Marek Kříž

About

I've spent fifteen years building, buying and scaling businesses, ever since an e-shop I started in my last year of high school showed me that the internet lets creativity beat a bigger budget.

1. 2013

   Founded a digital agency, FireMedia, later Devx. Banks and insurers across Central Europe, net margin around 30%. Sold it in 2020.

2. 2017

   Bootstrapped Zaloto, a mortgage fintech that ended up processing roughly 2% of all home loans in the Czech Republic. Sold it in 2022.

3. 2023

   Joined the founders of Investown, a real-estate investment platform, to help with growth. In one year AUM went from 2 to 6 billion CZK. I bought part of my equity through the option plan and earned the rest through the results. Left in 2025.

4. 2026

   Founded NNCo. We bring AI into regulated industries: we design it, build it and run it in production for large companies, including the ones where data can't leave the building and every decision has to hold up in front of a regulator.

Since 2017, everything I do has run through Point FM, my investment platform.

What I Bring

I'm hands-on when the business needs me to be. Growth, sales, marketing and product are the obvious part. Two things I bring are less common.

The first is public markets. I follow them every day, and it gives me a different read on cycles, valuation and capital flows than private deals alone can.

The second is everything outside finance: art, music, watches, fashion, food. Most of what I know about taste, brand and longevity comes from there rather than from spreadsheets, and some of the best operating ideas I've used in companies were stolen from worlds that have nothing to do with software.

Outside Work

Most of my free time goes to my family and friends, and there's nowhere I'd rather be.

Beyond that, I collect Japanese fashion and music on vinyl, and DJ when I get the chance. Watches have held my attention since I was fifteen, long before they were cool. The first one I bought was a Favre-Leuba, and years later I took it apart with a YouTube video to see how it works.

Most of my real-time writing, on markets and a few other things, lives on X.