Top 20 Retail Startup Investors in Poland in January 2026
A list of 20 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Retail startups based in Poland. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Retail companies from Poland. We update this investor list every month.Top 20 Retail Startup Investors in Poland in January 2026
| Investor | Retail Poland investments |
|---|---|
| SAV (Scale Asia Ventures) | 3 |
| SpeedUp Venture Capital Group | 3 |
| Creandum | 2 |
| Felix Capital | 2 |
| Xevin Investments | 2 |
| Movens Capital | 2 |
| Earlybird Venture Capital | 2 |
| European Venture Investment Group | 1 |
| Protos Venture Capital | 1 |
| SquareOne | 1 |
| Evan You | 1 |
| Paul St. John | 1 |
| Matt Billmann Christensen | 1 |
| Philippe Corrot | 1 |
| Christian Bach | 1 |
| ValueTech Seed | 1 |
| HardGamma Ventures | 1 |
| Chris Murphy | 1 |
| Matt Billmann Christensen | 1 |
| Heini Zachariassen | 1 |
Early stage VC investing into Enterprise Tech, FinTech and BioTech.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Canada, The Netherlands
Portfolio highlights
- Promptless — Promptless is an AI-driven collaborator that seamlessly updates documents intended for customer engagement.
- Mastra — Mastra is an AI software that helps users to typescript complex operations and complete set of work using AI.
- Unbound Security — Protect AI apps and agents with Unbound AI security
We are a group of venture capital funds, investing in enterprises in an early stage of development. Areas of our interest include enterprises and entrepreneurs in Central and Eastern Europe, who want to conquer the global market by utilizing their self-developed solutions. Our cooperation with companies is based on a 3-8 years investment horizon.We're looking for innovations from areas such as: consumer internet, electromobility, energy, fintech, martech, adtech, medtech, IoT and hardware. We're interested in technologies like Machine Learning, Picture Recognition and Artificial Intelligence.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Poland, United States, Czech Republic
Portfolio highlights
- PARTORY — PARTORY simplifies sourcing custom metal parts with 8,000+ machines across Europe. Manage orders and inquiries easily in our app.
- CYCLE — GetHenry is a rapidly growing subscription service for market-leading delivery companies. We make sure that thousands of couriers are on the move safely, quickly and comfortably every day. In this way, we not only create added value for delivery services, but also help to reduce transport-related CO2 emissions on the last mile.
- Patron GO — Patron GO is a fintech firm that uses AI to detect unnecessarily high costs on a customer's bank account and offers the best solutions.
We support early-stage founders in building global, category-defining companies. From Seed to IPO and beyond.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, FinTech
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- Sweden, Germany, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Cerrion — Cerrion is a visual AI that helps production teams react faster to process deviations, automate root cause analysis, and implement targeted improvement actions. They believe that process transparency enabled by AI and computer vision is key to achieving more autonomy and sustainability in manufacturing. Their software is built and designed withproduction teams from all over the world in the loop.
- Vesence — AI Agents in Microsoft Office that review emails, documents, and projects before they leave your firm.
- Kosmik — Transform your creative workflow with Kosmik's AI moodboard maker. Built-in browser, real-time collaboration, and infinite canvas for moodboarding.
A Venture Capital Firm for the creative class
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Health Care
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- United Kingdom, United States, France
Portfolio highlights
- Jones — Quit vaping products and app. Nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) and behavioral support for quitting smoking or vaping.
- Noah — API-first stablecoin payments, enterprise-grade compliance and real-time settlements, powered by stablecoin technology.
- Origin — Origin delivers AI-powered global benefits intelligence to streamline HR, optimize spend, ensure compliance, and simplify employee benefits management.
Xevin Investments offer include investment and advisory services. The fund is interested both in companies and projects in the initial phase of development, unable to achieve further business goals due to insufficient capital, and in thriving companies in need of additional investment to achieve their milestones in the pursuit of competitiveadvantage.
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Investment focus
- Internet, E-Commerce, Software
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Poland, United States, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- Droplabs — Droplabs is Poland's leading online sales software for the experiences industry. Hundreds of Attraction, Tour and Activity providers use our software to sale tickets and activities through various channels including own website, hotel desks, travel agencies, aggregators, network of affiliates or on-site. Our software also helps with real-timeoffer, capacity & pricing management; entry management and day-to-day operations optimisation.We keep the product self-serviced and simple to use on any device. We are end buyers advocate: Buying, storing and using tickets must be seamless!We are SaaS with no exceptions.
- EkoFachowcy.pl — EkoFachowcy enables anyone to compare and select the best offers of renewable energy sources, such as photovoltaic panels, heat pumps, solar collectors, wind turbines, or recuperators.
- Feedink Sp. z o.o. — Feedink Sp. z o.o. provides professional services for creating and managing product feed.
Movens Capital manages two funds (early-stage VC and growth equity). Movens VC is oriented on supporting Polish/CEE tech
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Poland, Czech Republic, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- ForActive — ForActive The Best App to Buy & Sell Memberships
- SKY ENGINE AI — SKY ENGINE AI revolutionizes computer vision with synthetic data and deep learning solutions. Unlock scalable, efficient, and cost-effective AI training.
- PilotGo — Developer platform for secure data sharing with multiple partners powered by Digital Twins.
Founded in 1997, Earlybird invests in all development and growth phases of technology companies. Among the most experienced venture investors in Europe, Earlybird offers its portfolio companies not only financial resources but also strategic support plus access to an international network and capital markets. With EUR 2 billion under management,eight IPOs and 30 trade sales, Earlybird is one of the most established and active venture capital firms in Europe.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- Germany, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- SLNG — SLNG is radically global infrastructure for speech AI.
- Voyfai — Voyfai provides a platform to manage shipments, procurement, back-office tasks, and logistics services for freight forwarders.
- Payable — Scale your business with our payment operations API and dashboard. Track, reconcile and make payments instantly.
European Venture Investment Group is a dynamically growing venture capital investment fund originating from European Financial Consulting Center – a leader within the scope of consultancy for small and medium-sized enterprises. The company's business contacts and experience enables to offer clients with much more than just financial support.EVIG builts a number of enterprises from scratch which involved various operations such as looking for additional sources of financing, team recruitment, planning a balanced budget and cash flow, as well as implementing our practical company management and market operation skills.
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Investment focus
- Retail, Internet, Online Portals
- Seed
- Poland
Portfolio highlights
- Shiny Group Sp. z o.o. — Shiny Group Sp. z o.o. delivers subscription box prepared by the celebrities to the subscribers.
Protos Venture Capital is a funding company that is focused on internet businesses in Poland. It also includes mobile projects based on Software-as-a-Service, marketplace, lead-generator, and e-commerce sectors.
Protos Venture Capital is based in Warszawa, Poland.
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Investment focus
- Mobile Apps, Fashion, Marketplace
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Poland, France, Turkey
Portfolio highlights
- Droplabs — Droplabs is Poland's leading online sales software for the experiences industry. Hundreds of Attraction, Tour and Activity providers use our software to sale tickets and activities through various channels including own website, hotel desks, travel agencies, aggregators, network of affiliates or on-site. Our software also helps with real-timeoffer, capacity & pricing management; entry management and day-to-day operations optimisation.We keep the product self-serviced and simple to use on any device. We are end buyers advocate: Buying, storing and using tickets must be seamless!We are SaaS with no exceptions.
- MultiWash | CarWash App — Multiwash cooperates with 600+ car washes in Poland to bring high quality eco friendly subscription plans for companies via convenient mobile app. More than 15k subsription users, over 100 enterprise clients, like Pepsico, Microsoft, Tchibo, ING Bank, Pfizer, Sanofi, Roche, Red Bull, TDK, DPD, Rossmann & others.
- EkoFachowcy.pl — EkoFachowcy enables anyone to compare and select the best offers of renewable energy sources, such as photovoltaic panels, heat pumps, solar collectors, wind turbines, or recuperators.
We invest in B2B tech entrepreneurs who are obsessed with solving complex problems in huge markets at pre-seed and seed stage
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Germany, United States, Poland
Portfolio highlights
- Hero — Hero is a B2B payments and financing platform, offer direct online payment experience and receive your money immediately.
- Otterspace — Otterspace takes care of DAOs.
- Flinn — We are driven to impact the health of millions of people around the globe by enabling medical companies to launch and operate products more efficiently. To make this vision come true, we established a customer-centric, experimentation-driven product development approach.
Evan You - Founder @ Vue.js
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Investment focus
- Retail, Software, E-Commerce
- Series A
- Poland
Portfolio highlights
- Vue Storefront — Vue Storefront provides online shopping experiences like native apps, boosts site performance, & customization. Check other benefits!
Paul St. John is a former SVP of Worldwide Sales at GItHub.
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Investment focus
- Software, Open Source, Retail
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Poland, Denmark
Portfolio highlights
- Cased — The modern terminal for teams & platform for production work
- Coana (acquired by Socket) — Coana's SCA identifies vulnerabilities in open source packages that are genuinely reachable, allowing you to confidently disregard up to 95% false positives.
- Vue Storefront — Vue Storefront provides online shopping experiences like native apps, boosts site performance, & customization. Check other benefits!
Matt Biilmann is the CEO and Co-founder of Netlify.
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Investment focus
- Software, Developer Tools, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, France, Poland
Portfolio highlights
- Nx — Get to green PRs in half the time. Nx optimizes your builds, scales your CI, and fixes failed PRs. Built for developers and AI agents.
- PartyKit — PartyKit is an open source deployment platform for AI agents.
- Edgeless Systems — Protect sensitive data, cloud-native apps, and AI workloads with confidential computing and real runtime encryption. Achieve digital sovereignty, compliance, and scale workloads without expanding on-prem infrastructure.
Philippe started his career as founder and CEO of KEYRUS, a pioneering web agency that provided support to major brands in their digital strategies (acquired in 2000 by Progiware Group). He then went on to found and head MAYREV, a fashion and accessories brand operating through its own store network and other distributors until 2005.
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Investment focus
- Internet, Software, E-Commerce
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- France, Poland, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Phacet — Achieve rapid ROI with tailored AI Applications connected to your systems powered by Phacet.
- Twin — Agentic AI, made actionable.
- Neuralk-AI — The first AI embedding models specialized for structured data representation.
Christian Bach is the President & Co-founder of Netlify.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Developer Platform
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Denmark, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- MaxFense — MaxFense is a company that focuses on enhancing the security of the internet through their ethical products. Primary among their offerings is the MaxFense Endpoint Security, which enables clients to check, prevent, detect, and respond to potential information security threats, regardless of whether they originate from inside or outside theorganization. This approach aligns with contemporary security standards that have increasingly recognized the importance of robust endpoint security in the face of diversified threat vectors.
- Reel Energy — Reel empowers all companies to procure renewable electricity that makes a real difference for the climate.
- Daytona — Deploy Al code with confidence using Daytona's lightning-fast infrastructure. 90ms environment creation, stateful operations, and enterprise-grade security.
ValueTech Seed is an early stage venture capital fund focusing on innovations in Energy and Industrial Manufacturing. We seek to partner with dedicated teams developing breakthrough technologies that can be deployed within the next 2-5 years. Our areas of particular interest include but are not limited to: Industry 4.0, renewables, cleantech,energy storage, smart grid and smart home, AI/IoT applications.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Media and Entertainment
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
- Poland
Portfolio highlights
- Aleet — Aleet has developed sophisticated systems encompassing proprietary digital twin technology for strategic fleet operational planning and advanced AI-driven routing optimization. It serves sectors such as fleet operators, e-commerce, food delivery, civil services, defense, and more.
- Hustro — Hustro - MainSite
- Nevomo — Nevomo develops the next generation of High-Speed Railways (HSR), based on magnetic levitation, linear motor and autonomous control systems, which can be subsequently transformed into a vacuum version. It is the only company globally working on technology enabling a gradual implementation of Hyperloop-inspired solutions as an upgrade for therailway industry. The company has developed a unique, patent-pending magrail technology, which allows modernizing existing conventional railway lines to a standard of passive magnetic railways, reaching speed of 300 kph (186 mph) on normal lines and 415 kph (258 mph) on HSR lines. The magrail system allows keeping the functionality of conventional railways on a modernized line (railway operators can depreciate their existing rolling stock).Magrail can be subsequently transformed into a vacuum system – hyperrail, reaching speed of 600 kph (373 mph) on normal lines and 1000 kph (621 mph) on HSR lines.The third generation is hyperloop – vacuum magnetic railways built within new transportation corridors for top speed of 1200 kph (746 mph), using subsystems tested in the first two generations.Capex for retrofitting railway infrastructure to a magrail standard are estimated to ca. EUR 6-8 million per km, which is comparable to the cost of building a new highway and up to 60-70% lower than the average cost of building a new HSR line in the EU. Energy costs will be lower by ca. 13% for the speed of 300 kph (186 mph) compared to HSR, whole for the speed of 415 kph (258 mph) magrail needs the same amount of energy than HSR currently for 300 kph (186 mph). The maintenance costs will be ca. 25% lower than for HSR, due to elimination of friction of mechanical elements at high speeds.The company was founded in 2017 and until mid-2019 it submitted 8 patent applications. In the first half of 2019 it secured an EUR 3.8 million grant in Poland and raised EUR 334 thousands during the first Polish equity crowdfunding campaign on a UK-based platform Seedrs. Currently a Proof of Concept (PoC) is almost completed (ca. 50 m. long test track, which will be demonstrated in Q4.2019)., while at the turn of 2020 and 2021 a demonstration of the first full-scale prototype is planned.Corporate partners include TME Transfer Multisort Electronics and Microsoft. Key member of the R&D team is prof. Jacek F Gieras who has conducted research on Shinkansen SCMaglev at the Central Japan Railway Company. The company has got an international Advisory Board, including: Dorota Raben - expert in logistics & the former President of the Board of the Maritime Port of Gdansk SA, Amos Ron- former Director General at the Ministry of Energy and Infrastructure in Israel, and Vladas Lašas (also an early investor in Hyper Poland) who has co-founded Carbon War room together with Sir Richard Branson.
HardGamma Ventures is a venture capital fund that invests in startups that focuses on computing, internet, biotechnology, and more. Early stage VC fund focused on Polish and CEE startups.The Fund invests in projects such as seed and startups in the area of computing, Internet, mobile technologies, the biotechnology sector and physicochemicaltechnologies. HardGamma Ventures invests in strong teams developing projects with global potential - providing funding and support for business planning, marketing, product positioning and other business functions.The HardGamma team is constantly in contact and cooperation with leading competitions and incubator programs in Europe and USA - Seedcamp (UK), The Difference Engine (UK), Springboard (UK), Startup Bootcamp (Denmark), TechStars (United States), and the pan-European incubator program HackFwd (Germany), where the team is responsible for the assessment and certification program for start-ups, and the International Incubator of the University of Maryland (United States).The team of HardGamma is also building a network affiliation with other VC funds in the region to broaden the range of exploration and investment opportunities and to increase international support and business opportunities for the portfolio of projects.
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, Enterprise Software
- Seed, Funding Round, Convertible Note
- United Kingdom, Poland, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Silverback.ai — The ultimate business intelligence platform for e-commerce marketplaces
- Proxigroup — Solving the lack of visibility and transparency in asset management.
- Carv — Improve your skiing technique with real-time audio coaching. Carv uses pressure and motion analysis to score your technique and help you improve.
Chris Murphy is a Venture Partner at MS&AD Ventures. He previously cofounded SaaStock and was an early Web Summit employee.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Germany, Denmark
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- Zero — Buy verified cash app account at the best IT service provider smmsellshop at cost-effective price, we provide SSN, Bank & Selfie verified accounts.
- Twirl — A seamless experience for deploying data products
- SimpleStudy — Learn smarter with revision notes, past papers, quizzes, and expert tools for major Irish academic exams. Join SimpleStudy Ireland and boost your grades today.
Matt Biilmann is the CEO and Co-founder of Netlify.
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Investment focus
- Software, Developer Tools, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, France, Poland
Portfolio highlights
- Nx — Nx is a build system, optimized for monorepos, with plugins for popular frameworks and tools and advanced CI capabilities including caching and distribution.
- PartyKit — PartyKit is an open source deployment platform for AI agents.
- Edgeless Systems — Industry-leading solutions for confidential computing. Our products are open source and work across clouds. They are intuitive to use for DevOps and Engineering Teams.
Heini is Vivino’s Founder and Chief Executive Officer. Credited with bringing a technology revolution to the wine industry, Heini founded Vivino because he was frustrated by not knowing which wine to buy. It’s been his passion project ever since. During his tenure, Vivino has grown into a community of 46 million users, raised $72 million infunding, and rolled out a worldwide wine marketplace. Before starting Vivino, Heini co-founded several startups, including global internet and mobile security company BullGuard. Heini leads the team from Vivino’s European headquarters in Copenhagen, Denmark. Heini and Vivino’s story is featured in an independent documentary, “Disrupting Wine, The Life of an Entrepreneur.” Heini also hosts the YouTube series Raw Startup, which offers candid advice for entrepreneurs and startups.
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Investment focus
- Software, Apps, Gaming
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Denmark, Poland, Iceland
Portfolio highlights
- Tiimo — Tiimo helps you manage your daily life and improve your wellbeing. Visualize your day. Improve your routines. Stress less.
- Uniify — Uniify is a no-code customer onboarding software that makes it fast, easy and secure for financial companies to onboard their customers. Save your business time and money, and build onboarding flows for your customers in minutes instead of months.
- Finematter — Using technology to help exceptional jewellery designers scale sustainably
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