Coronavirus crisis and a shortage of safety equipment forced organizations to come up with a different solution. Even though the Czech government has ordered many masks and respirators in the past few days, there is still shortage of such supplies for essential workers, mainly medical staff. Essential workers, who come to a direct contact with...
With the recent Covid-19 pandemic, all businesses are shifting their gears and trying to figure out a way how to make more protective health devices. Czech Technical University in Prague has figured out a way to make respiratory masks and they are starting to stock up local hospitals. For now, they make around 100 pieces a day, but the goal...
There is a new competitor of Zoom out there, and it's striving for even better features! Around is the new multitasking tool for remote workers who need to stay in touch, which still being productive. Dominik Zane and Pavel Serbajlo are two co-founders of this unique collaboration tool. They believe a video call should not take up all of your...
The Czech workforce is known for it's infrastructure, and reasonable living costs and wages.
Productboard is a startup that makes software for product managers to manage the development of new features and products. Hubert Palan, CEO of productboard announced that the company has raised $45 million Series B funding round from investors led by Sequoia Capital and Bessemer Venture Partners.
CES is an annual trade show organized by the Consumer Technology Association. Held on January 7-10, 2020 at the Las Vegas Convention Center the event typically hosts presentations of new products and technologies in the consumer electronics industry.
As a way to look back at the last two quarters of this year, we have compiled a brief summary of all our events and activities in summer and autumn/winter in 2019. We have kept ourselves busy this year and will continue to do so in 2020 as well. We will be delighted to see you at one of our events next year! ...
Beat Games, a Czech company with its headquarters in Prague, was recently acquired by Facebook. They will join the Oculus Studios, while still operating in the Czech Republic. With only 8 employees, the company was able to sell over 1 million copies of the game earlier this year.
To commemorate the 30th anniversary of the Velvet Revolution, the City Hall of San Francisco raised the Czech national flag on the building of the City Hall.
In the third week of October CzechInvest organized the second CzechMatch program in Silicon Valley. Like in the firs occasion it took place at BootUp Ventures in the heart of Menlo Park.