Angel Investor

Piotr Karwatka

Co-founder of Divante and managing partner at Catch the Tornado, Piotr is among Poland’s most active operator-turned-angels. After scaling and selling Divante, he helped build a venture-builder model focused on open source, composable commerce, and AI-first startups.

Portfolio references include Ramp Network, Vue Storefront, and Rigby, alongside investments linked to major outcomes such as Callstack.

PolandWroclawPre-Seed to Series AComposable CommerceOpen SourceAI

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Wroclaw, Poland

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Angel Investor

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Pre-Seed to Series A

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