If you have actually ever been trying to find an artisan, you know it might take longer than you require. In the conservative area of heating, this is attempting to transform the Czech startup Topíte.cz, integrating craft with the individual experience we are utilized to from e-shops and digital solutions.
A very young firm, a significant investment
Less than 2 years old company has actually simply received a financial investment of 20 million crowns, which was just as shared by the popular European fund Enern with Presto Ventures (formerly Bohemia Equity capital). Fresh resources will certainly serve mainly to strengthen the placement in Moravia and to create a mobile application.
“In the long term, we purchase business that improve consumer experience in markets where contemporary solutions do not yet function. Moreover, Topíte.cz includes a service that will be related to other crafts and markets, as a result we have actually supported them from the extremely beginning”, claims Tomáš Obrtáč, companion of Enern.
It mentions the fact that as natural persons, other fund companions, including Tomáš Čupro or Petr Šmída, have currently bought the task before.
Examinations had actually been run
“We have lately examined on a sample of 163 Czech signed up business and single traders across the country just how budget friendly the solutions of heating designers are. Only 15 percent of participants claimed they were interested in the contract or had the capacity to implement it. As well as the degree of communication, which remained in numerous cases confusing and completely insufficient”, says Daniel Helcl, the founder and CEO of the job.
Helcl thinks that it can mainly address this issue. Topíte.cz has in its system craftsmen who have a standard backoffice and do not need to worry about interaction with clients, order monitoring or bookkeeping. The client then resolves all questions through an on-line user interface, where the response is almost rapid.
The eyes on the heating startup
The proposition of the home heating startup also drew in Přemysl Rubeš, the creator and head of the Presto Ventures fund, which mostly contains the cash of billionaire Tomáš Krsk. “We have understood for a long period of time about the need of such a solution in the Main European market– for example, there is the German Thermondo in Western Europe– and we are glad that at Topíte.cz we have lastly located a group that has all the prerequisites to be successful below and money, energy and time, “states Rubeš.
Helcl would love to lead Topíte.cz to bordering markets, specifically Poland, Slovakia and Hungary. Last year the firm carried out 70 orders in “pilot procedure” and received over seven million crowns. There are thousands of orders this year, sales have actually doubled.
Initially published at TheStartupFounder.com