25 of the world's top growth funds — from the US, UK and across Europe — flew in to meet 30 of Czechia's best scaleups. Face to face. In 24 hours.
$2T in assets under management — the Czech national budget, fifteen times over.
A few of the funds
A few of the scaleups
Results
10–15
highly curated meetings
Every guest came in for a fully curated schedule — 1:1 meetings with 10–15 relevant counterparties, matched on fit.
2–6
hot leads
And walked away with 2–6 immediately actionable leads — real conversations to take into follow-up calls.
From our post-event survey — interviews with half of all attendees
$2T AUM in one room24 hours400 1:1 meetings30 Czech scaleups25 international growth funds~3 bn CZK estimated investment pipeline6 weeks to organize$2T AUM in one room24 hours400 1:1 meetings30 Czech scaleups25 international growth funds~3 bn CZK estimated investment pipeline6 weeks to organize
Why it works
“I wish every conference had this exact format.”
“Sadly, I've never experienced anything like it.”
That's the sentiment of just about every attendee. Bridges reimagined how efficient founder–investor meetings are held.
The secret sauce
You can't buy your way into Bridges. Every seat is invite-only.
We invite only founders in specific revenue brackets — and only investors writing the ticket sizes those founders actually need.
Both sides fill out a short questionnaire, and we prepare and hand out profiles of everyone ahead of the sessions.
There's no matching app. You get your own printed schedule in the morning.
We encourage people to skip the intros and get straight to founders' real issues and challenges.
Most companies at Bridges aren't actively fundraising — but they know building relationships with funds is a mission-critical, long game. Investors know it too: the best scaleups may be out of reach by the time they launch a round, so they want to build the relationship early.
Positive vibes only.
$2T
Assets under management, in one room
400
1:1 meetings
24
Hours
25
Growth funds
30
Czech scaleups
~3 bn CZK
Estimated investment pipeline · 5–10 deals
In their words
Don't take it from us
“Typically 1 out of 100 meetings can lead to an investment. At Bridges it was 2 out of 10.”
CP
Camelia Popescu
CVC
Investor
I have to fly all over Europe and the US to meet with this many high-quality investors as you gathered in Brno. I am actually shocked.
MM
Marek Marušín
CEO · Zaitra
Founder
It was amazing! One of very few events that gathered scale-ups of €5M+ revenue.
AN
Andreas Nemeth
Partner · Shape Capital Partners
Investor
I am not aware that anything like that has ever happened before. Great format for connecting with investors.
VH
Vojtěch Hlavenka
CEO · Elonga
Founder
Super effective day due to perfect curation. It is normally impossible to have 15 good meetings in a day during a conference.
JS
Jan Szumada
Warsaw Equity Group
Investor
Four relevant leads in half a day of Series A capital. Very skilled people — both investors and the organization team.
KJ
Karel Juřička
CEO · Webout
Founder
To get the same outcome, I would have to do an immense amount of preselection and work on many other events. This format is just great!
PB
Philipp Bolliger
Partner · Direttissima Growth
Investor
If only every event was organized like this! Clear value to both investors and startups.
RL
Roman Laus
CEO · Mewery
Founder
Great Format. Great attendees. Great organizaton. This event made a lot of sense.
JT
Jiří Tobola
CEO · Logmanager
Founder
I absolutely loved it! Especially the speed-dating format.
BG
Bence Gergely
Portfolion
Investor
Who was in the room
The room that changed Czech fundraising
Growth funds
$2T AUM combined
Blackstone
KKR Growth
CVC
Highland Europe
Speedinvest
FTV Capital
Flashpoint Venture Capital
Lead Ventures
Portfolion
Evli Growth Partners
Warsaw Equity Group
Atempo Growth
Shape Capital Partners
Siena Secondary Fund
Direttissima Growth Partners
Tarpan Partners
Alea Capital Partners
Crowdberry
Elevator Ventures
Prague Stock Exchange · START
Czech scaleups
Rev. from €1M to €1bn
Rohlík
Apify
ThreatMark
Oddin.gg
Abugo
Whalebone
Raynet
Roger
Lemonero
Digitoo
Campiri
Retino
Spaceti
GoodAccess
FifthRow
Logmanager
Kardi AI
Carebot
Zaitra
TeskaLabs
Promethist AI
Ranketta
Mewery
Choice
Webout
HackedList.io
Elonga
MV
MUNI Ventures
Relive it
The aftermovie
The reason
At Series B, 90 % of the capital raised by Czech companies comes from foreign investors. For 24 hours, that capital came to them.
We built Bridges to close the gap between international capital and the best Czech scaleups.
By our estimate, it would take a founder a year of hard work to meet 10–15 relevant investors from around the world face to face. By the same token, it would take a fund a lot of effort to organize such a high-yielding trip on its own.
By our estimate, too, the meetings that started in Brno can convert into 5–10 investments worth ~3 billion CZK. And this was just the first edition.
This was just the first edition
Bridges Autumn 2026 is coming.
We keep building Bridges, now in two editions — Bridges for VCs and Bridges Private Equity for PE investors.
