Top 50 FinTech Startup Investors in Poland in September 2025

VC for the most ambitious founders in CEE

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.

Unfold.vc is a venture capital fund focused on providing financial support for technological projects that have great potential for success.

The emerging market fintech investor

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.

firstminute is a seed fund backed by over 120 unicorn founders and a world-class community.

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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.

Galaxy is a digital asset and blockchain leader helping institutions, startups, and individuals shape a changing economy.

Target Global is a prominent European technology investment firm with a significant presence in the venture capital landscape, boasting over €3 billion in assets under management. The firm operates out of key tech hubs including London, Berlin, Tel Aviv, and Abu Dhabi, and has a rich portfolio featuring some of Europe's most successful techcompanies such as Revolut, Auto1, Copper, Delivery Hero, Docplanner, and Rapyd.Founding and GrowthTarget Global was established in 2015 by Shmuel Chafets and Yaron Valler, who brought a wealth of experience from their tenure at Hasso Plattner Ventures. Their professional partnership dates back 15 years to their time at Giza Venture Capital, a trailblazer in Israel's investment ecosystem, where they honed their investment acumen and industry foresight.Investment Philosophy and ImpactTarget Global stands out in the European tech industry for its diverse team and its ability to identify and capitalize on unique opportunities. The firm's knack for recognizing potential in the early stages of Germany's tech economy led to the emergence of several unicorns in the 2010s. As the European tech industry evolves, Target Global remains at the forefront, seeking out innovative companies like Robovision, Saleor, and Finom. These recent investments reflect the firm's commitment to supporting cutting-edge technology and business models.Fundraising SuccessesTarget Global's fundraising prowess is evident in its six investment funds, which have collectively raised significant capital. The funds range from Early Stage Funds, focusing on nascent startups, to Growth Funds that support more mature companies scaling their operations. The firm's co-investment strategy has led to over €1 billion in capital deployment across a diverse array of partnerships.Backing and AchievementsWith the backing of investors such as FERI, UBS, Allianz X, Mubadala, and Hermes GPE, Target Global has cemented its reputation as a trusted and successful investment firm. Its portfolio spans over 140 companies at various development stages, with a focus on those targeting trillion-dollar markets.Just a few of the many notable companies in the firm’s portfolio include:- Tarabut, MENA’s leading open banking platform, which was recently featured in Forbes Middle East’s list of Top 50 Fintech Companies.- Flo Health, an AI-driven women’s health product, which is the world’s top health and fitness app by downloads.- Robovision, an easy-to-use AI-driven computer vision platform for users to develop their own deep-learning-based solutions.- Enter, a German company that helps homeowners and businesses reduce their carbon footprint.Target Global's track record includes support for 15 unicorn companies, over 20 exits, and 7 IPOs, showcasing its ability to drive growth and success in the European tech ecosystem. The team, comprised of individuals with founder and operator backgrounds, continues to pursue exceptional opportunities to expand the firm's portfolio and influence.Target Global's journey from its inception to its current status as a key player in European venture capital is marked by strategic investments, a commitment to diversity, and a deep understanding of the tech industry's dynamics. With a clear vision for the future, Target Global is poised to continue its role in shaping the next wave of European tech giants.

Venture capital investments

Tar Heel Capital Pathfinder is a venture capital fund and venture builder investing in early-stage startups. We offer funding as well as support in strategy, technology, business development, and team building.

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

Francesco Simoneschi is the co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of TrueLayer. In three short years, Francesco and his co-Founder Luca Martinetti, have built TrueLayer into one of the world's leading providers of financial APIs. Their mission is to grow the Open Banking economy by creating a truly global platform for companies to developnew financial services and products. His leadership has enabled TrueLayer to negotiate integration partnerships with most of Europe’s major banks, winning a host of leading companies as clients, sign a global partnership with Visa, and secure investment from companies including Tencent and Temasek. Over the last decade, Francesco has founded, managed, and grown a number of successful tech companies in the US and Europe. Prior to founding TrueLayer, Francesco launched the angel fund Mission and Market in San Francisco in 2014. Mission and Market provide capital for entrepreneurs in a wide range of industries including healthcare, fintech, biotech, and education. Under Francesco’s guidance, the fund invested in more than 50 startups. Before this, Francesco founded the analytics platform Staq.io in 2012. The startup was later acquired by mobile game developer Playhaven. Following Staq.io’s acquisition, he joined the mobile marketing platform Upsight where he was promoted to Product Owner and Tech Lead. Francesco has also served as VP of Strategy at FOVE, who built the world’s first eye-tracking virtual reality headset.He has a degree in Information Management and Economics from the London School of Economics and a degree in Computer Engineering from La Sapienza University Rome.

Seedcamp is Europe's seed fund, identifying and investing early in world-class founders attacking large, global markets and solving real problems using technology. The Seedcamp Nation includes over 400 startups building breakout businesses that change the way people live, interact and buy and includes publicly listed UiPath, Wise, and unicornsRevolut, Hopin, Sorare, Pleo, and wefox along with fast-growing businesses such as Grover, viz.ai and Ezra. Seedcamp fast-tracks a founder's vision and creates value through immediate access to smart capital, a lifelong community of support and a global network built upon more than a decade's experience backing exceptional talent.Seedcamp fast-tracks a founder's vision and creates value through immediate access to smart capital, a lifelong community of support, and a global network built upon more than a decade's experience backing exceptional talent.

Genblock Capital invests exclusively in blockchain and cryptocurrency, with a focus on decentralized finance.

Lightning Ventures is an exclusively Bitcoin focused network of investors, operators, and developers, dedicated to supporting Lightning Network adoption worldwide

karma.vc is an early stage venture capital fund focusing on seed and early stage technology companies in Europe.

SATUS Starter is a VC focusing on investments between $ 100k-1M in: AI & Big Data, SaaS, AR & VR, Industry 4.0, FinTech, blockchain, cybersecurity, marketplace.

Bridging Silicon Valley to CEE

Market One Capital | Seed fund empowering marketplaces and network effects platforms across Europe

4growth VC is a venture capital firm.

Taavet Hinrikus is co-founder and CEO of TransferWise. Prior to starting TransferWise, Taavet was Skype’s director of strategy until 2008, starting as its first-ever employee. One of the World Economic Forum's Tech Pioneers, Taavet is an adviser to Prime Minister of Estonia on the digital agenda. He’s also a mentor and angel investor; hisinvestments include Tweetdeck, Mendeley, OMGPOP, Property Partner, Sunrise, Improbable and Mapillary.

Venture capital serves as funding for emerging, inventive enterprises poised for rapid expansion.

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.

We are a VC firm investing in pre-seed and seed stage startups. We back exceptional Founders building market-transforming companies.

Müller family media and its partner network are very strong companies from different media sectors. Versatile and individually therefore also the CVs and personalities of their employees who every day with passion and curiosity to work in their teams to achieve common goals.Hans Müller has 65 years the telephone directory publisher Hans Müllerfounded from his living room out - the foundation for the company's family Müller media. His pioneering spirit is still felt today by the fourth generation and with all my colleagues.The company Müller family media is locally connected and networked world. With their five business segments directories, radio, print media, book and new business they are represented with locations in Europe, USA and Asia. More than 2,000 people every day win the confidence of consumers and customers. Changes and challenges of the media world motivate us to pick up trends early in order to help shape this. Their cooperative working lives of mutual esteem and trust.

Piotr Smolen is the Co-Founder and CEO at symmetrical.ai. Attended SGH Warsaw School of Economics.

Launch, Accelerate & Soar you innovative ideas. We are a founder-first, sector-agnostic funding firm for the future

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.

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.

ISEC offers penetration tests, source code analysis, vulnerability assessment, social-engineering, project support, research and development. They also offer to test their compliance with the clients security requirements.

Lukasz Jesis is the Founder, Chief Executive Officer, and Chairman at Xopero.

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Piotr Karwatka is an angel investor.

S20 Fund is a private venture capital fund backed by individual LPs, typically investing €100K-€500K in startups alongside business angels. We focus on exceptional founders from Central and Eastern Europe (including diaspora teams) with proven track records, building either globally scalable tech with US market trajectory or regional categoryleaders with strong traction.

Tom Karwatka is the CEO of Divante, one of the biggest eCommerce Software House in Europe. Divante works for clients such as Intersport, TUI, ING Bank designing and implementing Omnichannel solutions based on Magento and pimcore. In 2017 we build our own product - OpenLoyalty.io - an open source loyalty platform.

Alameda Research is a quantitative cryptocurrency trading firm that provides liquidity in cryptocurrency and digital assets markets. It was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Central and Western, Hong Kong.

Michal Zawiasa is the Founder & CEO at Glodny.pl.

Turenne Capital is an independant private equity management company, with 4 offices in France : - Paris - Lyon - Marseilles - Lille (joint-venture). Since 1999, Turenne Capital has been taking significant minority or majority equity stakes alongside entrepreneurs who operate SMEs with revenues ranging from €5 million to € 100 million. Itinvests between €1 million and €10 million per transaction. Turenne Capital manages/advises more than € 500 million. 32 people, among which 21 investors work in the Group. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Turenne Capital est une Société de gestion indépendante spécialisée en capital investissement. Turenne Capital accompagne depuis 1999 des entrepreneurs dans leur développement et la transmission de leur société et est implantée à : - Paris - Lyon - Marseille - Lille (filiale) Les tickets d'investissement vont de '1 à 10 millions d'euros en minoritaire et majoritaire dans des PME de 5 à 100 M€ de Chiffre d'affaires. Le Groupe Turenne Capital compte 32 professionnels dont 21 investisseurs, et gère/conseille plus de 500 M€ confiés par des institutionnels et des particuliers.

Baring Vostok Capital Partners Limited is a venture capital and private equity firm based in Russia. It invests on early venture, acquisitions, buy-outs, growth capital, later-stage, mid-market, and medium-sized enterprises that operate in sectors such as natural resource extraction, particularly oil and gas; competitive industrial companiesthat operate in local or export markets; mass media and telecommunications; utilities; construction materials; specialty manufacturing; real estate development; residential real estate development; internet; software; retail; and service management. Baring Vostok Capital Partners was founded in 1994 and is based in Moscow, Russia with additional offices in Limassol, Cyprus and Gernsi, Channel Islands.

ff Venture Capital (ffVC) is a technology venture capital firm investing in some of the strongest growth areas to date, including cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, machine learning, drones, enterprise cloud software, and crowdfunding. The firm identifies and invests in technology and technology-enabled companies at its inception acrossgeographies and emerging industries. With three partners and an acceleration team of 20+ investment and operations professionals, ffVC actively participates with founders to develop products, target markets, and accelerate growth. Since 2008, ffVC has invested in over 100 companies and has helped to create companies with an aggregate market value exceeding $6 billion.

Through genuine partnership to Global Success. We make achieving global success easy through true managerial support and the provision of capital.

Business angel, entrepreneur, strategic advisor and innovator with over 22 years of experience in managing large international organizations with budgets of over $100 million. He was responsible for building, optimizing and developing new organizations, locations and branches of international, global companies providing IT services both in themarket in Poland and in nearshoring models (research and development, systems integration, IT engineering) for clients around the world. He participated in strategic business initiatives of companies such as Siemens, Atos, Global Logic in Poland and Europe. He has held positions such as CEO, President, Board Member or VP in global structures. He graduated with an MBA, is a certified coach (ICC) and mentor (EMCC). His key expertise is in scaling organizations, managing strategy and growth, operations and people; leadership; project management, mentoring. After the successful acquisition of GlobalLogic by Hitachi, he started his business as an entrepreneur. Peter's recent work experience includes being an Investor, CEO, Partner, Supervisory Board Member, Strategy Consultant in various start-ups and private initiatives. He supports the startup community by managing a ventures builder - Ventures21 - and through pro bono activities for young entrepreneurs as a coach, mentor and advisor.

Marcin Wenus

Founding Team

Private equity investments in Microfinance Institutions, Small-and-Medium Enterprise lenders, Emerging Market Banks, Insurance Providers, FinTech, Payments businesses and other BOP Financial Service Institutions focused on the unbanked and underbanked in the developing world.

Big Brain Holdings is Focused on Investing in Solana projects that have strong potential.

Perpetuum offers condition monitoring solutions using self-powered wireless on board sensors for wheel, bearing, motors gearboxes and track. Established in 2004, Perpetuum started with the concept that mechanical vibration can be converted into electrical energy used to perpetually power autonomous, maintenance-free industrial wireless sensornodes.Backed by venture capital investors Environmental Technologies Fund, IP Group, Spark Ventures, Albion Ventures and Wyvern Fund; Perpetuum is a technology spin-off from the prestigious University of Southampton (UK).Perpetuum engineered, produced and commercialized the world's first practical electromagnetic vibration harvesting micro-generator delivering the power required to transmit large amounts of autonomous wireless sensor data reliably from remotely monitored assets.Today, Perpetuum is the global leader in vibration energy harvesting and a ready source of information for those interested in the practical application of this innovative technology. Perpetuum will continue to lead the industry toward realizing the full potential of vibration energy harvesting power solutions for wireless automation and rail transport.

Early stage VC company