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Top 20 Payments Angel Investors in Poland in December 2024

Last updated: Dec 2024 A list of 20 angel investors that invest in Payments startups based in Poland. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Payments companies from Poland. We update this investor list every month.

Top 20 Payments Angel Investors in Poland in December 2024

Investor	Payments Poland investments
Taavet Hinrikus	2
Piotr Smolen	2
Francesco Simoneschi	2
Marcus Erken	1
Malgorzata Sitkowska	1
Nicolas Jedraszak	1
Iain Simpson	1
Andrew Cronk	1
Roham Gharegozlou	1
Balaji Srinivasan	1
Fred Ehrsam	1
Marcin Wenus	1
Tomasz Kolinko	1
Richard Burton	1
Michal Zawiasa	1
Max Moldenhauer	1
Lorien Gabel	1
Founding Team	1
Itamar Lesuisse	1
Josh Buckley	1

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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.

Investment focus

FinTech, Software, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Series B
United Kingdom, United States, Estonia

Portfolio highlights

Meatable — Meatable is a food production company that produces real and guilt-free meat. With one cell, they are revolutionizing the meat industry's impact on climate change and animal welfare. At the same time they increase food security, without compromising the culinary experience of eating tasty, real meat. They aim to satisfy the world'sappetite for meat without harming people, animals, and the planet.It was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Delft, South Holland, The Netherlands.
Open Cosmos — Driven by the vision of making space accessible to anyone, Open Cosmos provides simple and affordable space missions.Open Cosmos went from design to delivery of qb01, their first nanosatellite, in only four months, followed by a launch and deployment in LEO early April 2017. They are currently working with innovative payload developers towardsin-orbit demonstration and constellation deployment to enable services ranging from remote sensing to maritime domain awareness and machine-to-machine communications.
Unearthly Materials — Unearthly Materials is a transformative materials company focused on delivering practical room-temperature superconductors and powering the century of superconductivity.

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

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Mobile Apps
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Poland, United Kingdom, Gibraltar

Portfolio highlights

Sundose — Sundose is a manufacturer of data-driven diet supplements.
Ramp Network — Allow users to buy and sell crypto without leaving your app or wallet. Buy and sell crypto directly on our website.
symmetrical.ai — Symmetrical is the only payroll service & fully integrated HR platform designed for modern People Teams.

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.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, B2B
Seed, Series A, Equity Crowdfunding
United Kingdom, Poland, United States

Portfolio highlights

Ramp Network — Allow users to buy and sell crypto without leaving your app or wallet. Buy and sell crypto directly on our website.
CIRCA5000 — Invest in businesses enriching the planet, its people, and most of all, you.
Payable — Scale your business with our payment operations API and dashboard. Track, reconcile and make payments instantly.

Happy and curious.Marcus is a founding partner of Sunfish Partners, an early stage VC that invests in deep tech startups from Central and Eastern Europe (CEE).In addition, he has made angel investments throughout the world and co-lectures an annual university course in which students start their own companies.Previously, Marcus had theprivilege of working with more than 120 student startups at WHU’s university incubator, which he co-built.Marcus holds a B.Sc. and an M.Sc. in Business & Management from WHU Vallendar, a Ph.D. in Entrepreneurship from RWTH Aachen University, and was a Visiting Research Fellow at Harvard University.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Software, Machine Learning
Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
Poland, Germany, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

liftOS — liftOS allows you to find, access and work with your SaaS tools without friction. Organise your data & apps and spend less time switching tabs.
AIRMO — Airmo is a space tech company that offers an independent data source that locates, quantifies, and tracks carbon dioxide and methane emissions through a small satellite constellation.
Blockbrain — Blockbrain analyzes millions of transactions on the blockchain to proactively detect threats and opportunities for digital assets you store in crypto wallets and exchanges.The company manages all types of wallets in one secure technology. Track KPIs, be aware of threats, and manage your assets.Blockbrain was established on May 6, 2022 byJohannes Strachwitz in Hamburg, Germany.

Malgorzata Sitkowska is the Founder of Amano app. She attended the Private College of Business and Administration in Warsaw.

Investment focus

Payments, Information Technology
Seed
Poland

Portfolio highlights

Restimo — Restimo develops a system that enables customers to pay for their own meals in restaurants.

Nicolas Jedraszak is the Co-Founder of Amano. He previously worked at Daily as a Co-Founder.

Investment focus

Payments, Information Technology
Seed
Poland

Portfolio highlights

Restimo — Restimo develops a system that enables customers to pay for their own meals in restaurants.

Iain Simpson

Investment focus

FinTech, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
Pre-Seed
Poland

Portfolio highlights

Ramp Network — Allow users to buy and sell crypto without leaving your app or wallet. Buy and sell crypto directly on our website.

Andrew Cronk is the Co-founder and Chief Product Officer at Figment. He attended Kettering University.

Investment focus

FinTech, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
Pre-Seed
Poland

Portfolio highlights

Ramp Network — Allow users to buy and sell crypto without leaving your app or wallet. Buy and sell crypto directly on our website.

Roham is founder and CEO of Axiom Zen, an award-winning venture studio that specializes in emerging technology. Axiom Zen’s first public blockchain project, CryptoKitties, is the world’s most successful blockchain game and the first decentralized application to effectively engage a consumer audience. CryptoKitties has been covered by Fortune,Bloomberg, and the BBC, accounting for roughly a quarter of the Ethereum network’s traffic within a week of launch and introducing hundreds of thousands of new users to blockchain technology. Axiom Zen was named first among Canada’s Most Innovative Companies by Canadian Business. Their products have touched 200+ million consumers and are used by the world’s leading companies, including Facebook, Microsoft, and NASA, as well as by eminent academic institutions and government organizations. They pride themselves in diversity of talent: a team of ~80+ creatives includes published authors, over a dozen former founders, diversity from 20+ national origins, and decades of collective experience at startups and Fortune 500s alike. Axiom Zen has been working with Bitcoin and various forms of blockchain and distributed ledger technologies since 2014. Axiom Zen is also the team behind ZenHub, the world’s leading collaboration solution for technical teams using GitHub; and the developer of Timeline, named Apple’s Best App of January, Editor’s Choice in 10 countries, and Best New App in 88 countries. Axiom Zen is the creator of Toby, recognized as Top Chrome Extension of the year by both Google and Product Hunt, and the parent company of Hammer & Tusk, a leader in the world of immersive experiences (AR/VR). Axiom Zen's work has been featured in TIME Magazine, The New York Times, Vice, and Fast Company. History Prior to founding Axiom Zen, Roham served with the Rising Tide Fund bas

Investment focus

Blockchain, Software, Cryptocurrency
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Canada, Poland

Portfolio highlights

Code — Code is a Canadian payment platform provider that makes it simple for web developers to collect modest payments from consumers worldwide.
Bastion — Bastion blends the best of web2 and web3 technologies to broaden opportunities for organizations and their customers.
Story Protocol — Powering web3 narrative universes via story legos

Balaji S. Srinivasan is the Co-Founder and Board Member of Coin Center. He was the CTO of Coinbase and cofounder of Counsyl, Earn, Teleport, and Coin Center. He was previously CEO at Earn.com, which was recently sold to Coinbase. Prior to taking the CEO role at Earn.com, Dr. Srinivasan was a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz. Prior to joininga16z, he was the co-founder and CTO of Founders Fund-backed Counsyl, where he won the Wall Street Journal Innovation Award for Medicine and was named to the MIT TR35. Dr. Srinivasan holds a BS, MS, and PhD in Electrical Engineering and an MS in Chemical Engineering from Stanford University. He also teaches the occasional class at Stanford, including an online MOOC in 2013 which reached 250,000+ students worldwide.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, India, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

ZAR — Enjoy borderless banking with a USD Visa card powered by stablecoins. Available in 180+ countries. Sign up for your account today!
The Arena — Arena. social is a cutting-edge SocialFi platform that is revolutionizing how content producers interact, network, and make money from their work.
OpenGradient — OpenGradient is a leading decentralized AI platform for open-source model hosting, secure inference, agentic reasoning, and application deployment. By developing tooling and a feature-rich platform that makes developing AI workflows both secure and seamless, OpenGradient empowers developers with the ability to build in its ecosystem of intelligentand optimized AI-empowered applications. With native model hosting, permissionless composability, and secure inference execution, OpenGradient also aims to accelerate open-source AI by democratizing model ownership, improving verifiability guarantees, and promoting censorship-resistant model access.Our heterogeneous AI compute architecture (HACA) and our proprietary library NeuroML scale secure AI workflows with features like inference, agentic reasoning, statistical analysis, and more. OpenGradient also accelerates open-source innovation with a web portal and SDK for Web2 developers to leverage our AI stack without navigating blockchain complexities, while enjoying the security and composability benefits of decentralized infrastructure.

Fred Ehrsam is the Co-Founder of Paradigm.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
Seed, Series A, Series C
United States, Canada, Israel

Portfolio highlights

NewLimit — NewLimit is extending human healthspan by unlocking regenerative potential.
Swift Solar — Swift Solar is a startup manufacturing lightweight solar panels that are cheaper and more efficient than conventional panels using perovskite materials.
Cognition — Cognition is an applied artificial intelligence lab that focuses on reasoning and code.

Marcin Wenus

Investment focus

Apps, SaaS, FinTech
Pre-Seed
Poland

Portfolio highlights

Cryptiony — Digital assests tax automation software. B2C SaaS for Polish market which simplifies digital assets tax calculation and allow to monitor tax liabilities in real-time.

Tomasz Kolinko is the Founder of Freespace Warsaw. Prior to that, he founded Eveem.org and Trivial.co. He attended the University of Warsaw.

Investment focus

FinTech, Big Data, Wellness
Pre-Seed
Poland

Portfolio highlights

Sundose — Sundose is a manufacturer of data-driven diet supplements.
Ramp — Allow users to buy and sell crypto without leaving your app or wallet. Buy and sell crypto directly on our website.

Richard Burton - CEO @ Balance Software

Investment focus

FinTech, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
Pre-Seed
Poland

Portfolio highlights

Ramp Network — Allow users to buy and sell crypto without leaving your app or wallet. Buy and sell crypto directly on our website.
Reflect Orbital — Reflect sells sunlight from space.

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

Investment focus

Payments, Information Technology
Seed
Poland

Portfolio highlights

Restimo — Restimo develops a system that enables customers to pay for their own meals in restaurants.

Max is a founding partner of Sunfish Partners.He has long been an active investor and business angel. He is also an entrepreneur having co-founded seven companies himself. Previously, he was investing in and building companies as Head of Mobile at Project A.Max holds a B.Sc. and an M.Sc. in Business & Management from WHU Vallendar.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Developer Tools
Pre-Seed, Seed
Poland, Singapore, Czech Republic

Portfolio highlights

Zaitra — Zaitra reduces data transmission costs while also providing spaceship onboard and artificial intelligence services.
Ramp Network — Allow users to buy and sell crypto without leaving your app or wallet. Buy and sell crypto directly on our website.
Locad — Locad is a cloud-based solution for global e-commerce fulfillment. Access to an international warehousing network. Distributed fulfillment keeps products close to customers, reducing shipping time and cost.

Lorien Gabel is the Co-Founder and CEO of Figment. He previously worked at Bionic Solution as an Entrepreneur in Residence. Lorien Gabel attended York University.

Investment focus

Events, FinTech, Blockchain
Angel, Pre-Seed
Poland, United States

Portfolio highlights

Celebrations.com — Pingg.com relaunched as Celebrations.com in September 2013. Visit www.celebrations.comLaunched in 2008, we are a team of writers, designers and contributors who are obsessed with celebrating. Headquartered in New York City, we are all about great food and good times. Our goal is to help you plan your next party, create your next craft ordiscover your next daily inspiration to make every day a celebration.Use our online invitation platform to host a party, send an ecard to make someone smile or browse our daily content to find something that inspires you to stop and celebrate. We love creating opportunities for you to find creativity.
Ramp Network — Allow users to buy and sell crypto without leaving your app or wallet. Buy and sell crypto directly on our website.

Founding Team

Investment focus

Web3, FinTech, Blockchain
Pre-Seed
Poland

Portfolio highlights

Retro Bridge — All chains, single app.

Itamar is the co-founder and CEO of Argent. Prior to Argent, Itamar founded and led Peak, the top ranked mobile cognitive training service with over 50,000,000 users and 500,000 subscribers. Itamar led Peak to a profitable 8 digit per year business. He successfully sold it to Lagardere SCA in 2016.Before Peak, Itamar worked at Boston ConsultingGroup, Amazon and VISA. He holds a Masters in Computer Science and Electronics Engineering.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
France, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

FANtium — Build your portfolio of sports assets, participate in their success, and become part of the team.
Due — Discover our global payment platform. Powered by open, decentralised and interoperable networks.
Daylight — Discover new relevant things to do in crypto: mints, claims, votes, and more.

Josh Buckley is the CEO of Product Hunt.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Ghana

Portfolio highlights

Vial — Vial is a hyper scalable biotech - advancing programs into the clinic powered by dramatically cheaper trials and computationally designed therapeutics.
Speak — People spend $90 billion a year on human english teachers that are expensive and ineffective. Speak offers a mobile app where you can have english conversations with your phone about real world scenarios like interviewing for a job or asking for directions. It uses speech recognition to identify english words through thick accents and teach peopleto speak more clearly. Meanwhile, it’s building a massive database of accented-english speech, which can be used to improve its system and other speech recognition systems. Speak’s team formerly built accent detection systems and sold Flashcards+ to Chegg. Though AI translation might reduce the need for people to know other languages, speaking English remains a valuable skill people are willing to pay for.
Vultron — Compress proposal production timeframes from weeks into days with Generative AI.

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