# Marian Gazdik

> Marian Gazdik is a seed investor at Startup Grind (London) backing Solar and Energy. See 2 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Startup Grind](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/startup-grind)
- Location: London, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 2
- Last investment: Mar 2022
- Lead investor: 100%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/gazdik
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/Mgazdik
- Website: https://www.ipmllp.com/team/marian-gazdik/
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/magazdik

Marian Gazdik is a seed investor at Startup Grind in London focused on Solar and Energy. Marian has over twenty years of business experience, having worked in different marketing and product management roles with fast growing technology businesses. He is Director at Startup Grind Europe, world’s largest organisation for entrepreneurs, based in 150 countries. Marian is a founding partner at IPM Growth, a venture capital company thatinvests in high growth companies from Central and Eastern Europe with world class technology. In 2015 he co-founded Braintrust, a think-tank of top entrepreneurs based in the Central & Eastern Europe region. Marian is an advisory board member at Tachyum and is a member of Acquisition Committee (REEAC) at TATE Gallery. He was featured in New Europe 100 (organised by the Financial Times, Google, Respublica and Visegrad Strategy), a list of outstanding leaders in world class innovation from Central and Eastern Europe. Marian holds an MBA from ESCP, the oldest business school in the world.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Solar | 1 | 50% |
| Energy | 1 | 50% |
| Nanotechnology | 1 | 50% |
| Precious Metals | 1 | 50% |
| Product Research | 1 | 50% |

6 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 1 | 50% |
| Equity Crowdfunding | 1 | 50% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Metalchemy | Metalchemy is a problem-solving community tackling the climate crisis using green nanotechnology by reducing humanity’s footprint. | $552.4K | Equity Crowdfunding | Mar 10, 2022 |  |
| Solivus | Solivus are on a mission to simplify the decarbonisation of the built environment with lightweight solar so more businesses and homeowners reduce their climate impact, have more energy security and reduce energy bills. | $3.1M | Seed | Dec 01, 2021 |  |

2 of 2 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Founders Factory](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/founders-factory) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Crowdcube](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/crowdcube) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Startup Grind

VC Fund · San Francisco, United States

Startup Grind is the world’s largest community of startups, founders, innovators, and creators. We bring like-minded yet diverse individuals together to connect, learn, teach, help, build, and belong. We do this daily through our local events, flagship conferences, startup program, partnerships, and online media + content - collectively reachingover 3.5 million individuals worldwide.The company hosts monthly events in more than 600 cities and 125 countries featuring successful local founders, innovators, educators and investors who share personal stories and lessons learned on the road to building great companies. The company's monthly fireside chat interviews, startup mixers and annual conferences provide ample opportunities to connect with amazing startups and the people behind them, tap into a strong support network, form meaningful connections and gain inspiration for the startup journey ahead. Started by Derek Andersen and Spencer Nielsen in February 2010 in a small office in Mountain View California, the original goal to bring together friends who would help each other has spread across the world.

5 contacts available at Startup Grind.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kateryna Dehtyar | Director of Kiev Chapter | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kateryna-dehtyar |
| Marian Gazdik | Director, Europe | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/marian-gazdik |
| Rui Ma | Director of BeiJing Chapter | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rui-ma-2 |
| Àlex Rodríguez Bacardit | Barcelona Chapter Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alex-bacardit |
| Can Kagitcibasi | Country Manager | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/can-kagitcibasi |

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## FAQ

### What does Marian Gazdik invest in?

Marian Gazdik invests primarily in Solar, Energy and Nanotechnology startups, most often at Seed and Equity Crowdfunding stage. Most of the 2 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 Marian Gazdik last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Marian Gazdik closed in Mar 2022. Shizune tracks 2 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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