# Top 50 Payments Startup Investors in Poland in June 2026 ## Firstminute Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence firstminute is a seed fund backed by over 130 unicorn founders and a world-class community. ## Piotr Smolen - Type: Angel - Location: Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech Piotr Smolen is the Co-Founder and CEO at symmetrical.ai. Attended SGH Warsaw School of Economics. ## Aydton Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Bitcoin, FinTech, Software Launch, Accelerate & Soar you innovative ideas. We are a founder-first, sector-agnostic funding firm for the future ## Keith Grose - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Software Keith Grose is currently non-executive director for Zero Hash and an active angel/advisor for early stage startups. He previously led Europe and international expansion for Plaid, and served as COO at SequenceHQ (backed by a16z). He is currently based in London and spent a decade in the SF Bay Area at Google and Bain. Keith Grose attended theUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. ## Taavet Hinrikus - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: FinTech, Software, Financial Services Taavet Hinrikus is based out of London, England and is the Partner of Plural Platform and Board Member of CoMind. Taavet previously worked at Wise as a Chairman and Co-founder. Taavet Hinrikus attended INSEAD. ## SpeedUp Venture Capital Group - Type: VC Fund - Location: Poznan, Wielkopolskie, Poland - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence 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. ## Seedcamp - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, FinTech, SaaS 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. ## Galaxy Digital - Type: VC Fund - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services Galaxy is a digital asset and blockchain leader helping institutions, startups, and individuals shape a changing economy. ## Lightning Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency, FinTech Lightning Ventures is an exclusively Bitcoin focused network of investors, operators, and developers, dedicated to supporting Lightning Network adoption worldwide ## Flashpoint - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Series A, Seed - Focus: Software, SaaS, Machine Learning Venture capital serves as funding for emerging, inventive enterprises poised for rapid expansion. ## Francesco Simoneschi - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Equity Crowdfunding - Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, B2B 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. ## Aligo Venture Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Tczew, Pomorskie, Poland - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Health Care, E-Commerce, Medical Device 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. ## Innovation Nest - Type: VC Fund - Location: Kraków, Malopolskie, Poland - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, SaaS, E-Commerce 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. ## NFX - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Marketplace We are a VC firm investing in pre-seed and seed stage startups. We back exceptional Founders building market-transforming companies. ## Manta Ray Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Biotechnology, Health Care Manta Ray Ventures is an early-stage venture capital fund backing mission-driven founders that provides flexible and patient capital, leveraging time, resources, and networks resources and networks as far as possible to support its portfolio companies. ## Tomasz Kolinko - Type: Angel - Location: Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: FinTech, Big Data, Wellness Tomasz Kolinko is the Founder of Freespace Warsaw. Prior to that, he founded Eveem.org and Trivial.co. He attended the University of Warsaw. ## Itamar Lesuisse - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming 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. ## Firlej Kastory - Type: VC Fund - Location: Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: SaaS, FinTech, Software 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. ## Max Moldenhauer - Type: Angel - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Analytics 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. ## Fulgur Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Wilmington, Delaware, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Bitcoin, FinTech, Cryptocurrency 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. ## Lorien Gabel - Type: Angel - Location: Wilson, Wyoming, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: Events, FinTech, Blockchain 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. ## Josh Buckley - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet Josh Buckley is the CEO of Product Hunt. ## Balaji Srinivasan - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software 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. 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 anonline MOOC. ## Marcus Erken - Type: Angel - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel - Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Machine Learning 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. ## Balderton Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C - Focus: Software, Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence 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. ## Nicolas Jedraszak - Type: Angel - Location: Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Payments, Information Technology Nicolas Jedraszak is the Co-Founder of Amano. He previously worked at Daily as a Co-Founder. ## Atmos Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Palo Alto, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Artificial Intelligence, SaaS, FinTech 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 ## Unfold.vc - Type: VC Fund - Location: Wroclaw, Dolnoslaskie, Poland - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Information Technology, Health Care, Gaming Unfold.vc is a venture capital fund focused on providing financial support for technological projects that have great potential for success. ## Michal Zawiasa - Type: Angel - Location: Poznan, Wielkopolskie, Poland - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Payments, Information Technology Michal Zawiasa is the Founder & CEO at Glodny.pl. ## Roham Gharegozlou - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Blockchain, Software, Cryptocurrency 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 ## Fred Ehrsam - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series C - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software Fred Ehrsam is the Co-Founder of Paradigm. ## My EU Pay - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Corporate Round - Focus: Payments, E-Commerce, Point of Sale My EU Pay provides payment solutions to businesses and customers. ## Alameda Research - Type: VC Fund - Location: Central and Western, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services 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. ## Matt Harrop - Type: Angel - Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: Events, FinTech, Blockchain 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. ## Marcin Wenus - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Apps, SaaS, FinTech Marcin Wenus ## Mozilla - Type: VC Fund - Location: Mountain View, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Grant - Focus: Software, Internet, Apps Mozilla is the not-for-profit behind the lightning fast Firefox browser. We put people over profit to give everyone more power online. ## Iain Simpson - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: FinTech, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency Iain Simpson ## Pointer.Capital - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Apps, SaaS, FinTech Pointer.Capital is an early stages investment firm that invests in the Web3.0 and Blockchain startups. ## ff Venture Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence 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. ## Abhishek Mahto - Type: Angel - Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Bitcoin, FinTech, Software 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. ## Fabric Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software Fabric backs the founders of the Open Economy. Investing in builders, businesses, and networks from inception to scaling since 2012. ## Expeditions - Type: VC Fund - Location: Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence Expeditions invests in dual-use companies across deep tech sectors including cybersecurity, defence & intelligence, autonomy, AI, quantum, privacy, communications solutions and space. ## Sky - Type: VC Fund - Location: Santa Cruz, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Financial Services Maker is a decentralized autonomous organization on the Ethereum blockchain. ## Bartosz Majewski - Type: Angel - Location: Wroclaw, Dolnoslaskie, Poland - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: Information Technology, Apps, Sales Bartosz Majewski is the CEO & Founder at Codibly - Create. Impact. Innovate. He attended University of the West of Scotland. ## Shape VC - Type: VC Fund - Location: Kraków, Malopolskie, Poland - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Robotics A new tool that blends your everyday work apps into one. It's the all-in-one workspace for you and your team ## Genblock Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services Genblock Capital invests exclusively in blockchain and cryptocurrency, with a focus on decentralized finance. ## EIT Digital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Brussels, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, Belgium - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Grant, Seed - Focus: Information Technology, Software, Internet Join Europe's largest digital innovation ecosystem. For a strong digital Europe. Inclusive. Fair. Sustainable. ## Founding Team - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Web3, FinTech, Blockchain Founding Team ## ARIA Fund - Type: VC Fund - Location: Warszawa, Mazowieckie, Poland - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Seed - Focus: B2B, CRM, SaaS 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. ## Invento VC - Type: VC Fund - Location: Katowice, Slaskie, Poland - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: FinTech, Payments, Software 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.