Press and Updates

Would you like to know more about how we work and how our partnerships come into existence? Let’s find out interesting articles and interviews what has been published about us.

Our partnerships 01.11.2022

ECOMMERCE NEWS| Lemonero launches in the Netherlands

Ecommerce lending startup Lemonero is launching its platform in the Netherlands. It is the second expansion after a launch in Central and Eastern…
Our partnerships 16.06.2022

SIFTED | Société Générale backs Czech fintech Lemonero with €12m investment

Lemonero, a Czech fintech, has raised a seed round from Komerční banka, a Czech bank and a member of the French financial group Société Générale. …
KB Smartsolution 07.06.2022

SME BANKING CLUB | CEE22: KB SmartSolutions enjoys working with startups

Komerční banka, one of the biggest and most important banking institutions in the Czech Republic, has one mission: to build, together with its…
KB Smartsolution 22.12.2021

SME BANKING CLUB | Komerční banka: 2021 results and plans in cooperating with fintechs

Komerční banka, one of the biggest Czech banks, decided to pursue the vision of becoming the bank of the future. One of the ways how to achieve it…
Our partnerships 22.12.2021

SME BANKING CLUB | Finbricks brings a new experience for the customers

Finbricks is one of these new payment service providers, originally established as an internal project of Komerční banka under its subsidiary KB…
Podcasts 28.04.2021

David Musil & Adam Šoukal: Can partnership between fintech/start-up and bank work?

David Musil, founder of Upvest.cz, and Adam Šoukal, founder of Platební Instituce Roger, bring a new perspective on connection of start-ups with…
Our partnerships 20.04.2021

Forbes | New service Mall Finance brings loans for-shops

The Czech e-shop Mall.cz is expanding its services.
Our partnerships 12.04.2021

SME BANKING CLUB | Successful start-up analyzes which e-shop is suitable for financing

For Czech banks, cooperation with fintech start-ups can mean a lot of positive things, on the contrary, start-ups as such can benefit from the strong…
Our partnerships 13.01.2021

CzechCrunch | Big fintech investment bears fruit. Invoices of more than 6 billions CZK flow through the Czech fintech Roger this year also thanks to Komerční banka.

In the end, however, it was his fintech Roger who became one of the first to break the ice, and together with Komerční banka he showed that it will…
KB Smartsolution 16.12.2020

SME BANKING CLUB | How KB SmartSolutions helps the transformation of the traditional bank to bank of the future

The 2020 year was quite far from what most of us expected it to be. The Covid-19 crisis has unexpectedly affected the whole world – the world seemed…
Our partnerships 09.12.2020

Rozhovor o Lemonero

Lemonero je úspěšný fintechový start-up, který pomáhá jiným start-upům a primárně e-commerce společnostem. Domluvili jsme si malý rozhovor s Honzou…
Podcasts 16.11.2020

Red Bull Basement and successful start-ups by Dan Tržil

Could can you recognize a successful start-up? Fin dout more about Red Bull Basement with mentor Tomáš Michálek from KB SmartSolutions and member of…
Our partnerships 21.10.2020

Komerční banka dál loví mezi start-upy. Získala podíl ve firmě, která půjčuje e-shopům

Kolem e-shopů se Jan Laštůvka točil vždycky, už na vysoké škole pro ně s kamarády programoval webové stránky, měli digitální agenturu, několik…
Our partnerships 21.10.2020

Komerční banka má další velkou investici. S českým startupem Lemonero chce financovat e-shopy v celé Evropě

Finančně-technologické startupy už dekádu narušují dlouhodobý status quo relativně konzervativní oblasti bankovnictví. Proto aby finanční domy…
Podcasts 16.10.2020

Tomáš Michálek & Pavel Rothbauer: Why does Komerční banka need KB SmartSolutions?

Tomáš Michálek, Startup Scout, and Pavel Rothbauer, Company Developer, reveal how KB SmartSolution works, what are the successfull partnerships and…
Our partnerships 02.10.2020

Komerční banka dál šlape do startupů. S brněnským Rogerem upekla jednu z největších fintechových investic v Česku

Zakladatel finančně-technologického startupu Roger dlouho říkal, že o něčem, jako je spolupráce tradičních bank a inovativních startupů, je zbytečné…
Our partnerships 02.10.2020

Komerční banka loví klienty v menších firmách. Pomůže jí v tom start-up Roger, do nějž investuje

Když firmy dodávají své služby nebo produkty do velkých maloobchodních řetězců, musí čekat i měsíce na to, než jim odběratelé proplatí faktury. To…
KB Smartsolution 10.08.2020

SME BANKING CLUB | Komerční banka and KB SmartSolutions exceed the limits of mere banking service

The Czech bank Komerční banka is actively entering into a bond with innovative and disruptive fintechs and start-ups aiming to fulfill its vision to…
Our partnerships 08.07.2020

Komerční banku zaujal crowdfunding nemovitostí. Za desítky milionů kupuje podíl v českém startupu Upvest

Investování do developerských projektů formou crowdfundingu. Takové je poslání tříletého českého startupu Upvest, který propojuje developery…
KB Smartsolution 17.06.2020

SME BANKING CLUB | KB SmartSolutions helps Komerční banka build financial services of the future

Last week Olena Gryniuk talked to Tomas Michalek, StartUp Scout at KB SmartSolutions in the Czech Republic, on how Komerční banka cooperates with…

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