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What’s happening in the Czech tech scene
24. 1. 2023
A new record: Filuta project is only five months old and secured 56 million Czech crowns in investment
12. 1. 2023
GoodVision's AI can understand traffic, having just secured 66 million Czech crowns for further development
9. 1. 2023
A Czech mental health app is favoured around the world. Investor have entrusted an additional 36 million Czech crowns
15. 12. 2022
A Czech software startup Mews charmed new investors, gathering 185 million dollars for further expansion
12. 12. 2022
Schoolchildren are learning to engage with artificial intelligence - now in the form of digital Václav Havel

8. 12. 2022
An American industry giant invests into Manta, a Czech data start-up
3. 12. 2022
Czech experts supply music for films and ads worldwide. Their AI make a mark on Hollywood
28. 11. 2022
Artificial intelligence belongs in primary school curricula. A Czech artist playfully educates children as well as adults
27. 11. 2022
Vocalls' Voicebots impressed V-Sharp Venture Studio, securing over 20 million crowns for international expansion

22. 11. 2022
Making data into money with over 100M investment: Keboola is supported by Eduard Kučera and Tomáš Čupr
16. 11. 2022
Microsoft strives to bridge the digital literacy gap in the Czech Republic, speeding up recruitment for IT roles

15. 11. 2022
Google.org supports a Česko.Digital, which helps users navigate the digital world, with over 7 million crowns

14. 11. 2022
Digitoo secures a new investment to develop an artificial accountant. We though we may not make it, says Karin Fuentesová

27. 10. 2022
Superface raises €2.6M funding to build catalogue of automated APIs

24. 10. 2022
Data startup Dataddo receives 2 M USD

18. 10. 2022
It gives therapists superpowers. Artificial intelligence from the Czech Republic listens with a doctor, raises 1M EUR

14. 10. 2022
Money Maker Czech-Slovak startup Around rewrites the historical tables. Sold for a record more than $300 million

12. 10. 2022
Czech blockchain app developer Tatum raises $41.5m funding

10. 10. 2022
Career restart? A forced life turn? Free coding school begins to select its first students

9. 10. 2022
Bartos, Fryc, Hammer, Havrlant. The business elite supports top scientists, distributes millions among them

7. 10. 2022
Superface raises €2.6M funding to build catalogue of automated APIs

6. 10. 2022
There has never been such a large investment so soon. Czech startup Talkbase raises record 2M USD

4. 10. 2022
Czech Republic will host the European quantum computer LUMI-Q

3. 10. 2022
Czech i&i Bio is sending €1 million to Spanish Nanoligent developing nanobiotechnology to treat cancer

1. 10. 2022
Czech prototype MAGDA produces up to 20l of water per day thanks to solar energy alone

27. 9. 2022
Forloop, turning stacks of data into tidy sources of information, raises close to $1 million for development

27. 9. 2022
Prague becomes a bridge between Tel Aviv and Silicon Valley for SentinelOne

26. 9. 2022
After five acquisitions, property management system Mews is launching its own fund

20. 9. 2022
Woltair receives $160 million to spread its photovoltaics and heat pumps across Europe

20. 9. 2022
Zypl.ai, a financial services startup, raises CZK over €1 million from Presto Ventures and other investors

15. 9. 2022
Carebot's AI looks for anomalies in X-rays. And it wins the Vodafone Idea of the Year prize

15. 9. 2022
Deepstack can beat a human at poker

13. 9. 2022
Ostrava-based low-code and no-code startup BotX raises close lose to $1 million

12. 9. 2022
According to our imagery production of cars is falling like never before, the founder of Spaceknow says.

8. 9. 2022
Czech startups, and a quarter of a billion on top of it, will help other promising companies

6. 9. 2022
ABRA acquired a large investor

16. 8. 2022
Artificial Intelligence evaluates images on the Czech satellite Cubesat.

14. 8. 2022
Ataccama scores one of the largest startup investments in the region.

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

21. 7. 2022
Startup Better Stack, monitorující webové služby, získal 18,6 milionu dolarů.

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

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

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

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
French group Atos buys Prague company Datasentics

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

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

2. 3. 2021
The first play written by artificial intelligence premieres in Prague

Hubert Palán and Daniel Hejl from Productboard are the Startup Personality of 2022.
NortonLifeLock to acquire Avast for $8 billion
SentinelOne opens a new innovation centre in Prague
Taranis helps farmers monitor the health of their crops thanks to artificial intelligence. And Czechs are investing in it.
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