Liftago CZ

Liftago is a Czech transport platform operated by Liftago CZ, s.r.o. Through its mobile app and web interfaces it brokers primarily taxi rides, courier deliveries and corporate transport. Unlike some foreign platforms such as Uber or Bolt, Liftago has long positioned itself as a service working with licensed taxi drivers and allowing the customer to choose a specific driver by price, rating, arrival time or vehicle type. The service is available in Czech cities and, alongside passenger transport, also offers express parcel delivery. According to its own data, Liftago operates in 15 cities in Czechia. The company Liftago CZ, s.r.o. was founded in December 2012. Among the founders of the project are Martin Hausenblas, Juraj Atlas and Ondřej Krátký. The service was built from the outset as an app connecting passengers with taxi drivers. Its goal was to increase the efficiency of urban transport and reduce the number of empty kilometres driven by taxis while looking for customers. In 2014 the mathematician and entrepreneur Karel Janeček invested in Liftago, putting CZK 7.5 million into the company. In 2017 co-founder Ondřej Krátký became CEO, replacing Juraj Atlas. In 2018 the investment group Livesport Invest, linked to entrepreneur Martin Hájek, entered Liftago. The investment exceeded CZK 100 million and was intended mainly for further technology development and expansion of the service to other cities. After the transaction the founders together with Livesport were said to hold over 90 percent of the company. In January 2024 the splitting of Liftago's activities was announced. The then CEO Ondřej Krátký moved to develop a separate logistics network, while the management of Liftago was taken over by the then operations director Radek Svíčka. The logistics part subsequently separated under the name grid.online. In January 2025 the Livesport group became the 100 percent owner of Liftago. This completed the separation of Liftago from the grid.online project. Liftago kept its main business in the form of passenger and parcel transport, while grid.online focused on a shared logistics network. Liftago's core service is ordering a taxi via a mobile app. After entering a route, passengers can choose from available drivers by price, expected arrival time, vehicle type and rating. Payment is possible by card, cash or, for corporate customers, by invoice. Liftago states that it works with verified drivers and that users can choose, for example, cars with child seats, larger cars, premium cars or more environmentally friendly transport options. Additional services are also available in the app, such as scheduled booking, airport pickup or picking up the customer's car. Liftago also offers express courier transport of smaller parcels. A parcel can be ordered via the app, and corporate customers can use the web interface for multiple parcels at once. According to Liftago's FAQs, transported parcels are limited to dimensions of 55 × 45 × 25 cm and a weight of 15 kg and are insured up to CZK 250,000. For parcel delivery Liftago requires couriers to have, among other things, a licensed trade for road motor freight transport operated by vehicles up to 3.5 tonnes. Besides individual customers, Liftago also targets corporate clients, hotels and dispatch centres. It allows transport to be ordered via the app or web interface and, for corporate customers, payment by invoice. The service can be used for business trips, hotel taxi or express delivery of documents and parcels. Liftago states that it operates in 15 cities in the Czech Republic. The cities listed include Prague, Brno, Ostrava, Plzeň, Olomouc, Liberec, Hradec Králové, Pardubice, Ústí nad Labem, Zlín, Jihlava, Kladno, Kolín, České Budějovice and Frýdek-Místek. Liftago functions as a technology platform connecting customers with transport providers.

Liftago CZ, s.r.o. was founded in December 2012. Among the founders of the project are Martin Hausenblas, Juraj Atlas and Ondřej Krátký. The service was built from the outset as an app connecting passengers with taxi drivers. Its goal was to increase the efficiency of urban transport and reduce the number of empty kilometres driven by taxis while looking for customers. In 2014 the mathematician and entrepreneur Karel Janeček invested in Liftago, putting CZK 7.5 million into the company. In 2017 co-founder Ondřej Krátký became CEO, replacing Juraj Atlas. In 2018 the investment group Livesport Invest, linked to entrepreneur Martin Hájek, entered Liftago. The investment exceeded CZK 100 million and was intended mainly for further technology development and expansion of the service to other cities. After the transaction the founders together with Livesport were said to hold over 90 percent of the company. In January 2024 the splitting of Liftago's activities was announced. The then CEO Ondřej Krátký moved to develop a separate logistics network, while the management of Liftago was taken over by the then operations director Radek Svíčka. The logistics part subsequently separated under the name grid.online. In January 2025 the Livesport group became the 100 percent owner of Liftago. This completed the separation of Liftago from the grid.online project. Liftago kept its main business in the form of passenger and parcel transport, while grid.online focused on a shared logistics network. Liftago functions as a technology platform connecting customers with transport providers. In the taxi segment it historically did not set a single centrally determined ride price, but allowed drivers to offer their own price, according to which the customer could choose. The platform's revenue comes mainly from fees for brokered orders and corporate services. Liftago's difference from part of the competition lay primarily in its focus on licensed taxi drivers and existing transport capacity. This distinguished the service from platforms based on broader involvement of non-professional or fleet drivers. On the Czech market Liftago competes mainly with the platforms Bolt and Uber, with classic taxi services and with other forms of urban transport. While Uber and Bolt are international platforms operating in many countries, Liftago is a Czech service focused primarily on the local market and licensed taxi drivers.

• Liftago CZ, s.r.o. founded by Martin Hausenblas, Juraj Atlas and Ondřej Krátký.

• Karel Janeček invests CZK 7.5 million in Liftago.

• Co-founder Ondřej Krátký becomes CEO, replacing Juraj Atlas.

• Livesport Invest, linked to Martin Hájek, invests over CZK 100 million in Liftago.

• Liftago announces splitting of activities; Ondřej Krátký moves to logistics, Radek Svíčka becomes CEO of Liftago.

• Livesport group becomes 100% owner of Liftago, completing separation from grid.online.

Czech ride-hailing platform focused on licensed taxi drivers, driver choice and safety, competing with Bolt and Uber on the local market.

• Liftago Taxi

  Taxi ordering via mobile app or web, with driver selection by price, arrival time, rating and vehicle type.

• Liftago Courier

  Express courier transport of smaller parcels, limited to 55 × 45 × 25 cm and 15 kg, insured up to CZK 250,000.

• Liftago Business

  Corporate transport for employees and business partners, with invoice payment and web interface for multiple orders.

• Liftago Limousine

  Luxury rides tailored to the occasion.

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