Start-ups

Avast’s history dates back to the 1980s, when its founders – Pavel Baudiš and Eduard Kučera – began development of the first anti-virus software. Since then, the company has become a player on the global scale and currently offers its services to more than 435 million users and its products are the number-one most used anti-virus programs in the world. This is also due in part to Avast’s takeover of its former competitor AVG Technologies at a cost of USD 1.3 billion. Under the leadership of COO Vince Steckler, Avast was listed on the London Stock Exchange in 2018.

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Liftago is a Czech start-up that has established itself among customers even alongside a billion-dollar foreign competitor. The company currently has more than 1,500 licensed drivers and over 500,000 customers. Although this is a Czech-Slovak business success story, it involves the highest-rated taxi application in the world according to ratings on Google Play and App Store. The application connects licensed taxi drivers with passengers, whom it allows to select from offers of drivers on the basis of their ratings, arrival time, vehicle type and price estimate. The company is newly using its licensed drivers to provide courier and product delivery services and is thus fulfilling its vision of sustainable mobility. The application can now be used by customers in eight Czech cities as well as in the capitals of our eastern neighbours and is continuing to grow. In 2018, Liftago’s turnover increased by more than one-third year on year to CZK 300 million. The company was established in 2012 by Martin Hausenblas, Juraj Atlas and current CEO Ondřej Krátký. Liftago’s objective is to make full use of the vehicles that already exist in cities and thus not unnecessarily overwhelm them with more.

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Warhorse Studios is a Czech independent development studio focused on creation of computer games. The studio’s founders are Dan Vávra, who gained notoriety with the world-famous Mafia and Mafia 2 games, and Martin Klíma, who found success with his Dračí doupě. In 2018, the studio achieved fame with Kingdom Come: Deliverance, a game set in the middle ages, which enjoyed success around the world. More than one million units were sold in a single week and sales figures for 2018 exceeded two million, while the company’s revenues are estimated at CZK 1 billion.

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Avocode is a software tool that simplifies the work of designers and developers around the world. Avocode makes it possible to export individual elements from graphics files without the aid of a graphics editor. Stated simply, Avocode translates designs into code for websites and mobile applications. Avocode’s customers include, among others, Intel, Accenture, Salesforce and Panasonic. A major success for Avocode was its acceptance into the 500 Startups accelerator.

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The Czech company productboard offers a platform of the same that helps product managers direct product development by collecting and consolidating feedback from customers. Based on that feedback, it enables product managers to make better decisions regarding the future form of their products. A total of USD 19.7 million has been invested in productboard by a group of investors led by the venture-capital fund Kleiner Perkins of Silicon Valley. productboard is already being used by more than 2,000 customers including, for example, Avast, Fox News, UiPath and DellEMC. In 2021 productboard announced they have raised USD 72 million in Series C funding led by Tiger Global Management.

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