Key Takeaways (Past Week): Czech startup funding active with recent rounds including Grid.online (€4M, AI logistics delivery) and Zerops (€1.7M, cloud dev tooling). Priority account news: Seznam's Mapy.com is relaunching its global expansion push targeting 12M users in 5 years — a major infrastructure scaling signal. Knihobot hit €863M revenue with 55% now from international markets, eyeing €1B. 4 Companies to Watch this week: Grid.online, Zerops, Mapy.com (Seznam), and Definic (SK). Cloudflare shipped saga rollbacks for Workflows, Self-Managed OAuth for all developers, and published a post-quantum migration playbook in response to the White House's 2030 executive order. 0 priority account direct mentions via automated matching — see manual highlights above.
Key Insights
- AI Infrastructure Surge: CZ/SK AI startups continue to attract capital — Grid.online (€4M) and Zerops (€1.7M) are recent examples, both at the post-seed stage where infra decisions get locked in. Workers AI, AI Gateway, and R2 are natural fits.
- Internacional Expansion Signal: Mapy.com (Seznam) relaunching global push + Knihobot at 55% international revenue = both need global CDN, Bot Management, and DDoS protection for non-CZ traffic at scale.
- Fintech Opportunity: Definic's (SK) €2.5M Series A and rebrand signals a new strategic phase — B2B SaaS serving procurement teams needs strong API security and Zero Trust access for enterprise customer compliance.
- Post-Quantum Urgency: Cloudflare's new post-quantum migration playbook (triggered by White House EO with 2030 deadline) is an excellent talking point for fintech/security accounts like ThreatMark, Wultra, and Resistant AI.
- CEE Cybersecurity Boom: TheRecursive profiled 22 cybersecurity startups in CEE, driven by NIS2 fines — a strong ecosystem signal for Cloudflare Zero Trust and WAF positioning across the region.
4 companies identified with Cloudflare fit this week. Click any company to see outreach templates.
🔥 Grid.online
NEW FUNDING • €4M Seed
Czech Republic • AI Logistics / Delivery Platform • CDN, Workers, Workers AI, R2
Subject: Congrats on the €4M — scaling delivery infrastructure? Hi [Name], Saw the news about Grid.online's €4M raise — congrats, 10× delivery growth is no small feat. Post-seed is usually when infra choices get locked in. For delivery platforms specifically, we see a few common scaling pain points: global latency for driver apps, API reliability under peak order volumes, and storage costs for delivery media. A few things we're doing for similar logistics platforms in the region: • Workers — serverless edge logic for delivery routing, no cold starts • CDN + DDoS — sub-50ms globally, ~150B attacks mitigated daily • R2 — zero egress fees for delivery receipts, photos, tracking data Happy to compare notes on what's working — 20 min this week? Best, Michaela
Hi [Name] — congrats on Grid.online's €4M! 10× delivery growth is impressive. Post-seed is usually when infra decisions get locked in — are you thinking about global edge scaling yet? We help delivery platforms in CEE with Workers + CDN. Worth a quick chat?
Zerops
NEW FUNDING • €1.7M Seed
Prague, Czech Republic • Cloud Dev Infrastructure / DevOps Platform • Workers, Pages, R2, D1, CDN
Subject: Zerops + Cloudflare Workers — dev infra alignment? Hi [Name], Congrats on Zerops' €1.7M — bridging dev and production environments is genuinely one of the hardest problems in developer tooling. I noticed your mission overlaps interestingly with what we're building at Cloudflare. We've been extending Workers, Pages, R2, and D1 to give developers a full serverless stack with zero cold starts and no egress fees. Some of our developer platform users in CZ/SK use Zerops alongside us. Would love to understand your architecture better — and explore whether there's a natural integration or partnership story here. 20 minutes to compare notes? Best, Michaela
Hi [Name] — saw Zerops' €1.7M round, congrats! Closing the dev-to-production gap is something we're deeply invested in at Cloudflare too (Workers, Pages, R2, D1). Feels like there could be an interesting integration story here. Would you be open to a quick conversation?
🔥 Mapy.com (Seznam.cz) ⭐ PRIORITY ACCOUNT
GLOBAL EXPANSION
Czech Republic • Mapping / Navigation (Seznam product) • CDN, Workers, Bot Management, DDoS Protection, Images
Subject: Mapy.com's global relaunch — CDN + bot protection for 12M users? Hi [Name], Saw the CzechCrunch piece on Mapy.com's global relaunch — 12 million users in 5 years is an ambitious but achievable target given your mapping quality. Going global with a mapping product introduces some specific infrastructure challenges: map tile delivery latency outside CZ/SK, aggressive bot/scraper traffic (mapping products attract a disproportionate amount), and image optimization at scale for different device types. A few things worth exploring from our side: • CDN — sub-50ms tile delivery to 95% of your global users from 330 PoPs • Bot Management — ML-based scraper detection; mapping data is one of the most scraped asset types • Images — automatic WebP conversion and responsive resizing at the edge Happy to do a technical session on the global scaling story — when works for you? Best, Michaela
Hi [Name] — read about Mapy.com's second global push, exciting news! 12M users globally is a very different infrastructure challenge from the Czech market. Mapping products specifically get hit hard by scrapers and need low-latency tile delivery worldwide. We've solved this for similar products — worth comparing notes?
Definic (fka Nordics)
NEW FUNDING • €2.5M Series A
Bratislava, Slovakia • Vendor Intelligence / Procurement SaaS • Workers, Zero Trust, WAF, R2
Subject: Definic's Series A — scaling vendor intelligence infrastructure? Hi [Name], Congrats on Definic's €2.5M Series A and the rebrand — a fresh name with new capital is an exciting combination. For B2B SaaS platforms processing vendor and procurement data, a few infra priorities tend to come up post-Series A: API security for enterprise customers (who have strict security reviews), cost-effective data storage as the vendor dataset grows, and Zero Trust access for a growing distributed team. We've been helping B2B SaaS companies in Slovakia and CEE with: • Zero Trust — replace VPN, works well for enterprise customer access controls • API Shield — schema validation and rate limiting for your B2B API • R2 — zero egress fees for large vendor datasets Would love 20 minutes to understand your stack and see if there's a fit. Best, Michaela
Hi [Name] — congrats on Definic's €2.5M and the rebrand! B2B procurement intelligence is a data-heavy business. Are API security and storage costs on your radar as you scale? We work with B2B SaaS companies in SK/CEE on exactly this — happy to share what's working.
📋 Full priority account list: 58 accounts monitored
Open Campaign Command Center →- Mapy.com (Seznam) — TODAY: Reach out while the CzechCrunch global relaunch article is fresh. Reference the 12M user goal and bot/scraper protection for mapping data. This is a Critical-tier priority account.
- Grid.online — This week: €4M Seed, 10× delivery growth. Delivery platform = Workers + CDN + DDoS. Short, direct outreach referencing their growth milestone.
- Definic (SK) — This week: Fresh €2.5M Series A + rebrand. B2B procurement SaaS = API Shield + Zero Trust for enterprise customer access. Good time to reach out while infra is being re-evaluated.
- Post-Quantum EO talking point: Use Cloudflare's new post-quantum migration playbook for fintech/security accounts (ThreatMark, Wultra, Resistant AI). The White House 2030 deadline gives urgency to the conversation.
- CEE Cybersecurity angle: TheRecursive's "22 CEE Cybersecurity Startups" piece is a good excuse to reach out to security-focused accounts — reference NIS2 compliance and Cloudflare's WAF/Zero Trust stack.
Summary: Cloudflare published 4 engineering posts this week. The biggest product news: Workflows now supports saga-style rollbacks — developers can define compensating actions per step, enabling resilient multi-step apps (great for developer accounts like Make, Apify). Self-Managed OAuth is now available to all developers, enabling the full Cloudflare app ecosystem — executed with zero-downtime migration. The post-quantum executive order response is a major talking point: Cloudflare published its migration playbook for the White House's 2030 PQC deadline, directly relevant for fintech and security accounts. Bonus: engineers found a bug in the open-source hyper HTTP library while rearchitecting the Images binding — good engineering credibility story.
Summary: Big story this week: Mapy.com (Seznam) is relaunching its global push for the second time, targeting 12 million users in 5 years — previous attempt failed, but they're going again with product changes. Knihobot (Czech used-books marketplace/Bookbot) reported €863M revenue in 2025 with 55% now from international markets (Germany leading), and is eyeing €1B this year — a strong cross-border e-commerce scaling story. Also: Expandia opens a new industrial real-estate investment fund. A football club ownership change in Slovácko. CzechCrunch covered 33 additional articles including startups, funding, and tech trends (see full feed).
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Summary: E15.cz and Forbes CZ dominated with 48 articles covering Czech business, labor law, and lifestyle. Notable: practical coverage of Czech public holiday trading restrictions (relevant for e-commerce accounts like Heureka, Slevomat). Forbes CZ covered snowboarder Eva Adamczyková's return at the Forbes Business Fest. Limited direct tech/startup signal from this category this week — the real action is in the CZ/SK Tech and funding tracker data above.
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Summary: Startitup.sk published 15 articles this week but skewed toward lifestyle, weather (record 40°C heat), and societal content (youth emigration analysis, airport incident). Limited direct startup funding coverage in the RSS this week — however the funding tracker caught one verified recent Slovak round: Definic (formerly Nordics) raised €2.5M Series A for vendor intelligence. CloudTalk's €26M Series B also appeared — ⚠️ American territory, excluded from outreach list.
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Summary: Slovak Spectator covered mainly political/social news: Zelenskyy's potential Bratislava visit, record-breaking 40°C heat wave, and human interest stories. Lugera (HR/recruitment firm, 30 years old, 23,000 placements) was featured in a sponsored piece. No direct tech startup signals this week from Slovak Spectator's feed — the funding tracker is the better source for Slovak startup activity.
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Summary: European startup ecosystem funding remains strong. British Business Bank passed 50 portfolio companies after deploying €695M into UK scaleups (£400M/year going forward). EIFO committed €200M to the Scaleup Europe Fund — part of the EU Commission's Startup and Scaleup Strategy to keep tech companies in Europe. EU-Startups' weekly funding roundup (June 22–26) is paywalled. Germany's Intu Diagnostics raised €1.1M for lab-free molecular diagnostics. UK BioTech Thalia Therapeutics raised €3.1M and acquired Sanmirna. The macro signal: European institutional capital is increasing — good for follow-on rounds from CZ/SK startups.
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Summary: Active week for CEE. Nucleo Ventures launched a €34M fund specifically targeting Romanian and CEE startups (Seed/Series A). Asternova Vest, a Romanian-French VC, is raising €37M to back 18+ startups from Western Romania. Almetra (Romanian-founded, factory AI inspection) raised €16.3M Series A, total €20.8M, expanding to US. TheRecursive profiled 22 CEE cybersecurity startups — NIS2 fines are driving a "cybersecurity gold rush" in the region. Also: a thoughtful piece on culture debt vs. technical debt for scaling founders. Strong CEE ecosystem momentum overall — validates continued Cloudflare investment in the region.
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Summary: Sifted reported that European deeptech investment hit an annual record in just H1 2026 — a significant macro signal. Spain is emerging as one of Europe's most dynamic tech ecosystems. The British Business Bank is backing UK scaleups with £400M/year. Berlin's Peec AI is targeting a $200M valuation in a new fundraise. Commentary piece on transforming Britain's tech sector via policy. Broader signal: European tech is experiencing a sustained funding surge, particularly in deep tech, which benefits cloud infrastructure providers like Cloudflare as these companies need enterprise-grade security and performance.
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Summary: Top stories from Wired, The Verge, and Ars Technica: China reclaimed the world's fastest supercomputer (LineShine beat El Capitan on TOP500) despite trade restrictions — signals in AI compute competition. China's Z.ai released GLM-5.2, matching Mythos on some cybersecurity benchmarks. Flexion Robotics (ex-Nvidia engineers) showed a humanoid robot capable of office work. Suno launched a Spark incubator for independent artists feeding its AI music platform. Ford rehired "gray beard" engineers after AI underdelivered. For Cloudflare's CZ/SK territory, the cybersecurity AI developments are most relevant — good context for security-focused prospect conversations.
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Summary: TechCrunch's funding/VC coverage this week leaned more toward tech policy and trends than pure VC rounds. Key stories: California's new law targeting loud streaming ads takes effect July 1 (ad-tech signal). Wall Street is calling Micron "the next Nvidia" due to HBM memory demand for AI training. Tesla FSD under scrutiny. Ford's AI lesson: it rehired experienced engineers after AI failed to deliver product quality. Commentary: "Silicon Valley has been building the wrong things." The broader macro story — AI hype is meeting real-world limitations, which opens conversations about reliable infrastructure vs. chasing AI trends.
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