Pale Fire Capital
palefirecapital.com Direct investor
Growth-stage private equity firm supporting technological innovation with focus on e-commerce, fintech, and SaaS businesses.
Pale Fire Capital is a private equity firm headquartered in Prague, Czechia, founded in 2015. It invests directly in companies, at growth, in e-commerce, fintech and SaaS. Its stated cheque size is tens of millions EUR. 20 portfolio companies, as it reports.
“We are a private equity investment group supporting technological innovation across multiple industries”
— Pale Fire Capital, own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Type
- Private equity
- Stage
- Growth
- Invests in
- CZ, PL, DE, US, ES, GB, IT, RO, HU, HR
- Sectors
- e-commerce, fintech, SaaS
- Cheque size
- tens of millions EUR
- Founded
- 2015
- Portfolio
- 20 companies
Team, as Pale Fire Capital publishes it
- Dušan Šenkypl Partner
- Jan Barta Partner
- David Holý Partner
- Jan Černý Managing Partner
- Petr Krajíček Partner
- Jiří Ponrt Partner
Names and roles exactly as listed on palefirecapital.com. Nothing else about these people is recorded.
Most shared portfolio companies with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 31 investors with a shared portfolio company. A shared company is not proof they invested together in the same round.
- Miton 2 shared companies: scuk.cz, startupjobs.cz
- Blumberg Capital 1 shared company: groupon.com
- Hyde Park Angels 1 shared company: groupon.com
- Maveron 1 shared company: groupon.com
- NextView Ventures 1 shared company: groupon.com
- Silver Lake 1 shared company: groupon.com
- TCV 1 shared company: groupon.com
- Causeway Management II, LLC 1 shared company: zwift.com
- Hiro Capital LLP 1 shared company: zwift.com
- Reflex Capital 1 shared company: davincits.com
and 21 more — the graph.
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page Pale Fire Capital publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://palefirecapital.com/en/is_investor, type, stage_min, stage_max, sectors, cheque_size, portfolio_count, thesis_quote, invests_in_geographies, name, layer, hq_country, hq_city, thesis_quote_page, description, founded, people, status, confidence
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q99299766founded, hq_country, hq_city
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Record 76 · added 2026-08-27 · link last verified 2026-10-21 · confidence high
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