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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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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Hard2beat VC
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).
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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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Hedgehog Fund
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).
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Holi
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.
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HomeDoctor
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.
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IAI (IdoSell)
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.
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ICAISC 2026
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.
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ICAISC 2027
The 25th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing is confirmed for 20-24 June 2027 at the Bachleda Hotel Kasprowy, Zakopane. A research-heavy gathering of AI scientists and engineers, it is relevant for deep-tech founders scouting cutting-edge methods and research-to-startup spinouts.
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IE Venture Day Poland 2026
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.
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Impact'26
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.
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Infermedica
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.
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Infoshare 2026
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.
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Infoshare 2027
Infoshare 2027 takes place at AmberExpo in Gdansk, 19-20 May, one of Central and Eastern Europe's leading tech conferences. The event covers developer tools, data science, cybersecurity, martech and AI, drawing startups, corporates and investors from across the region.
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InfraSEC Forum 2026
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.
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Ingenix
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.
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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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Inovo Venture Partners
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.
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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.
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inStreamly
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.
