Marcin Kowalik
Managing Partner @ Black Pearls VC
Gdansk, Poland
Marcin Kowalik is a seed investor at Black Pearls VC in Gdansk focused on Information Technology and Software. Marcin is the co-founder and Managing Partner of Black Pearls VC, a Polish firm operating within the Baltic Sea region. He specializes in life-quality technologies, in particular the intelligent transportation systems (ITS), education, and downstream space sectors. Marcin has established three investment funds in his career. Two have been focusedon fostering life-quality technology projects—the first social impact initiatives of their kind in Poland. Marcin actively supports the development of the Polish economy through participation in the Committee of Stakeholders of the National Centre for Research and Development, the board of Interizon, the Polish ICT Cluster, and the Coalition for Polish Innovations. Marcin earned his Master of Economics degree at Łazarski University in Warsaw; he also took engineering courses (computer science) at the Warsaw School of Information Technology under the auspices of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Later, Marcin received a postgraduate diploma (Controlling and Management of Enterprises) from the University of Gdańsk, where he is currently working on his PhD; his thesis focuses on business models, startups, and innovation. Marcin is also a devoted family man: a proud husband and father of three.
- Total investments:
- 17
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 71%
Last updated:
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Industries Marcin Kowalik invests in
Stages Marcin Kowalik invests in
Countries Marcin Kowalik invests in
Investment Focus
Industry
- Information Technology 5 (29%)
- Software 4 (24%)
- Information Services 3 (18%)
- SaaS 2 (12%)
- Internet 2 (12%)
Stage
- Seed 12 (71%)
- Pre-Seed 1 (6%)
- Series B 1 (6%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 1 (6%)
Country
- Poland 11 (65%)
- United States 2 (12%)
- Lithuania 1 (6%)
- United Kingdom 1 (6%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Microamp
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Microamp is a leading tech innovator designing and delivering multi-gigabit and ultra-low latency 5G mmWave wireless networks based on purpose-built radios. The company merges deep tech know-how and a broad portfolio of technology partners, empowering industries, system integrators, MNOs, DSPs, governments, and research institutions with newdimensions of wireless connectivity. Microamp's cutting-edge networks enable the implementation of the most bandwidth-hungry and technologically advanced use cases across verticals such as energy, mining, logistics, production, entertainment, and public service. | Seed / Sep 16, 2025 | |
Astrolight
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Astrolight develops secure laser communication systems for aerospace and defence. | $3.2M / Seed / May 22, 2025 | |
SATIM
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SATIM provides insights based on satellite radar data acquired regardless of weather and day/night time. Using developed software and algorithms SATIM can solve the problem of optimal information extraction from complex SAR imagery. | Venture - Series Unknown / Sep 18, 2024 | |
Autenti
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Autenti is a platform for document authorization and contracting via the Internet. It facilitates the signing of many papers and accelerates the working mode in companies. | $8.5M / Series B / Sep 13, 2022 | |
Tidaro
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Tidaro is a SaaS platform that lets organizations book and manage resources—such as parking spots, desks, and meeting rooms. | Seed / Jan 01, 2022 | |
Gyfted
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Discover hidden talent | $650K / Pre-Seed / Jun 20, 2021 | |
Insly
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Insly is cloud-based insurance software for insurance brokers and agents to replace papers and spreadsheets. Its goal is to make insurance easy to understand, manage, and buy for both service providers and end users.Insly is a spin-off from IIZI Group – most successful insurance broker group in CEE region starting from 2000. Their core teamconsists of the founders and key employees of IIZI Group, who contributed to revolutionising the insurance business with their innovative and business focused IT solutions.Insly was launched in 2000 in London, United Kingdom. | $849K / Seed / Sep 03, 2019 | |
Deep BI
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Predictive Customer Data Platform (CDP) with real-time user scoring. Deep.BI helps enterprises leverage big data and AI algorithms to analyze people behavior and product usage at scale, build habits and engagement, and predict next best actions. Our customers come mainly from Media, Retail and Marketing industries. | $1.2M / Seed / May 21, 2018 | |
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Insly
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Insly is cloud-based insurance software for insurance brokers and agents to replace papers and spreadsheets. Its goal is to make insurance easy to understand, manage, and buy for both service providers and end users.Insly is a spin-off from IIZI Group – most successful insurance broker group in CEE region starting from 2000. Their core teamconsists of the founders and key employees of IIZI Group, who contributed to revolutionising the insurance business with their innovative and business focused IT solutions.Insly was launched in 2000 in London, United Kingdom. | $2M / Seed / Mar 22, 2018 | |
Quantum CX
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Quantum CX created a system that motivates smiling to enhance customer service quality. By detecting smiles and incentivizing behavior, sales and customer satisfactions grew, and employees felt better about themselves. Sensors automatically detect and count smiles. The employee is givens points whenever they smile during a customer interaction orwhen a customer smiles back. Employees exchange points from their own smiles for prizes and customer's smiles for charity donations. Thanks to that everyone has a good reason to smile. Observation effects makes employees try harder so their overall service excellent results get better. Additionally, the atmosphere at work becomes nicer and customers are more satisfied with the service. | Seed / Jan 01, 2017 | |
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Co-Investors
About Black Pearls VC
We are an early stage venture capital firm focused on investing in leading tech startups with defensible technology and the potential to become market leaders. We invest all around Europe, concentrating specifically on the Baltic Sea Region. As Black Pearls VC we are sector agnostic and B2B focused with a successful track record of investments inareas such as: Digital Health, Enterprise Software, Fintech, Future of Work, Deep Tech, among others.We are usually one of the first investors in the company, helping founders scale and achieve global reach. We are the first Polish VC fund in Kauffman Fellows – a global network of 500+ leading VCs.
Black Pearls VC Contacts
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Hubert Szczołek
CFO
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Maciej Skórkiewicz
Partner
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Marcin Kowalik
Managing Partner
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Tomasz Woźniak
Principal
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Aleksander Dobrzyniecki
Partner
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FAQ
What does Marcin Kowalik invest in?
Marcin Kowalik invests primarily in Information Technology, Software and Information Services startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 17 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Poland. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
When did Marcin Kowalik last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Marcin Kowalik closed in Sep 2025. Shizune tracks 17 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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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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