What's new: April 2019
Michala Gregorová
Filip Brýdl in Miton, Glami in Morocco, Rossum at AI Awards. Learn what’s been happening at Miton, the same information we share with the founders of our companies.
Pavel Vopařil’s guest in our “company builders” series was Filip Brýdl, and this time the talk got quite personal. Next event in this series is planned for June. As always, we reserve a few seats for outside guests. Just follow us on social networks.
Today’s first congratulations goes to Rossum for earning the title Startup of the year in the Czech AI Awards. Winning a prize always brings a warm, fuzzy feeling, and sometimes it helps with PR (just ask Grason about their experience with the Women Startup Competition).
Second congrats goes to Driveto. Although they haven’t won anything, they have turned two, and have done so in great shape! What startup can say that? Congratulations to all team members for their outstanding work.
Glami moved to Morocco for five days. After last year’s experience in Barcelona, they chose a country where alcohol is a bit more difficult to get and they made a few changes to the programme. The result? The team was able to get some good work done during their North African adventure, and got an article in Forbes to boot!
And we are now on Instagram.
Recommended reading and listening:
- Ondřej gave Forbes several tips on his favourite books.
- Jeff Bezos has written his annual letter to shareholders.
- Respect has put together a helpful guide for those who want to at least try saving the planet.
- And an overview of trends and challenges in micro-mobility.
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What happened: Fall/Winter 2025
The second half of the year, like the whole year (and the two previous ones as well), was marked by AI. This year will be no different. There will be a lot of AI in this summary too. But we’ll also add a bit of crypto and psychedelics.
PangeAI emerges from stealth to democratize access to geospatial data
(press release) A startup founded by Johanna von der Leyen and Marek Miltner at Stanford is changing the way companies and public institutions work with geospatial data. Instead of needing to hire a team of GIS experts, PangeAI agents allow making complex analyses and decisions involving physical infrastructure as easy as typing a prompt. The goal is to make the physical world as searchable and understandable as the digital one.
Every company wants to become more efficient thanks to AI, and almost none succeed. Miton is investing €400k into a startup that wants to fix this.
(press release) Even though companies know very well that AI can significantly increase their efficiency, most never get further than paying for ChatGPT accounts for their employees. It’s not motivation they lack - most fail in the implementation phase. The problem lies in the approach companies take: they treat AI as if it were traditional software. And this is exactly where Bandits comes in, a new project by Jiří Štěpánek, Kryštof Mitka and Miton.