Local startups, investors, and operators based in Wrocław, Poland.
10 entries.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.