# Top 20 CleanTech Startup Investors in Poland in May 2026 ## 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. ## 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. ## 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. ## 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 ## 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. ## Polish Agency for Enterprise Development - Type: VC Fund - Location: Warszawa, Mazowieckie, Poland - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Grant, Pre-Seed, Seed - Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS PARP is to support entrepreneurship through implementation of actions aimed at using innovative solutions by entrepreneurs, development of human resources, expansion on international markets, regional development. Its achievement will contribute to the improvement of the competitive position of Polish economy, both on European Union markets and onthe international market. ## 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. ## 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. ## 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. ## David Rowan - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology David Rowan is editor of the UK edition of WIRED magazine, which won 2009 Launch of the David Rowan is Editor of the WIRED UK, the technology and trends magazine covering online brands, gadgets and the culture that surrounds them. David has reported on technology for The Times and Channel 4 News, the latter requiring him to illustrate the newiPod Video from the set of a porn shoot. He's also written for The Sunday Times and Telegraph Magazines, and edited the Guardian's on-line content. David has curated an exhibition of British creative talent at the Government's Cabinet Forum conference. He has also addressed the TEDs, and frequently contributes on Newsnight and the Today programme. He also writes a monthly column for GQ. David is in touch with many of the world's leading trend-setters and spotters. In presentations he looks at how the net is disrupting almost every sector, how apps change consumer behaviour and why 'social commerce' is killing traditional marketing. He reveals the 10 trends that will change your market in the next decade - and what you should be doing now to protect yourself. ## 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. ## Giant Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: FinTech, Health Care, Financial Services Giant Ventures Global is a multi-stage, thesis-driven firm seeking systemic change across four themes which include environment, cities, health and wellbeing, and financial inclusion. The firm backs purpose-driven technology founders solving the world’s biggest challenges. It focuses on creating a more sustainable, equitable, and resilientplanet. ## Firstminute Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Machine Learning firstminute is a seed fund backed by over 120 unicorn founders and a world-class community. ## 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. ## 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. ## 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 ## 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”. ## 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. ## Altamira - Type: VC Fund - Location: Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series C - Focus: Software, Internet, CleanTech Altamira operetes as an equity investor and partner in company development, we cooperate with teams who demonstrate the ambition to achieve technological breakthroughs in their fields. We expect this to translate into significant revenue potential from international markets. We invest our money, time, competence, and contacts - and we only getinvolved where there is the potential for true partnership and cooperation with a company’s founders. ## AENU - Type: VC Fund - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series B, Series A, Seed - Focus: Renewable Energy, CleanTech, Software AENU is an evergreen impact fund that focuses on stage-agnostic long-term investments in climate-tech and social impact companies. # About Shizune Shizune.co is an investor database. Core features: - 48,091 startup investors (angels, VCs, accelerators, and others) - Email, phone, LinkedIn (for intros), socials, and other contact data - Updated daily from public funding news - CSV and Excel export The User can access the full database FOR FREE after signing up: shizune.co