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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Startuj z Mazowsza
Mazovian regional startup competition and support program for ventures under three years old. It runs tracks for INNO-TECH, SOCIAL IMPACT, and START with grant-based awards for early product validation and growth.
Startup Booster by Huge Thing
Startup Booster is the acceleration programme run by Huge Thing, a Poznan-based innovation firm with over a decade of experience that helps startups scale and supports corporations with their innovation strategy. Huge Thing has worked with dozens of corporate partners and screened thousands of startups, running structured programmes to strengthen founding teams and their go-to-market.
Startup Booster for Social Impact
Impact-focused accelerator operated by SWPS University for ventures aligned with sustainable development goals. The program supports startups, micro-enterprises, and NGOs through commercialization, corporate piloting, and funding-readiness tracks.
Startup Hub Poland - Poland Prize (Gdansk)
PARP-backed accelerator attracting international startups to Poland, run by Space3ac in Gdansk. Offers up to EUR 65,000 equity-free funding plus soft-landing support (incorporation, legal/tax, accommodation, visas). Focus on smart cities, space, and logistics. Scope: International.
Startup Wroclaw
Wrocław's startup-support programme, run by the Agencja Rozwoju Aglomeracji Wrocławskiej (ARAW — Wrocław Agglomeration Development Agency) through its Business Support Centre. It connects founders, investors and corporates across the Wrocław ecosystem with mentoring, networking and acceleration support, and organises the annual EVOLUTIONS: Partner Network Festival.
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.
StethoMe
Connected smart stethoscope and AI platform that records and analyses lung and heart sounds for home-based respiratory diagnostics, paediatrics, and remote triage. Combines a CE-marked medical device with cloud-based AI that flags abnormal sounds for physicians. Backed by Movens Capital.
Sundose
Sundose was founded in 2017 by Michał Gołkiewicz and Tomasz Styk and launched commercially in Poland in 2018. The company runs a direct-to-consumer subscription model, personalising daily supplement sachets from dozens of ingredients based on a health questionnaire and optional blood-test data, and has expanded to the UK, Germany, and Italy. It raised a $6M Series A in 2021 led by DX Ventures and Atmos Ventures, with participation from Delivery Hero Ventures.
SunRoof
SunRoof is a Polish-Swedish cleantech company building 2-in-1 integrated solar roofs — building-integrated photovoltaics (BIPV) that replace conventional roofing material entirely with a solar-generating surface for residential and commercial buildings. Founded in 2013 by Lech Kaniuk, Karol Kaniuk, Marek Zmysłowski and Rafał Plutecki, the company runs its main R&D and production hub in Gdańsk under a Swedish holding (SunRoof International), and operates across Poland, Sweden and Germany. SunRoof has raised roughly €28.5M, including a €15M round led by the Klima Energy Transition Fund (Alantra), with earlier backing from World Fund, Nordic Alpha Partners, Inovo Venture Partners, SMOK Ventures and Alfabeat. It grew past 130 employees and positions its integrated roofs as a lower-carbon, design-led alternative to bolt-on solar panels.
Superteam Poland
Superteam Poland is the Polish chapter of Superteam, the community organisation of the Solana ecosystem. It supports developers building on Solana with grants, bounties and job opportunities, and runs the country's Solana events, including the Colosseum Hackathon build space and demo day in Warsaw.
Sybilla Technologies
Sybilla Technologies is a Bydgoszcz-based space-tech company specialising in space situational awareness, space traffic management and orbital safety. It designs, builds and operates robotic optical observatories and the software that automates data acquisition, analysis and scheduling across sensor networks. Its space domain awareness data serves national space agencies in Poland, Italy and France, as well as the European Space Agency.
Sylwester Janik
Co-founder and Managing Partner of Cogito Capital Partners, the Warsaw and New York growth-stage VC. Formerly a senior partner at MCI Capital, he backs CEE B2B software scale-ups expanding to the US, including companies such as Allica Bank and Preply.
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.
Szymon Klimczak
Chief Marketing Officer at LiveChat, Szymon made a notable angel investment into Brand24 (social media monitoring), a company LiveChat’s founders also built. He has a niche focus on marketing technology and B2B software, where he lends both capital and marketing know-how. Associated startups: Brand24, and mentorship of B2B SaaS startups in marketing automation.
Szymon Sypniewicz
Co-founder of Ramp Network (a Polish crypto startup), Szymon has recently started angel investing on the side. With Ramp’s success, he backs other Polish crypto and fintech startups, sharing his know-how in scaling a global fintech product. Associated startups: Selected crypto/fintech startups (leveraging experience from Ramp).
Talkie.ai
Talkie.ai is a Polish conversational AI platform focused on healthcare voice automation for hospitals, clinics, and medical contact centers. The product handles appointment workflows, prescription-related requests, triage-first routing, and self-service call handling through localized NLP and no-code configuration. Built in Poland with expansion across Europe and the US, it targets high-volume patient communication with compliance-oriented integrations.
Tangent Line VC
Tangent Line is a Warsaw-based venture capital firm that provides capital and hands-on business partnership to breakthrough industrial and deep-technology startups. Acting as a contact point between founders and investors, it backs companies with global ambitions and defensible technology from seed through expansion over a long-term horizon.
TerGo
Full-stack carbon management platform offering SaaS tools for CO2e calculation, reporting and reduction. Its Tergoscope helps companies meet sustainability regulations, while TERbit tracks emission savings from eco-friendly transport choices.
The Linghos
AI-powered speech therapy platform for children that diagnoses speech impediments, recommends personalised therapy and delivers 2,000+ exercises as mobile games. Backed by Simpact Ventures and SMOK Ventures.
Thorium Space
Wrocław-based deep-tech company developing next-generation satellite communications payloads, SATCOM ground terminals and flexible telecom systems. Backed by ESA's HummingSAT programme; launched a pre-IPO targeting 30–35M PLN ahead of a NewConnect debut.
