Warsaw startup directory
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Bartek Pucek
Bartek Pucek is a Polish serial entrepreneur, prolific angel investor and AI writer. He was an early investor in ElevenLabs and Alokai (formerly Vue Storefront) and has backed 50+ pre-seed and seed startups across AI, infrastructure and deep tech, often alongside funds such as a16z, Sequoia and Y Combinator. Previously Chief Digital Officer at IKEA Poland and head of mobile at Grupa Onet–Ringier Axel Springer, he co-founded the AI lab Forward Operators and the AI startup Proofs, and now leads The Thinking Company, an AI transformation firm serving enterprise clients across Europe and the US.
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Bartosz Dobrzyński
Former Chief Marketing Officer of telecom Play, Bartosz took his strategic acumen to the startup scene. He has invested in cybersecurity startup Secfense (passwordless authentication) and other tech companies. Bartosz often advises on go-to-market strategy while investing, bridging corporate and startup worlds. Associated startups: Secfense, Booste (revenue-based financing), and a handful of ICT startups.
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Bartosz Składzień
Investment Director at Movens Capital. Focused on pre-seed and seed dealflow across CEE, with emphasis on SaaS, climate tech, and industrial software. Works closely with portfolio on fundraising and metrics operationalisation.
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BCNN
BCNN is a Warsaw-based investigative-analytics startup building forensic-grade, AI-powered graph analytics for work on sensitive datasets. Its 'Networks Notebook' engine combines a graph database, a BI engine, GraphRAG, and a swarm of AI agents that build and verify hypotheses — producing source-linked timelines, actor maps, and traceable chains of evidence for fraud detection, OSINT, due diligence, and supply-chain audits. Built for GDPR and EU AI Act compliance, it deploys across cloud, sovereign, on-premise, and fully air-gapped environments, and pairs the platform with a hands-on boutique analytics team. Founded by Michał Domański (CEO) and Paweł Gołąb (CTO).
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Beata Cichocka-Tylman
A longtime PwC executive and innovation consultant, Beata received the 2022 Ecosystem Award for her role in mentoring startups. She is not a traditional high-volume investor, but her contributions in connecting and guiding founders have led her to take angel stakes in a few innovation-driven companies. Associated startups: Select advisory-driven investments (innovation ecosystem support, e.g. via PwC Collider).
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Billon Group
Billon Group is a Polish-British DLT fintech that built a regulated distributed-ledger platform for tokenized cash payments, secure document delivery, and digital identity. The company is led by Wojtek Kostrzewa (also an active Polish angel) and has worked with major European banks and corporates on enterprise blockchain pilots. Billon's technology has been certified by EU regulators for handling regulated electronic-money flows.
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BLIK
Poland's dominant mobile-payment system, launched in 2015 by Polski Standard Płatności — a joint venture of six major Polish banks. BLIK enables in-store, online, ATM and peer-to-peer payments via six-digit one-time codes generated in a banking app, processes billions of transactions a year and has expanded internationally. Led by CEO Dariusz Mazurkiewicz.
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Bloomin
All-in-one operating system for solo educators and small education businesses — tutors, coaches, mentors and admissions consultants. Combines a student CRM, scheduling, payment tracking and a public profile with an AI "digital brain" that turns session notes into prep, follow-ups and a mini-assistant answering student questions. EU-based and GDPR-compliant; free core plan with a paid Premium tier.
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Booksy
Booksy is a Polish-founded SaaS marketplace for booking personal-care appointments — hair, beauty, barbers, nails, and wellness providers. Founded in Warsaw in 2013 by Stefan Batory and Konrad Howard, Booksy expanded internationally and grew its provider base most rapidly in the US, UK, Spain, and Brazil. Backed by investors including Cat Rock Capital, Sprints Capital, and Piton Capital, the company offers business owners scheduling, payments, marketing, and customer-retention tooling alongside its consumer booking app.
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Borys Musielak
Borys Musielak is a Warsaw-based engineer-turned-investor, Founding Partner at SMOK Ventures — a pre-seed and seed fund backing Central and Eastern European founders — and the driving force behind SMOK Angels, a no-fee network of 220+ founders-turned-investors. He previously founded Filmaster, a movie-recommendation engine acquired by Samba TV in 2015, and co-founded Reaktor Warsaw (one of Poland's first startup coworking hubs) and the Startup Poland foundation. Through SMOK he has backed CEE startups across AI, gaming and software including Authologic, Alokai, inStreamly and Defguard, and in 2025 he co-founded No Cap, an AI-driven angel investing platform.
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Brain Embassy
Brain Embassy is a premium Polish-born coworking brand with two flagship Warsaw locations: the original site at Konstruktorska 12 in Mokotów's Służewiec tech corridor, and a second outpost at Aleje Jerozolimskie near the city's main east-west axis. The Konstruktorska venue, opened around 2016, occupies an architecturally distinctive building surrounded by mature greenery — an unusual amenity in Warsaw's otherwise dense office park landscape. Brain Embassy targets creative professionals, technology companies, and fast-growing scale-ups that want design-quality interiors and community programming beyond standard coworking. The offering spans private offices, dedicated desks, open coworking, and a full event-and-workshop programme. Both locations feature high-end fit-outs with natural materials, breakout zones, phone booths, and event rooms capable of hosting product launches and investor gatherings. The Konstruktorska neighbourhood houses a concentration of technology and media firms and has been a secondary tech cluster in Warsaw alongside the Wola CBD. Brain Embassy's community events have included startup pitch evenings and workshops oriented toward product and marketing teams at growth-stage companies, making it one of the more ecosystem-engaged premium coworking operators in Warsaw outside the Google Campus and Reaktor networks.
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Budimex Accel Program
Accelerator by Budimex for construction-tech startups in green construction, AI, robotics, and site automation. Offers pilots on construction sites, industry mentors, and potential investment or procurement. Scope: Regional (Poland and CEE).
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Campus Warsaw
Campus Warsaw is Google for Startups' flagship hub for Central and Eastern Europe, opened in 2015 inside the historic Koneser Centre at Plac Konesera 10 in Warsaw's Praga district. The venue occupies a revitalized 19th-century vodka distillery complex and serves as the primary gathering point for Google's regional startup programs. Access is restricted to Google for Startups alumni and resident startup community members on weekdays; the 200-seat auditorium and 36-seat classroom open to the public during curated events. Campus Warsaw runs Founders at Campus residencies — structured cohorts providing dedicated workspace, mentorship, and access to Google product experts — alongside Google for Startups Accelerator Poland, which selects early- and growth-stage companies for equity-free intensive programs. The Praga location positions Campus outside Warsaw's central business district, embedding it in a rapidly gentrifying creative and tech neighbourhood that also hosts the Koneser Building M location of Spaces coworking. As the only Google for Startups Campus in the CEE region, the Warsaw node anchors a network that connects local founders with Google's global mentor pool, cloud credits, and product integrations. Several international investors use Campus events for deal sourcing when visiting Warsaw.
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CampusAI
CampusAI is a Warsaw-based generative-AI learning platform that helps individuals and organisations build practical AI skills. Founded in 2023, it delivers educational programmes, AI tools and expert-led training through 3D virtual environments, web applications and in-person sessions, including a skills-training environment called AI Gym. The company reports more than 35,000 trained users.
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CD Projekt
CD Projekt is a Warsaw-based video-game holding founded in 1994 by Michał Kiciński and Marcin Iwiński. Its CD Projekt RED studio produced The Witcher and Cyberpunk 2077 franchises, while GOG.com operates a DRM-free PC games store. The company went public on the Warsaw Stock Exchange in 2011 and at peak was Poland's most valuable listed company. Co-founder Michał Kiciński later left day-to-day operations to focus on impact-oriented investing and wellness projects.
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Centre of Creativity Targowa
The Centre of Creativity Targowa (Centrum Kreatywnosci Targowa) is a City of Warsaw institution in the Praga district that supports the creative industries and creative entrepreneurs. Located on Targowa street, it offers workspace, workshops, mentoring and events for people building businesses in design, crafts and other creative fields.
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Centrum Przedsiebiorczosci Smolna
Centrum Przedsiebiorczosci Smolna is an entrepreneurship centre run by the City of Warsaw that offers free training, workshops, mentoring and advice to residents who want to start or grow a business. It is one of the city's main public points of support for early-stage founders and aspiring entrepreneurs.
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Certifier
Digital credentialing SaaS used by training providers, schools, and enterprises to issue verifiable certificates and digital badges at scale. Certifier handles design templates, automated issuance via API / integrations, and blockchain-anchored verification. Backed by Movens Capital.
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Cezary Smorszczewski
Cezary Smorszczewski is a Polish financier and fintech investor with nearly three decades of experience across state energy, banking and private equity. He co-founded Alior Bank in 2008 and led it to a ~$2bn London listing in 2012, then ran Private Equity Managers S.A. before launching Corviglia Capital Fund, a Luxembourg-based global fintech growth-equity vehicle. He has held senior roles at PKN Orlen and Bank Pekao and currently sits on the boards of Twisto, Upaid, Sparados and Moleo, investing across CEE fintech and technology.
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CIC Innovation Campus (Varso Place)
CIC Innovation Campus in Warsaw, located at Varso Place, is part of the global CIC (Cambridge Innovation Center) network founded in 1999 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It provides flexible office and lab space, community and programming for startups, scaleups and innovation teams, acting as a physical hub that connects Warsaw's technology ecosystem to CIC's international network.
