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Angel Investing startup ecosystem

We track 3 organisations in this sector across 2+ countries.

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COBIN Angels

Warsaw, Poland · Support Organization

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).

Lech Kaniuk

Warsaw, Poland · Person

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.

Sten Tamkivi

Tallinn, Estonia · Angel Investor

Sten Tamkivi is an Estonian entrepreneur and investor who spent over eight years at Skype as an early executive, helping grow the Tallinn R&D office to 450 people before its $8.5 billion acquisition by Microsoft. He co-founded Teleport (acquired by Topia in 2017) as an EIR at Andreessen Horowitz, and made roughly 40–50 angel investments before co-founding the Taavet+Sten partnership with Taavet Hinrikus in 2020. He is currently a partner at Plural, a pan-European early-stage VC fund focused on ambitious founders.