THERE'S NO ELEVATOR TO SUCCESS. YOU HAVE TO TAKE THE STAIRS.
INVESTING IN PEOPLE WITH VISION AND INTEGRITY
“Chase the vision, not the money; the money will end up following you.”
–Tony Hsieh, Zappos CEO
ALICE TECHNOLOGIES
Palo Alto / Stanford University, USA ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN CONSTRUCTION ENGINEERING
Rene Morkos, a PhD from Stanford, a modest, charismatic guy with astonishing life course, sound professional experience and astute thinking. I knew him for mere three hours and we agreed I would financially support his amazing project in its earliest stage. As of today his company raised 16+mio USD from Lightspeed Venture Partners, Merus Capital and private equity and Stanford's StartX fund.
His software ALICE is the world's first automated Building Information Model (BIM) generating thousands of viable scheduling options at the push of a button, resulting in optimized construction schedule, huge time and cost savings. Interest and support from industry players confirms this might be a new opportunity to transform the whole industry.
FRIPITO
Las Vegas, USA / Prague, Czech Republic MOBILE APP WITH TRAVEL GUIDES from PHOTOGRAPHERS for PHOTOGRAPHERS
Jan Brezina, a guy who is always on the road, always working and always having fun. Professional photographer, Apple trainer and addicted traveller. I noticed him when running a „kickstarter“ campaign for his FRIPITO project, and after he was being told by VCs his project is too small for them to fund we agreed on seed funding. Yes the deal took perhaps more than a month, but it was beacause he vanished to a few globetrotting adventures…
What matters to your photo travels most is to be in the right place at the right time, to catch the perfect light. Fripito guides are being created by local photographers willing to share their good experiences. Thus in Fripito you find carefuly thought out directions to quiet, interesting spots with instructions on how to capture their authentic atmosphere and spirit.
ADVERI
Prague, Czech Republic
CUSTOMER ENGAGEMENT PLATFORM. MOBILE w. REAL-WORLD INTERACTONS.
Ondrej Novak, Jan Hovora, two geeks, big fans of technological challenges, sci-fi, games, space, VR, Bitcoins, machine learning, crazy about any tiny gadgets. Jan was a co-founder of the biggest gaming company in CZ (Bohemia Interactive), Ondrej developed amazing time-critical, rock-solid database systems for them, later also for the local competitor of Google (Seznam). Their initial idea seemed too crazy to multiple VCs, hence we agreed on investing and product strategy together. In 4 weeks.
Customer Engagement Platform “Happyfeed” expands communication beyond CRM, to areas where people are in a happy mind set: community, event, zoo, museum. Co-marketing, data, distribution of limited coupons, interaction with places/products are examples of tools a company may use to build up long-term relationships with customers.
KRC PARTNERS
Prague, Czech Republic
STRATEGIC PURCHASING
USING CLOUD SOFTWARE
Tomas Koutek, a jolly good fellow, for long 16 years he´s been totally obsessed with purchasing, his mind day-and-night tuned to finding new processes and software architecture for companies of any size or industry. He loves to sell his solutions just as he likes to give his advice free to anyone in need. We agreed on investment deal within 6 weeks – it took so long for he used numerous purchasing tactics when negotiating - oh man, it was seriously tough!
His strategy, process design and corresponding software are totally focused on delivering organizations measurable business value - cost and time savings, from spend visibility, RT bidding, supply strategy, contract compliance, thru purchasing as a new strategic revenue stream to design-to-cost. All software solutions are cloud, modular and mobile.
XELLE LIFE
Prague, Czech Republic
MAKING A BETTER WORLD
FOR WOMEN IN XL BODIES
Katarina Krajcovicova, a lawyer from Slovakia, a beautiful plussize lady, living herself the life of XL woman, very caring, empathetic, warm-hearted, with a rare gift of compassionate communicaton as well as a strength to speak up her vulnerable and dark parts of her XL life. I met her when walking on a Sahara "spiritual" journey, where by campfire I listened about her life-story and her wish to make the lives of likewise women, in their XL bodies, more respectful, happy and full.
Her mission is to transform the world into a "Safe Place", where plussize women can feel that everything is OKay, may discover their self-esteem and need not to be invisible any more. This includes support form various partners, providing their products and services available for XL women, be it fashion company, fitness or furniture. Xelle Life organizes fashion shows for women of all sizes, inspire fashion companies to make new collections in XL sizes, events where XL women can feel welcome, mobile app as navigator in that Safe Place, XL life style magazine or Xelle Active program, in online and offline forms to name a few.
LOUDCAKE
Prague, Czech Republic
VIOLENCE-FREE GAME FOR KIDS
from Game Veterans and Dads, with Love
Jan Zamecnik, a really special guy, who develops games from his childhood, knowing every bit of game design and production, modest and caring, extremely smart in every bit of human activities, not limitied to games, technologies and music. He can always find a (best) solution should any problem arise, even the best version of possible solutions.
While working for many sound games studios he kept dreaming of developing a nice kids fantasy game, short of violence, the game the mum will not ban and dad will love to play with his kid along.
So we have been sitting in a pizza for a few months and then we decided to build a true new game studio focused on the console games for kids, the games which may bring joy, fantasy, kid adventure story, love and warmth to the families. And we are lucky enough to attract a great sort of game veterans who already have their kids while there are not too many games they would like to play with them...
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NEW PROJECT
IN PROGRESS
Prague, Czech Republic
GENTLEMAN CLUB
OF CONSCIOUS INVESTMENTS
coming in 2025+
NEW PROJECT
IN PROGRESS
Prague, Czech Republic
TRUST SEED FOR COMING 100 YEARS
...coming 2025+