal Festival 2026

Prague, Czech Republic · Event

Signal Festival 2026 transforms Prague over four October nights (15–18 October 2026) with large-scale light installations, projections, kinetic sculptures and digital art across the city, under the theme 'Dream on! – Dreams and Visions'. The Czech Republic's largest festival of digital and creative culture, it pairs free outdoor installations with the ticketed Signal INSIDE zone; the full 2026 artist programme is unveiled on 2 September 2026.

Smartsupp

Brno, Czech Republic · Startup

Conversational e-commerce platform combining live chat, chatbots and an AI shopping assistant (Mira) to engage visitors and convert leads; used on 100,000+ websites, with leading live-chat market share in Central Europe.

Spaceti

Prague, Czech Republic · Startup

PropTech platform unifying workplace apps and building systems (BMS, HVAC, lighting, access, IoT) into one AI-driven layer for space utilization, booking, digital twins and ESG tracking across real estate portfolios.

Tatum

Prague, Czech Republic · Startup

Tatum is a developer platform that unifies dozens of blockchain protocols into a single API, allowing enterprises to build crypto features without specialized blockchain teams. The platform abstracts wallet creation, transactions, and smart contract interactions into simple endpoints. By 2026, Tatum positions itself as the “Stripe for crypto infrastructure,” serving banks and fintechs that want to launch regulated digital-asset services. Its focus is on reliability and developer speed rather than speculative crypto exposure.

TBM Group

Prague, Czech Republic · Event Organisator

TBM Group is an international conference and events organization company headquartered in Prague, Czech Republic, with a secondary office in Skopje, North Macedonia. The company specializes in organizing data-driven B2B conferences across industries including energy, IT, finance, and healthcare, with a portfolio of over 600 events and more than 40,000 attendees worldwide. TBM Group is the official organizer of the AI Tech Summit series, including the 2026 edition held in Belgrade at the Sava Center in September.

Tejas Kumar

Prague, Czech Republic · Person

Developer relations engineer, author, and international conference speaker focused on web development, JavaScript, and AI tooling. A keynote speaker at FrontKon 2026 in Prague, he is known for talks on modern frontend architecture and developer experience.

The Linux Foundation

Prague, Czech Republic · Event Organisator

Nonprofit foundation supporting open-source projects worldwide and organiser of Open Source Summit Europe, its premier vendor-neutral open-source conference. The Europe edition convenes maintainers, developers, technologists, and community leaders, and in 2026 is hosted in Prague with co-located events.

Twisto

Prague, Czech Republic · Startup

Twisto is a Prague-based fintech founded in 2013 by Michal Smida, offering buy-now-pay-later and digital payment solutions across Central Europe. The platform allows consumers to defer payments at checkout and manage spending via a mobile app and virtual card, while merchants benefit from higher conversion rates. Twisto expanded into Poland and Romania before being acquired by Zip Co (Australia) in 2022 for approximately $97 million. The company helped pioneer BNPL adoption in CEE and remains a notable Czech fintech exit story.

Woltair

Prague, Czech Republic · Startup

Woltair is a digital marketplace and installation platform for heat pumps and solar systems. It streamlines the complex process of finding qualified contractors, securing subsidies, and completing installations. By 2026, the company is a notable Czech green-tech player pushing heat pump adoption across Central Europe. Its operational advantage is a software-driven workflow layered on top of local installer networks.