Marek Fodor General Information

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Dr. Marek Fodor is a Co-Founder & serves as Managing Partner at 4Founders Capital. He serves as Mentor at Seedrocket. Passionate about technology and with a great entrepreneurial spirit, He Co-Founded Atrápalo in May 2000. After completing his studies in IT and economics in Prague, Berkeley and London, He joined CSOB as a management consultant to participate in the privatization process of the bank and lead the bank's strategy with SMEs. At the time of founding Atrápalo, he was pursuing a doctoral program in Economics at Charles University in Prague. In the midst of the regression of the dot-com bubble, the founders of Atrápalo decided to go for the creation of an online platform to promote leisure and free time offers, shortly after incorporating hotels, travel and flights, and in 2003 restaurants. Currently, Atrápalo is the online travel agency that has experienced the greatest growth in the sector. Dr. Fodor was the Technical Director of Atrápalo until October 2008. After spending a year at the University of California as a visiting professor, Dr. Fodor returned to Spain and since then has been implicated as a Business Angel and mentor in several startups SeedRocket. Among its investees are Deporvillage, Palbin, Escapada Rural or Kantox.