# Top 25 Artificial intelligence Angel Investors in Poland in October 2023

## Maciej Frankowicz
- Type: Angel
- Location: Wroclaw, Dolnoslaskie, Poland
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Biotechnology, Information Technology

Maciej Frankowicz is the CEO and Partner at Shape.vc. He is also an Investor in AdTonos, Scanye, Sherlock Waste, and Aether Biomedical. Prior to that, he was the Business Developer and co-founder of AudioTrip.

## Jaroslaw Krolewski
- Type: Angel
- Location: Kraków, Malopolskie, Poland
- Relevant deals: 2
- Focus: Soccer, Sports, Software

CEO Synerise. Co-Owner of Wisla Krakow. During professional career he used to work Fortune 500 companies and got numerous prestigious national and international awards with Synerise Team.Since 2010 lecturer and researcher at the AGH University of Science and Technology (two faculties) in Krakow, where he co-founded award-winning courses and fulltime program studies of my own authorship from the scratch, including; Social Informatics, E-Economy (the most innovative course of study in Poland in 2012 according to the Ministry of Science and Higher Education) and Digital Marketing. He is an ambassador of the AGH brand and a mentor in the Polish Development Fund network. He graduated from two fields of study (computer science and sociology), and he is currently working on an interdisciplinary PhD. He has been a participant of many conferences and a guest lecturer at Polish and foreign universities. Together with partners he rolled out PhD Data Science Studies. He is also the author of publications, including bestsellers, inter alia published as part of the PWN Scientific Publishers. He is founder and creator of AI School Program and Academy for schools and kindergartens started in 2019 in Poland.

## Pawel Chodaczek
- Type: Angel
- Location: Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: Software, Analytics, Machine Learning

Enterpreneur, innovator, investor. Founder of many successful IT and e-commerce companies. Co--author of the state-of-the art technology that contributed to the success of companies such as Cloud Technologies and RTB House. Investor in technology-oriented start-up projects and real estate.

## Marcin Zukowski
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Mateo, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Apps, Manufacturing

Marcin invented vectorized query execution for databases. His innovation emerged from his PhD research into optimizing database query execution for modern processors.The technology inspired him to co-found Vectorwise, which produced the fastest single-node analytical database on the market. As Vectorwise CEO, Marcin led the company through itsacquisition by Actian in 2010. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Amsterdam.

## Martin Tajur
- Type: Angel
- Location: Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Recruiting

Martin Tajur is the co-founder of Pipedrive.

## Brent Hoberman
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology

Brent Hoberman is chairman and co-founder of Founders Factory, an ambitious corporate backed incubator/accelerator based in London, and also of Founders Forum, a series of intimate annual global events for the leading entrepreneurs of today and the rising stars of tomorrow. Brent is a co-founder and was founding chairman of Smartup, Grip &made.com, a leading European direct-from-factory consumer homewares retailer. Most recently, Brent co-founded Firstminute Capital, a London-based pan-European seed fund, backed by some of the world's top entrepreneurs. Brent co-founded lastminute.comin April 1998, was CEO from its inception and sold it in 2005 to Sabre for $1.1bn. Technology businesses he has co-founded have raised over $500m. Brent sits on the Advisory board for LetterOne Technology (a $16bn investment fund), the Oxford Foundry and the UK Government Digital Advisory Board. He is a board member of The Economist, a YGL and one of the Prime Minister's Business Trade Ambassadors. Brent was awarded a CBE for services to entrepreneurship in the 2015 New Year's Honour's List.

## Lucjan Samulowski
- Type: Angel
- Location: Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: SaaS, Internet, Software

Lucjan Samulowski - Cofounder & CPO @ DocPlanner

## Richard Branson
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series B, Series A, Series C
- Focus: FinTech, E-Commerce, Software

Sir Richard Branson is the current Founder of the Virgin Group and Owner and Founder of Virgin Limited Edition. He previously worked at OneWeb as a Board Member. Sir Richard Branson attended Bishopsgate School.

## Ragnar Sass
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS

Ragnar Sass has strongest skill is to find the best people and keep them rocking in speed of 200 km/h. He has organized 20+ Hack-a-thons Garage48 in Eastern Europe + West & East-Africa. He advise other founders and share experience where it could help.

## Wojtek Sadowski
- Type: Angel
- Location: Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Text Analytics, Machine Learning, Image Recognition

I leverage my broad knowledge of IT and advertising in my everyday work by creating innovative products and marketing strategies.Those that have worked with me value my complete dedication to the project and experience in all areas of digital world. With clients, I position myself as a partner not a contractor, what tends to help me inestablishing long lasting business relationships. I'm eager to meet new people so please don't hesitate to contact me if you want to exchange opinions.

## Cezary Smorszczewski
- Type: Angel
- Location: Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Post-IPO Equity
- Focus: Mobile, Payments, Software

Cezary Smorszczewski

## Konstantin von Unger
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series D
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Machine Learning

Konstantin Unger is a Partner of Quarton International. He has been serving on the Shareholder Committee of Henkel AG since 2003 and is Vice Chairman of the Personnel Committee.
He also co-founded and is on the board of HFO, a leading European family office.
Before he helped founding Blue Corporate Finance in 2001, he was working as the managingdirector and leader of business development at the technology firms Sportal Ltd and Excite International. Previosuly, he worked with management consultants Bain & Co in Munich and corporate finance advisors The Lazard Brothers in London.

## Ronald Cohen
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Health Care, Software, Artificial Intelligence

Ronald Cohen is Chairman of the Global Social Impact Investment Steering Group and The Portland Trust. He is a co-founder director of Social Finance UK (2007-11), Social Finance USA, and Social Finance Israel, and of Big Society Capital. He was co-founder Chair of Bridges Ventures (2002-2012).He chaired the Social Impact Investment Taskforceestablished under the UK’s presidency of the G8 (2013-2015), the Social Investment Task Force (2000-2010) and the Commission on Unclaimed Assets (2005-2007). In 2012 he received the Rockefeller Innovation Award for innovation in social finance.He co-founded and was Executive Chairman of Apax Partners Worldwide LLP (1972-2005). He was a founder director and Chairman of the British Venture Capital Association and a founder director of the European Venture Capital Association.He is a graduate of Oxford University, where he was President of the Oxford Union. He is an Honorary Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford. He has an MBA from Harvard Business School to which he was awarded a Henry Fellowship.He is a member of the Board of Dean’s Advisors at Harvard Business School and Vice-Chairman of Ben Gurion University. He is a former director of the Harvard Management Company and the University of Oxford Investment Committee. He is a former member of the Harvard University Board of Overseers (2007-2013), former Trustee of the British Museum (2005-2012) and a former trustee of the International Institute for Strategic Studies (2005-2011).In 2007, Sir Ronald published: “The Second Bounce of the Ball – Turning Risk into Opportunity”.

## Sophia Bendz
- Type: Angel
- Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Health Care, Software, Apps

Sophia Bendz - Partner @ Cherry Ventures

## Piotr Jakubowski
- Type: Angel
- Location: Jakarta, Jakarta Raya, Indonesia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Series B
- Focus: SaaS, Beauty, Hardware

Piotr Jakubowski is co-founder & Chief Growth Officer at Nafas. He has been tasked with bringing marketing excellence and innovation to the GO-JEK family of products and services. Piotr manages the in-house marketing team across creative, social, media buying, public relations, digital and above the line activities. He also sits on themanagement board of the company, bringing consumer insights and communications innovation to the GO-JEK family of products and services.

## Efe Cakarel
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: SaaS, Analytics, Messaging

Efe Cakarel is a Turkish entrepreneur and the founder and CEO of MUBI, an online film service.Previously, Cakarel worked with Goldman Sachs in London and New York, where he worked on IPOs, mergers and acquisitions, and private equity investments. Cakarel obtained his bachelor of science in electrical engineering and computer science fromMIT in 1998, and his MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business in 2005.Cakarel was a contributor to The Huffington Post. He also has two patents involving the monetization of web applications.

## Markus Villig
- Type: Angel
- Location: Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: E-Commerce, FinTech, Financial Services

Markus Villig is founder and CEO of Taxify. He attended University of Tartu.

## Luca Puccioni
- Type: Angel
- Location: Rome, Lazio, Italy
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Text Analytics, Machine Learning, Image Recognition

Luca Puccioni is the Founder and CEO of MioDottore. He previously worked at HomeAway as a Director, Sales Southern Europe . Luca Puccioni attended IE Business School.

## Szymon Sypniewicz
- Type: Angel
- Location: Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Biotechnology, Artificial Intelligence

Szymon Sypniewicz is a Co-Founder and CEO at Ramp.

## Wojciech Burkot
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Mobile, Hardware, Software

Previously, Chief Technology Officer at Grupa Allegro responsible for Marketplace, focused on Mobile and Big Data. Before Allegro, he had started and run Google R&D Center in Krakow as a Site Lead and Engineering Director between 2006-2014. Prior to Google, he worked in a number of roles at Motorola. Earlier in his career, he was an AssistantProfessor of Computer Science at AGH in Kraków and a researcher at Institute of Nuclear Physics.

## Mikołaj Machowczyk
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence

Mikołaj Machowczyk

## Garrett Camp
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Logistics, Enterprise Software

Garrett Camp is the Founder of Expa and Founding Partner of Mix. He attended the University of Calgary

## Łukasz Lewandowski
- Type: Angel
- Location: Warszawa, Mazowieckie, Poland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence

Łukasz Lewandowski is thee CEO at K2 Internet.

## Maciej Maliszewski
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence

Maciej Maliszewski

## Przemek Kowalczyk
- Type: Angel
- Location: Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Biotechnology, Artificial Intelligence

Przemek Kowalczyk is the Co-Founder, CTO, and CPO at Ramp.

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