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Top 50 Payments Startup Investors in Poland in December 2024

Last updated: Dec 2024 A list of 50 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds 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 50 Payments Startup Investors in Poland in December 2024

Investor	Payments Poland investments
Firstminute Capital	3
Aydton Ventures	2
Francesco Simoneschi	2
Seedcamp	2
Lightning Ventures	2
NFX	2
Galaxy Digital	2
Piotr Smolen	2
Innovation Nest	2
SpeedUp Venture Capital Group	2
Taavet Hinrikus	2
Aligo Venture Capital	2
Firlej Kastory	1
Invento VC	1
Balaji Srinivasan	1
Atmos Ventures	1
Buckley Endeavors	1
Marcus Erken	1
BlueYard Capital	1
Fred Ehrsam	1
Founding Team	1
Unfold.vc	1
Mozilla	1
Marcin Wenus	1
Roham Gharegozlou	1
ff Venture Capital	1
Shape VC	1
Abhishek Mahto	1
Andrew Cronk	1
ARIA Fund	1
Max Moldenhauer	1
MakerDAO	1
Pointer.Capital	1
Fulgur Ventures	1
Tomasz Kolinko	1
EIT Digital	1
Fabric Ventures	1
Itamar Lesuisse	1
Matt Harrop	1
Genblock Capital	1
Balderton Capital	1
Nicolas Jedraszak	1
Iain Simpson	1
Lorien Gabel	1
My EU Pay	1
Malgorzata Sitkowska	1
Josh Buckley	1
Expeditions Fund	1
Richard Burton	1
Michal Zawiasa	1

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

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Machine Learning
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Lupa Pets — Lupa connects pet parents with pet service providers. Building the world’s first solution which integrates E2E, offering cutting-edge Practice Management Software, an online booking platform comprehensive of all service providers, and a market-leading Gen-AI vet assistant.
ClaimSorted — ClaimSorted is a modern claims TPA providing a 5-star claims experience while also reducing operational and indemnity costs through our industry-leading claims team and advanced automation
Volare — Refining food industry side streams into sustainable protein, oil and fertilizers.

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

Investment focus

Bitcoin, FinTech, Software
Seed
Poland

Portfolio highlights

NOMOEX — NOMOEX is a centralized crypto exchange that facilitates crypto trades by using its next-gen software to match and execute trades .Nomoex Exchange is being created with next-gen features and functionalities to make sure that users are able to trade cryptocurrencies in the most convenient and secure manner using user-friendly options and a widerange of services from crypto storage to trading, sending, receiving, and the use of advanced trading tools & mechanisms to increase profits.

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.

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.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, SaaS
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Sylvera — Sylvera Carbon offset ratings make offset quality and risks transparent. We make offsets auditable for offset sellers, intermediaries, buyers and investors.
Outverse — A community platform that's easier to use, better organised and designed for real interaction.
Dust — Dust is a platform for creating sophisticated processes based on large language models and semantic search.

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

Investment focus

Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Canada, France

Portfolio highlights

Vida — The AI phone agent for small business. Answer calls and texts with an AI phone agent that always works and is never busy. number that answers calls and texts with AI.
OrdinalsBot — We make it easy to inscribe ordinals. Like, really easy.
Pnkfrg Studios — Pnkfrg Studios is a mobile gaming studio startup designing games for the Lightning Network on Bitcoin.

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

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Marketplace
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Israel, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Mana.bio — Mana.bio is an AI based drug delivery startup, focusing on gene therapy including RNA and DNA-based therapeutics and vaccines
Gizmo — AI quizzes that help you learn and remember anything
Stoke Space — STOKE Space Technologies seamlessly connecting earth and space.

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

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Arch — Access instant credit without selling your crypto or equity stake on the platform with best-in-class security and a regulatory-first approach.
Yala — Yala operates a multi-token system and unlocks a thriving and interconnected DeFi ecosystem on Bitcoin.
Chaos Labs — Chaos Labs is a fully automated on-chain economic security system that allows crypto protocols to optimize risk management and capital efficiency while safeguarding user funds. Chaos Labs offers a more secure and safe operating environment for crypto protocols. Chaos Labs uses technology and risk management expertise to help protocols navigate theoften volatile crypto markets and make informed decisions. The platform is currently available for protocols on the Ethereum network, with plans to expand to other blockchains such as Terra, NEAR, and Polygon in the future.

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.

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 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.

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.

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

Firlej Kastory is a private investment firm focused on investments in global technology companies. We prefer to invest in B2B SaaS solutions in Europe. Our sectors of interest are Enterprise AI, RegTech & Risk Governance, Finance, E-commerce, Health and Energy.

Investment focus

SaaS, FinTech, Software
Seed, Series A
Poland, Estonia

Portfolio highlights

Nethone — Nethone is a machine learning-based fraud prevention Saas company that allows online merchants and financial institutions to holistically understand their end-users—also referred to as “Know Your Users (KYU)” in industry parlance. With its proprietary online user profiling and ML technologies, Nethone is able to detect and prevent payment fraud,account take-overs with unrivalled effectiveness.The Nethone proprietary Profiler enriches the understanding of every single user with over 5000 attributes, which are processed into recommendations in real-time using a decision engine. While staying focused on the singularity of the client’s business, Nethone can help to lower clients’ rejection rates, costs of manual review, and risk of fraud, without touching the UX of the service--automatically and in real‑time. Founded in 2016 by a group of security experts, financial business executives and data scientists within Daftcode - a Poland-based venture builder, is today successfully cooperating with 50+ global e-commerce, digital goods, and financial industries.
BotGuard — Protect your web site from hacking, content theft, crawling, and cloning!

Invento vc entrepreneurs to help them develop, refine, and market their innovative ideas and products. ensure that they respond to needs and find the best solutions using our experience, knowledge, and business contacts.

Investment focus

FinTech, Payments, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Poland, Czech Republic, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Redigo — Redigo is a sustainable digital brand providing businesses with a valuable, time-saving SaaS solution to accurately report on their carbon data, as well as offering an offsetting marketplace and unique scenario planning tool.
JobSider — JobSider creates an HR platform to assist businesses in finding and hiring the best employees for their operations.
Finteq — Finteq offers a platform for managing financial liquidity in supply chains using the capital available in the chain. It also provides payment methods that do away with payment bottlenecks and zero-emission supplier financing.

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.

Atmos Ventures backs innovative teams that have cracked complex scientific problems, entrepreneurs who have commercialized their expertise, companies that are indispensable to their clients and management that understands the markets they serve. We are Central and Eastern Europe's Deep Tech Venture Capital Firm

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, FinTech, Big Data
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Poland, United Kingdom, Czech Republic

Portfolio highlights

edrone — Purpose-built e-commerce CRM with Marketing Automation and Voice Commerce. Turn your online store into a sales machine.
Solvemed Group — At Solvemed Group, we believe in challenging the status quo of neurological care. Our founders experienced first-hand the grave consequences of poor diagnostic standards in neurodegenerative diseases. With the primary focus in Parkinson’s disease, we leverage our proprietary machine learning technology to develop novel diagnostic-predictive digitalbiomarkers to enable first-in-class, accurate, early and cost-effective diagnostic and monitoring tools. In everything we do, we put the needs of patients and healthcare professionals first. We also happen to revolutionise drug discovery as our biomarkers enable disease-modifying drugs.We respond to the unmet needs of neurological patients by providing reliable, accurate, early diagnostics and monitoring tools for better quality care and treatment outcomes. Our work has the potential to improve healthcare systems by optimising relevant care pathways and reducing the financial burden imposed by inadequate diagnostics. Through our proprietary medical data repositories, we work with our biopharmaceutical industry partners driving clinical trial efficiency and making first-in-class disease-modifying drugs possible.Everything we do is strongly embedded in world-class science. Our global team of renowned scientists and technology experts works closely with clinical researchers from top research institutions, such as Oxford University, University College London, Harvard Medical School and Duke University, among other.
4Trans Factoring — We provide carriers with the financial products they need to grow. Register, upload invoices and receive money immediately.

Investments

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.

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.

BlueYard backs founders building the interconnected elements that can become the fabric of our future.

Investment focus

Software, Cryptocurrency, Internet
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Germany, France

Portfolio highlights

Zafrens — Zafrens specializes in developing tools and generating insights at the interface of biology, chemistry, and engineering. The company was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in San Diego, California, United States.
Ingonyama — Ingonyama is a next-generation semiconductor company, focusing on Zero-Knowledge Proof hardware acceleration. We build accelerators for advanced cryptography, unlocking real-time applications.
Privy — With a few lines of code, securely integrate sensitive data into your product. Build delightful, privacy-preserving experiences without putting your users at risk.

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.

Founding Team

Investment focus

Web3, FinTech, Blockchain
Pre-Seed
Poland

Portfolio highlights

Retro Bridge — All chains, single app.

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

Investment focus

Information Technology, Health Care, Software
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
Poland, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Primetric — With Primetric you can easily forecast developers' availability, and projects' profitability in your IT service company. Schedule, track, budget, and optimize from a high-level view.
Questpass — Questpass works like a paywall but the ”fee” is the answer to the question concerning the ad displayed above. The reward for clicking the correct answer is free access to the rest of the article. Gaining the access engages only a few seconds of attention and requires no money.
Pixel Perfect Dude — Pixel Perfect Dude is a small though successful game developer from Poland, producing and supporting titles like #DRIVE and Ski Jump. With over 15mln players and multiple 'Game of the year' awards and nominees, we're always aiming to produce highest quality entertainment for all gaming platforms.

Mozilla is the not-for-profit behind the lightning fast Firefox browser. We put people over profit to give everyone more power online.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Apps
Seed, Pre-Seed, Grant
United States, Israel, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Webacy — A safer web3 for everyone
Shader — the First No-code AR Creation Tool that instantly customize your look with AI
Mammoth — Mammoth is Mastodon for the rest of us

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.

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

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.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Canada, Poland

Portfolio highlights

ForActive — ForActive The Best App to Buy & Sell Memberships
Tilta — Provide a financial service, drive your GMV, and add a new revenue stream without the hassle of being a financial servicer provider.
PrivacyHawk — PrivacyHawk is a Personal Data Protection service that makes opting out, unsubscribing, and deleting your data from thousands of companies easy.

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!

Abhishek Mahto is an 18-year-old entrepreneur with 7 years of experience as the founder of start-ups. Currently, he is the CEO of a digital currency trading platform called Nomoex.

Investment focus

Bitcoin, FinTech, Software
Seed
Poland

Portfolio highlights

NOMOEX — NOMOEX is a centralized crypto exchange that facilitates crypto trades by using its next-gen software to match and execute trades .Nomoex Exchange is being created with next-gen features and functionalities to make sure that users are able to trade cryptocurrencies in the most convenient and secure manner using user-friendly options and a widerange of services from crypto storage to trading, sending, receiving, and the use of advanced trading tools & mechanisms to increase profits.

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.

ARIA is an independent private equity fund management company run by professionals with a variety of business backgrounds. Thanks to the fusion of different characters and generations, we have a deeper understanding of the global market. We deliver great results to our portfolio companies, by supporting them with know-how and the right resources.We invest in projects with international growth potential, mainly in the areas of new technologies but we are also interested in small and mid-sized enterprises which have unique selling propositions regardless of their industry.

Investment focus

B2B, Cyber Security, Business Intelligence
Series A, Seed
Poland

Portfolio highlights

Nethone — Nethone is a machine learning-based fraud prevention Saas company that allows online merchants and financial institutions to holistically understand their end-users—also referred to as “Know Your Users (KYU)” in industry parlance. With its proprietary online user profiling and ML technologies, Nethone is able to detect and prevent payment fraud,account take-overs with unrivalled effectiveness.The Nethone proprietary Profiler enriches the understanding of every single user with over 5000 attributes, which are processed into recommendations in real-time using a decision engine. While staying focused on the singularity of the client’s business, Nethone can help to lower clients’ rejection rates, costs of manual review, and risk of fraud, without touching the UX of the service--automatically and in real‑time. Founded in 2016 by a group of security experts, financial business executives and data scientists within Daftcode - a Poland-based venture builder, is today successfully cooperating with 50+ global e-commerce, digital goods, and financial industries.
Sundose — Sundose is a manufacturer of data-driven diet supplements.
Livespace — Livespace is a process-focused CRM system with task & sales automation. It is an intuitive, adaptable and cloud-based CRM platform.

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.

Maker is a decentralized autonomous organization on the Ethereum blockchain.

Investment focus

Cryptocurrency, FinTech, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Poland, Isle of Man

Portfolio highlights

Multis — Multis is an all-in-one application to help web3 organizations manage their crypto-finances. Built on Gnosis Safe.
Contango — Contango is a decentralised exchange bringing expirable futures to DeFi. In DeFi, only perpetual futures exist. But since funding rates are unpredictable, traders do not have control over their costs. With expirable futures, a final price is paid upfront to avoid any bad surprises. Contango is here to bring futures with expiry dates.
Harbor — Harbor is making trade finance more accessible, user-friendly, and efficient for businesses that trade both domestically and internationally. Our programs provide end to end solutions covering the entire cash conversion cycle.

Pointer.Capital is an early stages investment firm that invests in the Web3.0 and Blockchain startups.

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.

We believe in Bitcoin as a next generation politically neutral monetary system, the foundation for decentralized finance of the future. While Bitcoin is an efficient settlement layer, it needs a Layer-2 solution for everyday transactions. That is why we support development of the Lightning Network - an essential step towards decentralized finance.As technology entrepreneurs we combine decades of experience creating business from zero and scaling it in emerging and fast-growing industries.We support outstanding teams in several ways: writing checks of $50-$200k for pre-seed startups; granting rewards for acknowledged contributions to the ecosystem; providing startup advisory and mentoring; investing in later stages.Along the way we help startups to navigate cryptocurrency legal and regulatory environment according to the evolving industry standards and best practices.

Investment focus

Bitcoin, FinTech, Cryptocurrency
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Relai — Relai is the easiest way to invest in Bitcoin for the long-term investor. A simple and intuitive app that allows users to buy and sell Bitcoin directly from their bank account within 1 minute, without registration, KYC verification or deposits. It was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland.
AMBOSS — Lightning Network Explorer and Analytics Tools. Search for nodes and channels on the Lightning Network and get detailed information on them.
Ark Labs — Ark Labs is scaling Bitcoin with Ark, a new layer two protocol for fast, low-cost, seamless payments.

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

Join Europe's largest digital innovation ecosystem. For a strong digital Europe. Inclusive. Fair. Sustainable.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Internet
Pre-Seed, Grant, Seed
Italy, Spain, Poland

Portfolio highlights

VoiceMed — Track respiratory health using voiceWe bring deep-tech innovation into your smartphone. With vocal biomarkers and artificial intelligence, we track the evolution of respiratory diseases.
Assiduous — The AI-enabled platform to do the heavy-lifting for business owners seeking finance for their aspiring growth company.
Veganistik — Veganistik is a new generation vegan social platform, helping you start your plant-based life or maximize your experience.

Fabric backs the founders of the Open Economy. Investing in builders, businesses, and networks from inception to scaling since 2012.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
Seed, Series A, Initial Coin Offering
United States, France, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

idOS — The idOS is an open-source, decentralized identity system empowering users with data security, self-sovereignty, and control in web3 applications.
Loot Labs — Loot Labs builds ways to acquire digital collectibles.
Layer — Ethereum is the settlement layer, build full stack decentralized apps on top with Web Assembly and the EVM.

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.

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.

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.

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

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
United States, Singapore, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

OX.FUN — Trade Bitcoin, Ethereum and trending altcoin derivatives on the most FUN exchange around. Join OX.FUN today and earn up to 200% yield. Moo.
AINN Layer2 — A Bitcoin Layer2 Solution Built On AI-Driven Modular Architecture
Sanctum — Sanctum offers the ability to launch millions of new LSTs utilizing solana.

In the two decades since our founding, we have worked with hundreds of extraordinary European founders, and have raised eight funds totalling more than $3bn.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Series B, Series A, Series C
United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Ory Corp — Ory is a certified and battle-tested identity solution backed by a large open source community and trusted by Fortune 500 companies.
Coro — Cloud-based cybersecurity for every part of your company. We protect email, data, cloud apps, devices, and even users. Try Coro today!
Payflows — Payflows is a fintech company focused on treasury management program for businesses.

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.

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.

My EU Pay provides payment solutions to businesses and customers.

Investment focus

Payments, E-Commerce, Point of Sale
Corporate Round
Poland

Portfolio highlights

Straal — International merchant payment solutions. Make your online payments convenient, effective, and secure. Around the world, around the clock!

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.

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.

Expeditions Fund is a long-term and patient venture capital fund investing in early-stage technology companies globally led by mission-driven founders.The fund has initially started as venture capital operations of Firlej Kastory family office. In 2021, Firlej Kastory expanded beyond immediate family management and the venture capital firm,Expeditions Fund, was created.Expeditions Fund today is an independent venture fund backed by multi-billion dollar investors, family offices, founders and CEOs of successful companies.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Proofs — The go-to-market for software. AI Agents building proof-of-concept apps and integrations on top your stack
Labrys Technologies — Visualise & Coordinate Your People. Securely. Anywhere. In Real-Time.
Disruptive Industries™ — Disruptive Industries Ltd detect, identify, classify, manage and mitigate global risks for your organisation.

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.