Petr Kováčik
€13Mtotal of 1 exit with a known price
One company, one exit, one yacht. For now.
Petr Kováčik is a founder of Skrz.cz. Skrz.cz was sold to Secret Escapes (United Kingdom) in October 2017 for €13M (about CZK 325M). Investors: Miton and Kaya. Part of the team at BUDETO.
Internet entrepreneur and founder of BUDETO Startup Studio. He started out as a developer. In 2011 he took over Skrz.cz, a deals search engine launched a year earlier, and as CEO built it into the largest Czech deals aggregator, which bought Vykupto in 2015 without outside money. In 2017 the UK's Secret Escapes bought Skrz.cz together with Slevomat and Slovakia's Zlavomat. Petr ran the company until the end of 2018.
He then founded Blabu.com, a worldwide marketplace for practising English with native speakers, which the Covid pandemic forced to close in 2020. In 2022–2023 he was at the KAYA VC fund. Since 2023 he has been building BUDETO Startup Studio, which starts new companies together with fellow entrepreneurs and connects founders with investors. Two startups from its first batch, Langtail and Macaly, were sold in 2025.
Founded
- Skrz.cz2017 · → Secret Escapes 🇬🇧 €13M
In the media
- Petr Kováčik opouští Skrz.cz. Vyklízím místo, aby ostatní mohli růst, říká ↗Podcast · Forbes · December 5, 2018
- Petr Kováčik (Skrz.cz): Jak jsem během pár let vybudoval stamilionový startup ↗Article · Forbes · September 8, 2017