Paul Sawers
Today Rossum announced that it has raised $4.5 million since its inception — including $1 million in preseed funding to develop a minimal viable product between 2017 and 2018 and a $3 million seed round that closed last month. The funding round was co-led by U.K.-based seedinvestors LocalGlobe and Seedcamp, with participation from some notable angel investors, including Flexport CEO and founder Ryan Petersen, and Elad Gil, who sold his startup Mixer Labs to Twitter in 2009 before becoming an investor in Airbnb, Instacart, Pinterest, Square, and Stripe, among others.

(Press Release) Padel is the fastest-growing sport in the world. Tomáš Hodboď is a partner at Miton who, as CEO, built the billion-crown companies Glami and Heureka and was also behind the success of Donio. Jiří Diblík built and sold VOS.health, in which Miton was an investor. Both play padel, often together.
I looked at a hundred startups trying to improve how humans interact with AI. How will we communicate with agents once they break free from the text chat?
(Press Release) Two leading Czech search engines from Miton's portfolio, fashion-focused Glami and furniture-focused Biano, are entering a new chapter. As of March 2026, both companies are led by a single CEO, Peter Hupka, who previously headed Biano. Both companies hold normalized data on millions of products data that large language models lack and aim to build on this foundation to develop a new generation of online product discovery tools.
