Poland has emerged as one of Central Europe's most dynamic startup ecosystems. Warsaw and Krakow lead the charge with thriving tech communities, strong engineering talent from top universities, and growing venture capital activity. The country's competitive cost base, EU membership, and large domestic market make it an attractive launchpad for founders targeting the broader European market. The directory currently lists 330 organisations across 24 cities.
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[m]spark, powered by Knowledge Hub, is described as the first marketing-technology (MarTech) accelerator programme for startups on the Polish market. Based in Poland, it supports early-stage MarTech and adtech founders with mentoring, corporate connections and access to its ecosystem to help them validate and scale their products.
The flagship conference of the Association of Business Service Leaders, gathering leaders of global GBS/SSC operations, investors, and public administration. Valuable for B2B and enterprise-SaaS founders targeting large service-sector clients and corporate innovation budgets in CEE.
Active since 2018. Smart-tech accelerator scaling startups across Central and Eastern Europe with programs like AccelStart, AccelBoost, and Green Impact. Support: specialized accelerators, corporate partner network, mentoring. Scope: Regional (CEE).
Construction analytics platform that ingests drone, satellite, and site imagery to produce automated progress, quantity, and quality reports for large linear-infrastructure projects (roads, rail, pipelines, solar farms). Operates across Europe and North America. Backed by Movens Capital.
A network of private investors associated with NOT (Federation of Engineering Associations), supporting early-stage high-growth companies. AINOT runs a structured support program from idea scouting and pre-incubation to equity investment (up to €200k) and follow-ons. How to apply: submit your idea via the online application form on the AINOT website (open intake). Notable focus: deep innovation and engineering-heavy startups, leveraging NOT’s technical expertise to vet and mentor projects.
Established 2009 by the Polish Federation of Engineering Associations (NOT). Two-stage program for engineering and hardware startups: incubation with mentoring and business modeling, then seed funding up to EUR 200K. Support: expert consulting, seed capital, office space. Scope: National.
Co-founding partner of Vastpoint Ventures, a 2025 seed fund investing in AI, B2B SaaS and techbio. She was an early employee at ElevenLabs, where she built the AI-safety team and led core partnerships during its rise to unicorn status, and previously co-founded a Cambridge deep-tech startup.
Aleph Zero is a Warsaw-founded layer-1 blockchain project focused on privacy-enhancing technology and scalable consensus, using a peer-reviewed proof-of-stake protocol combined with secure multi-party computation. The company was co-founded by Polish researchers Adam Gągol and Antoni Żółtowski. It raised early backing from notable angels including Balaji Srinivasan and operator-angel Piotr Smoleń, and built one of the most active developer communities in Polish web3.
Co-founder and CEO of Kubota, the listed Polish lifestyle brand best known for reviving the iconic Kubota flip-flop. She and her co-founders relaunched the dormant brand in 2018 and grew it into a multi-channel e-commerce and retail business.
Allani is a Polish fashion-discovery and shopping aggregator that lets users browse clothing and accessories across hundreds of online stores from a single interface. Led by Mateusz Romanowski (also an early Brainly angel), Allani operates a popular consumer product in Polish e-commerce, monetizing through affiliate revenue and direct partnerships with retailers.
Composable commerce frontend platform (formerly Vue Storefront), giving enterprise retailers a modular, framework-agnostic storefront stack on top of headless commerce backends. Alokai covers storefront UI, middleware, caching, and integrations with major commerce engines (commercetools, SAP Commerce, BigCommerce, Shopify). Backed by Movens Capital among others.
A network grown by the Polish Entrepreneurship Foundation in Szczecin, uniting ~50 investors from across Poland. Amber invests in projects that at least have a prototype or beta, focusing on those with high potential and market access. Notable focus: early post-prototype startups requiring angel funding to commercialize (diverse sectors, strong emphasis on the West Pomerania region).
Theoretical physicist and professor at the University of Warsaw and the National University of Singapore, specialising in relativistic quantum information. He is also an internationally recognised photographer known for the high-contrast 'Dragan effect' and has directed campaigns for Netflix, HBO and PlayStation.
A serial entrepreneur and community builder, Andrzej founded the PROIDEA foundation which runs major tech conferences. He has been investing as an angel in Polish startups for years and was an early backer of Estimote (IoT beacons), Intelclinic (wearables), and JIVR (e-bikes). Andrzej’s broad network and experience organizing startup events make him a valued mentor-investor. Associated startups: Estimote, Intelclinic, JIVR, Znika (eco-packaging), among others.
Co-founder of coworking space TechHub Warsaw and active community figure, Anna has invested in and mentored startups especially led by women. She is known for early involvement in the Warsaw startup ecosystem and provides seed funding to startups emerging from co-working communities. Associated startups: Examples include involvement with Campus Warsaw alumni startups and various civic-tech projects.
Answear.com is a Krakow-based online fashion retailer founded in 2011 that sells apparel, footwear, and accessories from over 500 international brands across Central and Eastern Europe. The company operates in Poland, Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Ukraine, and went public on the Warsaw Stock Exchange in 2021. Answear focuses on mid-to-premium fashion with strong logistics and localization for each market. It has become one of the leading multi-brand fashion e-commerce platforms in CEE, competing with Zalando and About You in the region.
A deep-tech and hardware focused co-investment network founded in 2014 under the APER Ventures fund. APER Angels connects private angel investors with VC funds to pool capital for high-tech startups. They typically invest PLN 250k–5M in early-stage companies, and have backed over 24 startups with ~PLN 50M total. Notable focus: hardware, IoT, and deep-tech startups (often syndicating with APER Ventures).
Aptamedica is a Warsaw-based medtech startup developing a real-time, point-of-care therapeutic drug monitoring platform for intensive and critical care. Its core product, AptaSense, is a bedside analyzer that uses single-use, aptamer-based (DNA biosensor) test strips to measure blood concentrations of antibiotics such as vancomycin, gentamicin and amikacin, plus the sepsis biomarker procalcitonin, returning results in roughly one minute from a venous sample — removing the need to send samples to a central lab and enabling immediate, precise dosing. The platform extends beyond the handheld analyzer: AptaFlow integrates into haemodialysis circuits for continuous real-time drug monitoring, while AptaSoft is an AI-assisted dosing tool aimed at neonatal care. New analytes such as troponin and digoxin are in the development pipeline and can be added via software. Founded by Maciej Łach, Mateusz Fil and Kamil Pawełkiewicz, the company is at prototype stage and has taken part in Polish innovation programmes including Warsaw Booster and the Mother and Child Startup Challenge; no external funding round has been publicly disclosed to date.
Arkadiusz Skuza is a Warsaw-born AI entrepreneur and consultant with over 17 years of experience delivering AI and computer vision solutions across manufacturing, energy, healthcare, and finance. He founded Skuza AI, which helps enterprises implement production-grade AI, and has led projects for clients across Europe and North America. He is an active angel investor in AI and industrial tech startups, with focus areas including computer vision and predictive analytics.
Co-founder and Partner at Movens Capital. Serial tech entrepreneur and investor; founder and CEO of NetSprint (2000–2018), a Polish search engine that grew into a CEE adtech/martech group. Led Movens Fund 1 (2020–2023) to invest roughly €14M across 20 CEE startups before co-anchoring Fund 2 (€60M, 2025). Board roles and angel investments across fintech, e-commerce, and SaaS in Poland and CEE.
One of Poland’s first startup bloggers and influencers, Artur has also become an angel investor. He leverages his audience and industry knowledge to promote and invest in Polish startups, often focusing on edtech and gaming. Associated startups: Trafi (mobility) and ThinkCube (edutainment) are a couple of ventures he’s been publicly associated with as an investor.
Developing an AI-based multichannel earthquake forecasting system providing predictions at 14-day, 5-day, 3-day and 1-day horizons with magnitude and location estimates. Founded in 2019; completed ESA BIC Poland and raised over €640k.
AtomStore is a Wroclaw-based composable e-commerce platform designed for mid-market and enterprise brands that need flexible storefront, catalog, and omnichannel commerce workflows. The platform supports both B2C and B2B selling scenarios with modular architecture that allows brands to customize checkout, pricing, and integration layers without replacing their entire tech stack. AtomStore serves Polish and CEE retailers looking for a locally built alternative to Shopify Plus or commercetools, with strong support for marketplace integrations and multi-warehouse fulfillment.
Autenti is a cloud platform for electronic signatures and digital transaction management, letting businesses and individuals sign, send and manage legally binding documents online. It supports qualified, advanced and simple e-signatures under the EU eIDAS regulation, operating across Poland, Germany, Czechia, Slovakia and Spain.
Authologic is a unified digital-identity verification platform aggregating hundreds of eID systems to streamline KYC/AML using electronic IDs, NFC document scanning, facial biometrics and liveness detection. It serves financial services, gaming, telecoms and crypto with eIDAS-compliant checks, used over 150,000 times a day.
AWS Community Day Poland 2026 is a community-run conference for AWS cloud builders, developers, and architects, held at Multikino in Złote Tarasy, Warsaw. It features talks across multiple screening-room stages on AWS cloud, serverless, and DevOps topics, plus hands-on sessions and networking, and is organised by AWS User Group community members rather than AWS itself, free to attend with registration.
Community-run AWS User Group in Poland that organises AWS Community Day Poland, a free conference for AWS cloud builders, developers, and architects. The volunteer organisers run talks, hands-on sessions, and networking on AWS cloud, serverless, and DevOps topics independently of AWS itself.
Mobile platform for booking public and private sports facilities, helping players find and reserve courts and pitches. Founded in Warsaw, targeting the growing market for accessible recreational sports infrastructure.
Bartek Pucek is a Polish serial entrepreneur, prolific angel investor and AI writer. He was an early investor in ElevenLabs and Alokai (formerly Vue Storefront) and has backed 50+ pre-seed and seed startups across AI, infrastructure and deep tech, often alongside funds such as a16z, Sequoia and Y Combinator. Previously Chief Digital Officer at IKEA Poland and head of mobile at Grupa Onet–Ringier Axel Springer, he co-founded the AI lab Forward Operators and the AI startup Proofs, and now leads The Thinking Company, an AI transformation firm serving enterprise clients across Europe and the US.
Former Chief Marketing Officer of telecom Play, Bartosz took his strategic acumen to the startup scene. He has invested in cybersecurity startup Secfense (passwordless authentication) and other tech companies. Bartosz often advises on go-to-market strategy while investing, bridging corporate and startup worlds. Associated startups: Secfense, Booste (revenue-based financing), and a handful of ICT startups.
Investment Director at Movens Capital. Focused on pre-seed and seed dealflow across CEE, with emphasis on SaaS, climate tech, and industrial software. Works closely with portfolio on fundraising and metrics operationalisation.
BCNN is a Warsaw-based investigative-analytics startup building forensic-grade, AI-powered graph analytics for work on sensitive datasets. Its 'Networks Notebook' engine combines a graph database, a BI engine, GraphRAG, and a swarm of AI agents that build and verify hypotheses — producing source-linked timelines, actor maps, and traceable chains of evidence for fraud detection, OSINT, due diligence, and supply-chain audits. Built for GDPR and EU AI Act compliance, it deploys across cloud, sovereign, on-premise, and fully air-gapped environments, and pairs the platform with a hands-on boutique analytics team. Founded by Michał Domański (CEO) and Paweł Gołąb (CTO).
A longtime PwC executive and innovation consultant, Beata received the 2022 Ecosystem Award for her role in mentoring startups. She is not a traditional high-volume investor, but her contributions in connecting and guiding founders have led her to take angel stakes in a few innovation-driven companies. Associated startups: Select advisory-driven investments (innovation ecosystem support, e.g. via PwC Collider).
Billon Group is a Polish-British DLT fintech that built a regulated distributed-ledger platform for tokenized cash payments, secure document delivery, and digital identity. The company is led by Wojtek Kostrzewa (also an active Polish angel) and has worked with major European banks and corporates on enterprise blockchain pilots. Billon's technology has been certified by EU regulators for handling regulated electronic-money flows.
Black Pearls VC was a Gdansk-based early-stage venture capital firm that invested in deep-tech and B2B software startups across the Baltic and Central and Eastern European region. It concluded its active investment period at the end of 2023, and its team has continued supporting founders under a new identity, Balnord.
Poland's dominant mobile-payment system, launched in 2015 by Polski Standard Płatności — a joint venture of six major Polish banks. BLIK enables in-store, online, ATM and peer-to-peer payments via six-digit one-time codes generated in a banking app, processes billions of transactions a year and has expanded internationally. Led by CEO Dariusz Mazurkiewicz.
All-in-one operating system for solo educators and small education businesses — tutors, coaches, mentors and admissions consultants. Combines a student CRM, scheduling, payment tracking and a public profile with an AI "digital brain" that turns session notes into prep, follow-ups and a mini-assistant answering student questions. EU-based and GDPR-compliant; free core plan with a paid Premium tier.
Booksy is a Polish-founded SaaS marketplace for booking personal-care appointments — hair, beauty, barbers, nails, and wellness providers. Founded in Warsaw in 2013 by Stefan Batory and Konrad Howard, Booksy expanded internationally and grew its provider base most rapidly in the US, UK, Spain, and Brazil. Backed by investors including Cat Rock Capital, Sprints Capital, and Piton Capital, the company offers business owners scheduling, payments, marketing, and customer-retention tooling alongside its consumer booking app.
Borubar Ventures is the personal investment vehicle of SALESmanago founder Grzegorz Błażewicz, launched after his majority-stake transaction with Silver Lake Waterman. The fund focuses on B2B SaaS, marketing technology, and AI-driven analytics startups across Central and Eastern Europe, with operator-led support drawing on the SALESmanago scale-up playbook.
Borys Musielak is a Warsaw-based engineer-turned-investor, Founding Partner at SMOK Ventures — a pre-seed and seed fund backing Central and Eastern European founders — and the driving force behind SMOK Angels, a no-fee network of 220+ founders-turned-investors. He previously founded Filmaster, a movie-recommendation engine acquired by Samba TV in 2015, and co-founded Reaktor Warsaw (one of Poland's first startup coworking hubs) and the Startup Poland foundation. Through SMOK he has backed CEE startups across AI, gaming and software including Authologic, Alokai, inStreamly and Defguard, and in 2025 he co-founded No Cap, an AI-driven angel investing platform.
Brain Embassy is a premium Polish-born coworking brand with two flagship Warsaw locations: the original site at Konstruktorska 12 in Mokotów's Służewiec tech corridor, and a second outpost at Aleje Jerozolimskie near the city's main east-west axis. The Konstruktorska venue, opened around 2016, occupies an architecturally distinctive building surrounded by mature greenery — an unusual amenity in Warsaw's otherwise dense office park landscape. Brain Embassy targets creative professionals, technology companies, and fast-growing scale-ups that want design-quality interiors and community programming beyond standard coworking. The offering spans private offices, dedicated desks, open coworking, and a full event-and-workshop programme. Both locations feature high-end fit-outs with natural materials, breakout zones, phone booths, and event rooms capable of hosting product launches and investor gatherings. The Konstruktorska neighbourhood houses a concentration of technology and media firms and has been a secondary tech cluster in Warsaw alongside the Wola CBD. Brain Embassy's community events have included startup pitch evenings and workshops oriented toward product and marketing teams at growth-stage companies, making it one of the more ecosystem-engaged premium coworking operators in Warsaw outside the Google Campus and Reaktor networks.
Brainly is a Polish-founded edtech that operates a peer-to-peer learning community: students post questions and get answers verified by other learners, educators, and AI. Founded in Kraków in 2009 by Michał Borkowski, Łukasz Haluch, and Tomasz Kraus, the company expanded globally, becoming one of Poland's best-known consumer internet successes. It has raised funding from investors including Naspers, General Catalyst, Point Nine Capital, and Runa Capital, and has incorporated AI tutoring features (Ginny) in recent years.
Brand24 is a Polish social-media-monitoring SaaS that tracks mentions of brands and keywords across social platforms, news, blogs, and forums. Founded in Wrocław in 2011 by Michał Sadowski (and backed early by LiveChat CMO Szymon Klimczak as an angel), the company serves marketing and PR teams worldwide and went public on the Warsaw Stock Exchange in 2018.
Accelerator by Budimex for construction-tech startups in green construction, AI, robotics, and site automation. Offers pilots on construction sites, industry mentors, and potential investment or procurement. Scope: Regional (Poland and CEE).
CallPage is a callback and lead-generation SaaS that connects website visitors with sales agents within seconds via an instant callback widget, with automated call scheduling, tracking and CRM integrations for SMB sales teams. Acquired by SaaS Labs in 2022.
Campus Warsaw is Google for Startups' flagship hub for Central and Eastern Europe, opened in 2015 inside the historic Koneser Centre at Plac Konesera 10 in Warsaw's Praga district. The venue occupies a revitalized 19th-century vodka distillery complex and serves as the primary gathering point for Google's regional startup programs. Access is restricted to Google for Startups alumni and resident startup community members on weekdays; the 200-seat auditorium and 36-seat classroom open to the public during curated events. Campus Warsaw runs Founders at Campus residencies — structured cohorts providing dedicated workspace, mentorship, and access to Google product experts — alongside Google for Startups Accelerator Poland, which selects early- and growth-stage companies for equity-free intensive programs. The Praga location positions Campus outside Warsaw's central business district, embedding it in a rapidly gentrifying creative and tech neighbourhood that also hosts the Koneser Building M location of Spaces coworking. As the only Google for Startups Campus in the CEE region, the Warsaw node anchors a network that connects local founders with Google's global mentor pool, cloud credits, and product integrations. Several international investors use Campus events for deal sourcing when visiting Warsaw.
CampusAI is a Warsaw-based generative-AI learning platform that helps individuals and organisations build practical AI skills. Founded in 2023, it delivers educational programmes, AI tools and expert-led training through 3D virtual environments, web applications and in-person sessions, including a skills-training environment called AI Gym. The company reports more than 35,000 trained users.
Cardiomatics develops cloud-based AI software that automates reading and interpretation of electrocardiograms (ECG), detecting ~20 heart abnormalities and generating diagnostic reports in minutes. It received European medical-device certification in 2018 and has analysed millions of hours of ECG signals for 700+ customers across 10+ countries.
Two-day festival at the intersection of business, technology and innovation near Rzeszów, bringing together 1,500 participants, 50+ investors and 150 speakers for keynotes, panels and a startup competition with a PLN 150,000 prize pool.
Catch the Tornado is a Wrocław-based venture builder and investment firm founded by Divante alumni Piotr Karwatka and Tomasz Karwatka after Divante's exit. The firm builds and backs open-source, composable-commerce, and AI-first companies with hands-on operator support. Portfolio and venture-build references include Alokai (formerly Vue Storefront), Ramp Network, and Rigby.
CD Projekt is a Warsaw-based video-game holding founded in 1994 by Michał Kiciński and Marcin Iwiński. Its CD Projekt RED studio produced The Witcher and Cyberpunk 2077 franchises, while GOG.com operates a DRM-free PC games store. The company went public on the Warsaw Stock Exchange in 2011 and at peak was Poland's most valuable listed company. Co-founder Michał Kiciński later left day-to-day operations to focus on impact-oriented investing and wellness projects.
The Centre of Creativity Targowa (Centrum Kreatywnosci Targowa) is a City of Warsaw institution in the Praga district that supports the creative industries and creative entrepreneurs. Located on Targowa street, it offers workspace, workshops, mentoring and events for people building businesses in design, crafts and other creative fields.
Centrum Przedsiebiorczosci Smolna is an entrepreneurship centre run by the City of Warsaw that offers free training, workshops, mentoring and advice to residents who want to start or grow a business. It is one of the city's main public points of support for early-stage founders and aspiring entrepreneurs.
Digital credentialing SaaS used by training providers, schools, and enterprises to issue verifiable certificates and digital badges at scale. Certifier handles design templates, automated issuance via API / integrations, and blockchain-anchored verification. Backed by Movens Capital.
Cezary Smorszczewski is a Polish financier and fintech investor with nearly three decades of experience across state energy, banking and private equity. He co-founded Alior Bank in 2008 and led it to a ~$2bn London listing in 2012, then ran Private Equity Managers S.A. before launching Corviglia Capital Fund, a Luxembourg-based global fintech growth-equity vehicle. He has held senior roles at PKN Orlen and Bank Pekao and currently sits on the boards of Twisto, Upaid, Sparados and Moleo, investing across CEE fintech and technology.
CIC Innovation Campus in Warsaw, located at Varso Place, is part of the global CIC (Cambridge Innovation Center) network founded in 1999 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It provides flexible office and lab space, community and programming for startups, scaleups and innovation teams, acting as a physical hub that connects Warsaw's technology ecosystem to CIC's international network.
Clinical Trials Information Network, founded in 2023 and headquartered in Warsaw, operates ClinicalTrials.eu, a patient-focused platform that makes clinical trial information across Europe more accessible. It aggregates publicly available data from international trial registries, academic centres, national regulators and commercial sponsors, letting users search trials by disease, drug name or location and access structured patient materials.
Cloud Native Days Poland 2026 is a community conference centred on Kubernetes and cloud-native development, hosted at CIC Warsaw in Varso Tower. It brings together hundreds of developers, system engineers, and IT professionals from the CNCF and cloud-native community for talks, case studies, and networking.
Cloudly Studio is a Warsaw-based 3D visualisation studio specialising in interactive product experiences for laboratory equipment and industrial manufacturers. The company helps B2B sales teams replace static catalogues and physical samples with photorealistic 3D configurators and animations, letting buyers explore complex technical products in detail before purchase. Cloudly Studio serves manufacturers who sell capital equipment with long sales cycles — sectors where accurate visual communication significantly shortens the buying process and reduces costly physical demo logistics.
Community organisers behind Cloud Native Days Poland, a conference centred on Kubernetes and cloud-native development hosted at CIC Warsaw in Varso Tower. The event gathers developers, platform engineers, and IT professionals from the CNCF and cloud-native community for talks and networking.
COBIN Angels is Poland's largest business-angel network, founded in 2015 and based at the Cambridge Innovation Center in Warsaw, with a community of 160+ active private investors. It syndicates pre-seed and seed rounds (typical tickets of PLN 100,000–450,000 per angel), runs founder education and pitch sessions, and connects startups with experienced operators. The network is led by founder and managing partner Robert Ługowski, CEO Dominik Krawczyk and managing partner Paweł Michalski, with an investment board including Kasia Pieniądz and communications led by Tomasz Laskowicz. COBIN organises the annual Business Angel of the Year (BAY) awards — now in its eighth edition — and co-publishes Poland's business-angel market report with the SGH Warsaw School of Economics, PKO Bank Polski and PFR Ventures. It is a member of the European Business Angels Network (EBAN) and participates in cross-border EU syndication programmes. Notable syndicate investments include Growbots, Salesbook, SkySnap, Prosoma and the pet-care startup Petsy (a €1.1M angel round in 2024).
Coding challenge and networking event at Google for Startups Campus in Warsaw, designed for developers and technical founders. Useful for recruiting, team formation, and early-stage product validation in software and AI-focused projects.
Code Europe is Poland's largest tech festival for software engineers, founded in 2016 and operating as an independent organization with 11-50 employees. The organization runs annual multi-day events bringing together thousands of developers from across Central and Eastern Europe, combining in-person and online sessions. Its 2026 edition, branded 'Tech Builders Festival for Engineers,' is scheduled for September 14-15 at Stadion Legii in Warsaw, with tracks covering AI engineering, cloud and DevOps, software architecture, and security.
One of Central Europe's largest polyglot developer festivals, Code Europe 2026 runs as an online live-stream day (14 September) plus an on-site day in Warsaw at Stadion Legii (15 September), with talks across frontend, backend, DevOps, data, and AI. Its festival format and broad developer audience give startups strong employer-branding visibility across the CEE region.
Coders Lab is a Warsaw-founded IT school and coding bootcamp established in 2013 by brothers Marcin and Jacek Tchórzewski, among the first programming bootcamps in Poland. It offers career-change programmes in Python, JavaScript, and data analytics and has expanded its campus model to several European countries. The company received angel investment from Grupa Pracuj and employed roughly 190 people by its tenth anniversary in 2023.
Cogito Capital Partners is a Warsaw- and New York-based growth-stage venture firm founded in 2019 by Sylwester Janik (formerly a senior partner at MCI Capital) and Martin Jasinski. It backs later- and early-growth-stage B2B technology companies with Central and Eastern European roots that are scaling globally, with a particular emphasis on US expansion, addressing the Series B+ equity gap for European scale-ups (typically €5–10M+ ARR) across enterprise software, fintech and healthtech. Cogito has raised two funds: Cogito Fund I (2019, ~€61M, anchored by the EIF and PFR) and Cogito Fund II (target €125M, first close €90M+ in 2024, with EBRD, IFC and BGK among LPs), writing cheques of €5–15M. Its portfolio spans companies including Preply (language-learning unicorn), Allica Bank (UK SME-bank unicorn), Katana (Estonian cloud ERP, Series B led by Cogito), Nomagic, Finom and Alcatraz AI. Fund I also produced a landmark exit when Applica.AI was acquired by Snowflake in 2022.
Leading Polish technical security conference focused on applied hacking, incident response, and infrastructure defense. Strong venue for cybersecurity startups to validate products with practitioners and security buyers.
Cosmose AI is a Polish-founded retail-AI company that predicts offline shopping behavior for hundreds of millions of consumers across Asia and integrates with on-device advertising and rewards platforms. Founded by Miron Mironiuk in Warsaw, the company has raised funding from international investors including Tim Draper, Tencent, and Polish operator-angels Brent Hoberman and Paweł Kastory.
Cropler, founded in 2023 and headquartered in Warsaw, develops a portable digital agronomy system that delivers real-time field insights through smart agri-cameras and soil sensors. It pairs on-field hardware with a web-based analytics platform to monitor plant health and soil conditions, helping farmers track phenophases, detect diseases early and act on AI-based recommendations. Cropler reports its devices are used in 25 countries.
The Cross-Border Impact Venture Accelerator (also known as Unsung Tech’s Poland-Ukraine program) is a fully online accelerator launched in 2022 to support young Ukrainian entrepreneurs in building humanitarian and impact-focused startups amid the ongoing crisis. This unique six-month program was co-founded by Polish and international tech non-profits in response to the war in Ukraine, aiming to empower Ukrainian youth (often refugees or internally displaced) to address challenges faced by their communities. The program provides equity-free stipends to participants (to cover living and working costs), mentorship in business fundamentals and pitching, and connections to NGOs and international partners. Topics emphasized include leadership under adversity, social entrepreneurship, and financial planning in volatile environments. Notably, the accelerator connects startups with NGOs across seven countries to pilot their solutions in real humanitarian contexts. For example, a cohort team developing a mobile app for reconnecting separated families was paired with relief organizations working in Poland and Ukraine to test and deploy the app. Other startup ideas have included portable water purification units, mental health support platforms, and low-cost prosthetics – all direly needed due to war impacts. The accelerator is run online with occasional in-person meetups in safe locations (e.g., at Google for Startups Warsaw), enabling participants dispersed across Ukraine, Poland, and beyond to collaborate. By late 2023, the Cross-Border Impact Accelerator had supported two cohorts (around 20 startups). Successes included one venture securing grant funding from UNICEF to expand a digital education tool for Ukrainian children, and another joining a global humanitarian tech competition. The program is backed by international donors and tech companies’ CSR arms. Its broader significance lies in showing how entrepreneurship can be a tool for resilience: instead of seeing war-affected youth solely as victims, it empowers them as innovators solving problems like displacement, infrastructure damage, and trauma. The name “Unsung Tech” reflects the mission to uplift underrepresented voices and create solutions that might otherwise go unsung. In sum, the Cross-Border Impact Accelerator stands out as a bold initiative turning tragedy into an impetus for social innovation, forging a new generation of Ukrainian impact-driven founders even in the face of adversity.
One of Europe's leading public-policy-meets-industry cybersecurity forums. For security and infrastructure founders it offers access to EU policymakers, CISOs, and defence and critical-infrastructure buyers — strong for startups navigating regulation and enterprise or government sales.
Student-run cybersecurity conference focused on red teaming, AI-driven defense, and a parallel CTF competition. A strong recruiting venue for security and engineering leaders.
CEO of Polski Standard Płatności, operator of the BLIK mobile-payment system, since 2017. He previously built SkyCash Poland into one of the country's fastest-growing mobile-payments companies as its CEO, and held senior roles at Interia.pl.
Hybrid AI and data engineering summit at Legia Warszawa Conference Center bridging advanced research with production use cases. Good lead-generation venue for startups building ML infrastructure, analytics platforms, and enterprise data tooling.
Poland's leading data-science conference, with an online day and an onsite day at PGE Narodowy. For data and AI founders and analytics teams it is a strong recruiting and partnership venue across the Polish data community.
Serial entrepreneur and angel investor, Dawid is known for co-founding CHIC Group, which was acquired by British American Tobacco in a landmark transaction. He actively backs consumer-facing and technology-enabled brands, combining growth strategy support with capital. Notable startup involvements include TakeDrop and investments across lifestyle and tech ventures, including co-investments in projects such as Samurai Labs.
CEE's flagship deep-tech marketplace, with an Investor Day followed by the main summit. Built specifically for deep-tech founders raising capital: structured investor matchmaking, a startup challenge, and access to deep-tech-focused VCs and corporates.
DefendEye is a Kraków-based deep-tech startup building fully autonomous, AI-powered tube-launched UAV systems for dual-use perimeter security and defence. Founded in 2023 by serial entrepreneur James Buchheim with a multinational team, its core product is a sub-250g drone stored in a sealed launch tube that deploys in under ten seconds via motion-triggered radar — with no trained pilot — climbs to altitude, performs AI human detection in milliseconds, and streams encrypted video to a cloud command centre before returning autonomously. The system is dual-use by design: civilian applications cover search-and-rescue and critical-infrastructure inspection, while security variants address perimeter breaches, border surveillance and active-shooter response. With an IP65 airframe, night-vision camera, onboard neural processor and optional Starlink connectivity, DefendEye targets NATO-facing procurement and is building an NDAA-compliant supply chain. It raised ~PLN 4.8M (~€1.1M) in a May 2025 seed round led by Polish deep-tech VC Hard2beat with Sunfish Partners, to finalise its commercial product and begin EU and US certification.
Defguard is a Warsaw-based open-source cybersecurity company building the only enterprise VPN platform that embeds multi-factor authentication natively at the WireGuard protocol level, closing the gap between network access and identity that standard WireGuard deployments leave open. The fully self-hosted platform unifies VPN connectivity, identity and access management, SSO (Google Workspace, Microsoft Entra ID, Okta, LDAP, Active Directory), firewall policy orchestration and SIEM integration in a single Rust-built stack that customers run entirely on their own infrastructure — with no third-party cloud dependency and no US CLOUD Act exposure, supporting GDPR, NIS2, HIPAA and ISO 27001 compliance. Defguard spun out of teonite, a Polish software venture builder co-founded by CEO Robert Olejnik, and was publicly released on GitHub in May 2023 under an AGPL licence; its open-source core has gathered around 2,700 GitHub stars, with enterprise features under a commercial licence. In May 2025 it raised €1.2M (PLN 5.2M) in a pre-seed round led by Polish VC Hard2beat, with SMOK Ventures, S20 Team and cybersecurity firm ISEC, plus angels including Łukasz Jesis (Xopero). Version 2.0, released in April 2026, re-architected the platform with high availability and built-in SSL termination.
Web3 execution layer that lets developers embed multi-chain token swaps and bridges directly into their applications through a single unified API. Execution runs on transparent, auditable smart contracts, with composable components developers integrate only as needed and a partner portal for fee monetization. Built by Delora Labs.
Sales enablement platform for B2B SaaS teams to build interactive product demos and personalised storylines without engineering help. Sales and marketing teams use Demoboost to accelerate pipeline, shorten sales cycles, and scale product-led-growth motions. Backed by Movens Capital.
A developer-focused spin-off of the Data Science Summit covering AI engineering and applied GenAI tooling, with an online day followed by an onsite day at the Copernicus Science Centre. Aimed at engineers and technical founders building AI into their products.
One of Europe's top developer conferences, Devoxx Poland draws 2,700+ attendees to Krakow for three days of deep-dive talks on cloud-native architecture, AI/ML tooling, and Java/Kotlin. The hallway track and job fair make it a prime venue for startups recruiting senior backend and platform engineers from Central Europe's talent pool.
Technical skills assessment platform used by enterprise engineering teams to screen, interview, and upskill developers with real-world coding tasks. Pivoted in recent years toward developer skills management and internal capability mapping alongside hiring. Backed by Movens Capital.
Founding and managing partner at SMOK Ventures, an early-stage fund focused on Central and Eastern Europe. A physics graduate, she co-founded ReaktorX and was a leading figure in the Polish startup community before moving into venture capital, and has been named to Forbes 30 Under 30.
Premier game industry conference in Krakow featuring an indie game showcase, publisher meetings, and strong startup presence across VR/AR, AI tools, and creative tech. Attracts 2,000+ game developers, publishers, and investors. Valuable for gaming and creative-tech startups seeking publishing deals and development partnerships in the CEE region.
DocPlanner is a Polish-founded healthcare booking and patient engagement platform operating brands such as ZnanyLekarz and MioDottore. The group expanded across Europe and Latin America and in 2017 acquired Germany’s Jameda, strengthening its presence in the DACH market; its TuoTempo brand deepened the practice management stack for larger healthcare providers. DocPlanner is backed by investors including Point Nine Capital, Goldman Sachs Private Capital, and One Peak Partners. The company connects patients with doctors while offering clinics scheduling, CRM, and telehealth tools.
Digital-first primary care and patient-doctor relationship platform that lets private physicians run long-term care programmes with patients through async messaging, visits, and care plans. Positioned as an alternative to transactional telemedicine, with a subscription model aligning doctor and patient incentives. Backed by Movens Capital.
Circular-economy startup commercializing technology to upcycle spent coffee grounds into bio-based ingredients, including oils, antioxidant fractions, polymer feedstocks, and protein-rich additives for cosmetics, packaging, and food supply chains.
Elastics is a Warsaw-based startup building an AI-native operating system for prediction markets. Powered by auditable AI agents, its platform lets traders build and automate trading workflows in plain language, from signal generation through execution. The company was founded in April 2025 by Szymon Pawica (CEO) and Mateusz Brodowicz (CTO).
Estimote is a Kraków-founded IoT company that pioneered the Bluetooth-beacon category for indoor proximity, micro-location, and workplace safety. Co-founded by Jakub Krzych and Łukasz Kostka, with early backing from Polish operator-angels including Andrzej Targosz and the Netguru founders (Schmidt, Filipowski), Estimote went on to raise from US investors and pivoted toward workplace and wearable safety devices used by major enterprises.
Policy and leadership forum for youth innovators across the EU and Eastern Partnership countries. Strong fit for civic, edtech, and impact-oriented founders seeking public-sector partnerships.
Europe's largest Python community conference, held in 2026 at the ICE Krakow Congress Centre in Krakow, Poland. Around 1,500 developers, data scientists and ML engineers gather for tutorials (Jul 13-14), three main conference days (Jul 15-17) and sprints (Jul 18-19). Content spans Python for AI/ML, web frameworks, data engineering and open source, with keynotes from Python creator Guido van Rossum and core developers.
Wrocław festival at the intersection of AI, business and art, organised by Startup Wrocław (ARAW) together with OVHcloud. A 26 May 'Day Zero' (kayaking on the Odra and networking) precedes two main days: 27 May brings workshops on marketing, AI, go-to-market and scaling plus Fintech Trends Poland, and 28 May a conference on AI, creativity and European cloud sovereignty with VC pitching, featuring experts from Capgemini, ZAiKS, Zowie, Bielik AI, Niebezpiecznik.pl and OVHcloud.
Six-month EIT Food program run by Startup Hub Poland for female agrifood entrepreneurs. Provides EUR 1,000 stipend, training, 1:1 mentorship, and a chance to win up to EUR 10,000 grants. Scope: National with EU-wide network.
Ewa Chronowska is a Warsaw-based venture capital investor and entrepreneur who co-founded Next Road Ventures, a Polish early-stage VC backing B2B SaaS and marketplace startups across Europe. She is also founder and CEO of Vestbee, the largest startup-investor matchmaking platform in Central and Eastern Europe, and organises the annual CEE VC Summit — the region's flagship gathering for fund managers and LPs. Recognised as one of Europe's youngest female General Partners, she has backed 15+ companies including TrustMate, Epinote and Sunroof.
Senior Partner and Chief Operating Officer at MCI Capital. She oversees the firm's operations, fund administration and value-creation work with portfolio companies across the CEE technology and e-commerce sectors.
Experior Venture Fund is a Warsaw-based venture capital firm that invests in early-stage technology startups, notably in fintech, medtech and digital services, typically at seed and Series A stages. One of Poland's prominent independent VCs, it is known for being co-led by women investors and backs founders across Central and Eastern Europe.
Polish card-payments infrastructure provider licensed for card issuing, acquiring, and money transfer. Fenige's platform powers card-based money transfers (card-to-card push payments) and payment products for fintechs, banks, and corporates. An early Movens Capital portfolio company; exited via a strategic sale.
Executive Partner at MCI Capital, promoted to the role in 2026. He focuses on the firm's e-commerce and SaaS investments and has been involved in key holdings such as idoSell, working across deal origination, execution and portfolio growth in CEE.
Flowtly is a Warsaw-based AI business-management platform — marketed as an AI ERP — that replaces a stack of disconnected tools with a single system for small and medium-sized businesses in Central and Eastern Europe. The platform covers finance and invoicing, HR and team operations, leave tracking, project management, time tracking and a reservation system, accessible via web and mobile apps. It targets service-oriented SMBs of 2–100 employees in sectors such as software, consulting, marketing, B2B real estate and medical services. Built and operated by Flowtly P.S.A., the company is led by co-founders Bernhard Huber (CEO), Katarzyna Lisiecka (CRO) and Andrzej Nowiczenko (COO), whose backgrounds span enterprise software, high-growth digital products and financial supervision. Flowtly offers a developer API and Model Context Protocol (MCP) integration connecting to 50+ platforms, and in November 2025 launched a verified connector on Make for no-code automation. The product holds ISO 27001 and SOC 2 Type II certifications and is GDPR-compliant. No external funding has been publicly disclosed.
Focus Telecom is a Warsaw-based cloud contact center and customer communications software provider that equips enterprise and mid-market teams with omnichannel support workflows spanning voice, email, chat, and SMS. The platform enables companies to build automated call routing, IVR systems, and agent productivity dashboards without on-premise infrastructure. Focus Telecom serves clients across Poland and Central Europe, particularly in financial services, utilities, and retail, where high-volume customer interaction management is critical. The company is one of Poland's established players in cloud communications infrastructure.
ForActive, founded in 2023 and headquartered in Wrocław, develops a cloud-based business management app for independent personal trainers, coaches and fitness instructors. The platform lets professionals sell memberships, class packages and one-off sessions while automating payments, attendance tracking and client communication, with recurring billing, automated reminders and QR-based check-ins. It runs on a pay-as-you-go model with no fixed subscription fee.
Poland's flagship digital marketing, advertising, and media conference, organised by IAB Polska with 80+ talks under the DIMAQ accreditation umbrella. Valuable for martech and adtech founders, and for any startup sharpening its go-to-market — it puts you in front of agencies, brands, and media buyers.
FOTOhub, founded in 2025 and headquartered in Bydgoszcz, is an AI-powered creative platform that lets users generate and edit images, video, audio and text within a single system. Its orchestration layer integrates multiple AI models so creators and businesses can produce multimedia content without switching tools, alongside a browser-based studio with timeline video editing, audio mixing and design tools. The company reports over 400,000 users globally.
Founder-only conference in Warsaw emphasizing candid, off-the-record conversations about the realities of scaling, leadership, and founder psychology. Curated attendance ensures high-trust networking among experienced operators. Valuable for growth-stage Polish founders seeking peer support and honest discussions about the challenges of building companies.
CEE gateway hub running cross-landing programs with French Tech Lyon–Saint Etienne. Helps French startups build Polish R&D teams and supports Polish founders entering France.
The main edition of Europe's biggest game-dev conference — 300+ lectures and the CEEGA Awards, co-located with the Poznań Game Arena expo. For gaming founders and studios it is the prime CEE venue for publisher deals, investor meetings, and B2B partnerships.
CEE's largest B2B games industry conference at Poznań Congress Centre with 320+ speakers across 13 tracks, 80+ exhibitors and 3200+ attendees from 50+ countries. Co-located with Poznań Game Arena consumer fair.
Long-running JVM and backend conference in Krakow with 50+ expert talks on Java, Scala, Kotlin, microservices, and cloud architecture. Draws ~1,000 senior developers over two days. Strong recruiting ground for startups hiring experienced backend engineers, with a tight-knit community that values deep technical content.
ESA BIC-backed startup that aggregates satellite, spatial and statistical data to deliver property location risk reports in under a minute, covering flood exposure, noise, transport access and 60+ other indicators for buyers and real estate investors.
New summer edition of Game Industry Conference bringing 120+ speakers across 8 parallel tracks, 30+ B2B exhibitors and 1200+ attendees to Silesia's International Congress Centre with lower ticket prices than the Poznań flagship.
Graftcode is a developer-infrastructure platform that removes APIs and middleware by letting applications in different programming languages call each other's methods directly via a proprietary binary protocol. A single command auto-generates and maintains the cross-language module, supporting ~14–20 languages across AWS, Azure and GCP.
Growbots is an AI-powered outbound sales platform that automates lead generation and cold-email outreach for SMBs, combining a database of 180M+ contacts with multi-channel sequences, email warm-up and AI-generated messaging.
Grupa Pracuj is the parent of Pracuj.pl, Poland's largest online job marketplace, and a portfolio of HR-tech brands across Central and Eastern Europe (eRecruiter, the:protocol, RocketJobs, and Softgarden in Germany). Founded in 2000 by Maciej Noga and Przemysław Gacek, the group went public on the Warsaw Stock Exchange in 2021. It remains the dominant recruitment platform in Poland and a key training ground for many Polish operator-angels.
Founder and CEO of SALESmanago, Grzegorz became an active smart-money investor after a majority stake transaction in SALESmanago. Through Borubar Ventures and direct investing, he backs B2B SaaS companies in big data, AI-driven analytics, and sales automation. Portfolio references include Exmetrix and Appoint.ly.
Europe's largest stationary hackathon, returning for its 12th edition at Tauron Arena Kraków on 3-4 October 2026 — a 24-hour build sprint organised by PROIDEA. Teams of 1-6 tackle open challenge categories (Defence, Sport & Healthcare, Smart City, and AI) plus a justCTF capture-the-flag track, with corporate and government challenge partners. A high-signal place to prototype, recruit co-founders, and get in front of challenge-sponsoring organisations.
Hard2beat is a Wrocław-based pre-seed and seed venture fund founded in 2024 by Maciej Zawadziński — a serial entrepreneur with three exits including Piwik PRO (sold to Kirk Kapital in 2023) — alongside Maciej Frankowicz and Konrad Trzyna, who previously ran Shape VC's BRIdge Alpha programme. The fund closed at 84M PLN (~€20M), with PFR Ventures providing 56.5M PLN under the FENG programme and 30 private investors contributing the rest. Hard2beat backs Polish deep-tech founders from pre-revenue to early revenue with 1–3M PLN initial cheques and follow-on up to 8M PLN, targeting teams with a genuine technical moat in cybersecurity, medtech, biotech, devtools, dual-use/defence, gamedev, robotics and spacetech — explicitly avoiding B2C and shallow AI. By mid-2026 it had made seven investments including the open-source cybersecurity platform Defguard, autonomous UAV startup DefendEye, Alzheimer's wearable developer Neuromedical, neuroprotection biotech Pikralida, Unreal Engine AI copilot Ludus AI, and devtools company Graftcode (€2.1M, led with DigitalOcean Ventures, 2026).
HCM Deck was founded in 2016 in Kraków by Szymon Janicki and Rafał Nieśluchowski. The company offers a cloud-based employee development platform covering learning, communications, and feedback, serving enterprise clients such as Rossmann, Leroy Merlin, Decathlon, and Allianz. It raised a total of roughly $4M, including a 2019 round led by mAccelerator (mBank's VC fund) with co-investment from Innovation Nest.
An early-stage “angel fund” that invests in tech and communication startups, specializing in marketplaces, e-commerce, B2B, and IoT. It operates like an angel syndicate, with a portfolio including companies like Allani, Evenea, and Preply. Notable focus: seed-stage online platforms – Hedgehog provides capital plus hands-on involvement to spur growth (many of its investments later raised VC funding).
Holi, founded in 2023 and headquartered in Warsaw, is a digital metabolic wellness clinic focused on obesity treatment and long-term weight management. It combines medical supervision, GLP-1-based pharmacotherapy where appropriate and behavioural support delivered through an integrated app, with care from physicians and psycho-dietitians, ePrescriptions and measurement tracking. Holi reports more than 2,500 patients served.
HomeDoctor is a Polish digital-health platform offering telemedicine consultations and in-home doctor visits across 30+ specialties. It runs a B2B model partnering with medical centres, insurers and employers to provide healthcare as a corporate benefit, with 200+ doctors serving patients nationwide.
IAI (IdoSell) is a Szczecin-based e-commerce SaaS platform that provides merchants with a complete toolkit to run online stores, integrate with marketplaces like Allegro and Amazon, and manage multi-channel order operations at scale. Founded as one of Poland's earliest e-commerce infrastructure companies, IdoSell powers thousands of online shops and processes billions of PLN in gross merchandise volume annually. The platform includes product catalog management, warehouse logistics, payment processing, and cross-border selling capabilities, making it a core part of the Polish e-commerce stack.
The 25th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing, held in Zakopane in the High Tatras with proceedings published by Springer. A research-heavy gathering of AI scientists and engineers, relevant for deep-tech and AI founders scouting cutting-edge methods, recruiting research talent and exploring research-to-startup spinouts.
University-led startup competition connecting Polish founders with IE University’s global alumni, VCs, and corporate partners. The 2026 edition focuses on impact entrepreneurship and includes a multi-round pitch format with jury feedback and finalist presentations.
Large CEE technology and policy event connecting scale-ups with corporate and government decision-makers. Strong fit for startups pursuing enterprise partnerships, public-sector pilots, and regional expansion.
Health AI company building medical guidance and triage tools for providers, insurers, and digital health platforms. Its platform automates symptom assessment and patient routing in multiple languages across international markets.
Large software and startup conference at AmberExpo with 6,000+ attendees, 500+ startups, and 200+ investors. Startup Contest offers EUR 30,000 and the agenda is especially strong for developer tools and data-heavy products.
Infrastructure security forum hosted at Sound Garden Hotel focused on resilience of critical systems in utilities, telecom, and enterprise IT. High-signal venue for cybersecurity startups targeting B2B and public-sector pilots in Poland.
Warsaw-based AI biotech founded in 2023 by the team behind Applica (acquired by Snowflake), building a Biological Reasoning Engine that fuses multimodal biological data to accelerate oncology drug discovery. Raised €13M led by Sofinnova Partners.
Innovation Nest is a European venture capital firm based in Krakow that invests at the earliest stages in B2B software companies, typically leading pre-seed and seed rounds. It backs founders building tools, infrastructure and applications for businesses and supports them through early product and go-to-market development across Europe.
Inovo Venture Partners is Warsaw-based and one of Poland's leading seed-stage venture firms, backing technology founders from Central and Eastern Europe building for global markets. Founded in 2014 with a €8M Fund I, Inovo has scaled to roughly €167M across three funds: Fund II (€54M, 2021) and Fund III (€105M, 2023), the latter backed by IFC, the European Investment Fund and PFR Ventures alongside private LPs including InPost founder Rafał Brzoska and Snowflake co-founder Marcin Żukowski. The firm writes €0.5–4M initial tickets at pre-seed and seed, with follow-on capacity up to €10M. Inovo concentrates around 60% of each fund in Poland and the remainder across CEE — with investments in Croatia, Lithuania, Serbia, Ukraine, Slovakia and Romania — and opened a Balkans hub in Skopje in 2024. It is generalist within technology but has particular conviction in AI, developer tools, digital health, SaaS and B2B software. The portfolio spans more than 55 companies, including Booksy, Tidio, Spacelift, Infermedica, Preply, Packhelp and AI Clearing. Notable outcomes include the Warsaw Stock Exchange IPOs of Brand24 and ECC Games and the acquisition of SplxAI by Zscaler in 2025, one of the largest CEE AI exits to date.
InPost is a Polish logistics company that pioneered the parcel-locker model in Europe, allowing customers to send and receive packages from automated self-service points (Paczkomaty) instead of home delivery. Founded by Rafał Brzoska, it grew into the largest out-of-home delivery network in Poland and expanded into the UK, France, Italy, and the Benelux. InPost went public on the Amsterdam Euronext stock exchange in January 2021 in one of Europe's largest tech IPOs of that year.
Creator-economy ad platform connecting brands with livestreamers through automated micro-sponsorships. It places lightweight, context-aware overlays in live broadcasts and supports large-scale campaigns for gaming and media brands.
The 19th International Invention and Innovation Show at the Katowice International Congress Centre, under WIPO and IFIA patronage. Connects inventors, deep-tech founders and R&D teams with investors and institutions around intellectual property, funding and commercialisation. Useful for hardware, cleantech and university-spinout startups seeking partners, awards and grants.
Enterprise IT and B2B software conference with practical case studies and buyer-facing sessions. Useful for SaaS and cybersecurity startups seeking pilot contracts and distribution partnerships in Poland.
iTaxi is a Polish taxi-ordering and mobility app, one of the country's pioneering ride-hailing platforms, connecting passengers with licensed taxis via smartphone across major Polish cities and offering corporate/business transport services. It was co-founded around 2012 by serial entrepreneur Lech Kaniuk, who served as CEO until 2018, and grew into one of Poland's best-known mobility brands before later consolidation in the Polish taxi-app market.
Jakub "Kuba" Filipowski is the co-founder and CEO of Netguru, a Polish software development company he has built since 2008 into an international firm of 700+ people. Before becoming CEO in 2023 he was Chief Strategy Officer, leading Netguru's M&A including a stake in US innovation studio Pilot44. He is also a Partner at Warsaw growth fund Supercharge Capital, an active angel investor, and earlier co-founded the SaaS recruitment platform HumanWay, sold to Grupa Pracuj in 2013.
Co-creator of fashion marketplace Showroom.pl, Jan became an angel investor after Showroom’s success. He has a keen eye for consumer and lifestyle startups and was nominated among top angels in 2018. Associated startups: Showroom.pl (co-founder), plus investments in fashion-tech and consumer platforms.
Jarosław Królewski is a Polish entrepreneur, AI researcher and investor, best known as CEO and co-founder of Synerise, one of Europe's fastest-growing behavioural-AI infrastructure companies, valued at over $120M and backed by a €25M European Investment Bank facility secured in 2025. He is also president and majority owner of football club Wisła Kraków and a lecturer at AGH University in Kraków, and was named a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader (2025). In 2026 he was appointed to Poland's Council of the Future and the Presidential Business Council, becoming a leading voice on AI and technology policy.
Debuting Business Angel of the Year 2024 and CEO of Luma Automation, Jarosław brings industrial operating experience into startup investing. He backs founders applying AI and automation to legacy sectors where measurable efficiency gains matter most. His focus spans deep tech, industrial IoT, and Industry 4.0 solutions for manufacturing and logistics.
Board member at KI Next, the investment arm of Kulczyk Investments, where he oversees communications, investor relations and public affairs and helps run the InCredibles startup programme. A former economic journalist, he was editor-in-chief at Puls Biznesu, Gazeta Prawna and Newsweek Polska.
The biggest JavaScript conference in CEE, drawing around 1,800 attendees as part of a November cluster with NG Poland and AI Poland. For technical founders and frontend or full-stack teams it is a high-density venue for engineering talent and dev-tooling exposure.
Jutro Medical is a Warsaw-based, AI-first primary care operator that integrates online and offline care. Founded in 2020, it has grown from a single tech-enabled clinic into an integrated operator running around 20 clinics across Poland and serving roughly 120,000 patients. The company embeds AI agents directly into clinical workflows to handle patient intake and documentation, freeing doctors for clinical decisions.
Data and automation specialist and LP at Erebor Capital, Kamil represents a new wave of Polish angels focused on lean, automation-heavy products. He frequently co-invests in data-intensive startups and AI-native software companies. His activity includes early involvement and advisory support in products such as Tidio and other LLM-agent startups.
Partner at Inovo Venture Partners specialising in data science, AI and deep tech. He built the firm's internal AI-powered sourcing tooling and was promoted to Partner in 2025, leading investments in machine-learning and science-driven startups across CEE.
Angel investor and board member at COBIN Angels, Kasia is based in Switzerland and helps connect Swiss and Polish startup ecosystems. She is vice-president of the Swiss-Polish Blockchain Association and brings specialization in health economics. Her portfolio and advisory focus include Bitfold and early-stage teams using blockchain in healthcare data management and security.
The innovation and investment arm of Kulczyk Investments, the international investment house owned by Sebastian Kulczyk. KI Next backs technology ventures and coordinates the InCredibles programme — a long-running competency-building programme for top Polish startups run with the Warsaw School of Economics.
President of Hewlett Packard Enterprise Poland since 2022, with over two decades in senior technology leadership. She was previously managing director at SAP Poland, general manager at Xerox Poland and an enterprise director at Microsoft CEE.
Managing Partner and co-founder of Hard2beat, where he leads legal and structuring with over a decade of experience on €100M+ transactions. He previously worked alongside the founding team at Shape VC and supports Hard2beat's deep-tech portfolio.
Ex-CEO of Deutsche Bank Poland, Krzysztof brings finance industry gravitas to the startup world. After decades in banking, he now invests in fintech and regtech startups as an angel. His deep understanding of banking regulation makes him an ideal mentor for fintech founders. Associated startups: Early-stage fintech and compliance tech startups (leveraging his banking network).
The official La French Tech community in Warsaw, a movement bridging the French and Polish tech ecosystems. It brings startup founders, investors, policymakers, and community builders together through events such as French Tech Connect Warsaw, and helps innovative companies expand between France and Central Europe.
Lancerto is a Polish premium menswear brand founded in 2008 by Tomasz Ciąpała together with Mariusz Jończy and Tomasz Górkiewicz, headquartered in Łańcut where it also runs its own manufacturing. The brand sells suits, shirts, shoes, and accessories through dozens of retail showrooms across Poland and a dedicated e-commerce store launched in 2016. The company is founder-owned and self-financed, with no external funding rounds or stock-market listing publicly disclosed.
Client management platform for online and hybrid fitness coaches. Leapo tracks each client's workout completion, check-ins and trends, then surfaces a weekly briefing of who is on track and who needs attention — alongside a drag-and-drop workout builder, nutrition logging (via FatSecret), custom check-in forms and an AI assistant that flags at-risk clients. Currently in early access.
Polish-Swedish serial entrepreneur who co-founded and scaled PizzaPortal (acquired by Delivery Hero) and the solar-roofing company SunRoof. He has founded more than ten companies, angel-invested in dozens of startups and authored three books on startup fundraising.
Legal and RegTech-focused summit in Warsaw centered on AI-era compliance automation, featuring demo zones for contract management, e-discovery, and governance tooling. Attracts law firm partners, corporate counsel, and compliance officers. Valuable for legal-tech startups seeking pilot customers and strategic partnerships in the Polish and CEE legal markets.
An angel network operating under the Lewiatan Confederation (a major business organization in Poland). They look for startups across industries that have innovative solutions and strong teams. Lewiatan BA often connects corporate executives with startup founders. Notable focus: multi-industry, emphasis on competitive advantage and innovation in the business model.
LiveChat is a Wrocław-based SaaS company providing customer-messaging software used by over 36,000 businesses worldwide. Its core product is the LiveChat web-chat platform; the group also owns ChatBot, HelpDesk, and KnowledgeBase. Founded in 2002 and led by Mariusz Ciepły, LiveChat Software went public on the Warsaw Stock Exchange in 2014 and has been a profitable, dividend-paying SaaS business — a rarity in Polish tech.
Generative AI copilot for 3D game development and visualization workflows, with a strong focus on Unreal Engine production pipelines. The platform helps teams create assets and scene components faster while reducing technical bottlenecks for creators.
Investment Director at Movens Capital. Drives sourcing and execution across fintech, edtech, and healthtech opportunities in Poland and the broader CEE region; previously in product and operating roles in tech-enabled services.
Partner at Movens Capital. Investment professional focused on CEE early-stage tech, with deal experience across SaaS, fintech, and digital health. Works with founders on go-to-market, fundraising strategy, and cross-border expansion from Poland into Western Europe and the US.
Coming from the family that founded TVN and Onet, Łukasz launched his own investment firm Dirlango. As a business angel, he’s injected capital into Polish tech successes like Booksy (booking app) and PizzaPortal (food delivery). He focuses on consumer internet and mobile, often co-investing alongside global funds. Associated startups: Booksy, iTaxi, Plum Research, and others via Dirlango.
Founder of interior design marketplace Pixers, Maciej now actively mentors and funds young startups. Drawing on his e-commerce background, he has invested in projects like PCdoc and ScreenSHU, among others, to help new founders scale their services. Associated startups: PCdoc.pl, ScreenSHU, and various e-commerce/marketplace startups.
Angel investor and host of the Zaprojektuj Swoje Życie podcast, Maciej is known as one of Poland’s most transparent private investors, openly sharing portfolio wins and failures. With prior senior leadership roles at Dell and NTT, he focuses on stable B2B SaaS models and healthtech opportunities. His publicly discussed portfolio includes Just Join IT, Booksy, and HiPeople.
Managing Partner and co-founder of Hard2beat. He previously ran the Shape VC BRIdge Alpha programme (36 portfolio companies, 2019–2023) and now invests in early-stage Polish deep-tech startups across cybersecurity, medtech, biotech and dual-use technologies.
Partner at Movens Capital and pricing / commercial strategy specialist, known for advising B2B SaaS and marketplace companies on monetisation, pricing architecture, and revenue operations. Joined Movens to lead growth-stage deal work and post-investment commercial support.
Partner at Inovo Venture Partners focused on developer tools, DevOps, deep tech and enterprise B2B software. He works with technical founders building global infrastructure and engineering products from Central and Eastern Europe.
Co-founder of Grupa Pracuj and managing partner at Pracuj Ventures, Maciej is one of the most active HR-tech focused investors in Poland with a portfolio spanning 40+ companies. He is known for scaling marketplace and B2B software models, and remains a key shareholder in Grupa Pracuj following its Warsaw Stock Exchange IPO. Notable startup involvements include Symmetrical.ai, Jutro Medical, and SonarHome.
Founding partner at Hard2beat VC and serial entrepreneur with multiple exits. Maciej is known for building Piwik PRO, a privacy-first analytics platform, and Clearcode, an AdTech/MarTech software company. His transition from founder to deep-tech investor was featured in Forbes Poland (March 2026) in the profile Mistrz exitow na inwestycyjnej sciezce by Krzysztof Domaradzki. Notable outcomes include the 2023 exit of Piwik PRO and the acquisition of Clearcode by ARICOMA Group.
Co-founder and CEO of Zowie, the AI customer-service platform she started in 2019 (originally Chatbotize). A software-engineering graduate of AGH University in Kraków, she has scaled Zowie to serve enterprises like L'Oréal and InPost, raising around $20M from investors including Tiger Global, and has been named to Forbes 30 Under 30.
Poland's first digital platform dedicated to supporting women through the menopausal transition, offering a knowledge base, symptom monitoring and personalised programs spanning diet, exercise and specialist access on a freemium model.
Manta Ray VC is the technology venture arm of Kulczyk Investments, founded by Sebastian Kulczyk to back globally scalable Polish-rooted startups. The fund invests in growth-stage technology companies and has been associated with high-visibility outcomes such as ICEYE (SAR satellites) and Iceye-affiliated deep-tech bets. It complements the broader Kulczyk Investments ecosystem and the InCredibles founder programme.
Founder of Coders Lab (one of the first Polish coding bootcamps), Marcin has since become an angel, especially in edtech and health startups. He has invested in companies like Tomorrow Medical and Listny Cud, while also serving as a mentor in programs like PFR School of Pioneers. Associated startups: Tomorrow Medical, Listny Cud (Leafy Miracle), and other edtech/healthtech startups.
An early dot-com entrepreneur (co-founded Gadu-Gadu), Marcin made angel investments in startups like DocPlanner and UXPin before co-founding the VC fund Market One Capital. His angel portfolio included many Polish marketplaces and SaaS companies, leveraging his extensive network from the 2000s startup wave. Associated startups: DocPlanner, UXPin, and numerous marketplace platforms (early investor).
Co-founder of Snowflake and one of the most successful Polish founders globally, Marcin is active as a deeptech angel focused on data infrastructure and enterprise AI. Following Snowflake’s landmark NYSE IPO, he expanded his investment activity into European high-growth technical startups. Notable investments include Respo.Vision, Nomagic, and Mirai.
Co-founder and partner at Innovation Nest and former VP of Onet.pl, Marek is a veteran of the Polish internet and a key figure in the Krakow tech scene. He is known for product-led support rooted in Lean Launchpad principles and for backing B2B software, AI/ML, and Industry 4.0 companies. Notable portfolio examples include Autenti, Estimote, and Silvair.
A veteran of Poland’s startup scene, Mariusz founded GoldenLine and DocPlanner. Alongside running a unicorn-scale company (DocPlanner), he has been an angel in numerous startups including Preply, Shoplo, Positionly, and Brainly. He often provides both capital and guidance on scaling to international markets. Associated startups: Preply, Shoplo, Positionly, Brainly, Allani, among others.
Market One Capital (MOC) is an early-stage venture capital firm based in Warsaw and Barcelona that specialises in marketplaces and platforms with network effects. It backs pre-seed and seed founders across Europe building two-sided marketplaces and B2B platforms, and its portfolio includes companies such as Docplanner and Packhelp.
Serial entrepreneur (co-founder of platforms like ZadajPytanie and later CEO of fashion startup Allani), Mateusz turned to angel investing after successful exits. Notably, he invested early in the edtech unicorn Brainly before fully focusing on growing Allani. His founder perspective in marketplaces and consumer apps guides the startups he now supports. Associated startups: Brainly, Allani, and other consumer internet ventures.
Co-founder of Woodpecker.co, Mateusz became an active angel after selling a prior web development business. He reinvested proceeds into RightHello, leveraging his entrepreneurial experience to mentor and fund B2B tech companies. Associated startups: RightHello, Woodpecker.co, and various B2B SaaS ventures.
MCI Capital is a Warsaw-listed digital private equity and growth investor and one of the largest mid-market technology PE groups in Central and Eastern Europe. Founded in 1999 by Tomasz Czechowicz and listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange (ticker: MCI), the firm manages roughly €650M (PLN 2.7bn) in assets, deployed through two evergreen funds — MCI.EuroVentures and MCI.TechVentures, both launched in 2008. MCI targets expansion and buyout transactions of €25–100M, taking majority or significant stakes in two to three companies a year across SaaS, e-commerce and marketplaces, fintech, insurtech, foodtech, traveltech and digital infrastructure. Geographically the firm concentrates on Poland and the wider CEE region — including Hungary, the Czech Republic, Austria, Slovakia and Lithuania — with selective reach into Western Europe. Since inception MCI has completed over 110 investments and more than 90 divestments, delivering landmark exits including iZettle (sold to PayPal for $2.2bn in 2018), Dotpay/eCard (Nets/Nexi, 2019), Azimo (Papaya Global, 2022) and a partial exit from Answear.com in 2025. Its listed structure, backed by institutional shareholders including the Nationale-Nederlanden pension fund, gives MCI permanent-capital characteristics rare among European mid-market PE peers.
Warsaw Stock Exchange–listed remote cardiac diagnostics company. Its PocketECG platform combines a mobile ECG device with AI-assisted arrhythmia detection and a 24/7 diagnostic service used by clinics and providers in the US, Europe, and Asia. An early Movens Capital portfolio company (IPO exit).
Biotech skincare startup developing bio-identical melanin from stem-cell-based processes to improve UV protection and skin health. The company focuses on long-duration photoprotection and alternatives to conventional sunscreen formulations.
Co-founder of CD Projekt (the studio behind The Witcher and Cyberpunk 2077), Michał is a tech millionaire who has diversified into angel investing. He tends to support deep-tech and science-driven ventures, including wellness startups, with patient capital. Associated startups: Early backer of Polski Bank Komórek Macierzystych and other science-driven projects; also funds meditation and sustainability initiatives.
Head of Google for Startups in Central and Eastern Europe, including the Google Campus in Warsaw, since 2019. One of Google's first employees in Poland, he has spent nearly two decades supporting the regional tech ecosystem through startup programmes and partnerships.
Co-founder and Partner at Movens Capital. 17+ years in venture capital, innovation, and fintech. CEO of SkyCash (2009–2013), scaling it into one of Poland's leading mobile payment platforms. Co-founded Business Angel Seedfund and LBA, among Poland's first organised angel networks. Focus at Movens on fintech, payments, and enterprise SaaS.
Partner at Inovo Venture Partners, one of Poland's leading early-stage funds. Before venture capital he was COO at Booksy and held roles at foodpanda and Rocket Internet, giving him operational depth in marketplaces and e-commerce; his investment focus includes B2B and healthcare.
Microamp is a Warsaw-based deep-tech company developing resilient 5G mmWave wireless solutions. Its Any-G mmWave AI-RAN platform is a fully reconfigurable, software-defined system that adapts across evolving 3GPP standards, frequency bands, network modes and 6G features. The company, led by co-founder and CEO Dawid Kuchta, positions itself as one of the first to commercialise 5G mmWave networks.
Mindspace Warsaw Koszyki is located at Koszykowa 61 in the Śródmieście-South district, immediately adjacent to Hala Koszyki — the restored 1909 market hall that anchors one of Warsaw's most vibrant mixed-use neighbourhoods. The building is a classified historic monument, and the Mindspace interior blends early 20th-century architectural character with a contemporary coworking programme. The location is served by Politechnika metro station on the M1 line and multiple tram routes via Plac Konstytucji, making it well-connected to both the Old Town and the southern office corridors of Mokotów and Służewiec. Workspace products mirror the Skyliner site: private offices, coworking memberships, dedicated desks, and fully equipped meeting rooms. Distinctive amenities include a barista coffee station, weekly yoga classes, secure underground bike parking with showers, and 24/7 keycard access. The neighbourhood demographic — creative agencies, media companies, and boutique tech firms — shapes the resident mix at Koszyki, differentiating it from the more corporate character of the Skyliner tower. The proximity to Hala Koszyki's restaurant and bar scene makes the space attractive for teams that use informal settings for client entertainment and team socialising, adding social value beyond desk access alone.
Mindspace Warsaw Skyliner occupies multiple floors of the Skyliner tower at Prosta 67 in Warsaw's Wola business district, one of the city's most prominent new commercial high-rises. The location sits a one-minute walk from Rondo Daszyńskiego metro station on the M2 line, placing it at the heart of the rapidly developed western CBD that now hosts the headquarters of major Polish and international financial institutions alongside several high-growth tech companies. Mindspace operates a premium design-forward coworking model: the Skyliner fit-out features floor-to-ceiling glazing with panoramic views across the Warsaw skyline, exposed finishes, barista coffee, and curated communal areas. Workspace products include private offices for small to large teams, dedicated desks, coworking memberships, and fully equipped meeting and event rooms. The space caters primarily to scale-ups, corporate innovation units, and international companies establishing a Warsaw base — notable tenants include Korn Ferry and Samba TV — rather than very early-stage startups. Twenty-four-hour keycard access and a pet-friendly policy are standard. The Skyliner location complements Mindspace's second Warsaw site at Koszykowa and gives the operator significant coverage of the city's prime business addresses for mobile professionals and multinational teams.
Poland's leading machine-learning conference, run by the non-profit ML in PL Association at the Copernicus Science Centre. For AI and ML founders and technical teams it is the strongest venue in Poland for research talent, applied-ML networking, and staying current on the science behind products.
Flagship Polish mobile industry conference focused on UX, product, and on-device AI. Includes the Mobile Trends Awards and strong networking among product leaders.
Polish-Ukrainian defence startup developing tactical radar systems for detecting low-altitude, slow-moving UAVs at the frontline. Raised €1.5M from Front Ventures as part of a €2M round at a €15M valuation.
Morele.net is a Krakow-based e-commerce platform specializing in electronics, computing hardware, gaming equipment, and consumer goods. The company operates one of Poland's largest online electronics retail operations with a broad catalog, competitive pricing, and a nationwide logistics and fulfillment network. Morele.net has built a loyal customer base among tech-savvy Polish consumers and competes with x-kom and MediaExpert in the domestic market. The platform also operates several niche vertical storefronts and has invested in warehouse automation to support growing order volumes.
Warsaw-based multi-stage venture capital firm backing Central and Eastern European tech founders with global ambitions. Movens Capital runs a €60M Fund 2 (launched 2025) and writes first checks of €250k–€3M at pre-seed through Series A+. Focus areas: fintech, edtech, healthtech, deep tech, climate tech, enterprise software, and e-commerce enablement across Poland, the Baltics, the Balkans, Czechia, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Ukraine, and Moldova. Founded in 2018 by Artur Banach and Michał Olszewski. Fund LPs include the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), PFR Ventures, and 80+ tech founders, operators, and family offices. Notable exits include MEDICAlgorithmics (IPO) and Fenige.
AI assistant for small business owners that automates website operations and digital marketing workflows, focusing on generating leads and managing core online presence tasks with minimal manual setup.
NanoSci is a Warsaw-registered Polish deep-tech startup, founded in 2020, that develops photocatalytic air-purification technology licensed to manufacturers of ventilation, lighting and transport equipment. Its core IP — researched at the University of Gdańsk under Prof. Adriana Zaleska-Medynska — is built on porous titanium dioxide (TiO₂) nanolayers and nanotube arrays activated by UV-LED light. The photocatalytic reaction generates hydroxyl radicals that continuously decompose volatile organic compounds, nitrogen oxides, odours, bacteria, viruses and fungi into harmless CO₂ and water vapour, with no replaceable filters and very low energy use. Rather than selling finished consumer devices, NanoSci provides modular photocatalytic engines to OEM and white-label partners; an early collaboration with bus maker Solaris demonstrated the technology in public-transport air conditioning. Two branded lines are now visible: Jupitair, targeting food and greenhouse environments (with deployments in Singapore and the Philippines and a place in Thailand's SPACE-F accelerator), and Airchanger, a decentralised heat-recovery ventilation unit with integrated purification. The company has raised early equity alongside Polish state grants and support from accelerators including AcceliCITY and Estonia's Beamline.
Netguru is a Poznań-based digital consultancy and software house founded in 2008 by Wiktor Schmidt, Jakub "Kuba" Filipowski, and Adam Zygadlewicz. The firm grew into one of Europe's larger product-design and engineering partners, working with global brands and venture-backed startups on web, mobile, and AI products. Many alumni have gone on to found or back Polish startups, making Netguru a significant talent pipeline in the country's tech ecosystem.
Cross-border e-commerce automation platform for online retailers selling on Amazon and other European marketplaces. Combines pricing automation (Tradeye), listing localisation, and order-handling workflows to help sellers scale internationally with minimal overhead. Backed by Movens Capital.
Nethone is an AI-driven fraud-detection platform that profiles user sessions using thousands of behavioural, device and network signals to flag fraud in real time, helping online businesses and payment platforms make accurate accept/reject decisions. Acquired by Mangopay in 2022.
Polish-Israeli medtech startup developing VGuard, a non-invasive vagus nerve stimulation system aimed at improving cognitive outcomes in patients with Alzheimer’s disease and dementia. The company is advancing clinical validation and regulatory pathways across Europe and the US.
Organizer of the New Label Poland Expo in Warsaw, a B2B trade event for private-label and FMCG innovation. The expo connects consumer goods startups and contract manufacturers with major retailers, offering product showcases, trend presentations, and matchmaking sessions focused on new food, beverage, and household product categories.
Nice To Fit You is a Warsaw-based foodtech company offering premium boxed diet catering subscriptions with personalized meal plans. Founded in 2014, the company delivers nutritionally balanced, chef-prepared meals daily to health-conscious consumers across Poland. NTFY offers multiple diet programs including low-calorie, keto, vegan, and sports-oriented plans, all designed by dietitians. The company has grown to become one of Poland's leading diet catering brands in a competitive market with dozens of local players, capitalizing on the strong Polish consumer trend toward convenient healthy eating.
Noctiluca was founded in 2019 in Toruń as a spin-out from Synthex Technologies to commercialise thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) emitter materials for OLED displays. The company designs and produces next-generation OLED emitters and maintains a commercial presence in Asia and the US. It raised roughly PLN 10M before its 2022 IPO on Poland's NewConnect market and graduated to the main Warsaw Stock Exchange in December 2024.
Nomagic was founded in 2017 in Warsaw by Kacper Nowicki, Marek Cygan, and Tristan d'Orgeval. The company builds AI-powered robotic pick-and-place systems for warehouse order fulfilment, training its models on large volumes of real-world operational data. It raised a $22M Series A in 2022 backed by Khosla Ventures and Almaz Capital, with subsequent rounds bringing total funding above $80M, making it one of the most heavily funded Polish robotics companies.
One of Poland's largest community cybersecurity conferences, returning for its 8th edition at the PGE Narodowy stadium. For security founders, pentesters, and infrastructure engineers it offers a large practitioner audience and a strong recruiting and networking surface in the Polish infosec scene.
Business consultant, certified coach, and ecosystem mentor with 20+ years in marketing and sales leadership. Olga is highly active in Sieć Przedsiębiorczych Kobiet (Network of Entrepreneurial Women), where she supports early-stage founders with practical go-to-market guidance and growth planning. She was recognized with a Polish angel ecosystem award in 2021 for her mentorship and community impact, including work that helps bridge the gender gap in startup investing.
A major international congress on responsible and sustainable economy and value-driven business. Relevant for climate, greentech, and impact founders looking to connect with ESG-minded corporates, public institutions, and mission-aligned investors.
Open-source, AI-native commerce and operations framework co-founded in 2025 by Piotr Karwatka (creator of Vue Storefront / Alokai) and Tomasz Karwatka (founder of Divante). It provides modular infrastructure for building custom commerce, ERP and finance software with AI-assisted engineering, combining SaaS speed with bespoke flexibility.
Long-running monthly morning meetup of Krakow's startup community at Yolk Workspace, gathering founders, freelancers, investors and tech professionals for informal networking over coffee. Free to attend and a reliable entry point for early-stage founders building their local network and finding collaborators in the Krakow ecosystem.
Corporate accelerator by Orange Polska (est. 2015) focused on 5G, IoT, AI, and customer experience. Provides proof-of-concept projects, telecom mentorship, and access to Orange's global Fab network in 18 countries. Scope: National with global reach.
Architect and designer who developed FiDU technology at ETH Zurich — a process of inflating flat laser-cut steel into three-dimensional forms. He leads Zieta Studio in Wrocław across industrial design, art and architecture; his PLOPP stool is a widely recognised example of the technique.
OTB Ventures is a Warsaw-based deep-technology venture capital firm founded in 2017 that invests across Europe in early-growth companies working on space technology, AI and automation, fintech infrastructure and enterprise software. It targets capital-efficient deeptech businesses with proven technology and early revenue, and has backed companies such as ICEYE. It is one of the largest deeptech-focused funds in Central and Eastern Europe.
Warsaw-based custom packaging platform serving SMBs and brands across Europe. Packhelp combines an online design tool, configurable product catalogue (boxes, mailers, labels, tape), and a European manufacturing network to deliver branded packaging at low MOQs. Early backer: Movens Capital (Fund 1); later rounds brought in Kennet Partners, Speedinvest, and others.
Investment Ecosystem Mentor of the Year 2024, Paulina is recognized for building practical bridges between public support mechanisms and private angel capital. In addition to direct startup support, she helps first-time angels structure legal, tax, and process fundamentals for investing. Her core impact is in ecosystem education, mentorship, and investor-readiness programs.
Managing Partner and Chief Investment Officer at MCI Capital, where he leads investment strategy across the firm's expansion and buyout deals in SaaS, e-commerce, fintech and digital infrastructure throughout Central and Eastern Europe.
Co-founder of IdoSell (IAI Group) and one of the pioneers of Polish e-commerce, Paweł scaled the company for over two decades before transitioning into active angel investing. His major liquidity event was a majority stake sale in IAI Group to MCI Capital in a transaction valuing the business at hundreds of millions of PLN. He now focuses on smart-money support for B2B SaaS and e-commerce infrastructure startups, including investments such as Piesotto and Embargo.
A veteran CEO (founder of DDB Warsaw marketing agency), Paweł became an active angel in his late career. He won Poland’s Business Angel of the Year 2020 for investing in and mentoring innovative startups. Notably, he was an early backer of retail AI platform Cosmose AI and has supported regtech and cybersecurity startups like ClauseMatch, Nethone, and BotGuard. Associated startups: Cosmose AI, ClauseMatch, Nethone, BotGuard.
Paweł Michalski is a Warsaw-based VC educator and angel investor, best known as co-founder and CEO of VCLeaders, a training platform for venture professionals, and as a Managing Partner and Head of Advisory Services at COBIN Angels, Poland's largest business-angel community. He is also a Venture Partner at the Berlin climate-tech fund World Fund, and previously served as Chief Growth Officer at equity-crowdfunding platform Beesfund and Head of Business Development at hardware startup First11, following a project-finance career at PKO Bank Polski. Through VCLeaders' newsletter he regularly publishes analysis on the European venture ecosystem.
Former CEO of BRE Ubezpieczenia (mBank Insurance), Paweł is one of Poland’s most recognized impact-oriented angels and was named Business Angel of the Year 2020. He invests in companies solving social or environmental problems and contributes hands-on strategic support from his corporate leadership background. Notable investments include Noctiluca (successful IPO exit), Simpl.rent, Fresh Inset, Sales Intelligence, TakeDrop, and IMKER.
Paymove is a Sopot-based fintech that digitises unattended and offline commerce, replacing legacy physical payment hardware with secure QR-based payments that need no app download. The company is also building payment infrastructure for autonomous AI agents. It is active in more than 2,000 locations in Poland and reaches over 600,000 users.
Europe's largest women-in-tech event in Warsaw, attracting 5,000+ attendees across mentoring zones, startup competitions, and employer branding stages. Features workshops on leadership, technical skills, and inclusive hiring. Valuable for startups seeking diverse talent pipelines and founders looking to build inclusive engineering teams.
PFR Ventures is the venture capital arm of the Polish Development Fund (Polski Fundusz Rozwoju), wholly owned by the Polish state, established in 2014 and based in Warsaw. The firm operates as the largest fund-of-funds manager in the Central and Eastern Europe region, managing over PLN 3 billion in assets across 80+ private VC funds that have collectively supported more than 900 startup investments. PFR Ventures co-invests alongside private LPs to leverage EU structural funds and catalyse private capital into the Polish venture ecosystem, backing early-stage through growth-stage funds in sectors including deep tech, SaaS, fintech, and life sciences. Its Innovate Poland programme launched in November 2025 with at least PLN 4 billion earmarked for the next investment cycle.
Biotech drug-discovery company developing PKL-021, a small-molecule MMP inhibitor program for acute neuroprotection after stroke and traumatic brain injury, with additional applications in field-ready snakebite treatment.
Co-founder of Divante and managing partner at Catch the Tornado, Piotr is among Poland’s most active operator-turned-angels. After scaling and selling Divante, he helped build a venture-builder model focused on open source, composable commerce, and AI-first startups. Portfolio references include Ramp Network, Vue Storefront, and Rigby, alongside investments linked to major outcomes such as Callstack.
Business Angel of the Year 2021 and former PwC partner, Piotr combines corporate finance expertise with deep-technology investing. He focuses on high-potential international projects, especially biotech and complex fintech products. His portfolio includes early-stage investments in biotechnology initiatives and specialized fintech tooling.
A fintech entrepreneur (ex-CEO of Turbine Analytics), Piotr co-founded Data Ventures and also invests personally in tech startups. He has shown particular interest in blockchain and DeFi startups and is ranked among the top crypto-focused angels in Poland with investments in blockchain companies. Associated startups: Aleph Zero (blockchain platform) and multiple fintech/crypto ventures.
Organiser of the 'Pitch Me, Baby, One More Time' series of free founder pitching nights. Originally from Warsaw, the recurring events run across Poland, CEE, Germany, Singapore and Portugal, with up to eight startups pitching for five minutes to an audience of mentors, investors, VC funds and business angels for instant feedback. Strategic Partner: PKO Bank Polski (Let's Fintech).
Monthly founder pitching meetup in Warsaw with rapid-fire presentations, audience Q&A, and high-energy feedback from experienced operators and angels. The March edition is one of several recurring events throughout 2026. Free to attend and valuable for early-stage founders practicing their pitch and seeking pre-seed investor connections.
Edition 37 of Warsaw's free founder pitching night, hosted at PKO Bank Polski (Strategic Partner, Let's Fintech program). Up to 8 startups pitch for 5 minutes each to an audience of mentors, investors, VC funds and business angels, followed by instant, honest feedback. Strong fit for early-stage founders practicing their pitch and seeking pre-seed connections across Poland and CEE; ~100 attendees per edition.
Pixers is a Wrocław-based online marketplace for personalised wall décor, offering millions of designs across wall murals, stickers, posters, and canvas prints. The company was co-founded in 2010 by Maciej Białek and grew to operate localised storefronts serving European and North American markets. It reached tens of millions in annual revenue on a self-financed basis, with no significant external funding rounds publicly disclosed.
Equity-free acceleration program run by Startup Hub Poland with public funding support. It offers structured tracks such as Corporate Plugin, VC Forge, and Poland Prize, with non-dilutive grants for eligible startups.
Networking event connecting the Polish diaspora and expats with local business opportunities, featuring structured matchmaking and roundtables on legal and tax changes. Strong fit for B2B founders and digital transformation providers.
Founded in 2003, PolBAN is the first business angels club in Poland. It finances innovative projects with strong teams and market potential. As a pioneer, PolBAN helped establish angel investing norms in Poland. Notable focus: a broad range of innovative early-stage companies meeting criteria of innovation and motivated teams.
The first U.S.-based network for Polish startups, Polonia Angels unites Polish and Polish-American investors to fund Polish-founded startups at early stages. It acts as a bridge to U.S. capital, sourcing deals via Polish VCs, universities, and founder applications. Notable focus: Polish-founded startups seeking access to U.S. markets and investors, often before approaching traditional U.S. VCs.
A venture fund + angel network based in Szczecin, Pomerangels invests alongside business angels and syndicates in post-revenue companies. With a network of 100+ angels, they co-invest up to €4M in innovative SMEs across ICT, autonomous tech, biotech, etc. Notable focus: companies that already have strong angel syndicates; Pomerangels adds capital on top of angel rounds to scale these ventures.
International healthtech and biotech conference hosted by Łukasiewicz – PORT, focused on cancer research, diagnostics, and therapy. Relevant for healthtech and biotech founders and researchers seeking R&D partners, clinical collaborators, and exposure to the Łukasiewicz innovation network.
Operator-focused summit built around long-form workshops on sales scaling, labor law, and applied AI in operations. Includes a mentor corner with executives from leading Polish scale-ups.
Pracuj Ventures is the venture arm associated with Grupa Pracuj co-founder Maciej Noga, focused on HR-tech, marketplace, and B2B software businesses across Europe. The fund leverages the broader Grupa Pracuj ecosystem for deal flow and operator support, and has backed 40+ companies including Symmetrical.ai, Jutro Medical, and SonarHome.
An academic (professor at Kozminski University) and CSR expert, Bolesław has become an angel investor focusing on impact-driven startups. He earned a special award in 2022 for contributions to impact investing. Associated startups: Impact and sustainability startups (recognized for championing ethical investment practices).
Profitroom is a Poznan-based hospitality technology company founded in 2008, providing booking engines, channel managers, CRM tools, and marketing automation for hotels and resorts. The platform helps properties drive direct bookings and reduce reliance on OTAs like Booking.com, serving over 3,500 hotels across Europe. Profitroom has raised funding from Enterprise Investors and expanded into DACH, Southern Europe, and the UK. The company is one of Poland's most established B2B SaaS exports in the travel technology sector and a growing competitor to Mews and SiteMinder in the European hotel-tech stack.
Volleyball analytics platform for clubs, academies, scouts and agents. ProVolley delivers XY position tracking of every player during matches and training, with positional heatmaps and zone coverage, automatically generated match and training statistics (attack efficiency, blocks, serve accuracy), player development tracking over time, dynamic player profiles and auto-generated highlight reels. Built to support analytics teams at professional clubs and give smaller clubs pro-level stats without expanding staff. Currently in development / early access.
Founder of Grupa Pracuj and investor associated with Market One Capital (MOC), Przemysław focuses on marketplace models and network-effect businesses. He invests both personally and through fund activity, bringing strategic support in category creation, scaling, and international expansion. Notable portfolio references include Tier Mobility, Packhelp, and DocPlanner.
Investment Director at Movens Capital. Leads sourcing and diligence across CEE early-stage software and deep tech deals, with focus areas in AI, developer tools, and fintech infrastructure.
A tech entrepreneur and software engineer, Przemek is known in Warsaw’s startup circles as a hands-on angel. He invests in AI and developer-tool startups, often contributing code-level expertise. Associated startups: Stealth AI and developer tool companies (he keeps a low profile, but actively funds tech teams).
Early-stage angel fund led by Bartek Pucek, focused on globally scalable technology startups. The fund is known for founder-friendly terms, fast decision cycles, and co-investments with international VC firms.
Partner at Movens Capital. Background in finance and operations, leading deal execution and portfolio support for early-stage CEE startups across fintech, enterprise software, and commerce enablement.
Founder of InPost and one of Poland’s highest-profile entrepreneurs, Rafał is active as an impact-oriented investor through personal and foundation initiatives. His flagship company reached a landmark Amsterdam IPO, and his broader investment activity spans logistics-adjacent consumer sectors, food, and medical innovation. Notable references include activity around Bakalland and support for oncology and advanced medical equipment initiatives.
A pioneer of Poland’s dot-com era (founder of Internet Technologies and former head of Google Campus Warsaw), Rafał has a long angel track record. He invested in one of the first Polish unicorns Milestone Systems and supported fintech and media startups. His approach blends early internet industry wisdom with a vast network of contacts. Associated startups: Past investments include travel startup iTaxi and others; as ex-Campus Warsaw head he advised countless startups.
A well-known entrepreneur and rally champion (Dakar Rally winner), Rafał channels his business success into startup investments. He founded Gemini Holding (shopping malls) and now, as an angel, focuses on B2B services and SaaS. For example, he was an early investor in HR platform HCM Deck, helping enterprises manage talent. Associated startups: HCM Deck, Sundose (personalized nutrition), and other SaaS startups.
Ramp Network is a Warsaw-founded fintech that powers fiat-to-crypto on/off-ramps embedded inside hundreds of web3 apps, wallets, and exchanges. Founded in 2017 by Szymon Sypniewicz and Przemek Kowalczyk, the company has raised funding from Balderton Capital, NfX, Galaxy Digital, and angel investors including Taavet Hinrikus and Piotr Karwatka. Ramp serves users in over 150 countries and is one of Poland's most internationally visible crypto-infrastructure startups.
Reaktor Warsaw is one of the city's longest-running independent startup coworking communities, established in the early 2010s in the Mokotów district and closely associated with the emergence of Warsaw's first generation of tech founders. The space was a formative environment for Borys Musielak, co-founder of SMOK Ventures and a central figure in the local angel network, and has served as an informal gathering point for early-stage Polish SaaS and mobile founders. Reaktor Warsaw operates with a community-first membership model rather than a serviced-office approach: members are expected to contribute to ecosystem events, mentoring sessions, and peer knowledge-sharing rather than simply renting desk space. The programme arm ReaktorX ran a remote-first pre-acceleration track for first-time founders, helping validate ideas and connect teams with early-stage capital. The space occupies a compact floor in a Mokotów office building, with capacity suited to a curated resident cohort rather than open-plan hot-desking. Pricing sits at a mid-range tier compared with premium corporate coworking chains in Warsaw's Wola CBD. Reaktor has been instrumental in cross-pollinating Warsaw's early developer and product communities and contributed to the culture of peer mentoring that now characterises the wider Polish startup ecosystem.
Cloud-based sustainability platform using machine learning to help businesses measure, analyse and plan carbon emissions reductions. Founded in 2022, it supports European companies in meeting ESG reporting requirements.
Warsaw-based AI decision engine for retail that converts customer behavioural signals into real-time, individualised actions—adjusting recommendations, promotions, and inventory allocation to match intent at the point of decision. Serves 30+ enterprise retailers globally. Raised €2.1M pre-seed co-led by Movens Capital and Vastpoint.
Revoize, founded in 2023 and headquartered in Warsaw, develops real-time speech-to-speech AI infrastructure for programmable human voice. It is building an end-to-end transformer model that runs locally on devices to enable translation, accent transformation and audio-quality enhancement without cloud processing. Its low-latency, on-device approach targets use cases from real-time translation to accent normalisation for call centres and studio-grade voice reconstruction.
Cybersecurity startup launched in 2022 offering a European-focused cyber threat intelligence platform. It monitors darknet, deep web, and messaging channels for leaks and compromised credentials and helps teams detect phishing domains before campaigns go live.
CEO of Top Consulting SA, Robert is an example of a traditional industry executive who ventured into startup investing. Nominated as a top angel in 2018, he has provided capital to startups diversifying beyond his consulting business. Associated startups: Involvements kept fairly private; known in investment circles for supporting enterprise software startups.
Better known as a football superstar, Robert has also become an active startup investor in recent years. Through his firm RL9 Investments, he provides funding and global visibility to Polish startups. For instance, he joined Dawid Urban in backing Samurai Labs (AI anti-bullying platform) in 2020. He’s also invested in health tech and games (e.g. Movie Games). Associated startups: Samurai Labs, Movie Games, Zeny (fintech), and Stor9 (marketing) among others.
Founder of Polish Angels and managing partner at COBIN Angels, Robert is a veteran executive with experience at Xerox, HP, and Atos. He serves as a board member of the European Business Angels Network (EBAN) and specializes in business strategy and transaction structuring for early-stage deals. Notable involvements include CliniNote (AI-powered healthtech platform, co-founder), board roles with Photon Entertainment, Salesbook, and Vindicat, plus prior supervisory board service at Work Service S.A.
Long-running local startup meetup in Lodz focused on practical feedback, mentorship, and early-stage networking. The #402 edition continues a grassroots format that is especially accessible for first-time founders and local ecosystem participants.
Business Angel Debutant of the Year (2021) and former CEO of Gemini Polska as well as former president of PZU Życie. Roman transitioned from top-level corporate leadership into startup investing with a focus on business transformation and commercial execution. He primarily backs startups in healthcare, insurance, and business transformation, bringing operator-level support in sales strategy and scaling.
Founded 2011. Early-stage investor focused on digital health, telemedicine, and SaaS. RTA Ventures is an accelerator programme based in Warsaw, Poland. The programme supports startups in Digital Health, Telemedicine, SaaS.
SALESmanago is a Kraków-based marketing-automation platform serving mid-market e-commerce companies across Europe. Founded by Grzegorz Błażewicz in 2011, the company offers customer data, segmentation, omnichannel campaign execution, and AI-driven personalization. SILVER LAKE Waterman acquired a majority stake in 2022, valuing the company at hundreds of millions of euros, after which Błażewicz continued investing through Borubar Ventures.
Samurai Labs is a Gdynia-based AI safety company building neural-symbolic systems that detect and de-escalate online abuse, harassment, and predatory behavior in real time. Its technology is licensed by gaming companies, social platforms, and child-safety partners. Backed by angel investors including Dawid Urban and footballer Robert Lewandowski (via RL9 Investments).
Owner of Kulczyk Investments and founder of Manta Ray VC, Sebastian is a prominent growth and technology investor supporting globally scalable startups. Through both direct investment and ecosystem initiatives such as InCredibles, he has helped position Polish founders on international markets. His wider portfolio context includes involvement around major outcomes such as Base (acquired by Zendesk), and investments including Iceye and Brainly.
Secfense was founded in 2018 in Kraków by Tomasz Kowalski and Marcin Szary. The company develops a User Access Security Broker that lets enterprises deploy multi-factor authentication and passwordless login across existing applications without modifying their code. It raised early backing from Bitspiration Booster followed by a $2M round in 2022 led by Tera Ventures, Presto Ventures, and RKKVC, and counts enterprise clients such as BNP Paribas Bank Polska.
Semirobotics is a Warsaw-based medtech robotics startup that developed FIDI, an assistive feeding robot designed for people with upper-limb disabilities who cannot eat independently. The system combines 3D vision, AI-based motion planning, and adaptive utensils to align with the user's posture, pace, and food preferences, restoring dignity and autonomy during meals. Semirobotics targets hospitals, care homes, and individual users, addressing a significant unmet need in assistive technology. The company is part of Poland's emerging robotics and medtech scene and has received EU innovation funding.
SERio is a Warsaw-based foodtech startup producing plant-based cheese alternatives made from Polish lupin beans, a locally abundant and sustainable protein source. The products are engineered for high protein content and strong melt performance, targeting mainstream consumers seeking dairy-free options that do not compromise on taste or cooking functionality. SERio differentiates from soy and cashew-based competitors by using a regionally sourced ingredient with a lower environmental footprint. The company is part of Poland's growing alternative protein ecosystem and sells through retail and food-service channels.
Showroom.pl is a Warsaw-based online fashion marketplace that aggregates independent designers and boutique brands from across Poland, offering curated multibrand discovery for younger consumers. Co-founded by Jan Stasz, the company became one of Poland's best-known fashion-tech successes of the 2010s and is a frequent reference point in the Polish e-commerce ecosystem.
Silent Eight builds AI-powered financial-crime compliance software for global banks. Its Iris platform automates AML alert investigation, sanctions screening, transaction monitoring and adverse-media detection, replicating analyst judgement at scale; clients include HSBC and Standard Chartered. Founded by Poles with its engineering hub in Warsaw (commercial HQ in Singapore).
Synthetic data generation platform for computer vision AI. SKY ENGINE AI lets teams train and validate vision models on physics-based synthetic 3D datasets for defence, industrial inspection, retail, and autonomous systems, without the cost of collecting and labelling real-world data. Backed by Movens Capital.
An angel network led by Borys Musielak (of SMOK Ventures) focusing on Central & Eastern Europe. With 160+ founders and investors involved, SMOK Angels encourages experienced entrepreneurs to invest in idea and seed-stage startups. They often co-invest alongside SMOK Ventures fund. Notable focus: early-stage tech teams (idea to Series A) in CEE, leveraging its members’ mentorship.
SMOK Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm bridging Silicon Valley and Central and Eastern Europe, investing pre-seed and seed capital into software and gaming startups founded by CEE teams, especially in Poland. Backed by US and local investors, it brings a Valley-style approach and network to the region and typically leads first institutional rounds.
Infrastructure automation platform for engineering teams using Terraform, OpenTofu, CloudFormation, Pulumi, and Ansible. Spacelift helps enterprises manage IaC workflows, policy controls, and secure cloud deployments at scale.
Spaces Warsaw Financial Center is located at Emilii Plater 53 in the heart of Warsaw's Wola district central business district, within the Warsaw Financial Center skyscraper — a landmark 1999 tower that houses the regional offices of major banks, law firms, and multinational corporations. The location is part of the IWG-owned Spaces network, which operates 13 sites across Warsaw making it the most geographically distributed coworking brand in the city. The Financial Center outpost targets internationally mobile professionals, corporate project teams, and scale-ups requiring a prestigious CBD address with short-notice or month-to-month flexibility. Workspace products include dedicated desks from approximately 24 PLN per day, coworking day passes from 25 PLN, and private offices on flexible terms. The Spaces All Access plan gives members entry to all 13 Warsaw locations and the global IWG network — relevant for companies with employees distributed across Warsaw's dispersed office districts. The Emilii Plater address places members within walking distance of the Palace of Culture and Science, the central railway station, and the main cluster of international venture capital and private equity offices that have opened Warsaw outposts in recent years. Spaces' Warsaw network also includes a node at Plac Konesera 12 in Praga, adjacent to Campus Warsaw.
Mazovian regional startup competition and support program for ventures under three years old. It runs tracks for INNO-TECH, SOCIAL IMPACT, and START with grant-based awards for early product validation and growth.
Startup Booster is the acceleration programme run by Huge Thing, a Poznan-based innovation firm with over a decade of experience that helps startups scale and supports corporations with their innovation strategy. Huge Thing has worked with dozens of corporate partners and screened thousands of startups, running structured programmes to strengthen founding teams and their go-to-market.
Impact-focused accelerator operated by SWPS University for ventures aligned with sustainable development goals. The program supports startups, micro-enterprises, and NGOs through commercialization, corporate piloting, and funding-readiness tracks.
PARP-backed accelerator attracting international startups to Poland, run by Space3ac in Gdansk. Offers up to EUR 65,000 equity-free funding plus soft-landing support (incorporation, legal/tax, accommodation, visas). Focus on smart cities, space, and logistics. Scope: International.
Wrocław's startup-support programme, run by the Agencja Rozwoju Aglomeracji Wrocławskiej (ARAW — Wrocław Agglomeration Development Agency) through its Business Support Centre. It connects founders, investors and corporates across the Wrocław ecosystem with mentoring, networking and acceleration support, and organises the annual EVOLUTIONS: Partner Network Festival.
Also known as the Polish Business Angel Network, Sterling Angels is a community of private investors and some VCs who co-invest in early-stage companies. Based in Kraków, Sterling Angels not only provides capital but also mentoring and connections to help startups succeed. Notable focus: Southern Poland’s startup scene – tech startups in need of both funding and business expertise.
Connected smart stethoscope and AI platform that records and analyses lung and heart sounds for home-based respiratory diagnostics, paediatrics, and remote triage. Combines a CE-marked medical device with cloud-based AI that flags abnormal sounds for physicians. Backed by Movens Capital.
Sundose was founded in 2017 by Michał Gołkiewicz and Tomasz Styk and launched commercially in Poland in 2018. The company runs a direct-to-consumer subscription model, personalising daily supplement sachets from dozens of ingredients based on a health questionnaire and optional blood-test data, and has expanded to the UK, Germany, and Italy. It raised a $6M Series A in 2021 led by DX Ventures and Atmos Ventures, with participation from Delivery Hero Ventures.
SunRoof is a Polish-Swedish cleantech company building 2-in-1 integrated solar roofs — building-integrated photovoltaics (BIPV) that replace conventional roofing material entirely with a solar-generating surface for residential and commercial buildings. Founded in 2013 by Lech Kaniuk, Karol Kaniuk, Marek Zmysłowski and Rafał Plutecki, the company runs its main R&D and production hub in Gdańsk under a Swedish holding (SunRoof International), and operates across Poland, Sweden and Germany. SunRoof has raised roughly €28.5M, including a €15M round led by the Klima Energy Transition Fund (Alantra), with earlier backing from World Fund, Nordic Alpha Partners, Inovo Venture Partners, SMOK Ventures and Alfabeat. It grew past 130 employees and positions its integrated roofs as a lower-carbon, design-led alternative to bolt-on solar panels.
Sybilla Technologies is a Bydgoszcz-based space-tech company specialising in space situational awareness, space traffic management and orbital safety. It designs, builds and operates robotic optical observatories and the software that automates data acquisition, analysis and scheduling across sensor networks. Its space domain awareness data serves national space agencies in Poland, Italy and France, as well as the European Space Agency.
Co-founder and Managing Partner of Cogito Capital Partners, the Warsaw and New York growth-stage VC. Formerly a senior partner at MCI Capital, he backs CEE B2B software scale-ups expanding to the US, including companies such as Allica Bank and Preply.
Synerise is a Polish enterprise AI platform that combines customer-data infrastructure with behavioral-AI and recommendation engines for retail, banking, and telco clients. Founded by Jarosław Królewski, the company built proprietary deep-learning models for sequence prediction and has competed in international ML benchmarks. Synerise has been backed by investors including Cyfrowy Polsat and serves enterprise customers across CEE and beyond.
Chief Marketing Officer at LiveChat, Szymon made a notable angel investment into Brand24 (social media monitoring), a company LiveChat’s founders also built. He has a niche focus on marketing technology and B2B software, where he lends both capital and marketing know-how. Associated startups: Brand24, and mentorship of B2B SaaS startups in marketing automation.
Co-founder of Ramp Network (a Polish crypto startup), Szymon has recently started angel investing on the side. With Ramp’s success, he backs other Polish crypto and fintech startups, sharing his know-how in scaling a global fintech product. Associated startups: Selected crypto/fintech startups (leveraging experience from Ramp).
Talkie.ai is a Polish conversational AI platform focused on healthcare voice automation for hospitals, clinics, and medical contact centers. The product handles appointment workflows, prescription-related requests, triage-first routing, and self-service call handling through localized NLP and no-code configuration. Built in Poland with expansion across Europe and the US, it targets high-volume patient communication with compliance-oriented integrations.
Tangent Line is a Warsaw-based venture capital firm that provides capital and hands-on business partnership to breakthrough industrial and deep-technology startups. Acting as a contact point between founders and investors, it backs companies with global ambitions and defensible technology from seed through expansion over a long-term horizon.
Full-stack carbon management platform offering SaaS tools for CO2e calculation, reporting and reduction. Its Tergoscope helps companies meet sustainability regulations, while TERbit tracks emission savings from eco-friendly transport choices.
AI-powered speech therapy platform for children that diagnoses speech impediments, recommends personalised therapy and delivers 2,000+ exercises as mobile games. Backed by Simpact Ventures and SMOK Ventures.
Wrocław-based deep-tech company developing next-generation satellite communications payloads, SATCOM ground terminals and flexible telecom systems. Backed by ESA's HummingSAT programme; launched a pre-IPO targeting 30–35M PLN ahead of a NewConnect debut.
Weekly community gathering at CIC Warsaw with breakout sessions and office hours for founders, investors, and mentors. This entry represents the March 5th 2026 edition.
Customer service platform for small and midsize businesses combining live chat, AI chatbots, and helpdesk automation. Tidio helps e-commerce teams improve support response times and drive conversion from website traffic.
CEO of Lancerto and active business angel focused on the overlap between traditional retail operations and modern digital commerce. Tomasz frequently mentors D2C founders and contributes as a jury member in startup competitions. His investment interests center on e-commerce, fashion tech, logistics, and tools that improve customer experience or supply-chain performance.
Founder, Managing Partner and CEO of MCI Capital, the Warsaw-listed digital private equity firm he started in 1999. A pioneer of Polish technology investing, he built MCI into the largest mid-market tech PE group in Central and Eastern Europe and has overseen landmark exits including iZettle (sold to PayPal) and Azimo.
Managing partner at MCI Capital (Internet Ventures), Tomasz is one of the most experienced digital growth investors in Central Europe. His background includes strategy and international operating exposure, and he has led investments across e-commerce, digital health, and online marketplaces. Portfolio and exit references include Frisco.pl, SiDLY, and Morele.net.
Co-founder of Divante and managing partner at Catch the Tornado, Tomasz invests in high-growth software companies shaped by strong product and engineering culture. His strategy centers on composable commerce, open-source infrastructure, and AI-powered products. Notable portfolio examples include Ramp Network, Vue Storefront, and Rigby, with broader exposure to high-value exits in the Polish tech ecosystem.
Co-founder and former CTO of Brainly, Tomasz leverages his edtech and product experience as an angel investor. He has backed several Polish startups (including Allani, Positionly, Investio, and Luna Lang) and continues to support tech education initiatives. Associated startups: Allani, Positionly, Investio, Luna Lang.
Community manager at Polish Angels, Tomasz leads investor education and ecosystem engagement between new angels and experienced operators. He holds a PhD in management and has a background in PR and communications for venture capital organizations. His core focus includes educational content for the Business Angel Revolution course and scaling the reach of the Polish Angels community.
Co-founder and Managing Partner of Inovo Venture Partners, Poland's leading seed-stage fund. Previously an investment banker at Rothschild and an investor at Penta Investments, he has led Inovo's backing of companies such as Packhelp, Restaumatic and Symmetrical, and helped raise the firm's three funds totalling roughly €167M.
Polish digital-first motor insurance platform offering fully online purchase, claims handling, and policy management for drivers. Trasti sits between a direct-to-consumer insurer and an embedded-insurance platform, targeting cost-efficient underwriting and fast digital experiences. Backed by Movens Capital.
Tylko is a direct-to-consumer, digital-first furniture company specialising in made-to-measure shelving and storage. Customers configure pieces online with a parametric configurator and AR app, with each item CNC-manufactured to order in Poland from birch wood and shipped across Europe.
A €18M debut seed-stage venture fund launched in 2025 and backed by the Polish Development Fund, focused on B2B software, AI and techbio. Co-founded by Aleksandra Pedraszewska (an early ElevenLabs employee), Karolina Kukielka and Zuzanna Brzosko, it invests €500K–€750K in Polish founders building globally.
Venture Café Warsaw's free weekly meetup connecting entrepreneurs, investors, researchers and innovators. Each session features themed talks, networking and programming designed to grow Warsaw's startup and innovation ecosystem.
Industrial robotics company building autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) and fleet-management software for warehouses and factories. VersaBox's platform coordinates mixed AMR fleets across intralogistics tasks and integrates with WMS/MES systems. Backed by Movens Capital.
Vestbee is a Warsaw-based platform connecting startups, VC funds, business angels, accelerators, and corporates across Central and Eastern Europe. Founded in 2018 by Ewa Chronowska, it facilitates fundraising, deal flow, and ecosystem matchmaking, hosts the CEE VC Summit for regional fund managers, and operates the Vestbee Angels network. It functions as core startup-ecosystem infrastructure for the CEE region.
Viktor is an AI coworker platform that lives inside Slack and Microsoft Teams and executes business workflows end-to-end rather than only suggesting text. Connected to thousands of tools, it autonomously generates reports, builds dashboards, writes code, manages ad accounts, and runs data analysis on behalf of teams, positioning itself as an "AI hire" rather than a tool. Founded in 2023 by former Meta engineers Fryderyk Wiatrowski and Peter Albert, the company is headquartered in Warsaw with a second office in Munich. After a public launch in February 2026 it reached a €12.9 million revenue run rate within 10 weeks and is used by more than 2,000 organisations. In May 2026 Viktor raised a $75 million (€64.7 million) Series A led by Accel — reported as the largest Series A ever raised by a Polish technology company — with participation from Bek Ventures, Kaya VC, Inovo VC, and Tenacity Capital, alongside angels including Slack co-founders Stewart Butterfield and Cal Henderson and Synthesia CEO Victor Riparbelli.
City of Warsaw acceleration initiative connecting startups with municipal companies for pilot implementations, especially in sustainability and urban innovation. Participants receive mentoring and can compete for demo-day prizes.
Warsaw Equity Group (WEG) is a Warsaw-based investment group that backs growth-stage technology companies in Central and Eastern Europe, with a focus on B2B software, logistics and industrial technology. It invests as an active, long-term partner supporting portfolio companies' regional and international expansion.
Monthly JavaScript meetup in Warsaw featuring high-quality technical talks on React, Node.js, and web performance from experienced engineers. Draws 100+ developers per session and offers strong recruiting and community presence. Valuable for startups hiring frontend and full-stack engineers in the Polish developer market.
Cleantech spinout from Warsaw University of Technology building autonomous floating WaterStation units for inland water monitoring. The platform combines disposable electrochemical sensors with forecasting models to detect and predict ecological threats.
Organiser of Web3 Warsaw, positioned as Eastern Europe's largest blockchain and Web3 conference and the anchor of Warsaw Blockchain Week. The two-day event spans themed stages on tech, NFT, gaming, and AI, plus a hackathon, an awards night, and dozens of curated side events.
Web3 Warsaw 2026 is positioned as Eastern Europe's largest blockchain and Web3 conference, anchoring Warsaw Blockchain Week. The two-day event expects thousands of attendees and hundreds of speakers across themed stages spanning tech, NFT, gaming, and AI, and includes a hackathon, an awards night for startups and founders, and dozens of curated side events.
WEBCON is a Krakow-based low-code enterprise automation platform that enables large organizations to design, deploy, and iterate on business process applications without heavy custom development. The platform is used to digitize workflows such as invoice approvals, contract management, HR onboarding, and compliance processes, with deep integration into Microsoft 365 and SharePoint environments. WEBCON serves enterprise customers across Europe and North America and differentiates through its InstantChange technology, which allows modifications to live applications without downtime or redeployment.
Managing partner at Orbit Capital and former managing partner at McKinsey in Poland, Wiktor provides high-level strategic support to growth-stage companies. His investment and board activity emphasizes global scaling, commercial discipline, and founder support beyond capital. Notable involvements include Tidio (board member), Packhelp (board observer), and a broader portfolio of high-growth scaleups.
Business Angel of the Year 2022 and co-founder of Netguru, Wiktor became a prolific startup investor after scaling one of Europe’s best-known digital consultancies. Through Supercharge Capital, he focuses on global SaaS and e-commerce enablement companies. Notable portfolio examples include Tidio, Packhelp, and Customly.
Wojciech Pysiewicz is a Polish investor and co-founder of WP2 Investments (founded 2021, Wrocław), a venture and venture-building fund focused on fintech, green energy, medtech and e-commerce at pre-seed to Series A. He spent nearly two decades in banking, including nine years at Santander Consumer Bank where he served on the management board overseeing Belgium and the Netherlands, before turning to early-stage investing. Recognised as a SuperAngel by COBIN Angels, his portfolio of 17 companies includes fintechs Verestro and Fenige, and the fund achieved an exit when wellbee was acquired by Benefit Systems in 2024.
A prominent Polish business leader (ex-CEO of ITI Group and mBank), Wojtek pivoted to fintech entrepreneurship and angel investing. As CEO of blockchain fintech Billon Group, he personally invested in Billon and other tech ventures. He was honored as Business Angel of the Year in 2018 for his consistent support of startups. His angel investments include Billon (DLT payments), Quedex (crypto exchange), and AdEmotion (AI marketing). Associated startups: Billon Group, Quedex, AdEmotion.
Organiser of Wolves Summit, one of Central and Eastern Europe's largest startup-investor matchmaking conferences. It runs spring and autumn editions built around pre-scheduled one-on-one investor-founder meetings, pitch contests, and corporate dealflow, connecting hundreds of founders and active investors across Europe.
CEE-focused networking summit in Warsaw with 2,000+ in-person attendees, 500+ investors, and hybrid participation from across Central and Eastern Europe. Founder tickets typically EUR 300-700. Core value is high-volume matchmaking through pre-scheduled 15-minute investor-founder meetings across SaaS, IoT, PropTech, and deep tech, a top CEE deal-flow event.
The autumn 2026 edition of Wolves Summit is a corporate-dealflow and CVC-focused matchmaking conference connecting startup founders with investors across Europe. It convenes more than 100 active investors and 250 founders for one-on-one meetings, a Great Pitch Contest judged by an investor panel, and the European CVC Awards, running across two stages over two days.
Woodpecker.co is a Wrocław-based B2B SaaS platform for cold email outreach and sales automation, founded in 2015 by Mateusz Tarczyński and Maciej Cieśla. The product lets sales and business-development teams run personalised, automated email sequences at scale and serves thousands of users across more than 100 countries. Largely bootstrapped, the company later listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange (ticker WPR), making it one of the few Polish SaaS firms to reach public markets.
Europe's largest WordPress community event, drawing thousands of developers, agency owners, founders and open-source contributors to the ICE Krakow Congress Centre. A Contributor Day on 4 June precedes two days of talks, workshops and networking. Strong ground for SaaS builders, plugin and agency startups, and bootstrapped founders in the open-source WordPress economy.
Xopero Software is a Polish cybersecurity company building enterprise backup, disaster-recovery and data-protection solutions, including Xopero ONE, an MSP platform and GitProtect.io for DevOps environments (GitHub, GitLab, Jira). Poland's first cloud-backup provider for SMEs, it serves 100,000+ customers.
Impact investor and founder of the Humanites Institute, Zofia is a leading advocate of human-centric technology and responsible innovation. A former C-level executive in large financial organizations (including PZU and Link4), she supports startups and boards at the intersection of business performance and social impact. Her focus areas include fintech, medtech, and social impact, complemented by board service at major public companies and active mentorship.
Zofia Sidorska is Operations Manager at Movens Capital, a Warsaw-based multi-stage venture capital fund investing €0.25–3 million in CEE tech companies targeting EU, US, or global market leadership. She handles fund operations, LP reporting, and portfolio-management workflows, and holds a master's degree in Finance and Accounting from Kozminski University (2021–2023). Prior experience includes roles at WSI Capital and Sports Hospitality.
AI customer-service platform co-founded in 2019 by Maja Schaefer (originally as Chatbotize, rebranded 2021). Zowie lets enterprises in e-commerce, banking and telecom deploy AI agents across chat, voice, email and app using a deterministic decision engine, and counts L'Oréal, InPost and Avon among its customers. It has raised around $20M, including a Series A led by Tiger Global.