Company Profile

We are building a strong investment group that connects people with very close business and social visions. We offer diversification of funds within a broad portfolio of investments in the Czech Republic and abroad.

In the Friends & Family model, we offer internal and external qualified investors value preservation and asset appreciation within a wide range of investments. We are actively looking for projects with interesting investment potential that bring more than just financial profit to their surroundings. Each our project is led by a specialised asset manager and an analytics team. The investment group‘s board led by Libor Winkler is in charge of its strategic management. Since our establishment in 2010, we have been a regulated entity and our business is governed by the Czech and European legislation on financial markets.

Our investment group stands on two basic pillars. In the first one, our primary focus is on investments in the construction of residential and office buildings and acquisitions of income properties. We have also recently began to focus on the construction of logistics and industrial properties. We participate actively in the development projects, and together with our partners we put high emphasis on the energy efficiency as well as the economic and social added value for the given region.

The group‘s second pillar consists in investments in key sectors of the future. We direct capital to companies in fields with high potential, such as health care and IT. We invest together with funds focusing on technology start-ups and ‚green investments‘, i.e. land and agriculture. We invest in biotechnology and frequently overlooked areas of medicine.

Support of social responsibility activities is an integral part of our mission. In art fields, we participate in many cultural projects as a partner. Through the RSJ Foundation, we support gifted children, the mental health of youth, education and the development of philanthropy.

RSJ Investments investiční společnost a.s. is an investment manager that manages in particular RSJ Investments SICAV a.s., an investment fund of qualified investors with several sub-funds, and RSJ open-ended unit fund.

History

• 2024
  • We are making our first investments in the Baltic region. Together with the developer YIT, we are launching residential projects in Vilnius (Lithuania) and Riga (Latvia).
  • We have completed an extensive renovation of the U Červené lišky house on Old Town Square.
  • We are continuing our successful collaboration with YIT through the Toivo Roztyly project.
  • Together with the Upvest platform, we are acquiring a 25% stake in Centrum Černý Most, the third-largest shopping center in the Czech Republic.
  • As part of our Venture Capital strategy, our portfolio now includes two companies, ElevenLabs and Pigment, both of which have reached a valuation of over $1 billion, officially making them unicorns.
• 2023
  • Together with the developer JRD, we are launching the construction of Rezidence Bella Vista in Prague's Troja district.
  • With the developer FINEP, we are initiating the next phase of apartment construction in Rezidence u Šárky.
  • We are continuing our successful collaboration with YIT in Slovakia and entering a residential development project on a brownfield site of a former concrete plant in Bratislava, named Mlynárka.
  • We have become a minority shareholder in Pivovary CZ Group, which owns the brewery brands Holba, Zubr, and Litovel.
  • We have successfully raised our Tech III fund, strengthening our investment strategy in technological innovation.
• 2022
  • We bought the Pradiareň 1900 monument in Bratislava, which we renovated, for the new fund
  • We acquired land within the property of the former Poldi Kladno steelworks with the intention of revitalising the brownfield and developing a modern 
    industrial area
  • With BioXcel, which entered the NASDAQ stock market in 2018, we successfully launched its first drug, IGALMI, on the market
  • We commenced the construction of block of apartments in Hostivař, Prague, together with developer YIT
  • We gained a new partner in the field of technology by adding Project A to our existing partners Notion Capital and Moonfire Ventures and we co-invested in Paddle and Manta
  • We added global funds Glendower, King Street, and BlackRock to the private equity portfolio, as well as several funds specialising in investments in local SMEs
  • We increased the area of agricultural land to more than 4,000 hectares
• 2021
  • Romanian company UiPath from the portfolio of Credo Ventures, in which we invested, entered the New York Stock Exchange at a valuation of 35.8 billion dollars
  • We became the majority shareholder of the progressive Pillow insurance company
  • ESS, a portfolio company engaged in the development and production of battery systems for energy storage, was listed on the New York Stock Exchange
• 2020
  • We began the construction of residential buildings in Prague 6 - Rezidence U Šárky with developer FINEP, and we entered into projects in Prague Michle and Troja in cooperation with JRD
• 2019
  • We entered into organic farming and acquired the largest Moravian organic farm, František Král, organic
  • We invested in the British venture capital fund Blossom Capital
• 2018
  • We opened Zuri Zanzibar, a five star hotel resort in Africa
  • We bought a 50% stake in development projects Nuppu, Zwirn and Pradiareň 1900 from YIT Slovakia.
  • With Panattoni Europe, we commenced the construction of an A-class industrial property near Chomutov.
• 2017
  • We completed our transformation into the RSJ financial group, opening the RSJ Investments fund in the Friends & Family model for investors outside this group
  • We invested in the private equity funds CEIP, ESPIRA Investments, and ARX Equity Partners.
• 2016
  • Together with the founders of AVAST, we bought the Enterprise office building in Pankrác, Prague
• 2015
  • We began investing in agricultural lands and companies in fertile regions of the Czech Republic
  • We expanded our technological portfolio by investing in the Evolution Equity Partners fund and the second fund of Credo Ventures
• 2014-2011
  • We opened Centrum Pivovar Děčín, a shopping and entertainement centre
  • We invested with Credo Ventures, a fund focused on technological startups in Central and Eastern Europe
• 2010
  • We established the first investment fund enabling us to invest free 2010 finances of RSJ Securities from algorithmic securities trading