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Top 50 Consumer VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Poland in December 2024

Last updated: Dec 2024 A list of 50 VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Consumer startups based in Poland. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Consumer companies from Poland. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Consumer VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Poland in December 2024

Investor	Consumer Poland investments
SpeedUp Venture Capital Group	6
Protos Venture Capital	5
HardGamma Ventures	3
Chiratae Ventures	3
Experior Venture Fund	3
SMOK Ventures	3
Shape VC	3
Next Road Ventures	3
Eteron VC	2
AIP Seed	2
Piton Capital	2
SquareOne	2
Story Ventures	2
RTA.vc	2
JR Holding	2
Joyance Partners	2
FundingBox Deep Tech Fund	2
Point Nine	2
bValue Fund	2
Fil Rouge Capital (FRC)	2
Black Pearls VC	2
KAYA	2
Sunfish Partners	2
Innovation Nest	2
SquareOne Venture Capital	2
Aligo Venture Capital	2
Inovo.vc	2
ValueTech Seed	1
4growth VC	1
Polish Agency for Enterprise Development	1
Kindred Capital	1
Ataraxy Ventures Limited	1
Ślisz-Sandecka Kozioł	1
Green Ventures	1
MCI Capital SA	1
EKIPA Investments	1
Xevin Investments	1
Firebolt Ventures	1
J2 Ventures	1
Movens Capital	1
Montis Capital Group	1
KnowledgeHub	1
Hedgehog Fund	1
Kogito Ventures	1
YouNick	1
Impera Alfa	1
FIDIASZ	1
Freya Capital	1
Manta Ray Ventures	1
CofounderZone	1

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We are a group of venture capital funds, investing in enterprises in an early stage of development. Areas of our interest include enterprises and entrepreneurs in Central and Eastern Europe, who want to conquer the global market by utilizing their self-developed solutions. Our cooperation with companies is based on a 3-8 years investment horizon.We're looking for innovations from areas such as: consumer internet, electromobility, energy, fintech, martech, adtech, medtech, IoT and hardware. We're interested in technologies like Machine Learning, Picture Recognition and Artificial Intelligence.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Poland, United States, Czech Republic

Portfolio highlights

PARTORY — PARTORY offers complete manufacturing solutions in engineering. PARTORY utilising AI and machine learning to streamline the procurement process for low-cost metal parts
CYCLE — GetHenry is a rapidly growing subscription service for market-leading delivery companies. We make sure that thousands of couriers are on the move safely, quickly and comfortably every day. In this way, we not only create added value for delivery services, but also help to reduce transport-related CO2 emissions on the last mile.
Patron GO — Patron GO is a fintech firm that uses AI to detect unnecessarily high costs on a customer's bank account and offers the best solutions.

Protos Venture Capital is a funding company that is focused on internet businesses in Poland. It also includes mobile projects based on Software-as-a-Service, marketplace, lead-generator, and e-commerce sectors. Protos Venture Capital is based in Warszawa, Poland.

Investment focus

Mobile Apps, Fashion, Marketplace
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Poland, France, Turkey

Portfolio highlights

Droplabs — Droplabs is Poland's leading online sales software for the experiences industry. Hundreds of Attraction, Tour and Activity providers use our software to sale tickets and activities through various channels including own website, hotel desks, travel agencies, aggregators, network of affiliates or on-site. Our software also helps with real-timeoffer, capacity & pricing management; entry management and day-to-day operations optimisation.We keep the product self-serviced and simple to use on any device. We are end buyers advocate: Buying, storing and using tickets must be seamless!We are SaaS with no exceptions.
MultiWash | CarWash App — Multiwash cooperates with 600+ car washes in Poland to bring high quality eco friendly subscription plans for companies via convenient mobile app. More than 15k subsription users, over 100 enterprise clients, like Pepsico, Microsoft, Tchibo, ING Bank, Pfizer, Sanofi, Roche, Red Bull, TDK, DPD, Rossmann & others.
EkoFachowcy.pl — Kolejna witryna oparta na WordPressie

HardGamma Ventures is a venture capital fund that invests in startups that focuses on computing, internet, biotechnology, and more. Early stage VC fund focused on Polish and CEE startups.The Fund invests in projects such as seed and startups in the area of computing, Internet, mobile technologies, the biotechnology sector and physicochemicaltechnologies. HardGamma Ventures invests in strong teams developing projects with global potential - providing funding and support for business planning, marketing, product positioning and other business functions.The HardGamma team is constantly in contact and cooperation with leading competitions and incubator programs in Europe and USA - Seedcamp (UK), The Difference Engine (UK), Springboard (UK), Startup Bootcamp (Denmark), TechStars (United States), and the pan-European incubator program HackFwd (Germany), where the team is responsible for the assessment and certification program for start-ups, and the International Incubator of the University of Maryland (United States).The team of HardGamma is also building a network affiliation with other VC funds in the region to broaden the range of exploration and investment opportunities and to increase international support and business opportunities for the portfolio of projects.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Enterprise Software
Seed, Funding Round, Convertible Note
United Kingdom, Poland, United States

Portfolio highlights

Silverback.ai — eRated (http://erated.co) creates a single identity for e-commerce sites, allowing online buyers and sellers to utilize their already existing reputation everywhere they go. By using a universal identity, sellers are able to operate in more marketplaces, reach more customers and increase their conversion rates and sales as they nolonger need to re-build their reputation (ratings, reviews and comments) in each site. eRated uses a widget displayed in partner sites that aggregates and summarizes the sellers ratings and feedback earned across various marketplace, increasing user trust.The founders are all veterans of elite Israeli army tech units and alumni of the Zell Entrepreneurship Program (Israel's most prominent student accelerator program).
Proxigroup — Solving the lack of visibility and transparency in asset management.
Carv — Carv 2 clips onto any ski boot, analyzes your technique, and coaches you with live audio as you ski.

Chiratae Ventures is a global network of venture capital funds with approximately $3.6 billion under management and a portfolio of over 220 companies built over the last 15 years. The Chiratae Ventures network is comprised of five independent partnerships managing funds in North America and Asia. Each partnership makes investments on behalf of itslimited partners, including International Data Group (IDG), the world's largest IT media company. By combining the IDG platform – an unparalleled combination of global publishing, market research (IDC), and conferences and exhibition resources – with years of hands-on experience in early-stage company building, each Chiratae Ventures fund helps companies understand their markets better and penetrate them faster than their competition.With partnerships in the USA, Korea and multiple locations throughout China, India and Vietnam, the IDG Ventures network offers the international perspective and the local market expertise to help companies grow from start-ups to global success stories.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, E-Commerce
Series A, Seed, Series B
India, United States, China

Portfolio highlights

Blitzscale Technologies — WMall hai khaas ladies ke liye ek online mall. WMall pe aap Kapde, Jewelery, Cosmetics, Ghar ka samaan, kitchen ka samaan, baccho ke liye kapde, toys etc ki shopping MRP se 30-70% discount pe kar sakte hai. Blockbuster Deals: WMall har din kuch products pe deta hai extra discount.
ShopDeck — ShopDeck helps sellers to create their ecommerce store/website, manage logistics, payment and everything for a business to sell stuffs online.
Dezy — Smiles.ai is India's leading dental clinic with 100+ expert dentists and has 300+ dental care centers in major cities like Bangalore, Bhopal, Chennai, Delhi, Indore, Lucknow, and Kolkata. Find the best dentist nearby.

Experior Venture Fund is the leading early and growth stage venture capital investor in Poland. EVF invests between EUR 500k and EUR 3m in high-growth innovative companies that are driving transformative change in their industries. The firm has a dedicated team of professionals who support entrepreneurs in delivering success. Support of theExperior Venture Fund is tailored towards the specific needs of each portfolio company, the Fund provides a unique combination of both capital and operational know-how driving value creation of portfolio companies.

Investment focus

B2B, Furniture, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Angel
Poland, Singapore, United States

Portfolio highlights

Tylko — Tylko offers uncompromising quality at a fair price, while perfectly fitted to your space & easily ordered online.
Perfect Dashboard Inc. — Perfect Dashboard is building a marketplace for $19B web-hosting industry bringing innovation to the long tail of website owners. Our platform uses AI-powered hyper-targeting and one-touch integration to connect the right customers with the right product offering, and triples the conversion rate. We already have a reach of over 500k websitesacross 20+ hosting companies in US and Europe.
RevDeBug — RevDeBug - simplify releasing, monitoring health and responding to issues in distributed systems.

Bridging Silicon Valley to CEE

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Poland, United States, Ukraine

Portfolio highlights

Authologic — Authologic is a system that helps businesses in checking the identity of their clients online.Authologic is a provider of identity verification solutions that includes tools for determining identity through online video, data, and digital IDs.Krzysztof Klimczak, Jarek Sygitowicz, and Marek Rogoziński founded Authologic in 2020 and is based inWarsaw, Poland.
Collabwriting — Collabwriting is a simple browser extension that helps you share, comment and collaborate on content you find online
Proteine Resources — We want to revolutionize the feed and food market, build robotic factories, process bio-waste in high-quality protein, fat and fertilizer insects.

A new tool that blends your everyday work apps into one. It's the all-in-one workspace for you and your team

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Robotics
Seed, Pre-Seed
Poland, India, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Checly — Checly create, manage and check control processes across multiple industries.
Poley.me — Let robots do the work, so people can do human stuff! We bring affordable, proffesional process automation into HoReCa industry. We develop and implement robotic solutions to every crowded venue, by providing them with autonomous, stand alone drink making and selling machines.
Stretchme — Online platform with Stretching & Yoga classes. More than 50+ trainings available at any time. Come and join us on this journey!

We are a polish VC fund backed by the global business angels. Our sweet spot is European early stage companies founded by visionary entrepreneurs who aim to become global winners in their respective industry. Together with our affiliates, CEE Business Angel Network, leading European deal flow platform Vestbee as well as our global network of VCfunds and corporate partners, we support our companies with the relevant network, expertise, resources and funds to help them expand to new markets. Next Road Ventures in a nutshell: GEOGRAPHY - Europe with a strong focus on Central & Eastern Europe; ROUNDS - seed, pre-series A, series A; STAGES - product on the market (at least MVP), revenue or growing traction; SECTORS - multi-sector with a preference on ICT, Big Data, SaaS, Martech, Fintech, Industry 4.0, IoT, e-commerce etc.; TICKET - up to 1M EUR

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Machine Learning
Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
Poland, Sweden, Lithuania

Portfolio highlights

Epinote — Epinote is Warsaw-based annotation boutique that provides high quality data annotation and collection services. We specialise in Computer Vision, NLP and search relevance projects including image, video, text and audio annotations. Our workforce consists of only in-house employees, mostly graduates of top Polish universities. Our managementconsists of experts who know exactly how to manage large human-intense projects and understand deeply Data Scientists needs. The highest delivered quality and facing unstable inflow of work is what we challenge everyday. Contact us. You will not be disappointed.
AlohaCamp — AlohaCamp is an online booking portal for adventure travel. They offer tent, campervan, glamping, and cottage sites. It provides a referral program.
Amano — Amano to redesign the communication between merchants and consumers.

Private Equity Firm, Venture Capital

Investment focus

Fitness, Hardware, Software
Pre-Seed
Poland

Portfolio highlights

SOLO Workout (Heavy Kinematic Machines) — SOLO allows gym owners to modernise their facility without the need to replace equipment.

AIP Seed | YOUR FIRST INVESTMENT ROUND. SIMPLIFIED | VC fund with 120+ investments made & 8 Competence Hubs. Send us your pitch!

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, SaaS
Seed, Pre-Seed
Poland

Portfolio highlights

EduCat — Online platform supporting the application process to foreign university
Revoize — Revolutionize your audio with Revoize, a cutting-edge AI-powered audio processing engine.
Stimy AI — Solve algebra instantly, get feedback on math work, and practice math topics

Piton Capital is a venture capital and growth equity firm headquartered in London, United Kingdom. Piton focuses exclusively on network effects businesses (marketplaces, exchanges and platforms) as this provide one of the few moats or forms of defensibility to achieve dominance. There are several forms of great network effects businesses thataren’t marketplaces that include data network effects (including machine learning and AI), businesses that rely on user generated content, as well as SaaS businesses with the potential to layer network effects around it. The firm is a stage and style-agnostic and seeks to invest from seed to late stage (€200k to €15m).

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Marketplace, Internet
Series A, Series B, Funding Round
Germany, United Kingdom, France

Portfolio highlights

Ovoko — Ovoko functions as an internet marketplace, uniting sellers of car parts, auto dismantlers, and recyclers with car dealers, mechanics, and avid enthusiasts.
Patient 21 — Patient21 believes that the doctor-patient connection is the cornerstone to good healthcare and that it is their responsibility to remove any impediments to it. They think that the greatest healthcare necessitates cross-specialty collaboration and universal data access. Always with one purpose in mind: to help patients and physicians make betterdecisions.In comparison to today's linked world, healthcare appears to be trapped in the past. It continues to use the same analogue and isolated processes. Patient21 is on a quest to usher healthcare into the twenty-first century. They use data to help doctors give the most personalized treatments possible. And, with the help of their professional network, they are attempting to give a comprehensive perspective of their client's health.
Gringo — Gringo is a car app that helps in monitoring vehicle and driver's licenses, licensing vehicles and dividing fines into installments.

We invest in B2B tech entrepreneurs who are obsessed with solving complex problems in huge markets at pre-seed and seed stage

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Germany, United States, Poland

Portfolio highlights

Hero — Hero is a B2B payments and financing platform, offer direct online payment experience and receive your money immediately.
Otterspace — Otterspace takes care of DAOs.
Flinn — We are driven to impact the health of millions of people around the globe by enabling medical companies to launch and operate products more efficiently. To make this vision come true, we established a customer-centric, experimentation-driven product development approach.

Story is an early-stage venture fund based in NYC that invests in entrepreneurs with big visions leveraging technology and the proliferation of data to change the way people interact with the world.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Health Care, Software
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Poland, Morocco

Portfolio highlights

Nomic AI — Nomic AI engages in improving both the explainability and accessibilty of AI.
Prism Data — Prism Data is a next-generation transaction intelligence platform that helps you serve more customers, build better products, and make smarter decisions.
Aether Biomedical — Aether Biomedical is a medical robotics company making bionics accessible to all. We aim to deliver medical devices engineered to exceed global standards.

RTAventures VC invests early in online businesses with special focus on healthcare related products and business models like SaaS (software as a service) and marketplaces. RTAventures VC is managed by Piotr Kulesza and Lubomir Jurczak and is based in Warsaw, Poland and Berlin, Germany. The largest investments include Docplanner, Typeform, PointNine Capital.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Genetics
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
United States, Poland, Slovenia

Portfolio highlights

AlohaCamp — AlohaCamp is an online booking portal for adventure travel. They offer tent, campervan, glamping, and cottage sites. It provides a referral program.
MNM Bioscience Inc. — MNM integrates cutting-edge genomics with the latest technological breakthroughs in AI to fight cancer. Our goal is to crack the code of cancer biology.
MNM Bioscience Inc. — MNM integrates cutting-edge genomics with the latest technological breakthroughs in AI to fight cancer. Our goal is to crack the code of cancer biology.

JR HOLDING is an Alternative Joint Stock Company listed on the NewConnect stock market of the Warsaw Stock Exchange since 2012.When investing in a given project, we invest primarily in people who can manage the company, team, capital and achieve their goals. We consciously don't invest in activities that lack a leader, coordinator, someonewho is fully involved in managing the project. We believe that our greatest value is the fact that so many people trust us and look for a partner for joint investments in us. We adhere to the principle of creating value through investments made. The company builds its financial potential by investing in projects and industries with a high rate of return, which allow us to achieve above-average profits in the long term.In accordance with our strategy, we invest in several key industries of the future, such as Digital Business Renewable energy Space Industry Deeptech / Hardware Biotech Gaming New MediaHowever, we believe that creating a business is more than just good projects or industries with potential - it's people and relationships with them. Employees, leaders and shareholders - people with whom we create and achieve our goals together.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Manufacturing
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Poland, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Kogena — Remote diagnostics and maintenance platform for industrial and collaborative robots to improve efficiency and predict unplanned stops
Nanovery — Founded by scientists specialised in Nanotechnology, Medicinal Chemistry and Artificial Intelligence, we are on a mission to enable early detection of cancer through a rapid and affordable blood test Backed by academics at top universities, clinicians, industrial leaders, and Entrepreneur First.
Closer Music — Closer Music offers a safe and simple high-quality music licensing solution which is professionally tailored to your business and client profile.

Joyance Partners invests in companies that, through science and tech, cultivate joy to improve how we live, focusing on the health and consumer sectors from Pre-Seed to Series A.

Investment focus

Health Care, Biotechnology, Wellness
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

JOYA — JOYA is the first employee skincare and wellness benefit platform. The company's goal is to provide tailored access to services such as skin cancer screenings, skin condition treatment, anti-aging, acne, and hair loss care from reputable physicians at an accessible cost.
Kyan Health — Prioritise your employees' mental health and well-being with Kyan Health. Our evidence-based solutions address employees' mental well-being, stress at work & boost your workforce productivity.
World Class Health — Access top 1% global healthcare with World Class Health. Superior patient experience & reduced employer spend. Explore our Global Benefits today.

FundingBox Deep Tech Fund provides funding to companies from the technology industry. It offers investment to early-stage organizations. FundingBox Deep Tech Fund was founded in 2020 and is based in Warsaw, Poland.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, B2B
Seed, Pre-Seed
Poland, Canada, Estonia

Portfolio highlights

Aleet — Aleet has developed sophisticated systems encompassing proprietary digital twin technology for strategic fleet operational planning and advanced AI-driven routing optimization. It serves sectors such as fleet operators, e-commerce, food delivery, civil services, defense, and more.
SilkPLM — Managing a collection of products is a collaborative effort - which is why a single platform to manage the process, such as SilkPLM, is key to success. See for yourself!
TrustLynx — TrustLynx is a software solution that provides convenient and accessible tools to integrate electronic signing in daily operations of any organisation.

Point Nine Capital is a Berlin-based venture capital firm focused exclusively on early-stage Internet investments in areas like Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), online marketplaces, and mobile.The fund and its managers, Pawel Chudzinski and Christoph Janz have backed a number of highly successful Internet companies such as Delivery Hero, Clio,Shiftplanning, Vend, Typeform, and Zendesk from their earliest stages.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Internet
Seed, Series A, Series B
Germany, United States, France

Portfolio highlights

Attio — Unlock your team's true potential with Attio, the data-driven CRM for modern teams. Manage everything from sales leads through to recruitment pipelines.
Hula Earth — Biodiversity Monitoring for Nature, Agriculture, and Infrastructure
Tengo — Tengo is a SaaS platform that helps businesses win more public tenders and design to simplify and centralize the entire tendering process.

bValue is one of the most active funds in Poland, investing in companies from CEE region. Combined diverse experience of management team allows us to support companies in scaling up to next level and transforming challenges into opportunities. We also leverage the experience and business network of our investors and board of experts to boost growthand spot opportunities. bValue consists of two separate funds where one invests in early-stage startups and the other focuses on established growth companies. Its investment focus in both stages lies in tech enabled companies across all industries.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Poland, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Sportano.pl — Sportano is the world of multi-brand sports at the greatest level. Everybody may find a discipline they enjoy, which is why all of your favorite brands are accessible right now in one convenient location!
Wellbee — Wellbee is an online mental health platform providing personalized mental health solutions both to individuals and B2B.
Vidoc Security Lab — Ethical Hacking Automation platform for security teams

Fil Rouge Capital (FRC) is an investment fund manager whose funds focus on early-stage businesses from pre-seed, seed, and Series A rounds of investment.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Croatia, Slovenia, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

GameBoost — Ranking up has never been easier. With GameBoost's cheap LoL and Valorant Elo Boosting Services.
Magic Forest — Magic Forest is a biotech firm that democratizes the forestry sector by permitting public investment. Their online trading platform enables private investors to invest in forests and offset their carbon footprint.
Native Teams — Native Teams is a platform that offers payments and employment tools for freelancers, remote workers, and clients. Native Teams was founded in 2021 and was headquartered in London.

Black Pearls VC is a venture capital firm focusing on Life Quality Technologies. We look for the best entrepreneurs in Poland and the Baltic Sea Region.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Poland, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Traxlo — We are at the technology and retail industries intersection. Our longtime experience in the industry taught us that only the right innovation has the potential to make a positive impact. Thus we aim to make our solutions as seamless as possible to be able to add only benefits to every worker who uses our apps and to every retail store manager whohas lots on her plate, day in, day out.
HeavyFinance — A borderless lending marketplace, where farmers meet investors
Certifier — Certifier is a digital credentials infrastructure. Easily make, share and verify digital certificates on autopilot. All-in-one platform for generation certificates and mass sending emails to recipients. Certificate maker with user friendly interface, ready-made templates, and delivery emails.

We are committed to supporting founders at every stage of their journey, from studio projects and pre-seed through to Series A and follow-ons.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Internet
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Czech Republic, United States, Poland

Portfolio highlights

Upheal — Meet your new therapy tool with secure video-calling, analytics, and automated progress notes built-in.
E2B — Add code interpreting in your AI apps and AI agents.
Zeta Labs — Revolutionize daily tasks with our AI assistant. Not just a chatbot - it chats, understands, and performs. Free yourself to focus on meaningful things.

Sunfish Partners is an early stage VC that invests in Polish deep tech startups.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed
Poland, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Zaitra — Zaitra reduces data transmission costs while also providing spaceship onboard and artificial intelligence services.
1.security — Simplify and secure the Microsoft 365 ecosystem by providing transparency and control in managing the complex system of access permissions ecosystem.
Codejet — Codejet helps builders code 50% faster by converting designs to production ready code. Create a project in Figma, and Codejet will convert it into clean and open TypeScript code (along with RWD and unit testing).

Innovation Nest invest in early stage B2B SaaS startups from Europe and help them grow from local to global using our network of contacts and strong in-house competencies. It strongly believes that the path to growth leads through Silicon Valley and strongly encourage our portfolio startups to set up presence there. The company supports high-techcompanies to grow faster and scale their business globally.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Poland, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Kenjo — All-in-one human resources (HR) software created for SMEs that need to optimise their processes. Click to find out more!
Antavo Enterprise Loyalty Cloud — Build the loyalty program of your dreams 10x faster, and run it on the most powerful loyalty platform with the best Workflow editor. All powered by AI.
AI Clearing — Full digital field construction progress tracking. To decrease re-work cost. To mitigate litigation risk. 100% databased.

We invest in B2B tech entrepreneurs who are obsessed with solving complex problems in huge markets at pre-seed and seed stage

Investment focus

Software, Machine Learning, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Series B
Germany, United States, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Retorio — Retorio takes talent management to the next level with a video AI that reveals personality. Transform the way you hire and train top talent.
Coboworx — Coboworx is an online market place for information, hardware and software products
Flinn — We are driven to impact the health of millions of people around the globe by enabling medical companies to launch and operate products more efficiently. To make this vision come true, we established a customer-centric, experimentation-driven product development approach.

Aligo is a group of experts with extensive expertise in capital investments, research and development project funding, and the commercialization of innovative goods. Aligo's business is investing in early-stage companies (start-ups / early stage), which have already assembled a project team and secured their first clients.

Investment focus

Health Care, E-Commerce, Medical Device
Seed, Pre-Seed
Poland, United States

Portfolio highlights

TJLE — HealthCare Hardware
Envirly — Envirly is a Polish technology company that offers an innovative platform for managing sustainable development, and the carbon footprint of organizations and products.
Health Networks — Mobile App, SaaS, Wellbeing

VC for the most ambitious founders in CEE

Investment focus

Software, B2B, Apps
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Poland, United States, Italy

Portfolio highlights

SplxAI — The SplxAI platform is the first complete pentesting solution for Conversational AI apps. Secure your AI systems proactively with automated vulnerability assessments and mitigation.
Pythagora — Dev tool that uses AI to generate integration tests by analysing server activity without the developer having to write a single line of code
Quantia — A powerful and easy to use analytics platform for tracking, analyzing and understanding the performance of your brand in the ecommerce world.

ValueTech Seed is an early stage venture capital fund focusing on innovations in Energy and Industrial Manufacturing. We seek to partner with dedicated teams developing breakthrough technologies that can be deployed within the next 2-5 years. Our areas of particular interest include but are not limited to: Industry 4.0, renewables, cleantech,energy storage, smart grid and smart home, AI/IoT applications.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Media and Entertainment
Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
Poland

Portfolio highlights

Aleet — Aleet has developed sophisticated systems encompassing proprietary digital twin technology for strategic fleet operational planning and advanced AI-driven routing optimization. It serves sectors such as fleet operators, e-commerce, food delivery, civil services, defense, and more.
Hustro — Hustro - MainSite
Nevomo — Nevomo develops the next generation of High-Speed Railways (HSR), based on magnetic levitation, linear motor and autonomous control systems, which can be subsequently transformed into a vacuum version. It is the only company globally working on technology enabling a gradual implementation of Hyperloop-inspired solutions as an upgrade for therailway industry. The company has developed a unique, patent-pending magrail technology, which allows modernizing existing conventional railway lines to a standard of passive magnetic railways, reaching speed of 300 kph (186 mph) on normal lines and 415 kph (258 mph) on HSR lines. The magrail system allows keeping the functionality of conventional railways on a modernized line (railway operators can depreciate their existing rolling stock).Magrail can be subsequently transformed into a vacuum system – hyperrail, reaching speed of 600 kph (373 mph) on normal lines and 1000 kph (621 mph) on HSR lines.The third generation is hyperloop – vacuum magnetic railways built within new transportation corridors for top speed of 1200 kph (746 mph), using subsystems tested in the first two generations.Capex for retrofitting railway infrastructure to a magrail standard are estimated to ca. EUR 6-8 million per km, which is comparable to the cost of building a new highway and up to 60-70% lower than the average cost of building a new HSR line in the EU. Energy costs will be lower by ca. 13% for the speed of 300 kph (186 mph) compared to HSR, whole for the speed of 415 kph (258 mph) magrail needs the same amount of energy than HSR currently for 300 kph (186 mph). The maintenance costs will be ca. 25% lower than for HSR, due to elimination of friction of mechanical elements at high speeds.The company was founded in 2017 and until mid-2019 it submitted 8 patent applications. In the first half of 2019 it secured an EUR 3.8 million grant in Poland and raised EUR 334 thousands during the first Polish equity crowdfunding campaign on a UK-based platform Seedrs. Currently a Proof of Concept (PoC) is almost completed (ca. 50 m. long test track, which will be demonstrated in Q4.2019)., while at the turn of 2020 and 2021 a demonstration of the first full-scale prototype is planned.Corporate partners include TME Transfer Multisort Electronics and Microsoft. Key member of the R&D team is prof. Jacek F Gieras who has conducted research on Shinkansen SCMaglev at the Central Japan Railway Company. The company has got an international Advisory Board, including: Dorota Raben - expert in logistics & the former President of the Board of the Maritime Port of Gdansk SA, Amos Ron- former Director General at the Ministry of Energy and Infrastructure in Israel, and Vladas Lašas (also an early investor in Hyper Poland) who has co-founded Carbon War room together with Sir Richard Branson.

4growth VC is a venture capital firm.

Investment focus

Lending, Internet, Software
Seed, Funding Round
Poland

Portfolio highlights

Oxla — Meet Oxla, the world's fastest-distributed database, designed to handle large amounts of data with ease.
Wealthon — Wealthon is a lending firm that offers installment loans, bridging loans, and POSCASH to individuals and businesses.
Digital First AI — Meet DigitalFirst.AI - a revolutionary tool that will allow you to find a tactic to solve any marketing problem and help you use it without prior experience and the help of specialists.

PARP is to support entrepreneurship through implementation of actions aimed at using innovative solutions by entrepreneurs, development of human resources, expansion on international markets, regional development. Its achievement will contribute to the improvement of the competitive position of Polish economy, both on European Union markets and onthe international market.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Grant, Pre-Seed, Seed
Poland, United States

Portfolio highlights

Influencify — 3rd-Gen influencer marketing platform to find, negotiate and recruit from 250 Million micro-influencers across Instagram, Tiktok & Youtube
Travatar — Travatar is a cloud-based tool which aim is to protect website against fraud and bots considered as huge threats of today’s world. It’s dedicated to sectors like e-commerce, marketing agencies and financial institutions. Travatar analyzes the quality of traffic on websites including its sources by using advanced Big Data and Machine Learningtechnology. As a result, Travatar identifies non-human traffic, blocks it, and indicates the most efficient marketing channels to let business grow in the most successful way. The fraud market is growing dynamically. Solutions providing website protection will become the standard and Travatar will be the leader.Travatar is based on 3 areas: • Ad Fraud Prevention - to eliminate marketing budget waste • Website Security - to protect a website against cyber attacks and threats • Data Analysis / Diagnostic Tools - to increase revenues.Travatar links two areas: Cyber Security and Data Analysis, in order to provide website owners security and reliable data on the quality of website traffic.Our vision is a fully transparent advertising market with trusted website traffic, with no fraud and malicious bots.
Sandis Insurance Software — Create innovative insurance products within weeks! Low TCO, short time to market and risk free agreement - check details.

A new model for Venture Capital where every founder we back becomes a co-owner of the fund

Investment focus

Software, Biotechnology, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Series B
United Kingdom, Israel, United States

Portfolio highlights

Inversion — Inversion Space is a privately held company driven to change how humanity utilizes space. Its builds affordable, high cadence return vehicle for the commercial and defense industries.
Dunia Innovation — Catalysing the energy transition.
Civic Marketplace — Civic Marketplace is a platform that simplifies purchasing decisions, helps agencies make efficient, informed choices, and boosts local economic growth by providing access and opportunities to historically underutilized businesses.

The early stage investment butique that provides "smart money" to promising entrepreneurs focusing on innovation in HR Tech, Ed Tech.

Investment focus

Fashion, E-Commerce, Lead Generation
Seed
Poland

Portfolio highlights

Allani — They target two segment of users: - those who love shopping - those who hate shopping For the first group, we give them inspirations and beautiful flow that make their shopping process even more fun. For the second group, we make sure the process is easiest and shortest.

Ślisz-Sandecka Kozioł firm offers comprehensive solutions for entities which conduct their business activity in the field of new technologies.

Investment focus

Drones, Drone Management
Pre-Seed
Poland

Portfolio highlights

Farada Group — Farada Group is a Unmanned Aerial Vehicles manufacturing company offers drone services.

Green Ventures is a venture capital fund investing in early-stage technology projects.

Investment focus

Drones, Drone Management
Pre-Seed
Poland

Portfolio highlights

Farada Group — Farada Group is a Unmanned Aerial Vehicles manufacturing company offers drone services.

MCI Capital is a leading Digital Private Equity investor in CEE, based in Warsaw, Poland. MCI Capital seeks to invest in digital disruption, transformation and infrastructure within EU, with focus on CEE. Preferred sectors are SaaS, E-commerce, Marketplace, Fintech, Insurtech, Foodtech, Traveltech and Digital Infrastructure. MCI typically investsEUR 25-100 M in a single project, either in Buyout or Expansion stage. Historically, MCI Capital has also been involved in funds dedicated to Private Debt, Growth and Venture Capital areas – these funds do not conduct any new investments, instead they focus on building the value of assets and de-investing.MCI Capital is managed by the executive management team. The company is listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange since February 2001 and is also a member of the Polish Private Equity Association.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Mobile
Series A, Funding Round, Seed
Poland, Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

IdoSell — IdoSell Shop is a complex service available in SaaS model directed to professional online shops and wholesale stores.
Gett — Gett is a technology platform focused on corporate Ground Transportation Management (GTM), where spend is estimated to exceed $100 billion globally. https://gett.com/why We are the GTM category leader, serving over a quarter of the Fortune 500 companies.Gett’s cloud-based software organizes thousands of transportation providers(corporate fleet, ride-hailing, taxi, and limos) into one single platform. The technology helps save businesses time and money by managing all their ground transportation spend, and optimizes the entire employee experience from booking and riding to invoicing and analytics.We are building the first ground transportation grid available to customers worldwide, similar to telephony and internet grids, with aspirations to become the standard in corporate ground transportation, just as Zoom became the standard in corporate communication.Founded in 2010 and headquartered in London, Gett has raised more than $750M in funding to date, including more than $300M from the Volkswagen Group. They employ over 800 employees globally.
ANSWEAR.com —

EKIPA Investments is an investment firm.

Investment focus

SaaS, Music, Internet
Seed
Poland

Portfolio highlights

Multilango — Multilango is an operator of a learning platform designed to improve employees' language skills. The corporate platform provides learning in a variety of languages with a personalized teacher based on individual preferences, allowing clients to learn languages through self-paced videos.
Plenti — We believe in access over ownership. Our lives remain cluttered with underutilized items, and our curiosity and openness to novelties remain unfulfilled due to constraints of ownership. Currently, the sheer number of options for using new technologies is mind-blowing – and yet, through ownership users limit themselves to specific products. Also,the modern lifestyle makes ownership troublesome through frequent mobility and scarcity of storage space. People are also looking for a possibility to reconcile the appetite for consumption with environmental concerns. With Plenti, users’ openness to innovation is exponentially increased at a low price. Highly mobile people could maintain access to favorite devices wherever they are. Why buy things when you can have easy, cheap and quick access to them anytime and anywhere you want?
Closer Music — Closer Music offers a safe and simple high-quality music licensing solution which is professionally tailored to your business and client profile.

Xevin Investments offer include investment and advisory services. The fund is interested both in companies and projects in the initial phase of development, unable to achieve further business goals due to insufficient capital, and in thriving companies in need of additional investment to achieve their milestones in the pursuit of competitiveadvantage.

Investment focus

Internet, E-Commerce, Software
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Poland, United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Droplabs — Droplabs is Poland's leading online sales software for the experiences industry. Hundreds of Attraction, Tour and Activity providers use our software to sale tickets and activities through various channels including own website, hotel desks, travel agencies, aggregators, network of affiliates or on-site. Our software also helps with real-timeoffer, capacity & pricing management; entry management and day-to-day operations optimisation.We keep the product self-serviced and simple to use on any device. We are end buyers advocate: Buying, storing and using tickets must be seamless!We are SaaS with no exceptions.
EkoFachowcy.pl — Kolejna witryna oparta na WordPressie
Feedink Sp. z o.o. — Feedink Sp. z o.o. provides professional services for creating and managing product feed.

Firebolt Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Menlo Park, California. The firm focuses on early-stage and seed-stage investments in companies that operate within the industries involved with digital media, mobile, software, e-commerce, and information technology. Moreover, the firm takes an algorithmic approach to investing.FireboltVentures was started in 2014 by Cherian Mathew.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, India

Portfolio highlights

StackGen — Founded in 2023 by serial entrepreneurs Sachin Aggarwal and Asif Awan, StackGen (formerly appCD) automatically generates Infrastructure from Code (IfC) based on application code with golden standards applied. Unlike manual Infrastructure as Code (IaC) creation or "golden templates" that quickly become outdated, StackGen generates IaCautomatically from the application code, without requiring any code changes, and applies preset standards. StackGen provides seamless, full-stack infrastructure solutions that enhance the developer experience and enforce industry standards. Built for platform engineers and DevOps teams tasked with improving the developer experience and enforcing standards, StackGen reduces software development lifecycle (SDLC) bottlenecks, minimizes liabilities, and eliminates cognitive overload. StackGen is backed by notable venture capital firms Thomvest Ventures, WestWave Capital, FireBolt Ventures, and Secure Octane. For further information, please visit www.stackgen.com.
Wealth.com — Wealth is a comprehensive estate planning platform that empowers people to create, manage and visualize their plans digitally. Creating an estate plan with Wealth gives your loved ones a holistic view of all your assets, visualized and securely stored in one place. Because life is unpredictable, Wealth makes it easy for you to access your plananytime and offers guidance to keep it current and valid. And should the unthinkable occur, your trusted beneficiaries are granted emergency access to your plan. Wealth is available to companies as an employee benefit, allowing employers to offer their workforce a meaningful financial wellness opportunity.
Zingly.ai — Zingly is currently operating in stealth mode.

J2 Ventures operates as a venture capital firm. J2 Ventures is focused on leading-edge technology with dual-use applications to national security and the commercial sector

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Medical, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Poland

Portfolio highlights

Mesa Quantum — Unlock the potential of chip-scale quantum sensing for enhanced Position, Navigation, And Timing capabilities. Explore Mesa Quantum's practical solutions.
Parallel Fluidics — Custom microfluidic devices in 3 days.
Safi Biosolutions — As the cell therapy commercialization partner of a 5-year Department of Defense program to manufacture on-demand blood products, Safi Biosolutions and its collaborators are working to ‘crack the code’ of Cell Therapy 2.0 challenges of manufacturing at appropriate scale, high consistency of product, and economically viable cost of goods byintegrating world-leading expertise in cord blood stem cell expansion, bioprocessing optimization, manufacturing scale-up and cryostorage.

Movens Capital manages two funds (early-stage VC and growth equity). Movens VC is oriented on supporting Polish/CEE tech

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Poland, Germany, Lithuania

Portfolio highlights

Woltair — Digitisation of the heating installation process - from lead generation, through sales and installation, to after-sales support.
Epinote — Epinote is Warsaw-based annotation boutique that provides high quality data annotation and collection services. We specialise in Computer Vision, NLP and search relevance projects including image, video, text and audio annotations. Our workforce consists of only in-house employees, mostly graduates of top Polish universities. Our managementconsists of experts who know exactly how to manage large human-intense projects and understand deeply Data Scientists needs. The highest delivered quality and facing unstable inflow of work is what we challenge everyday. Contact us. You will not be disappointed.
Demoboost — A product demo software for revenue teams to improve buyer experience, supercharge journeys, and scale go-to-market without any hassle. Try it now!

Montis Capital seeks to work with great teams, scalable business models, innovative and already market validated products on providing for expansion and growth capital within the following two sectors:Industry 4.0:We aim to be at the heart of a Fourth Industrial Revolution by investing into a confluence of robotics, artificial intelligence,internet of things, big data or deep tech.Life Science:We look for projects in fields of biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, biomedical technologies, life systems technologies, nutraceuticals, cosmeceuticals, food processing, environmental and biomedical devices.

Investment focus

Internet of Things, Biotechnology, EdTech
Series A, Funding Round
Poland, United States

Portfolio highlights

Plum Research — Plum Research is dedicated to providing clients with the most reliable data available in order for them to best serve their audience, maximize marketing dollars and increase ROI.
Talkin' Things — Talkin Things is a EU based IoT one-stop-shop for bringing off-line products online. We are innovator and technology leader in solutions that change the shape of the industry and help clients to access and use data about their physical products or assets that radically increase efficiency of their processes.Trillions of products and items aremissing the benefits  of automated data capture and processing due to high  item cost of the solutions. And our mission is to bring those offline products online using our RFID ecosystem.We have a strong R&D and hardware team and run state-of-the art RFID manufacturing facility.It is us who was fist to introduced the 3 cent tag (Aug 2020) - a beginning of true revolution in this industry. A fully functional RFID tag enabling all benefits of this technology, now avialable for mass produced goods to bring them online.
Proteon Pharmaceuticals — Proteon Pharmaceuticals serves livestock and aquaculture farms that aim for high-quality and sustainable protein production.

People are in the center of our actions. We believe that investment in human capital and its unique value guarantee success.

Investment focus

Software, Marketplace, Internet
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Poland, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

PerfectBot — An AI chatbot that learns from your help center to instantly resolve tickets and free up your team.
SUPERSONIC Food — SUPERSONIC is a brand of products that replace traditional meals and beverages (meal replacement product), are innovative in their recipe and consist of the best plant components.SUPERSONIC are products of plant origin created by scientists, nutritionists and biotechnologists, that provide full nutritional value, build immunity and delay theaging process.
INKsearch.co — INKsearch.co is a platform that allows you to book a tattoo online. We simplify and speed up the booking process.

Hedgehog Fund is an early stage business angels / venture capital fund operating in Warsaw, PolandOur focus is on information, communication and technology (ICT) new ventures that demonstrate the potential to be scaled internationally or acquired by industry leaders.Dependent on exit opportunities we may continue to invest in the newventures through later stages of financing.Once we have committed to an investment we proactively connect with entrepreneurs and bring together all the necessary resources to catalyze new venture growth whilst simultaneously reducing new venture risk.Our investing principles:- We invest in people with ready projects at early stage (having a prototype, platform and/or first clients as necessary minimum)- We do not invest in idea (only)- We invest in projects with up to 6 years perspective but we look at the investments opportunistically (we could have an early exit)- We invest up to (max.) PLN 1 m per project in return for minority equity stake- We build the portfolio of approx. 10-15 projects- Our initial investment aims at approx. 15-30% of shares of the project- We do investments in tranches trying to set up realistic goals to be reached by founders- We try to co-invest to minimize the risk

Investment focus

Consumer Software, Software, B2B
Seed, Funding Round
Poland, United States

Portfolio highlights

Posbistro — POSbistro is a cutting-edge software for catering and retail. Allows full sales mobility, prestigious customer service using tablets, easy sales management, real-time analytics and the warehouse control. We want to help entrepreneurs to run their businesses in easy, efficient and financially attractive way.
Farmer Direct — Farmer Direct sells vegetables and fruits online. It began operation in 2013, with its headquarters in Warsaw in Poland.
Right Hello Sp. z o.o. — We are b2b lead generation and data enrichement experts who help companies in generating quality sales leads. Boost your sales with us!

We build 50/50 syndicates with Angel Investors. Ticket size ranges from PLN 0.5m to PLN 2m per investment, and we can follow-on with up to PLN 4m per company in total. We can participate in rounds starting from Pre-Seed to Series A. Kogito Ventures participates in the Biznest programme run by Polish Development Fund (PFR) and has beenallocated funding of PLN 30m, which is matched with another PLN 30m coming from co-investing Business Angels.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Machine Learning, Logistics
Seed, Pre-Seed
Poland, United States

Portfolio highlights

Epinote — Epinote is Warsaw-based annotation boutique that provides high quality data annotation and collection services. We specialise in Computer Vision, NLP and search relevance projects including image, video, text and audio annotations. Our workforce consists of only in-house employees, mostly graduates of top Polish universities. Our managementconsists of experts who know exactly how to manage large human-intense projects and understand deeply Data Scientists needs. The highest delivered quality and facing unstable inflow of work is what we challenge everyday. Contact us. You will not be disappointed.
Surveily — Surveily applies Artificial Intelligence to increase safety in manufacturing plants. It integrates with existing CCTV infrastructure to minimise deployment cost. It detects threats in real-time and allows for early prevention and mitigation. We cater to the most dangerous sectors that require an ever increasing safety parameters such as chemical,gas and oil.
Simpl.rent — Simpl.rent is a Polish-British startup that provides a digital platform that increases security and trust in the residential rental market.

YouNick (so far Nickel Technology Park Poznań)

Investment focus

Software, Consumer Goods, Fast-Moving Consumer Goods
Funding Round
Poland

Portfolio highlights

Spark Software — Elevate your brand's online presence with Spark Software. We welcome you to a world of innovative marketing solutions designed to captivate and engage your audience. Discover success through strategic brilliance.

Impera Alfa invests in innovative projects, including research & development projects, as well as new companies.

Investment focus

Apps, Toys, Children
Seed
Poland

Portfolio highlights

Bubaa — Bubaa app enables parents to sell and buy clothes, toys, and other items; find educational and care services for kids.

FIDIASZ Enterpreneurial Venture Capital

Investment focus

Computer, Automotive, Industrial
Seed
Poland

Portfolio highlights

VersaBox — VersaBox designs and manufactures autonoumously guided vehicles for industrial and consumer applications.

We are industry agnostic and provide funds to entrepreneurs from various sectors and industries with high growth prospects.

Investment focus

Apps, Logistics, Space Travel
Seed, Pre-Seed
Poland

Portfolio highlights

Liftero — Need Propulsion? Meet BOOSTER. Standard propulsion for your satellite. The fastest delivery on the market.
Stepapp — Stepapp offer professional apartment cleaning services.

Manta Ray Ventures is an early-stage venture capital fund backing mission-driven founders that provides flexible and patient capital, leveraging time, resources, and networks resources and networks as far as possible to support its portfolio companies.

Investment focus

Software, Biotechnology, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Poland

Portfolio highlights

Aqtual — Clinically-Actionable Insights From Circulating DNA In Blood
Infinitopes — Infinitopes is a cancer research organization whose mission is to strengthen the immune system so that it can stop metastases and save lives. The company's platform creates healthcare systems and therapy designs to integrate high-efficiency vector delivery systems with optimal tumor target identification technologies in early-stage clinicaltrials, allowing patients to prevent cancer and tumors from taking their lives
Ossium Health — Ossium is building the world's first bone marrow bank to treat blood cancers, improve organ transplantation, and repair damage from radiation.The cells of the immune system are the human body’s natural defenders against disease. At Ossium, they are developing better methods of recovering, preserving, deploying these critical cells to keepdisease at bay.

CofounderZone stands for ecosystem, where two coexisting worlds are finding common ground to cooperate. The blue ocean is represented by innovative enterprises, utilising groundbreaking technologies and non-linear business models, but lacking resources to scale. The red ocean is the opposite world, dominated by corporations, strugling to maintaintheir position, despite being equiped with abundence of knowledge and assets. This type of collaboration is not easy. That is why CofounderZone, puts strong emphasis on people – cofounders of startups and founders of established businesses, turned angel investors, to help the exchange of experience, human and investment capital. #cfdrz

Investment focus

Mobile Apps, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
Poland, United States, Estonia

Portfolio highlights

Aleet — Aleet has developed sophisticated systems encompassing proprietary digital twin technology for strategic fleet operational planning and advanced AI-driven routing optimization. It serves sectors such as fleet operators, e-commerce, food delivery, civil services, defense, and more.
Milluu — Helping places become homes! Milluu is the app that gets personal, relevant and smart about rent.We believe that things are done properly when you're personally invested. And we invest our technology & smart tools to help you find your next home or your next ideal tenant!We have created a service app that connects directly listers andtenants based on their preferences.Based on AI and ML, our Milluu Bot is the friendly face of the app, assisting you permanently in your rental journey, making suggestions for great matches and helping you close the deal.
SilkPLM — Managing a collection of products is a collaborative effort - which is why a single platform to manage the process, such as SilkPLM, is key to success. See for yourself!

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