Poland startup ecosystem
Poland has emerged as one of Central Europe's most dynamic startup ecosystems. Warsaw and Krakow lead the charge with thriving tech communities, strong engineering talent from top universities, and growing venture capital activity. The country's competitive cost base, EU membership, and large domestic market make it an attractive launchpad for founders targeting the broader European market. The directory currently lists 364 organisations across 24 cities.
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Robimy Startupy w Lodzi #402
Long-running local startup meetup in Lodz focused on practical feedback, mentorship, and early-stage networking. The #402 edition continues a grassroots format that is especially accessible for first-time founders and local ecosystem participants.
Roman Pałac
Business Angel Debutant of the Year (2021) and former CEO of Gemini Polska as well as former president of PZU Życie. Roman transitioned from top-level corporate leadership into startup investing with a focus on business transformation and commercial execution. He primarily backs startups in healthcare, insurance, and business transformation, bringing operator-level support in sales strategy and scaling.
RTA Ventures
Founded 2011. Early-stage investor focused on digital health, telemedicine, and SaaS. RTA Ventures is an accelerator programme based in Warsaw, Poland. The programme supports startups in Digital Health, Telemedicine, SaaS.
Rust Warsaw
Rust Warsaw is a community of Rust programming language users meeting in person in Warsaw to share experience and connect, with 662 members listed on its Meetup group. It runs monthly evening meetups and keeps a Telegram channel for discussion between events.
Rust Warsaw Meetup: October 2026
The October meeting of Rust Warsaw, the city's community for the Rust programming language. The group meets in person in Warsaw to go into Rust, share experience and connect, and keeps a Telegram channel running between events.
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.
Samurai Labs
Samurai Labs is a Gdynia-based AI safety company building neural-symbolic systems that detect and de-escalate online abuse, harassment, and predatory behavior in real time. Its technology is licensed by gaming companies, social platforms, and child-safety partners. Backed by angel investors including Dawid Urban and footballer Robert Lewandowski (via RL9 Investments).
Sebastian Kulczyk
Owner of Kulczyk Investments and founder of Manta Ray VC, Sebastian is a prominent growth and technology investor supporting globally scalable startups. Through both direct investment and ecosystem initiatives such as InCredibles, he has helped position Polish founders on international markets. His wider portfolio context includes involvement around major outcomes such as Base (acquired by Zendesk), and investments including Iceye and Brainly.
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.
Semirobotics
Semirobotics is a Warsaw-based medtech robotics startup that developed FIDI, an assistive feeding robot designed for people with upper-limb disabilities who cannot eat independently. The system combines 3D vision, AI-based motion planning, and adaptive utensils to align with the user's posture, pace, and food preferences, restoring dignity and autonomy during meals. Semirobotics targets hospitals, care homes, and individual users, addressing a significant unmet need in assistive technology. The company is part of Poland's emerging robotics and medtech scene and has received EU innovation funding.
SERio
SERio is a Warsaw-based foodtech startup producing plant-based cheese alternatives made from Polish lupin beans, a locally abundant and sustainable protein source. The products are engineered for high protein content and strong melt performance, targeting mainstream consumers seeking dairy-free options that do not compromise on taste or cooking functionality. SERio differentiates from soy and cashew-based competitors by using a regionally sourced ingredient with a lower environmental footprint. The company is part of Poland's growing alternative protein ecosystem and sells through retail and food-service channels.
Showroom.pl
Showroom.pl is a Warsaw-based online fashion marketplace that aggregates independent designers and boutique brands from across Poland, offering curated multibrand discovery for younger consumers. Co-founded by Jan Stasz, the company became one of Poland's best-known fashion-tech successes of the 2010s and is a frequent reference point in the Polish e-commerce ecosystem.
Silent Eight
Silent Eight builds AI-powered financial-crime compliance software for global banks. Its Iris platform automates AML alert investigation, sanctions screening, transaction monitoring and adverse-media detection, replicating analyst judgement at scale; clients include HSBC and Standard Chartered. Founded by Poles with its engineering hub in Warsaw (commercial HQ in Singapore).
SKY ENGINE AI
Synthetic data generation platform for computer vision AI. SKY ENGINE AI lets teams train and validate vision models on physics-based synthetic 3D datasets for defence, industrial inspection, retail, and autonomous systems, without the cost of collecting and labelling real-world data. Backed by Movens Capital.
SMOK Angels
An angel network led by Borys Musielak (of SMOK Ventures) focusing on Central & Eastern Europe. With 160+ founders and investors involved, SMOK Angels encourages experienced entrepreneurs to invest in idea and seed-stage startups. They often co-invest alongside SMOK Ventures fund. Notable focus: early-stage tech teams (idea to Series A) in CEE, leveraging its members’ mentorship.
SMOK Ventures
SMOK Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm bridging Silicon Valley and Central and Eastern Europe, investing pre-seed and seed capital into software and gaming startups founded by CEE teams, especially in Poland. Backed by US and local investors, it brings a Valley-style approach and network to the region and typically leads first institutional rounds.
SOLANA BUILD STATION WARSAW
An eight-day build space for Solana developers preparing for the Colosseum Hackathon, running at The Shire on the 12th floor of Zebra Tower in Warsaw. The programme opens on 6 October at midday and combines co-working with mentoring and networking, closing with the demo day on 13 October.
Spacelift
Infrastructure automation platform for engineering teams using Terraform, OpenTofu, CloudFormation, Pulumi, and Ansible. Spacelift helps enterprises manage IaC workflows, policy controls, and secure cloud deployments at scale.
Spaces Warsaw Financial Center
Spaces Warsaw Financial Center is located at Emilii Plater 53 in the heart of Warsaw's Wola district central business district, within the Warsaw Financial Center skyscraper — a landmark 1999 tower that houses the regional offices of major banks, law firms, and multinational corporations. The location is part of the IWG-owned Spaces network, which operates 13 sites across Warsaw making it the most geographically distributed coworking brand in the city. The Financial Center outpost targets internationally mobile professionals, corporate project teams, and scale-ups requiring a prestigious CBD address with short-notice or month-to-month flexibility. Workspace products include dedicated desks from approximately 24 PLN per day, coworking day passes from 25 PLN, and private offices on flexible terms. The Spaces All Access plan gives members entry to all 13 Warsaw locations and the global IWG network — relevant for companies with employees distributed across Warsaw's dispersed office districts. The Emilii Plater address places members within walking distance of the Palace of Culture and Science, the central railway station, and the main cluster of international venture capital and private equity offices that have opened Warsaw outposts in recent years. Spaces' Warsaw network also includes a node at Plac Konesera 12 in Praga, adjacent to Campus Warsaw.
START Warsaw
START Warsaw describes itself as the largest student-run entrepreneurship community in Warsaw, set up to help the next generation of founders dare, build and belong. It runs a public events calendar for the city and co-hosts sessions with local investors, including VC Insights with Market One Capital.
