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SmartGuide
SmartGuide s.r.o is a Czech company founded in Prague, Czech Republic, in July 2018. It's main technology is the SmartGuide app which provides users with a multilingual digital guided tour services on their mobile devices. It is only available on App Store, Google Play Store and Huawei app store. EU Startups reported the company as one of the promising Czech startups in 2022.

History
In 2018, the idea for SmartGuide was started by a Harvard alumni at the Harvard alumni startup competition in the same year.

In 2019, the project was awarded by Seedstars as winner for Best Czech Startup. In that same year, SmartGuide was also awarded by Deutsche Bahn's startup competition out of 90 startups

In 2020, the project participated in the Singapore Tourism Board Accelerator and emerged one of the winners in global startups

In 2021, SmartGuide launched a crowdfunding campaign on the equity crowdfunding platform, Seedrs, with a target to raise £400,000. They closed their funding round in April 2021 raising £685,030 from 378 investors, despite COVID-19's impact to the travel and tourism industry. This project was also recognised as top 3 Global innovators in Covid recovery by the World Travel Forum Lucerne 2021 Switzerland Tourism partnered with SmartGuide and published 24 Swiss City self guided walking tours on the platform.