Entrepreneur David Melichar wants to take out the rest of the papermaking with his start-up Aptiench and get rid of all the records. The office software developed by the Aptien team helps companies and their employees work hard for days. The project, with which Melichar fulfills more success abroad, has now attracted the attention of J&T Ventures. He will pour a million crowns into the finish line.
But in order to break through the technology business, the entrepreneur first had to leave his own consulting firm and set out to experience the kind of Atlantic experience. In the United States, as smvd, oi opened for him. Not only access to proprietary software, but also insight into business as such.
Aptien software covers all corporate papers. Coordinates women’s work, providing basic information about customers, employees and the needs of their income and departure. Hld so equipped, contracted and gave administrative necessities of running the business. Aptien’s clients include, for example, McDonald’s fast food, the Decathlon store, the OMV station, the Ministry of Health or the crask magistrt. Most applications are used in medium and small companies.
“Often, information in companies is scattered and fragmented. The N system collects them in one place. At the same time, we are not a technologically oriented start-up, but we are in a real situation. That is, the invisible and boring work that all companies undergo. The company will say a short time to the mode of daily operation, which it will ever push for, ”says fMelichar, who, as a consultant, had the opportunity to get to know a large number of companies and their daily problems. The experience of the former employee is now applied in the current business.
As mentioned, its start-up is somewhere in the middle of the way between SAP enterprise information systems and Excel spreadsheets. First Excel identifies a company as gray informatics. “Due to the large number of operations of companies, not only the registration of records. But he all claims that it does not exist, “Melichar added with a sly smile.
The basis of the Aptien software is simple and carries an audit trail. By recording what the hunter has done, the user can communicate with him, he can also remember the thermal ones. First Melichar calls it one of the glass properties. “Excel is only two-dimensional, d can only operate stm, what is in the table. Whenever married, you can link to each other. That’s exactly how things are connected and so is the reality, “explains Melichar, and claims that even ordinary people can click on their software as needed without extensive knowledge.
The first year is described by the entrepreneur as both an accident and an accident. “Although we can meet more requirements, we should never go against specialized products. But most companies are for simplicity, “adds Melichar, now only ten employees. This will allow the jump to grow sooner, mainly due to changes in J & T Ventures investments. Melichar did not want to divulge the size of the purchased floor.
“Aptien is flexible and meets the needs of companies. Behind us are people with international experience who have a huge market with growing potential. Thanks to the investment, they can catch up with their product and fully re-enter the business, “said Martin Kener, investment director of the J&T Ventures fund, which is part of the J & T Capital Partners holding company. to the product itself.
“One of the synvestors was very long and nron. After several sets of private investors, we convinced J&T Ventures. His investment will allow Aptien to grow and give rounds of investment. The fund was a big exception, the other investors wanted to grab as much of the company as possible at the time of the arrest, “describes Melichar stm, that he was not interested in such a broken drill for another round of investments.
Its next goal is foreign expansion into English-speaking countries. Do not avoid the Asian market either. Out of 150 clients, three foreigners make up a tenth of them, and their ratio will increase their investment. Aptien intended to succeed in the global market, where at the same time competing companies such as the American companies Airtable, Apptivo or the Israeli Monday.
Their software is used by hundreds of thousands of companies, and Monday, for example, was valued at $ 2 billion in 2019. Their footsteps would also be held by Aptien, which at first was not intended to be a separate project at all, but the Cortis consulting company and its supporting tools.
As a freelance company, Melichar started the start-up under the name OneSoft Connect in 2014, when he went to America for the second time. Two years before that, he was there with the support of the CzechInvest government agency. In the heart of global software development in Silicon Valley, California, he spent half a year as one of the selected start-ups in the American FounderSpace accelerator. And how to, the first thing he learned was to make contacts. “Amerian’s openness to networking is unreal. It is easier to find out if you just look at it, “hard at the start-up.
Due to his business start-up, he also ended up as a lecturer at the University of Economics in Prague, where he taught subject to service management for five years. At VE, however, he did not see the future for himself and, in addition to business, he did not have time to do so. He gave a significant milestone this spring, when the company underwent a rebranding. The original name OneSoft Connect was issued by Aptien, the main reason being the increasing risk of the first dispute over the character. The name OneSoft was used by several existing companies, and there was also a problem of market leadership due to full expansion.
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