Who said it?: “I can imagine easier ways to make a lot of money”

Investing in startups is fashionable. For a long time now, not only “professional” full-time investors have been involved, but people who have earned money in the business are now investing in promising projects and are now thinking of how to deal with them. Usually they are called angel investors and one of them was once also Ondřej Bartoš, who is today one of the best known investors in the Czech Republic and also a guest of our next CzechCrunch Podcast.

“The longer a person is on a market, the more people know him,” smiles forty-four-year-old Ondřej Bartoš, who is one of the pioneers of venture capital investment in the Czech Republic. He brought this to the Czech Republic together with his colleagues from the Anglo-Saxon world, where the financing of innovative projects usually has a long tradition in the early stages of their development. Gradually, similar investment has spread to the whole world and Credo Ventures, which Bartoš stands for, is one of the most visible players in the Central European region.

There is no school to become an investor. Some of them will bring their own earned capital to support other companies, but it has led Bartoš to invest since university studies. “My friends and I started a company and then a few others, but none of them was a star. I realized that I am not very good at…