What CESA does

CESA a.s. was a Czech joint-stock company (akciová společnost) headquartered in Pardubice, Czech Republic, founded approximately in 1990. According to firmographic descriptors, the company operated in the information and communication technology sector, providing server and virtualization software, with a stated employee range of 51-100. No further detail on its product portfolio, technology architecture, customer base, pricing model, or go-to-market motion is documented in the available source material.

The company operated for nearly 25 years before ceasing all business activity on 19 October 2015. Its website (cesa.cz) now functions solely as a memorial notice — written in Czech — announcing that "CESA a.s., Pardubice" has "passed away" and stating "CESA už není" (CESA no longer exists). Former employees maintain the site as a remembrance. The only listed contact is a general mailbox ([email protected]), and the site's content sections are limited to a home page, contact form, site map, and search — no products, services, or corporate information are published.

There are no records of funding rounds, acquisitions, partnerships, patents, awards, certifications, or leadership team in the source data. The firm is now a non-operating, dissolved Czech entity with no active revenue, customers, or staff. Any investment-relevant signal must be treated as historical and incomplete; the entity does not represent a live investment opportunity.

Name

CESA

Legal name

CESA a.s.

Website

https://www.cesa.cz

Company type

Private

Founded year

1990

Operating status

Closed

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

CESA a.s. was a Czech information and communication technology company headquartered in Pardubice, founded circa 1990, providing server and virtualization software. The firm ceased operations on 19 October 2015 and its website now exists only as a memorial.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Pardubice

HQ country

Czechia

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Core offering

CESA a.s. was described in firmographics as an information and communication technology company providing server and virtualization software. No specific products, services, or active offerings are documented in the detailed source material or on the current website, which now serves solely as a memorial announcing that the company ceased operations on October 19, 2015.

Product overview

No product information available. CESA a.s., Pardubice was a Czech company that ceased operations on October 19, 2015, at the age of 25. The company's website now displays a memorial notice indicating the business is defunct. No products, services, or offerings are described in the available source material.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves1 record

Direct peers

• VMware (Broadcom): Historically the dominant vendor in server virtualization and a direct category competitor to CESA's stated focus on server and virtualization software. Operates globally with the enterprise virtualization stack that defined the market during CESA's operating years.
• Citrix Systems: Long-standing provider of server virtualization, application delivery, and desktop virtualization solutions. A direct category peer to a Czech ICT firm selling server and virtualization software in the same time period.
• Parallels (now Alludo): Vendor of virtualization and cross-platform solutions, including server virtualization products. Comparable as a smaller, specialist player in the same server virtualization category CESA historically addressed.

Broad incumbents

• Microsoft (Hyper-V): Operates Hyper-V as part of its broader enterprise infrastructure portfolio, competing in the same server virtualization category. As a broad incumbent, Microsoft's virtualization offering sits within a much wider product and cloud strategy.
• Red Hat (IBM): Provider of Red Hat Virtualization (KVM-based) as part of its broader Linux and hybrid cloud portfolio. A broad incumbent in the same enterprise virtualization space CESA's offerings would have competed in.

Regional players

• Avast (Gen Digital): Czech-founded IT software company headquartered in Prague, comparable as a peer Czech technology firm operating in the same country during CESA's lifetime, though addressing consumer cybersecurity rather than server virtualization.
• Y Soft: Czech-headquartered enterprise software company providing print management and digital workflow solutions. Comparable as a regional peer in the Czech enterprise software ecosystem during the same operating period.

Market position

Weaknesses4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights3 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/ossetdepeluix
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/cesa-a-s-

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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