# Karol Lasota

> Karol Lasota is a seed investor at Inovo.vc (Warsaw) backing FinTech and Payments. See 8 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Inovo.vc](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/inovo-vc)
- Location: Warsaw, Poland
- Total investments: 8
- Last investment: Aug 2025
- Lead investor: 63%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/klasota/
- Website: https://www.inovo.vc

Karol Lasota is a seed investor at Inovo.vc in Warsaw focused on FinTech and Payments. Karol Lasota

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FinTech | 2 | 25% |
| Payments | 2 | 25% |
| Information Technology | 2 | 25% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 2 | 25% |
| SaaS | 1 | 13% |

20 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 4 | 50% |
| Pre-Seed | 4 | 50% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United Kingdom | 3 | 38% |
| United States | 2 | 25% |
| Latvia | 1 | 13% |
| Estonia | 1 | 13% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Handwave | Handwave is the world’s first biometric wallet and identity platform — replacing wallets, phones, and IDs with a single gesture for in-store payments. Designed for retail, meant for people. End users can easily onboard their palms through the Handwave app by scanning their palm with the phone camera, linking payment and loyalty cards, and thenenjoy frictionless checkout at retail by simply scanning their palm at a payment terminal. | $4.2M | Seed | Aug 01, 2025 |  |
| SplxAI | SplxAI is a cybersecurity company specializing in automated security testing for AI chatbots, ensuring they remain safe from manipulation and data breaches. The platform continuously monitors and tests chatbots for vulnerabilities such as prompt injection, context leakage, social engineering, and other advanced threats. Key features includereal-time detection and mitigation strategies, multimodal pentesting capabilities (covering text, audio, and video), and comprehensive reporting tools that provide actionable insights for improving security. SplxAI's solution integrates seamlessly with existing security frameworks and platforms, making it easy to deploy and manage. By providing robust protection against a wide range of threats, SplxAI helps enterprises safeguard their AI-driven applications, maintain data integrity, and ensure compliance with industry standards. The company is committed to innovation, continuously enhancing its product to address emerging threats in the rapidly evolving AI landscape. SplxAI is trusted by forward-thinking organizations looking to proactively secure their AI assets and protect sensitive information. | $7M | Seed | Mar 26, 2025 |  |
| SplxAI | SplxAI is a cybersecurity company specializing in automated security testing for AI chatbots, ensuring they remain safe from manipulation and data breaches. The platform continuously monitors and tests chatbots for vulnerabilities such as prompt injection, context leakage, social engineering, and other advanced threats. Key features includereal-time detection and mitigation strategies, multimodal pentesting capabilities (covering text, audio, and video), and comprehensive reporting tools that provide actionable insights for improving security. SplxAI's solution integrates seamlessly with existing security frameworks and platforms, making it easy to deploy and manage. By providing robust protection against a wide range of threats, SplxAI helps enterprises safeguard their AI-driven applications, maintain data integrity, and ensure compliance with industry standards. The company is committed to innovation, continuously enhancing its product to address emerging threats in the rapidly evolving AI landscape. SplxAI is trusted by forward-thinking organizations looking to proactively secure their AI assets and protect sensitive information. | $2M | Pre-Seed | Sep 10, 2024 |  |
| NodeShift | NodeShift is a cloud service provider that enables companies to create and run safe applications on a budget. | $3.2M | Seed | Feb 21, 2024 |  |
| Tracelight | Tracelight is an AI-powered Excel add-in that enhances financial modeling by enabling users to generate formulas from natural language, check for errors, and interact with models using plain English. It helps financial professionals save time, reduce errors, and work more efficiently while maintaining security and data privacy. | $3.4M | Pre-Seed | Jan 01, 2024 |  |
| Fiat Republic | Fiat Republic aggregates multiple banks into a single API integration and unified compliance onboarding process, enabling crypto platforms to easily embed fiat payment flows into their tech stack. Fiat Republic's TradFi-regulated fiat-as-a-service platform makes it simple to integrate IBANs and virtual accounts in local currencies, local banktransfer rails (like SEPA, Faster Payments, Elixir, Pix etc), and real-time FX. | $7M | Seed | Dec 19, 2023 |  |
| Bloomcoding | Winner of ASIF Pitch Amsterdam 2020 Winner of ”Mesto. Accelerator” demo day of 2021Currently one of the fastest-growing startups in Moldova and the biggest digital school in Romania, with over 800 students enrolled.Bloomcoding aims to become one of the leading providers of online coding education for K-12 children in Europe. We use a blend ofVirtual and Augmented Reality Ed-Tech, in small live online classes, to re-imagine education, spark curiosity, and blend fun with learning. We believe that to prepare children for the next 100 years, programming is just as essential as writing and reading. Coding is the literacy of the 21st century. Our mission is to teach one million children how to code. | $1.1M | Pre-Seed | Feb 20, 2023 |  |
| Quantum Boost | Quantum Boost develops artificial intelligence that delivers new insights into your experimental data, so you can make better decisions about your product development process. Our platform helps you formulate new products from scratch faster than ever and leverage your data to adapt to the rapidly shifting market needs. | $700K | Pre-Seed | Apr 01, 2022 |  |

8 of 8 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Runtime Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/runtime-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Arca](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/arca-5fb9) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Credo Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/credo-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Entrepreneurs First](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/entrepreneurs-first) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [South Central Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sc-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [10x Founders](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/10x-founders) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Inovo.vc

VC Fund · Warsaw, Poland

Inovo.vc invests up to €4M in founders from Central and Eastern Europe all over the world. Since 2014, we've invested in over 50 startups - we’re early investors in, e.g. Booksy, Preply Spacelift or Infermedica. Our startups raised over €500M from funds like Insight Partners, a16z or Gradient. We raised our third €107M fund in 2022.

5 contacts available at Inovo.vc.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Damian Zaplata | Venture Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/damian-zaplata |
| Karol Lasota | Principal | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/karol-lasota |
| Krzysztof Przybylak | Principal | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/krzysztof-przybylak |
| Maciej Małysz | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/maciej-ma%C5%82ysz |
| Michał Rokosz | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/michal-rokosz |

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## FAQ

### What does Karol Lasota invest in?

Karol Lasota invests primarily in FinTech, Payments and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 8 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United Kingdom. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Karol Lasota last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Karol Lasota closed in Aug 2025. Shizune tracks 8 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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