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Top 50 Software Angel Investors in Poland

Last updated: Apr 2024 A list of 50 angel investors that invest in Software startups based in Poland. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Software companies from Poland. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Software Angel Investors in Poland

Investor	Software Poland investments
Chris Schagen	3
Marcin Zukowski	3
Kevin Mahaffey	3
Pawel Chodaczek	2
Taavet Hinrikus	2
Rafał Brzoska	2
Piotr Smolen	2
Francesco Simoneschi	2
Charles Zedlewski	2
Maciej Frankowicz	2
Guillermo Rauch	2
Jaroslaw Krolewski	2
Ronald Cohen	2
Piotr Krzysztofik	2
Rafał Sonik	2
Apostolos Apostolakis	2
Christian Dahlen	2
Balaji Srinivasan	1
Wojtek Sadowski	1
Sebastian Siemiatkowski	1
Brent Hoberman	1
Martin Tajur	1
Michał Grom	1
Founding Team	1
Konstantin von Unger	1
Cezary Smorszczewski	1
Szymon Sypniewicz	1
Maciej Maliszewski	1
Garrett Camp	1
Sahin Boydas	1
Luca Puccioni	1
Fred Ehrsam	1
Antoni Kozelski	1
Roham Gharegozlou	1
Sophia Bendz	1
Przemek Kowalczyk	1
Marcin Wenus	1
David Rowan	1
Szymon Horaczuk	1
Piotr Jakubowski	1
Mikołaj Machowczyk	1
Bartosz Dobrzyński	1
Wojciech Sadowski	1
Blaine Vess	1
Łukasz Lewandowski	1
Andrzej Targosz	1
Krzysztof Polak	1
Sebastian Szczygiel	1
Lucjan Samulowski	1
Szymon Klimczak	1

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I help developer tech entrepreneurs beginning from crazy idea, through MVP stage, product market fit, go-to-market fit, up to go-to-market scaling. Also I help you get your first 1000 leads. Before, I was the CMO at Contentful and helped it grow from $0m to $50m in ARR, and before that founded 3 companies, including Wooga (exit to Playtika),Linklift, and Mundwerk.I obsess about being customer-centric and customer-driven in building your organization. And I am the curmodgeon who tells you things you need to (but probably don't want to) hear.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Germany, United States, France

Portfolio highlights

DGG — Reliably deliver impressive results, thanks to a single, standardized pipeline for 3D tooling and delivery.
PartyKit — PartyKit is an open source deployment platform for AI agents.
Growblocks — Growblocks GTM Data model builds your full SaaS bowtie - letting you forecast, plan and monitor performance across your go-to-market engine.

Marcin invented vectorized query execution for databases. His innovation emerged from his PhD research into optimizing database query execution for modern processors.The technology inspired him to co-found Vectorwise, which produced the fastest single-node analytical database on the market. As Vectorwise CEO, Marcin led the company through itsacquisition by Actian in 2010. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Amsterdam.

Investment focus

Software, Apps, Manufacturing
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
Poland, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Airly — Airly empowers individuals and communities with knowledge about the air they breathe. Airly is changing the way people see the air they breathe by providing accurate, hyper-local data about air pollution.
Amano — Amano to redesign the communication between merchants and consumers.
Fluency — Fluency is a blockchain-empowered CBDC proprietary platform revolutionizing the existing financial system. Their blockchain enterprise smart contract platform was developed for the purpose of building and interconnecting national multi CBDC networks. Fluency Aureum allows issuance, distribution, and exchange of multi-CBDCs between central banks,commercial banks, merchants, and consumers. The company's proprietary technology is specifically tailored with the idea of bringing technological and economical innovations of digital currencies to the existing financial system.It was incorporated in 2019, headquartered in London, UK with subsidiaries in Delaware, US, and Dublin, Ireland.

Kevin Patrick Mahaffey is the Founder of Lookout and SNR. He is also the Executive Chairman of Stork Club and an Investor.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Canada, India

Portfolio highlights

dcbel — dcbel's mission is to deliver energy that lets people live a life without compromise.dcbel™ (formerly known as Ossiaco) sits at the nexus of residential solar power, electric vehicle charging, the smart home, and customer-centric utilities. The dcbel team has a proven history of rethinking energy distribution for everything from largeutility customers to distributed energy resource providers.dcbel's AI-driven sustainable technologies enable people to leverage solar energy to power their cars, their homes, and their lifestyles.dcbel has numerous worldwide patents in power electronics and power conversion and is backed by a number of globally respected investors.
Monomer Bio — Monomer Bio provides solutions for laboratory automation. We specialize in automating biology research with a focus on cell culture. Automate your cell culture workflows by leveraging the Monomer automation software platform in conjunction with readily-available hardware and instrumentation.
Saleor Commerce — A headless, GraphQL-first e-commerce platform delivering ultra-fast, dynamic, personalized shopping experiences. Find out why developers love it.

Paweł Chodaczek is the Investor/Partner at Synerise. Pawel attended Warsaw University of Technology and Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology.

Investment focus

Software, Analytics, Machine Learning
Angel, Funding Round
Poland

Portfolio highlights

Synerise — We reinvented behavioral data processing & put it into work using AI & automation. API first, headless, customizable & scalable, real-time interaction management, low code platform driven by science with data orchestration and pragmatic business scenarios execution.

Taavet Hinrikus is co-founder and CEO of TransferWise. Prior to starting TransferWise, Taavet was Skype’s director of strategy until 2008, starting as its first-ever employee. One of the World Economic Forum's Tech Pioneers, Taavet is an adviser to Prime Minister of Estonia on the digital agenda. He’s also a mentor and angel investor; hisinvestments include Tweetdeck, Mendeley, OMGPOP, Property Partner, Sunrise, Improbable and Mapillary.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Software
Seed, Series A, Series B
United Kingdom, United States, Estonia

Portfolio highlights

Meatable — Meatable is a food production company that produces real and guilt-free meat. With one cell, they are revolutionizing the meat industry's impact on climate change and animal welfare. At the same time they increase food security, without compromising the culinary experience of eating tasty, real meat. They aim to satisfy the world'sappetite for meat without harming people, animals, and the planet.It was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Delft, South Holland, The Netherlands.
Open Cosmos — Driven by the vision of making space accessible to anyone, Open Cosmos provides simple and affordable space missions.Open Cosmos went from design to delivery of qb01, their first nanosatellite, in only four months, followed by a launch and deployment in LEO early April 2017. They are currently working with innovative payload developers towardsin-orbit demonstration and constellation deployment to enable services ranging from remote sensing to maritime domain awareness and machine-to-machine communications.
Unearthly Materials — Unearthly Materials is a transformative materials company focused on delivering practical room-temperature superconductors and powering the century of superconductivity.

Rafał Brzoska - CEO @ Integer.pl Group

Investment focus

B2B, E-Commerce, Information Technology
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
Poland, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

RESPONSIBLE — Responsible has developed a re-commerce finance platform for retailers to extend the lifespan of their products.
SALESmanago — The only no-code, AI driven CDXP with natively built & integrated hyperpersonalized marketing execution channels.
Social WiFi — Social WiFi - Turn your WiFi network into a marketing machine. Collect customer data, boost your ROI, and get more positive online reviews.

Piotr Smolen is the Co-Founder and CEO at symmetrical.ai. Attended SGH Warsaw School of Economics.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Mobile Apps
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Poland, United Kingdom, Gibraltar

Portfolio highlights

Sundose — Sundose is a manufacturer of data-driven diet supplements.
Ramp — Allow users to buy and sell crypto without leaving your app or wallet. Buy and sell crypto directly on our website.
symmetrical.ai — Symmetrical is the only payroll service & fully integrated HR platform designed for modern People Teams.

Francesco Simoneschi is the co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of TrueLayer. In three short years, Francesco and his co-Founder Luca Martinetti, have built TrueLayer into one of the world's leading providers of financial APIs. Their mission is to grow the Open Banking economy by creating a truly global platform for companies to developnew financial services and products. His leadership has enabled TrueLayer to negotiate integration partnerships with most of Europe’s major banks, winning a host of leading companies as clients, sign a global partnership with Visa, and secure investment from companies including Tencent and Temasek. Over the last decade, Francesco has founded, managed, and grown a number of successful tech companies in the US and Europe. Prior to founding TrueLayer, Francesco launched the angel fund Mission and Market in San Francisco in 2014. Mission and Market provide capital for entrepreneurs in a wide range of industries including healthcare, fintech, biotech, and education. Under Francesco’s guidance, the fund invested in more than 50 startups. Before this, Francesco founded the analytics platform Staq.io in 2012. The startup was later acquired by mobile game developer Playhaven. Following Staq.io’s acquisition, he joined the mobile marketing platform Upsight where he was promoted to Product Owner and Tech Lead. Francesco has also served as VP of Strategy at FOVE, who built the world’s first eye-tracking virtual reality headset.He has a degree in Information Management and Economics from the London School of Economics and a degree in Computer Engineering from La Sapienza University Rome.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, B2B
Seed, Series A, Equity Crowdfunding
United Kingdom, Poland, United States

Portfolio highlights

Ramp — Allow users to buy and sell crypto without leaving your app or wallet. Buy and sell crypto directly on our website.
CIRCA5000 — Invest in businesses enriching the planet, its people, and most of all, you.
Payable — Scale your business with our payment operations API and dashboard. Track, reconcile and make payments instantly.

Charles is a business and product leader with 20 years of experience building, advising and investing in category-defining platform companies.Most recently Charles served as Chief Operating Officer at Temporal Technologies, the leader in durable execution systems where he built and led all the company’s go-to-market and product functions whilecreating the category and launching the commercial product. In less than 3 years Temporal grew its users, customers, revenues and value by 20-100 times.Prior to Temporal Technologies, Charles spent nearly 10 years building Cloudera first as the product leader and subsequently as general manager for Cloudera’s 3 high growth business units. As the longest serving member of the leadership team, Charles helped Cloudera grow from a pre-product startup with less than $10 million in funding to a multi-product public company with nearly $800 million in ARR. Charles has advised or invested in other notable platform companies and investors including Airbyte, Baseten, Huggingface, Streamsets and Y Combinator.Charles has an undergraduate degree from Carleton College and a master’s from MIT and lives in San Francisco.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Analytics
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Cyprus, Poland

Portfolio highlights

Baseten — Baseten is the ML Application Builder for data science teams. Ship full-stack apps in minutes. No frontend, backend, or infrastructure knowledge required.
Vectara — SaaS
Numbers Station — Numbers station is a software development platform that enables artificial intelligence workflows.

Maciej Frankowicz is the CEO and Partner at Shape.vc. He is also an Investor in AdTonos, Scanye, Sherlock Waste, and Aether Biomedical. Prior to that, he was the Business Developer and co-founder of AudioTrip.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Biotechnology, Information Technology
Pre-Seed, Seed
Poland

Portfolio highlights

Checly — Checly create, manage and check control processes across multiple industries.
Surveily — Surveily applies Artificial Intelligence to increase safety in manufacturing plants. It integrates with existing CCTV infrastructure to minimise deployment cost. It detects threats in real-time and allows for early prevention and mitigation. We cater to the most dangerous sectors that require an ever increasing safety parameters such as chemical,gas and oil.
Aether Biomedical — Aether Biomedical is a medical robotics company making bionics accessible to all. We aim to deliver medical devices engineered to exceed global standards.

Before starting ZEIT in November 2015, Guillermo was the CTO and co-founder of LearnBoost and Cloudup, acquired by Automattic in 2013. He's the creator of several popular Node.JS open source libraries like socket.io, mongoose and slackin. Prior to Node.JS, he was a core developer of the MooTools frontend toolkit.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Developer Tools
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Germany, Argentina

Portfolio highlights

Dexa AI — Explore the knowledge of trusted experts, that was previously locked in podcasts.
Jam — Report bugs in seconds, and get back to what you were doing. It's as easy as taking a screenshot. Fast for you, and perfect for the engineers.
Knock — Knock is flexible, reliable notifications infrastructure that's built to scale with you. Use our APIs to engage your users, power cross-channel workflows, and manage notification preferences.

CEO Synerise. Co-Owner of Wisla Krakow. During professional career he used to work Fortune 500 companies and got numerous prestigious national and international awards with Synerise Team.Since 2010 lecturer and researcher at the AGH University of Science and Technology (two faculties) in Krakow, where he co-founded award-winning courses and fulltime program studies of my own authorship from the scratch, including; Social Informatics, E-Economy (the most innovative course of study in Poland in 2012 according to the Ministry of Science and Higher Education) and Digital Marketing. He is an ambassador of the AGH brand and a mentor in the Polish Development Fund network. He graduated from two fields of study (computer science and sociology), and he is currently working on an interdisciplinary PhD. He has been a participant of many conferences and a guest lecturer at Polish and foreign universities. Together with partners he rolled out PhD Data Science Studies. He is also the author of publications, including bestsellers, inter alia published as part of the PWN Scientific Publishers. He is founder and creator of AI School Program and Academy for schools and kindergartens started in 2019 in Poland.

Investment focus

Soccer, Sports, Software
Funding Round
Poland

Portfolio highlights

Synerise — We reinvented behavioral data processing & put it into work using AI & automation. API first, headless, customizable & scalable, real-time interaction management, low code platform driven by science with data orchestration and pragmatic business scenarios execution.
Wisla Krakow — 13-krotny mistrz Polski | 13-krotny wicemistrz kraju | 4-krotny zdobywca pucharu Polski

Ronald Cohen is Chairman of the Global Social Impact Investment Steering Group and The Portland Trust. He is a co-founder director of Social Finance UK (2007-11), Social Finance USA, and Social Finance Israel, and of Big Society Capital. He was co-founder Chair of Bridges Ventures (2002-2012).He chaired the Social Impact Investment Taskforceestablished under the UK’s presidency of the G8 (2013-2015), the Social Investment Task Force (2000-2010) and the Commission on Unclaimed Assets (2005-2007). In 2012 he received the Rockefeller Innovation Award for innovation in social finance.He co-founded and was Executive Chairman of Apax Partners Worldwide LLP (1972-2005). He was a founder director and Chairman of the British Venture Capital Association and a founder director of the European Venture Capital Association.He is a graduate of Oxford University, where he was President of the Oxford Union. He is an Honorary Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford. He has an MBA from Harvard Business School to which he was awarded a Henry Fellowship.He is a member of the Board of Dean’s Advisors at Harvard Business School and Vice-Chairman of Ben Gurion University. He is a former director of the Harvard Management Company and the University of Oxford Investment Committee. He is a former member of the Harvard University Board of Overseers (2007-2013), former Trustee of the British Museum (2005-2012) and a former trustee of the International Institute for Strategic Studies (2005-2011).In 2007, Sir Ronald published: “The Second Bounce of the Ball – Turning Risk into Opportunity”.

Investment focus

Health Care, Software, Artificial Intelligence
Series A, Funding Round, Seed
Israel, United States, Poland

Portfolio highlights

Selina — Selina is one of the world’s fastest growing hospitality brands, combining beautifully-designed accommodation with coworking spaces, wellness, recreational offerings and local experiences for today’s nomadic traveler to live, work and explore anywhere in the world.With a design-centric, technology-first and socially-minded approach to travel,Selina currently operates 24 urban, beach, jungle and mountain-side locations across eight countries and is developing a global infrastructure for nomads who want to make the world their classroom, office, and playground.
Circles - Online Group Support — Circles is a revolutionary emotional support platform that ensures no one has to overcome life’s challenges alone. Circles enables people to be heard, understood and supported by others who are going through the same issues in their lives, such as the loss of a loved one, parenting issues or divorce. By connecting users in safe, intimate andprivate groups led by professional facilitators, Circles helps people heal. Circles groups meet live for 60-minute video meetings and also have the ability to message via online chat at any time. Circles users can also access personalized content, including self-help exercises, blogs and webinars, all at no extra cost. To learn more about Circles or to sign up for a free trial, visit circlesup.com.
Masterschool — Masterschool partners with tech industry leaders to help you build your dream career. Learn online, get unlimited career support, and pay no tuition until you find a job.

Business angel, entrepreneur, strategic advisor and innovator with over 22 years of experience in managing large international organizations with budgets of over $100 million. He was responsible for building, optimizing and developing new organizations, locations and branches of international, global companies providing IT services both in themarket in Poland and in nearshoring models (research and development, systems integration, IT engineering) for clients around the world. He participated in strategic business initiatives of companies such as Siemens, Atos, Global Logic in Poland and Europe. He has held positions such as CEO, President, Board Member or VP in global structures. He graduated with an MBA, is a certified coach (ICC) and mentor (EMCC). His key expertise is in scaling organizations, managing strategy and growth, operations and people; leadership; project management, mentoring. After the successful acquisition of GlobalLogic by Hitachi, he started his business as an entrepreneur. Peter's recent work experience includes being an Investor, CEO, Partner, Supervisory Board Member, Strategy Consultant in various start-ups and private initiatives. He supports the startup community by managing a ventures builder - Ventures21 - and through pro bono activities for young entrepreneurs as a coach, mentor and advisor.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Internet
Pre-Seed, Seed
Poland

Portfolio highlights

CUX —
Evryface — Evryface is an AI-powered solution that will create professional photos, avatars, and headshots of you without leaving a home. All you need is to send your photos to the application and get a studio-quality photo of you in minutes. Create whatever photos of yourself you want!
Ventures21 — A tech-driven venture builder in Europe. Using our multi-disciplinary skill set, we invest our knowledge, experience, ideas, and infrastructure to help entrepreneurs co-create and scale tech businesses

Rafał Sonik

Investment focus

B2B, SaaS, Software
Seed
Poland

Portfolio highlights

HCM Deck — HCM Deck is an HR enterprise platform that helps companies refine employee development and create a compelling employee experience. Request a free demo.

Apostolos is a serial entrepreneur turned investor. He started his career at Boston Consulting Group where he spent 2 years consulting businesses. On his entrepreneurial path, he has co-founded e-shop.gr, Openfund, e-food, doctoranytime and was a key investor in Taxibeat. Since 2010 he has invested and supported a large number of startups with afocus on e-marketplaces and SaaS. He studied civil engineering at NTUA and holds an MBA from Columbia Business School.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Apps
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Greece, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

HairRemoval.co.uk — HairRemoval UK is an international recognized company that is specialized in laser hair removal treatments.
Packhelp — Packhelp makes it easy for anyone to create, order and manage fully custom-branded packaging. It connects customers with the most suitable production possibilities, offering them a broad range of packaging products. Packhelp covers everything from local deliveries of small quantities to global procurement of large volumes, with Packhelp Studio – anonline editor for small businesses, instantly purchasable products and orders from 30 pieces, and Packhelp Plus, which helps mid-market companies scale their packaging needs. Founded in 2015, Packhelp currently serves 50,000 customers from over 30 countries. The list of customers includes brands recognized worldwide, like BMW, H&M, Google, L’Oreal, T-Mobile, Uber, Bolt and Wrangler, and many of the local champions from Europe.
Kriptomat — Buying, selling, and storing your favorite cryptocurrencies has never been easier! Register in seconds, and start trading in minutes on Kriptomat.

Christian Dahlen is a business angel. He provides expert capital and venture advice to B2B SW startups in Silicon Valley and in Germany. He is a member of the Band of Angels, Silicon Valley's oldest seed funding organization. Christian was a VP at SAP and held various roles in business strategy and operations. Prior to SAP, he was theGeneral Manager for the Internet and phone business of Kabel Deutschland (KDG), Germany's largest cable operator. He joined KDG from Excite@Home, and before that was with McKinsey & Co.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Analytics
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, Germany, France

Portfolio highlights

clous — Hybrid automated mechanical engineering
Deltia — We use computer vision and AI analytics to provide insights into manual assembly processes - our platform supports process engineers in driving productivity and quality of assembly processes
comstruct — Zeit und Geld sparen durch digitale Lieferscheine statt Papierscheine. Profitieren Sie von den Vorteilen strukturierter Produktgruppendaten!

Balaji S. Srinivasan is the Co-Founder and Board Member of Coin Center. He was the CTO of Coinbase and cofounder of Counsyl, Earn, Teleport, and Coin Center. He was previously CEO at Earn.com, which was recently sold to Coinbase. Prior to taking the CEO role at Earn.com, Dr. Srinivasan was a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz. Prior to joininga16z, he was the cofounder and CTO of Founders Fund-backed Counsyl, where he won the Wall Street Journal Innovation Award for Medicine and was named to the MIT TR35. Dr. Srinivasan holds a BS, MS, and PhD in Electrical Engineering and an MS in Chemical Engineering from Stanford University. He also teaches the occasional class at Stanford, including an online MOOC in 2013 which reached 250,000+ students worldwide.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, India, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

MyShell — MyShell is a decentralized and comprehensive platform for discovering, creating, and staking AI-native apps.
Utila — Utila is an enterprise-scale self-custody platform that manages your organization's crypto strategy with safe, chain-agnostic wallet infrastructure.
Clique — Clique is building identity oracles that connect web2 user behavior data with web3 applications.

I leverage my broad knowledge of IT and advertising in my everyday work by creating innovative products and marketing strategies.Those that have worked with me value my complete dedication to the project and experience in all areas of digital world. With clients, I position myself as a partner not a contractor, what tends to help me inestablishing long lasting business relationships. I'm eager to meet new people so please don't hesitate to contact me if you want to exchange opinions.

Investment focus

Text Analytics, Machine Learning, Image Recognition
Pre-Seed
Poland

Portfolio highlights

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.

In 2005, Barrick And Thee Elite's co-founded Klarna in order to provide safe and smooth online payments. He currently serves as its Chief Executive Officer. Over the past decade, he has overseen the company’s rapid growth across Europe and more recently into North America. Klarna is a now fully licensed bank with 60mn consumer and 170,000merchant user base. Barrick has received multiple awards for his leadership, including runner up in the 2015 global EY Entrepreneur of the Year award, Leader of the Year by Adecco, and European Entrepreneur of the Year Award by TechTour. He holds a master’s degree from the Stockholm School of Economics.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Internet
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Sweden, United States, Poland

Portfolio highlights

Nylas — Unlock the power of your communications data. The Nylas communication APIs remove complexity & empower teams to create seamless user experiences.
Prion — Prion makes it quick and easy for the preschool staff to give parents insight into what happens at preschool - together with the children. The app is available free for iPhone, Android and iPad.
Klarna — Einkaufen, was du willst. Bezahlen, wie du willst. Klarna bietet dir verschiedene Zahlungsarten an. Du entscheidest, welche am besten zu dir passt.

Brent Hoberman is chairman and co-founder of Founders Factory, an ambitious corporate backed incubator/accelerator based in London, and also of Founders Forum, a series of intimate annual global events for the leading entrepreneurs of today and the rising stars of tomorrow. Brent is a co-founder and was founding chairman of Smartup, Grip &made.com, a leading European direct-from-factory consumer homewares retailer. Most recently, Brent co-founded Firstminute Capital, a London-based pan-European seed fund, backed by some of the world's top entrepreneurs. Brent co-founded lastminute.comin April 1998, was CEO from its inception and sold it in 2005 to Sabre for $1.1bn. Technology businesses he has co-founded have raised over $500m. Brent sits on the Advisory board for LetterOne Technology (a $16bn investment fund), the Oxford Foundry and the UK Government Digital Advisory Board. He is a board member of The Economist, a YGL and one of the Prime Minister's Business Trade Ambassadors. Brent was awarded a CBE for services to entrepreneurship in the 2015 New Year's Honour's List.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Angel
United Kingdom, United States, France

Portfolio highlights

Bardeen — Bardeen is an automation app to replace your repetitive tasks with a single shortcut and control your web apps from anywhere. Explore our integrations with your favorite apps and hundreds of pre-built playbooks that help you stay in the flow.
Nous — Find out exactly how your household finances will be affected by the cost-of-living crisis with Nous on your side.
Framework — Framework is the world’s first on-demand business school, radically reimagined for them. Born out of Founders Forum, a private network of the world's top tech entrepreneurs, we’ve worked with over 100+ operators—across product, growth, ops, people, data, engineering & design, from some of the world's most innovative companiesincluding Monzo, Babylon, Bulb & Depop—to pioneer a new model of lifelong learning.

Martin Tajur is the co-founder of Pipedrive.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Recruiting
Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
Estonia, Poland, Ukraine

Portfolio highlights

YuMuuv — YuMuuv is an employee wellness platform that uses science-based formulas to capture data and keeps track of physical activity & leaderboard.
MX Labs — Allow your user to comprehensively monitor their vital signs. Check wellbeing, prevent misdiagnosis, and motivate lifestyle changes thanks to Shen.AI.
SegmentStream — SegmentStream is a data intelligence platform which helps collect and unify from different data sources into own data warehouse for advanced analytics and attribution. Our solution is trusted by leading brands such as Benetton, Nespresso, New Balance, myToys, Eventim Group, and others.

Michał Grom

Investment focus

B2B, SaaS, Fashion
Seed
Poland

Portfolio highlights

SilkPLM — SilkPLM is a pioneering cloud-based Saas platform that enhances the supply chain through comprehensive Product Lifecycle Management (PLM). Our PLM solutions facilitate the management of a product's entire lifecycle — from inception and design through manufacture, service, and disposal. By centralizing data, streamlining processes, andfostering collaboration across all stages of product development, we ensure transparency and efficiency from origin to destination.Our Expertise Our core strengths include: Efficiently identifying and leveraging opportunities to improve product lifecycle processes. Enhancing operational efficiency by optimizing management practices. Developing innovative solutions rooted in best practices, thanks to the forward-thinking approach of our dedicated SilkPLM team.Why Choose SilkPLM? SilkPLM stands out for providing: Advanced analysis, strategic planning, and productivity enhancements, particularly for the retail sector, through effective PLM integration. A comprehensive suite of software, training, and support services designed to tackle production challenges, improve organizational productivity, and streamline the product development lifecycle. Customized system adaptation techniques that recognize each business's unique challenges and goals, offering tailored solutions for effective lifecycle management.Benefits of Partnering with SilkPLM Engaging with SilkPLM brings tangible benefits, including: Control: Greater oversight across all product lifecycle phases ensures informed decision-making. Time: Significant savings by streamlining processes and focusing on strategic, high-value activities. Confidence: Enhanced certainty in all business engagements, backed by comprehensive lifecycle data and insights. Partnership: A commitment to collaboration, with SilkPLM standing by your side at every step of the product lifecycle.

Founding Team

Investment focus

Web3, FinTech, Blockchain
Pre-Seed
Poland

Portfolio highlights

Retro Bridge — Instantly Bridge Anywhere with Lowest Fees

Konstantin Unger is a Partner of Quarton International. He has been serving on the Shareholder Committee of Henkel AG since 2003 and is Vice Chairman of the Personnel Committee. He also co-founded and is on the board of HFO, a leading European family office. Before he helped founding Blue Corporate Finance in 2001, he was working as the managingdirector and leader of business development at the technology firms Sportal Ltd and Excite International. Previosuly, he worked with management consultants Bain & Co in Munich and corporate finance advisors The Lazard Brothers in London.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Machine Learning
Seed, Series A, Series D
United States, Poland, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Socotra — Uniquely agile and scalable, Socotra empowers insurance carriers of all sizes worldwide to think, act, and grow effectively and efficiently
Airly — Airly empowers individuals and communities with knowledge about the air they breathe. Airly is changing the way people see the air they breathe by providing accurate, hyper-local data about air pollution.
Vector — Vector's YMS provides real-time tracking, digital check-in, dock assignments, yard moves & audits, as well as insightful analytics for a seamless pickup and delivery experience.

Cezary Smorszczewski

Investment focus

Mobile, Payments, Software
Funding Round, Post-IPO Equity
Poland

Portfolio highlights

ATM — ATM S.A. is a Polish public company with a 25-year history, listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange (symbol: ATM) since September 2004. The main shareholders of the company are its founders.The company is known in Poland as the owner and operator of the nationwide Atman network and three state-of-the-art data centers. It is a leader in colocation andbrodband data transmisson services, and offers Internet access services as well. Major recipients of services of ATM S.A. are Polish and international carriers, financial institutions, media and other enterprises of substantial telecommunications needs.ATM development strategy assumes maintaining the leading position in the Polish data center market as well as the leading position among operators of fiber-optic networks in the largest Polish cities.
Mobiltek — Mobiltek, the firm behind online and mobile payments company Dotpay.
3Soft — 3Soft helps companies in implementing the Data-Driven Business approach by offering solutions in the field of Artificial Intelligence.

Szymon Sypniewicz is a Co-Founder and CEO at Ramp.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Artificial Intelligence
Pre-Seed
Poland

Portfolio highlights

Deepflare — Lightning up the vaccine discovery process

Maciej Maliszewski

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence
Pre-Seed
Poland

Portfolio highlights

PerfectBot — An AI chatbot that learns from your content to instantly resolve tickets and free up your team.

Garrett Camp is the Founder of Expa. He previously worked at StumbleUpon as a CEO and Co-Founder. Garrett Camp attended the University of Calgary.

Investment focus

Software, Logistics, Enterprise Software
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, Poland, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Forward — Forward is revolutionary primary care focused on your long-term health, with top-rated doctors supported by technology.
Airly — Airly empowers individuals and communities with knowledge about the air they breathe. Airly is changing the way people see the air they breathe by providing accurate, hyper-local data about air pollution.
Collective — Collective offers financial solutions designed for self-employed business owners - company formation, tax, accounting & bookkeeping.

Sahin Boydas is the Head of RemoteTeam at Gusto.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Mexico, Spain

Portfolio highlights

Heyday AI — Manage all your social media messages in one place, including private messages and comments, with Hootsuite. Clean up your inbox with a free trial now!
Shield AI — AI pilots will revolutionize battlefields and commercial aviation at a scale greater than the self-driving movement reshaping our highways.
Wild Microbes — Wild Microbes is developing a microbial platform to produce faster and cheaper sustainable products from plastic to protein.

Luca Puccioni is the Founder and CEO of MioDottore. He previously worked at HomeAway as a Director, Sales Southern Europe . Luca Puccioni attended IE Business School.

Investment focus

Text Analytics, Machine Learning, Image Recognition
Pre-Seed
Poland

Portfolio highlights

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.

Fred Ehrsam is the Co-Founder of Paradigm.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
Seed, Series A, Series C
United States, Canada, Israel

Portfolio highlights

NewLimit — NewLimit is extending human healthspan by unlocking regenerative potential.
Wispr AI — Wispr AI is a developer of the next-generation of neural interfaces to provide seamless interface with immersive technology. The company is working with the leading neuroscientist, hardware engineers, machine learning researchers, and product engineers to bring frontier technology to the mass consumer market.
Cognition — Cognition is an applied artificial intelligence lab that focuses on reasoning and code.

Startup-minded tech entrepreneur and business angel. Co-founder and CEO at Vstorm and Ventures21. Working globally, focusing mainly on western Europe, CEE, and the USA. Key areas of expertise: strategy; team development; finances; management; business growth; scaling and marketing. My personal interests are growth management; strategy; investment& advisory; energy management; anthropology; creating music & DJ; traveling and surf/snow/wakeboarding.

Investment focus

SaaS, Software
Pre-Seed
Poland

Portfolio highlights

Evryface — Evryface is an AI-powered solution that will create professional photos, avatars, and headshots of you without leaving a home. All you need is to send your photos to the application and get a studio-quality photo of you in minutes. Create whatever photos of yourself you want!

Roham is founder and CEO of Axiom Zen, an award-winning venture studio that specializes in emerging technology. Axiom Zen’s first public blockchain project, CryptoKitties, is the world’s most successful blockchain game and the first decentralized application to effectively engage a consumer audience. CryptoKitties has been covered by Fortune,Bloomberg, and the BBC, accounting for roughly a quarter of the Ethereum network’s traffic within a week of launch and introducing hundreds of thousands of new users to blockchain technology. Axiom Zen was named first among Canada’s Most Innovative Companies by Canadian Business. Their products have touched 200+ million consumers and are used by the world’s leading companies, including Facebook, Microsoft, and NASA, as well as by eminent academic institutions and government organizations. They pride themselves in diversity of talent: a team of ~80+ creatives includes published authors, over a dozen former founders, diversity from 20+ national origins, and decades of collective experience at startups and Fortune 500s alike. Axiom Zen has been working with Bitcoin and various forms of blockchain and distributed ledger technologies since 2014. Axiom Zen is also the team behind ZenHub, the world’s leading collaboration solution for technical teams using GitHub; and the developer of Timeline, named Apple’s Best App of January, Editor’s Choice in 10 countries, and Best New App in 88 countries. Axiom Zen is the creator of Toby, recognized as Top Chrome Extension of the year by both Google and Product Hunt, and the parent company of Hammer & Tusk, a leader in the world of immersive experiences (AR/VR). Axiom Zen's work has been featured in TIME Magazine, The New York Times, Vice, and Fast Company. History Prior to founding Axiom Zen, Roham served with the Rising Tide Fund bas

Investment focus

Blockchain, Software, Cryptocurrency
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Canada, Poland

Portfolio highlights

Cymbal — The human readable block explorer. Explore any wallet, NFT or collection to understand their activity, all in real time.
Bastion — Bastion blends the best of web2 and web3 technologies to broaden opportunities for organizations and their customers.
Story Protocol — Story Protocol is building open IP infrastructure to grow the creativity of the internet era.

Sophia Bendz - Partner @ Cherry Ventures

Investment focus

Health Care, Software, Apps
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Sweden, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

mayk — Mayk sounds. Mayk music. Mayk noise. Mayk it... In an app.
Medoma — Medoma is a Swedish virtual ward company that offer patients acute hospital care in their home instead of in the hospital.
Wikifarmer — A free online knowledge library where professional or amateur farmers can find best practices on growing their fields more effectively and an online marketplace where farmers can sell their products to buyers directly. Our vision is to create a fair, transparent and profitable environment for all the farming world. Farmers are dedicating theirlives in cultivating their fields, but get the lowest value of all the sales cycle, so we believe they need to receive a more fair share. Buyers have the right to have more options and buy at better prices, so we want to be the ones to solve this inequality in both sides.

Przemek Kowalczyk is the Co-Founder, CTO, and CPO at Ramp.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Artificial Intelligence
Pre-Seed
Poland

Portfolio highlights

Deepflare — Lightning up the vaccine discovery process

Marcin Wenus

Investment focus

Apps, SaaS, FinTech
Pre-Seed
Poland

Portfolio highlights

Cryptiony — Digital assests tax automation software. B2C SaaS for Polish market which simplifies digital assets tax calculation and allow to monitor tax liabilities in real-time.

David Rowan is editor of the UK edition of WIRED magazine, which won 2009 Launch of the David Rowan is Editor of the WIRED UK, the technology and trends magazine covering online brands, gadgets and the culture that surrounds them. David has reported on technology for The Times and Channel 4 News, the latter requiring him to illustrate the newiPod Video from the set of a porn shoot. He's also written for The Sunday Times and Telegraph Magazines, and edited the Guardian's on-line content. David has curated an exhibition of British creative talent at the Government's Cabinet Forum conference. He has also addressed the TEDs, and frequently contributes on Newsnight and the Today programme. He also writes a monthly column for GQ. David is in touch with many of the world's leading trend-setters and spotters. In presentations he looks at how the net is disrupting almost every sector, how apps change consumer behaviour and why 'social commerce' is killing traditional marketing. He reveals the 10 trends that will change your market in the next decade - and what you should be doing now to protect yourself.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom, Germany, Croatia

Portfolio highlights

EWOR — Build a successful company with EWOR
Climate X — Climate X combines climate science and econometrics to deliver precise climate risk data without any black boxes.
Rhizocore Technologies — We develop high-performance strains of locally-sourced mycorrhizal fungi to improve tree growth, tree health and tree resiliency. We offer a sustainable solution to increase forest yields whilst improving the ability of trees to sequester carbon.

Szymon Horaczuk

Investment focus

Medical, Wellness, Health Care
Series A
Poland

Portfolio highlights

HomeDoctor — HomeDoctor is a proven method for convenient contact with a doctor in the form of home visits and teleconsultations. Over 350 HomeDoctor doctors from over 20 specializations provide the comfort of a quick diagnosis in the comfort of your home.

Piotr Jakubowski is co-founder & Chief Growth Officer at Nafas. He has been tasked with bringing marketing excellence and innovation to the GO-JEK family of products and services. Piotr manages the in-house marketing team across creative, social, media buying, public relations, digital and above the line activities. He also sits on themanagement board of the company, bringing consumer insights and communications innovation to the GO-JEK family of products and services.

Investment focus

SaaS, Beauty, Hardware
Pre-Seed, Series B
Poland, United States

Portfolio highlights

Booksy — Booksy - book appointments online. Find & book beauty services like hairdressing, manicure, spa or massage. Check prices & reviews!
Airly — Airly empowers individuals and communities with knowledge about the air they breathe. Airly is changing the way people see the air they breathe by providing accurate, hyper-local data about air pollution.

Mikołaj Machowczyk

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence
Pre-Seed
Poland

Portfolio highlights

PerfectBot — An AI chatbot that learns from your content to instantly resolve tickets and free up your team.

Bartosz Dobrzyński

Investment focus

Software, Cyber Security, Information Technology
Funding Round
Poland

Portfolio highlights

Secfense — Secfense is the fast track to passwordless authentication. We help companies implement strong MFA in a no-code way and at large scale.

Wojciech Sadowski

Investment focus

Apps, Consumer, E-Commerce
Pre-Seed
Poland

Portfolio highlights

Amano — Amano to redesign the communication between merchants and consumers.

Blaine Vess is the Founder of Immeasurable. Attended at Y Combinator.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, India, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Kredi — Kredi is Rocket Mortgage for LatAm. Customers can easily secure a mortgage online.
Milk Video — Milk Video helps increase page conversion and drive traffic from social. Remix existing video content into high conversion trailers, snippets, and more.
Yummy — Superapp of Venezuela & Quick Commerce for LATAM

Łukasz Lewandowski is thee CEO at K2 Internet.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence
Pre-Seed
Poland

Portfolio highlights

PerfectBot — An AI chatbot that learns from your content to instantly resolve tickets and free up your team.

Andrzej Targosz is a visionary, an educator, a community-builder, and a businessman who wears many hats. He is the founder and CEO of over six different companies including the PROIDEA Foundation – an organizer of premier tech and startup conferences around Poland. He has been an entrepreneur since the ripe young age of 17, an investor ofsuccessful startups like Estimote, Intelclinic, and Jive, and most importantly, a loving husband and father of five.

Investment focus

Software, Consumer Goods, Fast-Moving Consumer Goods
Angel, Funding Round
Poland

Portfolio highlights

ZNIKA — ZNIKA produces and delivers eco-friendly labels and packaging for commercial use.
Spark Software — Elevate your brand's online presence with Spark Software. We welcome you to a world of innovative marketing solutions designed to captivate and engage your audience. Discover success through strategic brilliance.

Experienced Executive Director with a demonstrated history of working in the banking industry. Skilled in Financial Structuring, Capital Markets, Financial Institutions, Banking, and Retail. Strong business development professional with a Magister (Mgr) focused in Prawo from Uniwersytet Śląski w Katowicach.

Investment focus

Software, Private Cloud, Developer Tools
Pre-Seed
Poland

Portfolio highlights

Onteon Tech — Onteon Tech develop software with own technology stack to help customers achieve goals faster and at lower costs. We deliver on premises systems with cloud agility. We are software engineers that don't use Chat GPT.

Sebastian Szczygiel

Investment focus

Apps, Consumer, E-Commerce
Pre-Seed
Poland

Portfolio highlights

Amano — Amano to redesign the communication between merchants and consumers.

Lucjan Samulowski - Cofounder & CPO @ DocPlanner

Investment focus

SaaS, Internet, Software
Pre-Seed, Series A
Poland, Czech Republic

Portfolio highlights

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.
Better Stack — Delightful observability tools that turn your logs & monitoring into a secret weapon for shipping better software faster.

CMO at LiveChat. Professional with B2B ecommerce & marketing background. Focuses on B2B eCommerce, including online advertising, affiliate, partner & channel programs and public relations. Experienced in introducing new IT products to global market. Always interested in further personal development and new opportunities.

Investment focus