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Jarosław Królewski
Jarosław Królewski is a Polish entrepreneur, AI researcher and investor, best known as CEO and co-founder of Synerise, one of Europe's fastest-growing behavioural-AI infrastructure companies, valued at over $120M and backed by a €25M European Investment Bank facility secured in 2025. He is also president and majority owner of football club Wisła Kraków and a lecturer at AGH University in Kraków, and was named a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader (2025). In 2026 he was appointed to Poland's Council of the Future and the Presidential Business Council, becoming a leading voice on AI and technology policy.
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Marek Kapturkiewicz
Co-founder and partner at Innovation Nest and former VP of Onet.pl, Marek is a veteran of the Polish internet and a key figure in the Krakow tech scene. He is known for product-led support rooted in Lean Launchpad principles and for backing B2B software, AI/ML, and Industry 4.0 companies. Notable portfolio examples include Autenti, Estimote, and Silvair.
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Mobile Trends Conference 2026
Flagship Polish mobile industry conference focused on UX, product, and on-device AI. Includes the Mobile Trends Awards and strong networking among product leaders.
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Morele.net
Morele.net is a Krakow-based e-commerce platform specializing in electronics, computing hardware, gaming equipment, and consumer goods. The company operates one of Poland's largest online electronics retail operations with a broad catalog, competitive pricing, and a nationwide logistics and fulfillment network. Morele.net has built a loyal customer base among tech-savvy Polish consumers and competes with x-kom and MediaExpert in the domestic market. The platform also operates several niche vertical storefronts and has invested in warehouse automation to support growing order volumes.
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Open Eyes Economy Summit 2026
A major international congress on responsible and sustainable economy and value-driven business. Relevant for climate, greentech, and impact founders looking to connect with ESG-minded corporates, public institutions, and mission-aligned investors.
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OpenCoffeeKRK #309 (June 2026)
Long-running monthly morning meetup of Krakow's startup community at Yolk Workspace, gathering founders, freelancers, investors and tech professionals for informal networking over coffee. Free to attend and a reliable entry point for early-stage founders building their local network and finding collaborators in the Krakow ecosystem.
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Rafał Brzoska
Founder of InPost and one of Poland’s highest-profile entrepreneurs, Rafał is active as an impact-oriented investor through personal and foundation initiatives. His flagship company reached a landmark Amsterdam IPO, and his broader investment activity spans logistics-adjacent consumer sectors, food, and medical innovation. Notable references include activity around Bakalland and support for oncology and advanced medical equipment initiatives.
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Rafał Sonik
A well-known entrepreneur and rally champion (Dakar Rally winner), Rafał channels his business success into startup investments. He founded Gemini Holding (shopping malls) and now, as an angel, focuses on B2B services and SaaS. For example, he was an early investor in HR platform HCM Deck, helping enterprises manage talent. Associated startups: HCM Deck, Sundose (personalized nutrition), and other SaaS startups.
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SALESmanago
SALESmanago is a Kraków-based marketing-automation platform serving mid-market e-commerce companies across Europe. Founded by Grzegorz Błażewicz in 2011, the company offers customer data, segmentation, omnichannel campaign execution, and AI-driven personalization. SILVER LAKE Waterman acquired a majority stake in 2022, valuing the company at hundreds of millions of euros, after which Błażewicz continued investing through Borubar Ventures.
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Secfense
Secfense was founded in 2018 in Kraków by Tomasz Kowalski and Marcin Szary. The company develops a User Access Security Broker that lets enterprises deploy multi-factor authentication and passwordless login across existing applications without modifying their code. It raised early backing from Bitspiration Booster followed by a $2M round in 2022 led by Tera Ventures, Presto Ventures, and RKKVC, and counts enterprise clients such as BNP Paribas Bank Polska.
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Sterling Angels
Also known as the Polish Business Angel Network, Sterling Angels is a community of private investors and some VCs who co-invest in early-stage companies. Based in Kraków, Sterling Angels not only provides capital but also mentoring and connections to help startups succeed. Notable focus: Southern Poland’s startup scene – tech startups in need of both funding and business expertise.
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Synerise
Synerise is a Polish enterprise AI platform that combines customer-data infrastructure with behavioral-AI and recommendation engines for retail, banking, and telco clients. Founded by Jarosław Królewski, the company built proprietary deep-learning models for sequence prediction and has competed in international ML benchmarks. Synerise has been backed by investors including Cyfrowy Polsat and serves enterprise customers across CEE and beyond.
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Tomasz Kraus
Co-founder and former CTO of Brainly, Tomasz leverages his edtech and product experience as an angel investor. He has backed several Polish startups (including Allani, Positionly, Investio, and Luna Lang) and continues to support tech education initiatives. Associated startups: Allani, Positionly, Investio, Luna Lang.
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WEBCON
WEBCON is a Krakow-based low-code enterprise automation platform that enables large organizations to design, deploy, and iterate on business process applications without heavy custom development. The platform is used to digitize workflows such as invoice approvals, contract management, HR onboarding, and compliance processes, with deep integration into Microsoft 365 and SharePoint environments. WEBCON serves enterprise customers across Europe and North America and differentiates through its InstantChange technology, which allows modifications to live applications without downtime or redeployment.
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Wolves Summit Autumn 2026 (Oct 2026)
The autumn 2026 edition of Wolves Summit is a corporate-dealflow and CVC-focused matchmaking conference connecting startup founders with investors across Europe. It convenes more than 100 active investors and 250 founders for one-on-one meetings, a Great Pitch Contest judged by an investor panel, and the European CVC Awards, running across two stages over two days.
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WordCamp Europe 2026
Europe's largest WordPress community event, drawing thousands of developers, agency owners, founders and open-source contributors to the ICE Krakow Congress Centre. A Contributor Day on 4 June precedes two days of talks, workshops and networking. Strong ground for SaaS builders, plugin and agency startups, and bootstrapped founders in the open-source WordPress economy.
