●About
International business runs on trust.
Great partnerships between France and Central Europe fail to happen every year — not for lack of opportunity, but because nobody was standing in the middle, trusted by both sides.
The gap in the middle of Europe
France and Central Europe should be natural partners — one of the continent's largest markets on one side, its industrial and engineering heartland on the other, two hours apart by plane. Yet the corridor between them is remarkably underused. Deals here don't move on cold emails or directories. They move on relationships, cultural fluency and someone both sides trust.
Most companies discover this the expensive way: months of outreach, a folder of unanswered messages, and a market that seems closed. It isn't closed. It just works differently.
Who is behind Bohemia Connect
Bohemia Connect was founded by Jakub Smetana, an entrepreneur who has spent his career at the crossroads of French and Central European business — including years leading the Paris office of CzechTrade, where he personally guided more than a hundred companies, from machinery to food to design, into the French market.
Working both sides of that corridor taught him one thing: the product is rarely the problem. What's missing is the person in the middle — someone who speaks both languages, reads both cultures and has the network on both ends. So that's what Bohemia Connect became.
How we work with you
We work with a small number of clients at a time, and we represent each one as if we were part of their own company. We sit in the meetings, make the calls and follow up in the partner's own language — while you get a clear report in yours. And we measure our work the only way that matters: in signed contracts and partnerships that last.