# Next Road Ventures

> Next Road Ventures is a VC fund backing Software and Machine Learning. See 22 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Warsaw, Poland
- Total investments: 22
- Last investment: May 2025
- Lead investor: 45%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/nextroadventures/
- Website: https://www.nextroad.vc/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nextroadventures/

Next Road Ventures is a VC fund in Warsaw focused on Software and Machine Learning. We are a polish VC fund backed by the global business angels. Our sweet spot is European early stage companies founded by visionary entrepreneurs who aim to become global winners in their respective industry. Together with our affiliates, CEE Business Angel Network, leading European deal flow platform Vestbee as well as our global network of VCfunds and corporate partners, we support our companies with the relevant network, expertise, resources and funds to help them expand to new markets. Next Road Ventures in a nutshell: GEOGRAPHY - Europe with a strong focus on Central & Eastern Europe; ROUNDS - seed, pre-series A, series A; STAGES - product on the market (at least MVP), revenue or growing traction; SECTORS - multi-sector with a preference on ICT, Big Data, SaaS, Martech, Fintech, Industry 4.0, IoT, e-commerce etc.; TICKET - up to 1M EUR

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $476k–$1.2M |
| Pre-Seed | $380k–$1.7M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 4 | 18% |
| Machine Learning | 4 | 18% |
| E-Commerce | 3 | 14% |
| SaaS | 2 | 9% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 2 | 9% |

45 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Pre-Seed | 10 | 45% |
| Seed | 7 | 32% |
| Convertible Note | 2 | 9% |
| Series A | 1 | 5% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Poland | 15 | 68% |
| Sweden | 1 | 5% |
| Lithuania | 1 | 5% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Ewa Chronowska | General Partner | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ewa-chronowska |
| Marcin Laczynski | Partner | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/marcin-laczynski |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| TrustMate | Reviews collection SAAS | $1.9M | Series A | May 04, 2025 |  |
| Epinote | Epinote is Warsaw-based annotation boutique that provides high quality data annotation and collection services. We specialise in Computer Vision, NLP and search relevance projects including image, video, text and audio annotations. Our workforce consists of only in-house employees, mostly graduates of top Polish universities. Our managementconsists of experts who know exactly how to manage large human-intense projects and understand deeply Data Scientists needs. The highest delivered quality and facing unstable inflow of work is what we challenge everyday. Contact us. You will not be disappointed. | $1.5M | Pre-Seed | Mar 20, 2023 |  |
| AlohaCamp | AlohaCamp is an online booking portal for adventure travel. They offer tent, campervan, glamping, and cottage sites. It provides a referral program. |  | Seed | Oct 14, 2022 |  |
| Plan Be Eco | The company provides standard-compliant but simple carbon footprint reporting and reducing software crafted for the digital era. The tool helps companies decarbonize and supports the process of achieving net-zero status. Plan Be Eco is in accordance with European Commission regulations and automatically generates a GHG Protocol compliant report. |  | Pre-Seed | Sep 02, 2022 |  |
| Smabbler | AI that remembers, reasons, and explains. The missing knowledge layer for transparent intelligence.Galaxia: The Hypergraph System that Autonomously builds Explainable Knowledge Graphs. Galaxia is a language + hypergraph system that autonomously turns raw text into an explainable knowledge graph. Galaxia can now analyze over 200 millioncharacters at once - the equivalent of more than 60,000 pages of text, in a single pass. What makes Galaxia different: Near-limitless context window: Processes millions of characters in one pass - enabling large-scale reasoning and coherence across thousands of pages of knowledge. Explainable, symbolic-first AI: A semantic hypergraph system that makes reasoning transparent and traceable - every insight is explainable by design. Efficient, accessible, automated: Runs in-memory on CPUs/RAM, with no-code creation 100× faster than manual engineering - built for both experts and professionals. |  | Pre-Seed | Jul 14, 2022 |  |
| Heroify | Heroify verifies marketing and sales skills with customized tests created automatically from job descriptions. We help hiring managers make better and unbiased hiring decisions, because they see if candidates can do the job before hiring or even interviewing them. It’s like having a team of domain experts who objectively assess your candidates’skills but fully automated, fast and affordable. | $380K | Pre-Seed | Jun 24, 2022 |  |
| Amano | Amano to redesign the communication between merchants and consumers. | $1.7M | Pre-Seed | Feb 19, 2022 |  |
| SalesOn | SalesOn is a platform for sales enablement that automates and validates the improvement of the capabilities of the sales department. They set up their clients' partner networks and sales teams now so that they can increase sales tomorrow. They enhance the level of communication and cooperation between relevant teams and boost the effectivenessof salespeople's and clients' partner networks. |  | Pre-Seed | Aug 30, 2021 |  |
| SmartHotel | Smart new way for guests to interact with hotels or AirBnBs during the stay. SmartHotel operates now on 3 continents, with first clients among budget hotels, big hotel chains, Holiday Resorts & Airbnb apartments. SmartHotel helps - Sell more trips and activities - Reduce hotel staff costs by 30-40% - Build better stay-on spot-experience. -Offer more convenient method of communication than reception and room service calls - Gain more positive reviews | $1M | Seed | Jun 23, 2021 |  |
| SmartHotel | Smart new way for guests to interact with hotels or AirBnBs during the stay. SmartHotel operates now on 3 continents, with first clients among budget hotels, big hotel chains, Holiday Resorts & Airbnb apartments. SmartHotel helps - Sell more trips and activities - Reduce hotel staff costs by 30-40% - Build better stay-on spot-experience. -Offer more convenient method of communication than reception and room service calls - Gain more positive reviews | $1M | Seed | Jun 23, 2021 |  |

10 of 22 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Next Road Ventures invest in?

Next Road Ventures invests primarily in Software, Machine Learning and E-Commerce startups, most often at Pre-Seed and Seed stage. Most of the 22 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Poland. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Next Road Ventures's check size?

Next Road Ventures typically joins rounds of $476k–$1.2M at Seed and $380k–$1.7M at Pre-Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Next Road Ventures participates in.

### How do I contact Next Road Ventures?

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### Who are the partners at Next Road Ventures?

The team at Next Road Ventures includes Ewa Chronowska (General Partner) and Marcin Laczynski (Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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