Top 10 Energy Angel Investors in Poland in October 2023

Sophia Bendz - Partner @ Cherry Ventures

Investment focus

Health Care, Software, Apps
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Sweden, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

mayk — Mayk sounds. Mayk music. Mayk noise. Mayk it... In an app.
Medoma — Medoma is a Swedish virtual ward company that offer patients acute hospital care in their home instead of in the hospital.
Wikifarmer — A free online knowledge library where professional or amateur farmers can find best practices on growing their fields more effectively and an online marketplace where farmers can sell their products to buyers directly. Our vision is to create a fair, transparent and profitable environment for all the farming world. Farmers are dedicating theirlives in cultivating their fields, but get the lowest value of all the sales cycle, so we believe they need to receive a more fair share. Buyers have the right to have more options and buy at better prices, so we want to be the ones to solve this inequality in both sides.

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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.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Angel
United Kingdom, United States, France

Portfolio highlights

Bardeen — Bardeen is an automation app to replace your repetitive tasks with a single shortcut and control your web apps from anywhere. Explore our integrations with your favorite apps and hundreds of pre-built playbooks that help you stay in the flow.
Nous — Find out exactly how your household finances will be affected by the cost-of-living crisis with Nous on your side.
Framework — Framework is the world’s first on-demand business school, radically reimagined for them. Born out of Founders Forum, a private network of the world's top tech entrepreneurs, we’ve worked with over 100+ operators—across product, growth, ops, people, data, engineering & design, from some of the world's most innovative companiesincluding Monzo, Babylon, Bulb & Depop—to pioneer a new model of lifelong learning.

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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”.

Investment focus

Health Care, Software, Artificial Intelligence
Series A, Funding Round, Seed
Israel, United States, Poland

Portfolio highlights

Selina — Selina is one of the world’s fastest growing hospitality brands, combining beautifully-designed accommodation with coworking spaces, wellness, recreational offerings and local experiences for today’s nomadic traveler to live, work and explore anywhere in the world.With a design-centric, technology-first and socially-minded approach to travel,Selina currently operates 24 urban, beach, jungle and mountain-side locations across eight countries and is developing a global infrastructure for nomads who want to make the world their classroom, office, and playground.
Circles - Online Group Support — Participate in online video meetings guided by an expert facilitator and gain tools for reflection that will help you feel less alone.
Masterschool — Masterschool partners with tech industry leaders to help you build your dream career. Learn online, get unlimited career support, and pay no tuition until you find a job.

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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.

Investment focus

SaaS, Beauty, Hardware
Pre-Seed, Series B
Poland, United States

Portfolio highlights

Booksy — Booksy - book appointments online. Find & book beauty services like hairdressing, manicure, spa or massage. Check prices & reviews!
Airly — Airly empowers individuals and communities with knowledge about the air they breathe. Airly is changing the way people see the air they breathe by providing accurate, hyper-local data about air pollution.

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

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Mobile
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Poland, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Mos — Meet Mos: the way smart students get money for college
Airly — Airly empowers individuals and communities with knowledge about the air they breathe. Airly is changing the way people see the air they breathe by providing accurate, hyper-local data about air pollution.
Collective — Collective offers financial solutions designed for self-employed business owners - company formation, tax, accounting & bookkeeping.

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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.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom, Croatia, United States

Portfolio highlights

EWOR — Build a successful company with EWOR
Climate X — Climate X combines climate science and econometrics to deliver precise climate risk data without any black boxes.
Rhizocore Technologies — We develop high-performance strains of locally-sourced mycorrhizal fungi to improve tree growth, tree health and tree resiliency. We offer a sustainable solution to increase forest yields whilst improving the ability of trees to sequester carbon.

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Martin Tajur is the co-founder of Pipedrive.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Recruiting
Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
Estonia, Poland, Ukraine

Portfolio highlights

MX Labs — Allow your user to comprehensively monitor their vital signs. Check wellbeing, prevent misdiagnosis, and motivate lifestyle changes thanks to Shen.AI.
Teamscope — Understand what drives your team's performance, make exceptional hiring decisions, and unlock the full potential of your team.
SegmentStream — SegmentStream is a data intelligence platform which helps collect and unify from different data sources into own data warehouse for advanced analytics and attribution. Our solution is trusted by leading brands such as Benetton, Nespresso, New Balance, myToys, Eventim Group, and others.

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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.

Investment focus

FinTech, E-Commerce, Software
Series B, Series A, Series C
United States, United Kingdom, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Rescale — Rescale is a high performance computing cloud simulation platform that helps engineers and scientists build, compute, analyze, and scale simulations with high performance computing and automations.
Waterplan — Waterplan is a SaaS platform for companies to manage water availability in their facilities.
Wayve — Wayve are pioneering an AI-centric approach to self-driving, inspired by our vision of a smarter, safer and more sustainable world.

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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.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
Estonia, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Alvin — Highly accurate, automated column-level lineage, powering your data workflows.
BeTRITON — 100% electric recreational vehicle - revolution in sustainable travel. BeTRITON (formerly known as Z-Triton) offers extraordinary experience and freedom to travel both over land and water.
Around — The largest network of workspaces on flexible terms. We are a savvy team from Latin America providing fast-growing companies with on-demand access to flexible office space. Everywhere.We believe work at its best is always creative and collaborative, expressed with freedom, autonomy, and purpose; and the space surrounding us should help us achieveit, anywhere & everywhere.We are shaping the future of work today by improving workspaces and the rules around them, and helping innovative teams find their ideal space to make their best work every day — our first step on a journey to change the way we work and think about work.Our best work. Anywhere. Everywhere. We are Around.

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