# Marcin Smolinski

> Marcin Smolinski is a seed investor at National Center for Research & Development backing Recruiting. See 3 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact…

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [National Center for Research & Development](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/national-center-for-research-development)
- Location: Warsaw, Poland
- Total investments: 3
- Last investment: Oct 2018
- Lead investor: 67%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcinsmolinski/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/marcinsmolinsk
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Rozentuzjazmowany

Marcin Smolinski is a seed investor at National Center for Research & Development in Warsaw focused on Recruiting. Before establishing Happy Team Check in 2014, Marcin was a leader in HR with Hewlett Packard and Microsoft. In 2006 he joined the Google People Operations team, where he was one of its earliest employees. During his time at Google, Marcin built and managed very happy and engaged teams in several European locations, was awarded several productivityawards including the Google Innovation Award, and graduated from the company’s elite Basecamp program. In 2014 Marcin founded Toolbox for HR, and since then he’s been helping small and medium-sized technology businesses around the world to build, grow, manage and maintain happy teams.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Grant | $70k–$1.2M |

## Investment focus

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 1 | 33% |
| Grant | 1 | 33% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Toolbox for HR | Good recruiters fill requisitions, great recruiters build teams. We build great teams! We're engineering recruitment team for hire. Since 2014 we hired 500+ Developers, DevOps, Data Scientists coming from 120+ countries into 30 locations. We specialize in rapidly growing engineering teams and startups. | $1.2M | Grant | Oct 30, 2018 | http://tb4hr.com/ |
| Toolbox for HR | Good recruiters fill requisitions, great recruiters build teams. We build great teams! We're engineering recruitment team for hire. Since 2014 we hired 500+ Developers, DevOps, Data Scientists coming from 120+ countries into 30 locations. We specialize in rapidly growing engineering teams and startups. | $70K | Grant | Dec 31, 2017 | http://tb4hr.com/ |
| Toolbox for HR | Good recruiters fill requisitions, great recruiters build teams. We build great teams! We're engineering recruitment team for hire. Since 2014 we hired 500+ Developers, DevOps, Data Scientists coming from 120+ countries into 30 locations. We specialize in rapidly growing engineering teams and startups. |  | Seed | Apr 02, 2014 | http://tb4hr.com/ |

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## About National Center for Research & Development

VC Fund · Warszawa, Poland

The National Research and Development Centre is an executive agency of the Minister of Science and Higher Education. It was established in summer 2007 as a unit realizing the tasks of scientific, scientific-technical and innovation policy. At the time of inception was the first unit of this type, created as a platform for effective dialogue betweenscience and business environment. Currently it operates under the Act of 30 April 2010 by the National Centre for Research and Development (Dz. U. 2010, No. 96 item. 616). Introduced in autumn 2010 reform of the science center has allowed greater freedom in disposing financial resources, within the framework of the strategic research agenda. An additional 1 September 2011, NRDC has expanded the scope of its activities with new initiatives and opportunities. Taking over from the Ministry of Science and Higher Education function of the Intermediate in three operational programs: Human Capital, Innovative Economy and Infrastructure and Environment, has become one of the largest centers supporting innovation in Poland. The Centre is funded by the Treasury and European Union funds.

1 contacts available at National Center for Research & Development.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Aleksander Nawrat | Centre Director Deputy | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aleksander-nawrat |

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## FAQ

### What does Marcin Smolinski invest in?

Marcin Smolinski invests primarily in Recruiting startups, most often at Seed and Grant stage. Most of the 3 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Poland. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Marcin Smolinski's check size?

Marcin Smolinski typically joins rounds of $70k–$1.2M at Grant. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Marcin Smolinski participates in.

### How do I contact Marcin Smolinski?

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### When did Marcin Smolinski last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Marcin Smolinski closed in Oct 2018. Shizune tracks 3 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?

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