Top 20 Payments Angel Investors in Poland in May 2025
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 May 2025
Investor | Payments Poland investments |
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Piotr Smolen | 2 |
Taavet Hinrikus | 2 |
Francesco Simoneschi | 2 |
Founding Team | 1 |
Michal Zawiasa | 1 |
Richard Burton | 1 |
Roham Gharegozlou | 1 |
Marcus Erken | 1 |
Malgorzata Sitkowska | 1 |
Nicolas Jedraszak | 1 |
Iain Simpson | 1 |
Tomasz Kolinko | 1 |
Itamar Lesuisse | 1 |
Balaji Srinivasan | 1 |
Andrew Cronk | 1 |
Lorien Gabel | 1 |
Josh Buckley | 1 |
Fred Ehrsam | 1 |
Marcin Wenus | 1 |
Matt Harrop | 1 |
Piotr Smolen is the Co-Founder and CEO at symmetrical.ai. Attended SGH Warsaw School of Economics.
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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.
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.
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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 — Open Cosmos design, build and operate space missions, providing straightforward access to high quality satellite data and insights on a global scale.
- Unearthly Materials — Unearthly Materials is a transformative materials company focused on delivering practical room-temperature superconductors and powering the century of superconductivity.
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.
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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.
Founding Team
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Investment focus
- Web3, FinTech, Blockchain
- Pre-Seed
- Poland
Portfolio highlights
- Retro Bridge — All chains, single app.
Michal Zawiasa is the Founder & CEO at Glodny.pl.
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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.
Richard Burton - CEO @ Balance Software
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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.
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
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Software, Cryptocurrency
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Canada, Italy
Portfolio highlights
- Code — Code is a Canadian payment platform provider that makes it simple for web developers to collect modest payments from consumers worldwide.
- Folks Finance — Folks Finance is a DeFi platform to lend, borrow, trade, and manage digital assets all in one place.
- Open Social — A multi-chain, modular and open-source protocol providing the tools for developers to create the next generation of social apps.
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.
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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 — AI-Driven Business Excellence
Malgorzata Sitkowska is the Founder of Amano app. She attended the Private College of Business and Administration in Warsaw.
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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.
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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
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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.
Tomasz Kolinko is the Founder of Freespace Warsaw. Prior to that, he founded Eveem.org and Trivial.co. He attended the University of Warsaw.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Big Data, Wellness
- Pre-Seed
- Poland
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.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- France, United States, United Kingdom
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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.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, India, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- ZAR — ZAR establishes a connection between cash-based economies and the web3 framework, facilitating adoption of stablecoins.
- Kindly MD — Kindly MD is a healthcare services and technology company that offers solutions for sleep support, pain treatment, and medication management through advanced data analytics. The company integrates mental health services, traditional medication, and plant-based alternatives to provide comprehensive, whole-person treatment. Dedicated to promoting abrighter, healthier future, Kindly MD delivers personalized care that addresses the unique needs of each patient.
- Catena Labs — Catena is a product studio where we transform complex computing advancements into accessible, practical tools for users and developers. Leveraging AI and web3 technology our aim is to turn innovative ideas into real-world applications that are easy to use.
Andrew Cronk is the Co-founder and Chief Product Officer at Figment. He attended Kettering University.
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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.
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.
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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.
Josh Buckley is the CEO of Product Hunt.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet
- 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.
Fred Ehrsam is the Co-Founder of Paradigm.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
- Seed, Series A, Series C
- United States, Canada, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- Inventex — Inventex is a patent filling platform that help the businesses for filing application process without any hassle.
- NewLimit — NewLimit is extending human healthspan by unlocking regenerative potential.
- Swift Solar — Swift Solar is a US solar technology company building high-performance perovskite tandem products. Our mission is to unlock the full potential of solar energy.
Marcin Wenus
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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.
Matt is an entrepreneur who was born on a mountaintop, near a town called Rock Creek, somewhere in British Columbia, Canada. For the first five years, his family did not have running water or electricity. Thankfully his parents decided to return to civilization and relocated to the thriving metropolis of Toronto. resh from his successes on theinformation superhighway, Matt set forth to conquer the elements, water and air. He dyed his hair blue, trained for a pilots license, built an ultra light aircraft, joined the crew of Challenge Team Spirit, a 72-foot cutter, in a trans Atlantic yacht race and then spent three years sailing across the Atlantic & Pacific Oceans with his then girlfriend (and now wife) Melissa.Matt is sometimes affectionately referred to as “Matt-apedia” because he seems to know everything from strange ingredients in toothpaste, to how to fix a diesel engine, to the philosophy of Kierkegaard. He currently lives in Toronto where pingg's development office is located.
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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.
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