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What’s happening in the Czech tech scene

1. 8. 2022
Professor Barták (MFF CUNI) received the highest European distinction rewarding excellent AI research.

18. 7. 2022
Czech autonomous drones designed by Primoco increased their revenue by 800%, and promise innovation to many European armies.

14. 7. 2022
Three Cambridge graduates behind Inovec Technology are taking on Czech industry and developing an AI-powered digital consultancy system

9. 7. 2022
AI will improve the quality of healthcare, say Carebot founders

28. 6. 2022
Memsource Secures €15M in Funding

1. 6. 2022
Startupyard launches its 13th acceleration program

31. 5. 2022
CzechInvest has supported over 270 startups and prepares its biggest project in history

30. 5. 2022
prg.ai launches the first comprehensive study of the Prague AI company scene

26. 5. 2022
800+ million crowns for Czech data startup Manta

26. 5. 2022
Czech unicorn Productboard acquires SatisMeter, previously supported by Martin Rozhoň, Josef Matějka and StartupYard

25. 5. 2022
Czech-Ukrainian translator now available as an Android app

19. 5. 2022
Georg Ell Appointed Memsource CEO to Lead the Company to its Next Phase of Growth

5. 4. 2022
Škoda Auto launches programming school 42 Prague

1. 4. 2022
Polish Allegro officially takes over the Mall Group

30. 3. 2022
CTU is in charge of European research on ethical AI

22. 3. 2022
Italian Datalogic buys Brno-based start-up Pekat Vision

21. 3. 2022
Founder of FuckUp Nights Prague launches new incubator

10. 3. 2022
Emplifi, ex-Socialbakers, has achieved unicorn status

8. 3. 2022
Iterait will be in charge of parking monitoring in Prague

7. 3. 2022
i&i Biotech Fund invests €1M in AI driven drug development

22. 2. 2022
Productboard has raised a $125M Series D

2. 2. 2022
Productboard becomes the most valuable Czech start-up

31. 1. 2022
Deepnote raises $20M for its collaborative data science notebooks

10. 1. 2022
Ondřej Dušek won ERC to research natural language generation

9. 12. 2021
Evernym joins Avast

26. 11. 2021
Czech Republic leads Europe in the adoption of artificial intelligence

26. 11. 2021
Deloitte awards the fastest-growing Czech tech companies

25. 11. 2021
GoodAI contributes to the first-ever global agreement on the Ethics of AI by UNESCO

22. 10. 2021
CIIRC CTU establishes a new AI department

22. 10. 2021
French group Atos buys Prague company Datasentics

21. 10. 2021
Resistant AI scores $16.6M for its anti-fraud fintech tools

20. 10. 2021
Rossum raises record $100M to reinvent B2B communication

14. 10. 2021
SentinelOne opens a new innovation centre in Prague

6. 10. 2021
Inter-university programme prg.ai Minor educates a new cohort of AI experts

4. 10. 2021
CTU cooperates with Meteopress to teach AI to predict the weather

27. 9. 2021
CTU students took the 2nd place at the DARPA Subterranean Challenge

26. 9. 2021
Czech economy is not ready for the deployment of artificial intelligence

1. 9. 2021
FIT CTU cooperates with FJFI to educate security experts

1. 9. 2021
Researchers are developing an AI tool for fact-checking

18. 8. 2021
Universities are building a Czech National Quantum Infrastructure

15. 8. 2021
Credo Ventures invests €1.4 million in Serbian startup Trickest

11. 8. 2021
NortonLifeLock to acquire Avast for $8 billion

8. 7. 2021
Prague must attract the world's AI minds, says prg.ai director

1. 7. 2021
AIC CTU partners with Bell to explore transportation solutions

19. 6. 2021
CTU signes a memorandum of understanding with Korea Electronics Technology Institute

15. 6. 2021
FIT CTU's Donat-Bouillud wins international award

14. 6. 2021
Czechs succeed at the Nvidia hackathon

11. 6. 2021
AI-accelerated appearance prediction for color 3D printing

10. 6. 2021
Professor Matas is the highest-ranked Czech computer scientist

4. 6. 2021
GoodAI releases research roadmap for 2021/2022

2. 6. 2021
SPOT joins researchers from the CTU FEE

24. 5. 2021
FIT CTU given a unique award for promoting Czechia abroad

19. 5. 2021
AI researchers from FEE CTU triumph at the Amazon Research Awards

15. 5. 2021
Roboticists from FEE CTU imitate the flight of a flock of birds

13. 5. 2021
Central European Digital Media Observatory (CEDMO) to be based in Prague

29. 4. 2021
SentiSquare raises €1 million

27. 4. 2021
BUT among the five best institutions globally in speech recognition

21. 4. 2021
LEGO and CIIRC CTU streamline production

13. 4. 2021
CIIRC CTU streamlines Lego's production

8. 4. 2021
Czech-American startup Parrot raises millions of dollars

31. 3. 2021
Kaya VC launches its new $80M fund focused on the CEE

30. 3. 2021
CzechInvest to support over 300 innovative startups

25. 3. 2021
prg.ai, CTU and the Czech Government Office launch the Czech version of Elements of AI

5. 3. 2021
Resistant AI among 10 Czech startups to watch in 2021
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