# Top 25 Food and Beverage Startup Investors in Poland in May 2026 ## KnowledgeHub - Type: VC Fund - Location: Warszawa, Mazowieckie, Poland - Relevant deals: 6 - 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. ## Xevin Investments - Type: VC Fund - Location: Warszawa, Mazowieckie, Poland - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Internet, E-Commerce, Software Xevin Investments offer include investment and advisory services. The fund is interested both in companies and projects in the initial phase of development, unable to achieve further business goals due to insufficient capital, and in thriving companies in need of additional investment to achieve their milestones in the pursuit of competitiveadvantage. ## 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. ## Investible - Type: VC Fund - Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology Investible is an early-stage venture capital firm backing the visionaries advancing humanity through technology in Australia, New Zealand, Southeast Asia and globally. ## Inovo VC - Type: VC Fund - Location: Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, B2B, SaaS VC for the most ambitious founders in CEE ## Unfold.vc - Type: VC Fund - Location: Wroclaw, Dolnoslaskie, Poland - Relevant deals: 1 - 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. ## YouNick Mint - Type: VC Fund - Location: Poznan, Wielkopolskie, Poland - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Health Care, Food and Beverage Venture Capital from Poland. See our webstie. ## Kai Hansen - Type: Angel - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: E-Commerce, FinTech, Software Kai Hansen is a successful serial entrepreneur and investor from Berlin, Germany, and Founding Partner of Rheingau Founders.He studied business administration with focus on entrepreneurship and marketing at the EBS Business School in Oestrich-Winkel (Germany), Auckland and Buenos Aires.During his last year at university Kai founded his firststartup, sportme, a social community for athletes, with Philipp Hartmann and Dr. Tobias Johann in March 2007, before going on to create Rheingau Founders together. Since then Kai has been actively involved in founding and developing 20 more startups.As Founder & Managing Director, Kai was recently responsible for the success of Lieferando, a European delivery service startup which was acquired by the market leader Takeaway.com in 2014 for more than US$100mn. With Lieferando Kai build a fast growing, multinational marketplace in a highly competitive environment and learned what it takes to make a startup successful. At Rheingau Founders, Kai is responsible for new ideas and business model development. With his extensive operational knowledge he also provides the portfolio companies with hands-on advice and strategic guidance, especially with developing efficient processes and operations. ## 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. ## JR Holding - Type: VC Fund - Location: Kraków, Malopolskie, Poland - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Manufacturing, Financial Services JR Holding is a Polish investment firm. ## Piotr Smolen - Type: Angel - Location: Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Mobile Apps Piotr Smolen is the Co-Founder and CEO at symmetrical.ai. Attended SGH Warsaw School of Economics. ## Techni Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Brooklyn, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Delivery, Hardware, Robotics Techni Ventures is a micro venture capital firm that invests in seed-stage startups. ## Movens Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning Movens Capital manages two funds (early-stage VC and growth equity). Movens VC is oriented on supporting Polish/CEE tech ## ARIA Fund - Type: VC Fund - Location: Warszawa, Mazowieckie, Poland - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A - Focus: SaaS, FinTech, Big Data ARIA is an independent private equity fund management company run by professionals with a variety of business backgrounds. Thanks to the fusion of different characters and generations, we have a deeper understanding of the global market. We deliver great results to our portfolio companies, by supporting them with know-how and the right resources.We invest in projects with international growth potential, mainly in the areas of new technologies but we are also interested in small and mid-sized enterprises which have unique selling propositions regardless of their industry. ## CofounderZone - Type: VC Fund - Location: Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note - Focus: Mobile Apps, E-Commerce, Software CofounderZone stands for ecosystem, where two coexisting worlds are finding common ground to cooperate. The blue ocean is represented by innovative enterprises, utilising groundbreaking technologies and non-linear business models, but lacking resources to scale. The red ocean is the opposite world, dominated by corporations, strugling to maintaintheir position, despite being equiped with abundence of knowledge and assets. This type of collaboration is not easy. That is why CofounderZone, puts strong emphasis on people – cofounders of startups and founders of established businesses, turned angel investors, to help the exchange of experience, human and investment capital. #cfdrz ## Tomasz Kolinko - Type: Angel - Location: Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: FinTech, Big Data, Wellness Tomasz Kolinko is the Founder of Freespace Warsaw. Prior to that, he founded Eveem.org and Trivial.co. He attended the University of Warsaw. ## Market One Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Luxembourg - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Internet, Information Technology, E-Commerce Market One Capital | Seed fund empowering marketplaces and network effects platforms across Europe ## Mariusz Gralewski - Type: Angel - Location: Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Internet, Education, Information Technology Mariusz Gralewski is the Co-Founder and Co-Chief Executive Officer of ZnanyLekarz. Mariusz Gralewski attended the Warsaw University of Technology. ## Chris Guzowski - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B - Focus: E-Commerce, Marketplace, Wellness Chris Guzowski is a Principal at Polipo Ventures and Director of Opportunity Capital and Board Member at Power Lines Pro. He is a former Director of ABA Technology and Accountant at PricewaterhouseCoopers.Mr. Guzowski studied Business & Finance at the University of Technology, Sydney and received an MBA in Energy Management at the Universityof Economy Vienna. ## Atmos Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Palo Alto, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Artificial Intelligence, FinTech, Big Data Atmos Ventures backs innovative teams that have cracked complex scientific problems, entrepreneurs who have commercialized their expertise, companies that are indispensable to their clients and management that understands the markets they serve. We are Central and Eastern Europe's Deep Tech Venture Capital Firm ## bValue Fund - Type: VC Fund - Location: Warszawa, Mazowieckie, Poland - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology bValue is one of the most active funds in Poland, investing in companies from CEE region. Combined diverse experience of management team allows us to support companies in scaling up to next level and transforming challenges into opportunities. We also leverage the experience and business network of our investors and board of experts to boost growthand spot opportunities. bValue consists of two separate funds where one invests in early-stage startups and the other focuses on established growth companies. Its investment focus in both stages lies in tech enabled companies across all industries. ## Czysta3.vc - Type: VC Fund - Location: Wroclaw, Dolnoslaskie, Poland - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Machine Learning, Software, Automotive Czysta3.vc is an investment firm providing businesses with venture capital funds. It creates sales and implements marketing strategies. The firm has worked with Fortune 500 startups and expanded it businesses to other countries. The firm was founded in 2017 and is based in Poland. ## Kogito Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: E-Commerce, Machine Learning, Logistics We build 50/50 syndicates with Angel Investors. Ticket size ranges from PLN 0.5m to PLN 2m per investment, and we can follow-on with up to PLN 4m per company in total. We can participate in rounds starting from Pre-Seed to Series A. Kogito Ventures participates in the Biznest programme run by Polish Development Fund (PFR) and has beenallocated funding of PLN 30m, which is matched with another PLN 30m coming from co-investing Business Angels. ## LT Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Krakow, Malopolskie, Poland - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel - Focus: Software, Messaging, Internet We are:Industry 4.0 seed fund. Typically, we invest around EUR 250K. If necessary, we are able to bring top-tier co-investors to the table if a bigger ticket is needed.Founder-centric. Few VC's understand that founders are the ones that run the companies. We are there to help, not to replace.Heavily networked. With contacts across theglobe, we are the bridge between great companies from the CEE and bigger funds and clients from rest of the world.Focused on CEE. In the upcoming years we will invest in around 40 companies in Central and Eastern Europe, with Poland being the main site of our investments. ## Simpact VC - Type: VC Fund - Location: Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: SaaS, Information Technology, Software Simpact is the first impact investment venture capital fund in Poland. We are looking for tech-driven startups that incorporate high business potential and a positive social or environmental impact. We empower founders to build tech companies which combine profit with purpose and have a potential to change the world for the better. # 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