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Growcast #21: Martin Ďuriš & Michal Táborský – How to Plan an Exit?

Two successful exits worth hundreds of millions of crowns over the past five years. Martin Ďuriš (Macaly, Avocode) knows how to build a product that global players want to buy—Avocode was acquired by the U.S.-based company Ceros, and he sold the AI platform Macaly to the Belgian company team.blue after just nine months. Sitting next to him is Michal Táborský from Reflex Capital, who has exits such as Webnode, Smartlook, and Apiary under his belt and views the entire process from an investor’s perspective. In this episode, you’ll learn when to even start thinking about an exit, how to find the right counterparty, what the preparation and the M&A process itself look like, and how to align the interests of the founder, VCs, and other stakeholders. We’ll also discuss what such a deal ultimately looks like—cash, stock, founder packages, and earn-outs. A practical perspective from both guests for anyone building a company with the ambition to sell it one day. Hosted by Veronika Šimková & Pavel Přikryl.

Riva Karo, the head of the Ment2Grow accelerator, is helping the Czech startup scene grow. She connects founders and C-level executives with investors and mentors. On StartupTalk, she spoke about the state of the Czech startup scene and expansion abroad.

Although there has been a lot of talk about virtual assistants (chatbots and voicebots) in recent years, very few people actually know how to build them or understand how they work. That’s not the case with the Pardubice-based startup Feedyou and its