Vanek

Vanek is an independent journalist and contributor to the Czech Business Review, focused on the company-level side of the Czech technology and startup story: who is building what, who is funding it, and which Czech-founded companies are actually converting early technical promise into durable, scaled businesses. Where much of the Review's coverage sits at the level of policy and macro data, Vanek's pieces tend to sit at the level of the individual company and founder — reporting built on funding disclosures, company statements and direct sourcing within the startup and venture ecosystem.

As a contributor rather than staff, Vanek maintains reporting relationships across the wider Czech and CEE startup scene that inform his Review coverage without being exclusive to it, and he is transparent with readers that his beat — startups, scale-ups, sector-specific technology adoption — is one where access and independence both matter, and where the Review's editorial standards apply equally to contributor and staff bylines alike.

Vanek's writing is generally the Review's most sector-specific: rather than covering "AI adoption" broadly, he is more often found inside a single vertical — retail, consulting, or a particular company's growth story — tracing how a broader trend actually plays out on the ground for the businesses living through it.