Krakow startup directory
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Answear.com
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.
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Borubar Ventures
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.
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Brainly
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.
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CallPage
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.
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Cardiomatics
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.
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CONFidence 2026
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.
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CONFidence 2027
CONFidence's next edition runs 24-25 May 2027, with 2027 tickets already on sale. The leading Polish technical security conference focuses on applied hacking, incident response, and infrastructure defense, a strong venue for cybersecurity startups to validate products with practitioners.
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CyberWave 2026
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.
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Devoxx Poland 2026
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.
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Digital Dragons 2026
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.
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Digital Dragons 2027
Digital Dragons 2027 takes place in Krakow 23-25 May, one of the largest B2B events for the games industry in Europe. It is run by the Krakow Technology Park as part of a broader ecosystem that also includes a games industry accelerator supporting studio formation and growth in Krakow.
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Estimote
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.
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EuroPython 2026
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.
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French Tech Krakow
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.
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GeeCon 2026
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.
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Grzegorz Błażewicz
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.
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HackYeah 2026
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.
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HCM Deck
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.
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Innovation Nest
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.
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InPost
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.
