Rockaway Capital

Rockaway Capital SE is a venture capital firm specializing in startup and early stage investments. It primarily invests in the consumer internet sector and e-commerce and considers investments in industries including, B2B SaaS, games, travel and transportation, ticket sales, financial services, customer system, media, and travel. The firm prefers to invest with a global perspective. It is a leading investor in Central and Eastern Europe. It seeks to invest $15 million in Czech projects. Rockaway Capital SE was founded in 2013 and is based in Prague, Czech Republic, with additional offices in San Francisco, California and Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Robert Chmelar

Investment Partner

Jaroslaw Czernek

Investment Partner

Viktor Fischer

Investment Partner

Jakub Havrlant

CEO

Jan Jírovec

Investment Partner

MK

Martin Konop

Investment Manager

Andrea Lauren

Investment Partner

Dusan Zabrodsky

Investment Partner

56 past transactions

Voya GmbH

Series A in 2018
Voya is the first business travel service that both travelers and their companies love. We are building a chat-based business travel service, enabling busy travelers to book and manage their travel within seconds by sending a simple text message. Combining latest A.I. technologies with human intelligence allows us to provide our customers with the best and most responsive service. Companies love Voya for the incredibly easy on-boarding process, quick integration of accounting systems, and easy implementation of guidelines and approval processes.

Euro Media Group S.A.

Acquisition in 2017
Euro Media Group (EMG) is Europe’s leading provider of broadcast facilities and services, active in 7 countries: France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, the UK, Switzerland and Italy. The Group combines unique know-how and world-renowned expertise to master the entire value chain from image creation to distribution. EMG places innovation at the heart of its strategy, allowing the group to offer its customers unrivalled services to enrich and manage high value-added content and to provide viewers and internet users an ever richer and more exciting experience.

productboard

Series A in 2018
ProductBoard, Inc. develops and operates Software-as-a-Service platform for product management. Its software platform enables product teams to understand what users need, prioritize what to build, share roadmaps, monitor progress towards launch, earn colleagues trust, and engage customer community. ProductBoard, Inc. was founded in 2014 and is based in Oakland, California with an additional office in Prague, Czech Republic.

SOCIFI

Seed Round in 2014
SOCIFI Ltd. provides a 4G/WiFi monetization and marketing, advertising, and communication platform. The company offers solutions to setup and promote brands; manage brands, advertisement campaigns, and hotspots; and import collected users’ data to various systems for operators, brands, and venues. It offers a network for advertisers to earn money; and SOCIFI Media Network, an advertising platform that allows WiFi and 4G operators (publishers) to serve their visitors with WiFi advertisements targeted by location, device, age, and gender. The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

AERGO

Venture Round in 2018
AERGO is an open platform that allows businesses to build innovative applications and services by sharing data on a trustless and distributed IT ecosystem.AERGO is an open-source based platform that features customisable hybrid-blockchain deployments, a server-less cloud architecture, and data bridging technology. AERGO’s architecture will allow enterprises to transfer data without having to trust an intermediary while also being flexibly governed and integrated into existing systems.

Agoric

Venture Round in 2019
Agoric Systems Operating Company develops an opencable application platform for smart contracts that can connect to public and private blockchains. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Zarpo Viagens S.A.

Venture Round in 2014
Zarpo is one of the leading online travel agency in Brazil, based on a flash sale model providing to its members exclusive deals on premium hotels, resorts and airlines and a best-in-class customer service. Zarpo has been growing quickly, reached profitability, and earned significant awards from the tourism market over the past years. The company also benefits from a strong brand recognition and has a Net Promoter Score above 80 from both clients and hotel partners.

Parfemy.cz

Venture Round in 2014
Parfemy.cz is a company of online shopping which is servicing and providing the best.

DoDo

Series B in 2022
DoDo is the smart delivery service specializing in last-mile and same-day delivery of goods to the end customer. DoDo is currently the technological leader with its data-driven solution and agile processes. We already managed to ensure long-term contracts and pilot projects with multiple high-profile retail and gastro customers ensuring us a substantial turnover growth and margins. In DoDo we plan to invest in its SW system architecture to further optimize the delivery process based on big data, AI and automatization. The goal is to be the prime provider with its scalable solution. Same-day-delivery is expected to be an important service for all retail players and DoDo plans to continue with the acquisition of these clients especially in the Central European region. The indisputable advantage is easy implementation into the existing solution. Our flexible procedures and processes are easily adaptable to meet exactly what partner´s business needs. DoDo is managing over 600+ cars, 1300+ couriers in 4 countries.

NetRetail Holding

Acquisition in 2015
The roots of Netretail Holding Group date back to the year 2000, when our first shop, www.bilezbozi.cz, was launched. It became a truly legendary shop with kitchen appliances in the Czech Republic, mainly for its unbiased customer service it offered. Shortly afterwards, we launched additional shops with other mass consumer items. We have ventured into DIY, petfood, sport and fashion. Our Czech venture has gained the status of the pure play market leader, a position that has continued to strengthened over time. We launched our shops in Slovakia and Hungary in 2005 and Poland in 2006 and Germany in 2007. We divested Germany in 2011, and refocused ourselves in CEE. We acquired a minority position in Slovenian market leader later in 2011 and we are actively looking for opportunities to grow our business both organically and through partnerships. Netretail Holding Group is now a part of Naspers (JSE: NPN), a global media company with notable investments in Internet companies worldwide.

Silicon Jelly

Venture Round in 2014
Silicon Jelly is an independent gaming studio with high quality support.

Bileto

Seed Round in 2014
Bileto is cloud-based tool for selling transport tickets, managing operations and sharing key information between transport providers and ticket selling points easily.

Vega Protocol

Seed Round in 2019
Fully automated processes and incentives for trading margined financial products allow for markets that are open and decentralised, with pseudonymous participants.

VIVERE GmbH

Venture Round in 2021
VIVERE GmbH designs and develops its platform through which it provides services of consultation logistics to its users. The platform provides features, such as technology and aid, building quality products, entrepreneurship, and customer centricity. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Wiesbaden, Hessen, Germany.

Dreadlocks

Seed Round in 2014
Dreadlocks Ltd develops multiplatform games, augmented reality, and applications for Oculus Rift and Durovis Dive platforms. It focuses on Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS, Android, Windows Phone, BlackBerry, NVIDIA Shield, Ouya, Mad Catz M.O.J.O., PlayStation mobile, and Next Gen consoles platforms. The company was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in Prague, Czech Republic. It has an additional office in London, United Kingdom.

Lingvist Inc

Venture Round in 2021
Lingvist is language learning software based on mathematical optimization and statistical analysis. It is designed to help users learn new languages within 200 hours. Its smart algorithm tracks the progress and mistakes of users, and adapts lessons in real time to match their levels and memory patterns. Lingvist is available for iOS and Android devices. Lingvist was launched by Ott Jalakas, Mait Muntel, Andres Koern, and Tanel Hiir in 2013 and is operated from Tallinn, Estonia.

Gjirafa

Series B in 2019
Gjirafa is for over 12 million of people who speak Albanian language worldwide, and who can’t search the Albanian web, due to their very unique language. Gjirafa, is an Albanian search engine and a news aggregator that uses natural language processing to finally make the Albanian web accessible to all.

Gjirafa

Series A in 2016
Gjirafa is for over 12 million of people who speak Albanian language worldwide, and who can’t search the Albanian web, due to their very unique language. Gjirafa, is an Albanian search engine and a news aggregator that uses natural language processing to finally make the Albanian web accessible to all.

productboard

Series A in 2019
ProductBoard, Inc. develops and operates Software-as-a-Service platform for product management. Its software platform enables product teams to understand what users need, prioritize what to build, share roadmaps, monitor progress towards launch, earn colleagues trust, and engage customer community. ProductBoard, Inc. was founded in 2014 and is based in Oakland, California with an additional office in Prague, Czech Republic.

ThreatMark s.r.o.

Series A in 2017
Fraud Hurts. ThreatMark “Online Fraud Prevention as-a-Service” provider with the most complex all-in-one solution providing real-time recognition of legitimate customers and cyber-criminals Reduction of the usage of passwords and sms-verifications cost savings Saving operational, analysis and implementation costs in fraud prevention domain Able to be fully operated in days for a fraction of costs! We prevent online fraudulent transactions and negative effects associated with fraud, both on client and business. Attackers are able to adapt in hours and change their attack vector to bypass any isolated solution or weak combination. Present fraud detection/prevention solutions are having a hard time catching up with attackers as the solutions cover just one or few attackers vectors, cannot be integrated into complex security solutions to cover all possible vectors. That’s why ThreatMark AFS is the first “one box solutions that covers all possible attackers’ vectors”. We also help our customers to resolve issues with customer authentication, payment fraud, bot/script attacks, social engineering/phishing, and promo-code and bonus abuse based on a unique combination of evidence evaluation. We are unique by depth and breadth of attack detection methods Most complex monitoring of devices, users, sessions and transactions in one solution User behavior anomaly detection on the level of every mouse move Industry’s most advanced device fingerprinting Self-defense able to adapt to new attacks, that bypass any isolated solution or weak combination We help our customers to reduce the usage of 3DSecure and sms-verifications, improving the customers experience and saving operation, risk and implementation costs. Our ambition is Cloud based Fraud prevention as a service platform and model for affordable price

Centrifuge Inc.

Seed Round in 2020
Centrifuge Inc. develops a decentralized blockchain-based platform to connect the global financial supply chain by providing scalable, secure, and privacy-preserving peer-to-peer protocol for the exchange of financial documents. It allows businesses to transact while maintaining ownership of the data, including company details, business relationships, and subsequent transactions. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in San Francisco, California with additional office in Berlin, Germany.

Samba.ai

Seed Round in 2015
Samba’s artificial intelligence and automation capabilities empower businesses to gain and act upon a deeper, more objective understanding of each of their customers, increasing their overall operational efficiency and utility. A.I.-Powered Organization: Bolster and fuel operations with Samba’s A.I.-powered framework and friction-less integration and user experience, giving you more value for less work. Full-spectrum Insights: Utilizing a vast array of both offline and online customer data points, Samba creates a 360-degree understanding of each and every customer and their activity. True Relevancy: Utilizing real-time customer behavioral patterns and campaign data, Samba empowers acquisition and optimizes relevancy to get customers to convert. Ready to transition to A.I.? Getting started is easy and risk-free with Samba! https://www.samba.ai

SOCIFI

Seed Round in 2014
SOCIFI Ltd. provides a 4G/WiFi monetization and marketing, advertising, and communication platform. The company offers solutions to setup and promote brands; manage brands, advertisement campaigns, and hotspots; and import collected users’ data to various systems for operators, brands, and venues. It offers a network for advertisers to earn money; and SOCIFI Media Network, an advertising platform that allows WiFi and 4G operators (publishers) to serve their visitors with WiFi advertisements targeted by location, device, age, and gender. The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

productboard

Convertible Note in 2015
ProductBoard, Inc. develops and operates Software-as-a-Service platform for product management. Its software platform enables product teams to understand what users need, prioritize what to build, share roadmaps, monitor progress towards launch, earn colleagues trust, and engage customer community. ProductBoard, Inc. was founded in 2014 and is based in Oakland, California with an additional office in Prague, Czech Republic.

Bringmeister.de

Acquisition in 2021
Bringmeister.de is the online supermarket.

StartupYard

Seed Round in 2015
StartupYard is a seed accelerator for technology startups. Its goal is to help companies build viable products, launch fast and successfully raise capital. It follows the philosophy, methodology, and standard of world-class accelerators such as Y Combinator or TechStars. StartupYard’s efforts were awarded by membership in the Global Accelerator Network in June 2012, and it is a member of StartupYard Accelerator Consortium CeedTech. Since September 2011 StartupYard has accelerated 59 companies, of which 6 have been acquired, 27 are still active, and 19 have raised investment.

techloop.io

Series A in 2017
Techloop.io is a marketplace connecting software developers directly with hiring companies. Developers remain anonymous while companies pitch for them. They receive relevant offers, including salary information, and get a €500 bonus with their new job.

Solana

Series A in 2019
Solana is a high performance blockchain that can scale over 700k transactions per second on stock hardware to deliver on the promise of blockchain. Solana was founded in 2017 and is based in San Francisco, California.

techloop.io

Seed Round in 2017
Techloop.io is a marketplace connecting software developers directly with hiring companies. Developers remain anonymous while companies pitch for them. They receive relevant offers, including salary information, and get a €500 bonus with their new job.

Unister

Acquisition in 2016
The business areas adjacent to the division trips including finance, insurance, shopping, cars, real estate, media and community.

Fundlift

Seed Round in 2015
Fundlift, s.r.o. develops an online based crowdfunding platform for investment that connects investors and projects. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Prague, Czech Republic.

LEO Express

Venture Round in 2014
State railways don´t need to run trains forever. With airlines and taxis disrupted, railways are next. LEO Express is a European private railway company that is on a mission to make public transport the first option to travel, ridding the world of car ownership and emissions. We own and operate modern electric trains, run them 5600 times a year in sync with energy-efficient buses and compete with inefficient state railways by our network of 30 cities in 3 countries. Our door-to-door solution with Uber and others, clean tech soon to become 100% carbon neutral and restaurant service by Emirates supplier all seamlessly help you get things done faster, comfortably and at a fraction of the cost.

Adexpres.cz

Venture Round in 2014
Adexpres is a full service digital media agency.

Samba.ai

Seed Round in 2015
Samba’s artificial intelligence and automation capabilities empower businesses to gain and act upon a deeper, more objective understanding of each of their customers, increasing their overall operational efficiency and utility. A.I.-Powered Organization: Bolster and fuel operations with Samba’s A.I.-powered framework and friction-less integration and user experience, giving you more value for less work. Full-spectrum Insights: Utilizing a vast array of both offline and online customer data points, Samba creates a 360-degree understanding of each and every customer and their activity. True Relevancy: Utilizing real-time customer behavioral patterns and campaign data, Samba empowers acquisition and optimizes relevancy to get customers to convert. Ready to transition to A.I.? Getting started is easy and risk-free with Samba! https://www.samba.ai

Kolonial.cz

Seed Round in 2015
Kolonial is an online grocery store with a promise of freshest foods, complete comfort and satisfaction to its customers.

Heureka.cz

Acquisition in 2015
Heureka.cz is a online shopping guide platform. You will find a list of products offered in all categories, great filtering by parameters, price comparisons, e-shop and product reviews, and the ratings and experience of other shoppers.

storyous.com s.r.o.

Seed Round in 2014
storyous.com s.r.o. offers a cloud point of sale system for gastro customers including cafes, restaurants, bars, and pubs. Its platform enables restaurant owners to track their staff, manage inventory, and optimize sales. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Prague, Czech Republic.

Pex

Seed Round in 2015
Pex’s Attribution Engine is a three-sided marketplace bringing together rightsholders, platforms and creators to simplify the existing licensing process. It does this by: - making ownership information more transparent and readily available - bringing scale and consistency - ensuring that disputes are resolved quickly and cost-effectively. Built on top of the Pex analytics and rights management technology, the Attribution Engine enables digital media-sharing platforms to identify copyrighted material at the point of upload, and rightsholders to clearly communicate how their intellectual property can be used before it is published. The Attribution Engine is supported by a comprehensive database of rights information that is free to use for rightsholders and free to set up by platforms. This database is created and updated by data sourced directly from rightsholders.

Brand Embassy

Seed Round in 2014
Brand Embassy Inc. designs and develops social customer service solutions for customers and agents in the telecommunications industry. The company offers a software solution that delivers real-time customer service on social media. Its cloud-based Software-as-a-Service brings digital customer service channels, such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, email, live chat, and discussion forums into an interface; and uses post influence and topic parameters to intelligently route requests to relevant customer service agents. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in San Francisco, California with additional offices in Prague, Czech Republic; and London, United Kingdom.

PresentiGO, inc.

Seed Round in 2015
PresentiGO is a unique sales tool that makes life easier for salespeople in the field. It also allows you to turn lackluster sales decks into captivating experiences and also integrates with CRMs and provides real-time performance metrics. The company provides sales tool which helps to transforms common business materials into interactive presentations. PresentiGO tool offers responsive presentation, interactive 3D models, performance analytics, document management, open platform, data collection, and virtual reality features. It transforms common business materials into interactive presentations that can truly appeal to clients, explain complex concepts, and gather important data for your business. PresentiGO was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA, USA.

3D simo

Seed Round in 2014
More than a 3D printing pen, the 3DSimo Mini prints, solders, burns and cuts.

Tapomat

Seed Round in 2012
Fast and affordable online service for mobile store fronts. We allow online stores to have a super fast mobile friendly online store up and running in a few minutes. Currently operating in the Czech Republic, soon launching in other countries around the world.

Euromedia Group K.S.

Acquisition in 2017
Euromedia Group (EMG) is one of the strongest and largest companies operating on the book market in the Czech Republic. It owns the publishing brands Knižní klub (since 1992), Odeon (since 1999), Ikar (since 2000), Universum (since 2000), YOLI (since 2014), Esence (since 2016), Pragma (since 2016) and Pikola (since 2017). The focus of EMG’s individual publishing brands provides easier orientation for the reader. EMG launched its business operations in the Czech Republic in the spring of 1991. One year later, it began successfully operating its reader’s club under the title Knižní klub, which has attracted more than one million readers during its twenty-year existence. At the present time, Knižní klub has more than 200,000 members. In 2002, EMG became the owner of the largest nationwide distributor, Slovanský dům, which distributes titles from most publishers in the Czech Republic. Its clients include almost all the domestic book merchants, book merchant chains and retail chains.

Sporty.cz

Venture Round in 2014
E-shop with sport fashion and accessories

Proděti.cz

Seed Round in 2014
E-shop specialized in goods for children

bigbrands

Venture Round in 2014
BigBrands is an in-house shopping-only club that offers well-known brands in low prices that rangers from designer fashion, clothing, footwear, accessories, to sportswear. Some of the brands they offer are Escada, Lacoste, Guess, Furla, Tommy Hilfiger, Pepe Jeans, Victoria's Secret, Calvin Klein, Diesel, Benetton, Moschino, Replay, Esprit, Levis, Miss Sixty, and Adidas.

Invia.cz

Acquisition in 2016
As the largest web based travel agency in the Czech Republic, Invia.cz provides booking and reservation services for airline tickets, hotels and other accommodations, car rental, and complete vacation packages.

Manifesto Holding s.r.o.

Seed Round in 2018
Manifesto Market is a hospitality brand at the intersection of technology, data-driven gastronomy, and real estate. They have a focus on sustainability, creativity, and innovation. Manifesto create, design, and operate next-generation outdoor and indoor food market halls with bundled ghost kitchen delivery, and develop the technology to manage them. It was launched in 2018 and is headquartered in Prague, Czech Republic.

Creditas

Seed Round in 2013
Creditas is a financial technology company, operates a digital platform that offers secured consumer loans. It uses credit scoring systems and borrowers’ assets, such as homes and automobiles as collateral to offer loans. Sergio Furio founded BankFacil in 2012 that later became Creditas. It has its headquarters in São Paulo in Brazil.

BudgetBakers.com

Venture Round in 2019
BudgetBakers s.r.o develops mobile and Web applications that track income and expenses of users. Its applications enable users to share multiple accounts with partner or family, debt control, budgets, receipts, warranties, data import and export, and bank integration. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is based in Prague, Czech Republic.

SQLdep

Seed Round in 2014
SQLdep is a SQL data visualization pioneer. Developer of the leading SaaS platform for data lineage, that helps organizations visualize, collaborate, and manage data lineage across the data warehouse lifecycle.

Sperky.cz

Venture Round in 2014
Jewelry and bijoux e-shop