Top 20 Retail Startup Investors in Poland in May 2026

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• throxy — Outbound partner for complex industries like manufacturing, education, and healthcare. Throxy runs your outbound with custom tech to book qualified sales meetings.
• Klavis AI — Klavis AI is a software company that provides model context protocol integrations for artificial intelligence applications.
• Sherpa Labs — Sherpa Labs creates an AI-powered ecosystem to enhance and automate the entire data science process.

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• PARTORY — PARTORY offers complete manufacturing solutions in engineering. PARTORY utilising AI and machine learning to streamline the procurement process for low-cost metal parts
• 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.

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• Athos — The Athos mission is to help athletes train more effectively and reach their performance goals faster. Athos does this by bringing together the most relevant data and exercise science to deliver simple, actionable insights that allow coaches and athletes to get the most out of their training.
• Lassie — Lassie is the first proactive and preventive pet insurance company that wants to help pet owners take better care of their pets
• Adverity — Adverity is the fully-integrated data platform for businesses to easily automate the connectivity, transformation, and governance of data at scale.

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• SLNG — SLNG is radically global infrastructure for speech AI.
• TastyUrban — TastyUrban is in the process of developing a new generation of restaurant usage and strategy.
• Black Forest Labs — Black Forest Labs creates advanced generative deep learning models for images and videos. They focus on making these technologies widely accessible and transparent, ensuring that their innovations are easy to use and understand. This approach aims to democratize access to cutting-edge technology and foster greater trust and utility.

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• Vivino — Vivino empowers people everywhere to enjoy wine to the fullest. Vivino is the world's largest online wine marketplace and most downloaded wine app, powered by a community of millions. Vivino’s unique wine shopping experience uses community data to suggest personalized wine recommendations, make wine discovery, and purchase fun, accessible, andeffortless for wine drinkers of every level of expertise. The Vivino app is available for download on Android and Apple devices. The company was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
• terralayr — At terralayr, we're not just offering storage and batteries; we're pioneering a new era of energy flexibility. In a world where renewable energy is on the rise, the need for flexibility in energy storage has never been more crucial. That's where we come in.
• Project Eaden — PROJECT EADEN combines pioneering technology and engineering expertise with an immense love for food and lust for life. For full indulgence. With zero guilt.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• Defguard — Self-hosted WireGuard VPN that replaces your legacy stack. Connection-level MFA, built-in identity, no cloud dependency. One platform, full control.
• Principle — Test your strategic decisions before you commit. Principle simulates competitors, regulators, and market forces to stress-test your bets against adversarial reality.
• Proteine Resources — We want to revolutionize the feed and food market, build robotic factories, process bio-waste in high-quality protein, fat and fertilizer insects.

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• 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.

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• Zero — Protect your devices and gain access to websites. Round-the-clock customer support. VPN for Windows, Android, macOS, iOS, and routers. Free trial period.
• 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.

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• Nx — The Monorepo Platform that amplifies both developers and AI agents. Nx optimizes your builds, scales your CI, and automatically 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.

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• 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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• Shiny Group Sp. z o.o. — Shiny Group Sp. z o.o. delivers subscription box prepared by the celebrities to the subscribers.

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• 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.
• Kolay Randevu — Kolay Randevu is an online beauty booking marketplace and salon management software for salons.
• 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.

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• 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.

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• Vue Storefront — Vue Storefront provides online shopping experiences like native apps, boosts site performance, & customization. Check other benefits!

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• Flex To Go — Low Rental Prices - Clear and Transparent Car Rental Procedures. Reserve a Car Online!
• Baltkom TV SIA — Baltkom TV SIA offers cable television services in Latvia. The company offers digital television, voice and internet services over its cable and MMDS networks. It also provides mobile telecommunications services.
• DELICPOL Sp. z o.o. — Making your products tasty and healthier

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• 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.