Poland startup ecosystem
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 339 organisations across 24 cities.
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Artur Banach
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.
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Artur Kurasiński
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.
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Astroteq.ai
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.
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AtomStore
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.
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Autenti
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.
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Authologic
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.
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AWS Community Day Poland 2026 (Sept 2026)
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.
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AWS User Group Poland
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.
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BallSquad
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.
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Bartek Pucek
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.
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Bartosz Dobrzyński
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.
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Bartosz Składzień
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.
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BCNN
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).
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Beata Cichocka-Tylman
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).
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Billon Group
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.
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Black Pearls VC
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.
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BLIK
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.
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Bloomin
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.
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Booksy
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.
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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.
