StartupYard is a 6-month business acceleration program for innovative startups located in Prague, Czech Republic. It provides mentoring, office space, and resources to help startups validate and improve their business models in the first 3 months and obtain investment or grow their business in the next 3 months. The event featured pitches from 6 startups in the current program, including CSS Hat, Tabfoundry, SpaceTeacher, Lingvus, Langtice, and Simpletest.io. It also included an overview of the Central European startup scene and a networking session.

1. StartupYard Investor Day
October 28, 2012
Pioneers Festival
Vienna

2. StartupYard
StartupYard is a 6 months two-phase business acceleration program,
intended for innovative projects with global potential. During first three
months mentoring from experienced entrepreneurs will help you to
rapidly validate and improve your business model, open doors to
customers and partners and so proof the viability of whole business.
Next three months are determined for obtain an investment or for
growing the main business. Attending members will receive modern
office space in centre of Prague, where they can work, meet mentors
and be in touch with other startups. More at www.startup-yard.com

3. Table Of Contents
Program 2
CSS Hat 3
Tabfoundry 4
Spaceteacher 5
Lingvus 6
Langtice 7
SimpletestIO 8

4. Program
16:30 Welcome Note
16:45 Pitches:
• CSS Hat (Lukas Hurych, CEO)
• Tabfoundry (Lada Hrbacek, CEO)
• SpaceTeacher (Anna Vatulya, Co-founder)
• Lingvus (Tomas Mohr, CEO)
• Langtice (Radka Breitzetelova, Co-founder)
• Simpletest.io (Katka Cabalova, CEO)
17:30 Why Prague, Czech Republic and Slovakia?
Overview of Central European startups
18:00 Networking
20:00 Afterparty at Sektor5
2

5. Contact:
CSS Hat
www.csshat.com
team@csshat.com
@csshat
Lukas Hurych, CEO
About:
CSS Hat is a Photoshop plugin that turns layer styles to CSS3 with a
click.
Solving:
Taking design of the web/app to code is a pain. It takes a lot of time and
developers don't like this part of their job.
Money:
We sell the plugin for $29.99 (introductory price $19.99).
Drive:
Passion – doing something people really want and use.
Doodle Space...
3

6. Contact:
Tabfoundry
www.tabfoundry.com
info@tabfoundry.com
@tabfoundry
Lada Hrbacek, CEO
About:
Create your own customized Facebook tab in less than a minute.
Solving:
Developing Facebook tabs and promotions is expensive and
timeconsuming. It doesn't have to be. Tabfoundry allows Facebook page
managers to create tabs instantly and for a fraction of cost.
Money:
Free, premium and agency plans.
Drive:
The vision of people using our product.
Doodle Space...
4

7. Contact:
SpaceTeacher
www.spaceteacher.com
david.brhel@spaceteacher.com
@davidbrhel
David Brhel, CEO
About:
SpaceTeacher is an online tool that helps you find learning buddies and
arrange online or offline meetups with them.
Solving:
It is hard to find people learning same things or sharing same passion in
the place you live or travel. We make it possible and easy. You fill in your
interests, your language and your places and we give you people and
meetups.
Money:
Freemium. Users will be offered premium functions.
Drive:
Testimonials of people who we already helped to improve. We would not
believe it if we did not see ourselves.
Doodle Space...
5

8. Contact:
Lingvus
www.lingvus.com
tomas@lingvus.com
@lingvus
Tomas Mohr, CEO
About:
We are freelancer.com for translations / proofreading.
Solving:
It is a pain in the ass to get your service / product / website translated
without being afraid of the quality of the result. We are here to heal this
pain.
Money:
Taking a fee (percentage) from every translation.
Drive:
We are a fresh fountain full of ideas and we have the willpower and
ability to make them happen.
Doodle Space...
6

9. Contact:
Langtice
www.langtice.com
team@langtice.com
@langtice
Radka Breitzetelova, CEO
About:
Langtice takes the pain out of language practice and makes it cool, fun,
playful and engaging. It is a unique practice space driven by higly topical
video chat that gets you to start speaking the foreign language you are or
have been learning.
Solving:
Langtice solves the problem of lack of opportunities to practice foreign
language speaking skills.
Money:
Langtice applies the fremium model. Users will be charged only for
premium features.
Drive:
We know what people want and we want to turn it into something people
will also love. We want to complete the online language learning
ecosystem and evangelize: "Stop learning and start practicing."
Doodle space
7

10. Contact:
SimpleTest
www.simpletest.io
info@simpletest.io
@simpletestio
Katka Cabalova, CEO
About:
SimpleTestIO helps you test your website functionality. Usually website
owners care about website functionality only when creating it but it is
best also to care about it when your customers use it.
Solving:
Each website error means that the website owner may lose customers or
profits. Manual testing takes a lot of time - with just few clicks and without
technical skills SimpleTestIO can test your website functionality regularly
and if it finds any error it lets you know about it.
Money:
Plans with trial periods and customers can try home page check for free.
Drive:
Testing is an essential part of a web application life. Our vision is to offer
easy to use test tools that require no technical skills and that help bring
better quality for our customer web applications.
Doodle Space...
8

11. A Special Thanks To Mentors:
Adame Ricardo Hsu Jameson Riley Patrick
Balamotis Nikos Illich Michal Safka Jan
Barta Jan Kasan Roman Sedivy Jan
Bartos Ondrej Kiska Andrej Sedlak Jan
Bednar Vojta Komarek Pavel Seewald Richard
Bednar Jan Kopsa Jiri Sheehan Anthony
Beska David Krajicek Petr Schukai Bob
Blaha Michal Krizek Jakub Sidlo Petr
Blank Steve Maloux Cedric Slavicinsky Jaroslav
Booth David Manas Petr Smely Roman
Bragiel Paul Manasova Anna Smola Roman
Cendra Zdenek Matousek Pavel Sodomka Pavel
Cernohorsky Martin Molcan Filip Spinar David
Darabiha Ramine Muchna Vaclav Stanek Jan
Dolezal Pavel Muntean Cristina Stanek Petr
Endrle Milos Nesetril Jakub Starkell Natasha
Fried Jan Neuberger Olda Stefunko Ivan
Fryvaldsky Martin Nielsen Tomas Stupka Roman
Fuksa Karel Obluk Karel Trojan Jaroslav
Fulforth James Ocasek Petr Trojan Jeanne
Furian Jurgen Ohanian Alexis Turner Sarah
Gal Emi Olmer Petr Valka Vitezslav
Gold Nathan Orlik Tomas Vavra Vojtech
Hanus Michal Palan Hubert Vrba Vit
Havrlant Jakub Prerovsky Jan Vsiansky Jan
Hild Imre Raethke Christoph Zaboji Peter B.
Hopkins Simon Raszka Robin Zbiejczuk Adam
Horky Vit Rath Samir Zima Pavel
And thank you to anyone we might have missed. We couldn’t
have done it without your support along the way!

12. “The hardest thing about
getting started is getting
started”
www.startupyard.cz
@startup_yard