# Top 15 Biotech VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Poland in October 2023

## Sunfish Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Medical Device

Sunfish Partners is an early stage VC that invests in Polish deep tech startups.

## Unfold.vc
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Wroclaw, Dolnoslaskie, Poland
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Information Technology, Health Care, Software

Unfold.vc is a venture capital fund focused on providing financial support for technological projects that have great potential for success.

## Joyance Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Health Care, Biotechnology, Wellness

Joyance Partners is the first venture fund supporting companies that deliver Delightful Moments derived from science - a new, transformative cycle of human experience that we see as one of the greatest investment opportunities in decades.

## Chiratae Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence

Chiratae Ventures is a global network of venture capital funds with approximately $3.6 billion under management and a portfolio of over 220 companies built over the last 15 years. The Chiratae Ventures network is comprised of five independent partnerships managing funds in North America and Asia. Each partnership makes investments on behalf of itslimited partners, including International Data Group (IDG), the world's largest IT media company. By combining the IDG platform – an unparalleled combination of global publishing, market research (IDC), and conferences and exhibition resources – with years of hands-on experience in early-stage company building, each Chiratae Ventures fund helps companies understand their markets better and penetrate them faster than their competition.With partnerships in the USA, Korea and multiple locations throughout China, India and Vietnam, the IDG Ventures network offers the international perspective and the local market expertise to help companies grow from start-ups to global success stories.

## Black Pearls VC
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Gdansk, Pomorskie, Poland
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech

Black Pearls VC is a venture capital firm focusing on Life Quality Technologies. We look for the best entrepreneurs in Poland and the Baltic Sea Region.

## ValueTech Seed
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Media and Entertainment

ValueTech Seed is an early stage venture capital fund focusing on innovations in Energy and Industrial Manufacturing. We seek to partner with dedicated teams developing breakthrough technologies that can be deployed within the next 2-5 years. Our areas of particular interest include but are not limited to: Industry 4.0, renewables, cleantech,energy storage, smart grid and smart home, AI/IoT applications.

## National Center for Research & Development
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Warszawa, Mazowieckie, Poland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Grant, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Health Care

The National Research and Development Centre is an executive agency of the Minister of Science and Higher Education. It was established in summer 2007 as a unit realizing the tasks of scientific, scientific-technical and innovation policy. At the time of inception was the first unit of this type, created as a platform for effective dialogue betweenscience and business environment. Currently it operates under the Act of 30 April 2010 by the National Centre for Research and Development (Dz. U. 2010, No. 96 item. 616). Introduced in autumn 2010 reform of the science center has allowed greater freedom in disposing financial resources, within the framework of the strategic research agenda. An additional 1 September 2011, NRDC has expanded the scope of its activities with new initiatives and opportunities. Taking over from the Ministry of Science and Higher Education function of the Intermediate in three operational programs: Human Capital, Innovative Economy and Infrastructure and Environment, has become one of the largest centers supporting innovation in Poland. The Centre is funded by the Treasury and European Union funds.

## Alfabeat
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Gdansk, Pomorskie, Poland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Marketing, Internet

Welcome to Alfabeat, a specialist seed and early stage venture capital fundfocused on Enterprise SaaS companies from Central and Eastern Europe,backed by successful enterprise software founders.

## Lemonade Stand
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, SaaS, FinTech

Lemonade Stand is a VC fund that focuses on early stage B2B investments in Baltic and East European founders no matter the HQ location. Investing €25-300K in strong teams, technology or traction.

## Tar Heel Capital Pathfinder
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Focus: Information Technology, Software, Analytics

Tar Heel Capital Pathfinder is a venture capital fund and an experienced venture builder co-creating thriving global tech businesses.

## AIP Seed
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Software, SaaS

Our goal is to be the first investor in top CEE startups. Get in touch if you are at day one of building a global tech company.
With more than 110 investments, AIP Seed is the largest fund in Poland and among the largest in CEE.

## National Center for Research and Development
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Warszawa, Mazowieckie, Poland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Grant, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Big Data

The National Centre for Research and Development is the implementing agency of the Minister of Science and Higher Education. It was appointed in the summer 2007 as an entity in charge of the performance of the tasks within the area of national science, science and technology and innovation policies. When if was founded, it was the first entity ofthis type, created as the platform of an effective dialogue between the scientific and business communities.Currently, it operates under the Act on National Centre for Research and Development dated 30 April 2010 (Journal of Laws from 2010, No. 96 item 616). The science reform adopted in the autumn 2010 gave the Centre more freedom to manage its financial assets, within the scope of a strategic research programme.In addition, the National Centre for Research and Development extended its activity with new initiatives and possibilities on 1 September 2011. Assigned by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education the function of the Mediation Institution in three operational programmes: Human Capital, Innovative Economy and Infrastructure and Environment, the Centre became one of the greatest innovation centres in Poland.
The activity of the Centre is funded by the national treasury and the European Union.

## KnowledgeHub
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Warszawa, Mazowieckie, Poland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Marketplace, Internet

People are in the center of our actions. We believe that investment in human capital and its unique value guarantee success.

## Story Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Information Technology, Health Care, Software

Story is an early-stage venture fund based in NYC that invests in entrepreneurs with big visions leveraging technology and the proliferation of data to change the way people interact with the world.

## Shape VC
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Kraków, Malopolskie, Poland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Robotics

Shape is a new, Poland-based VC fund investing in early stage companies that leverage hardware as a core component of the solution.

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