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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Of further interest
What will AI-powered shopping look like? Glami and Biano join forces and test new answers
(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.
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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.