Top 5 Manufacturing Angel Investors in Poland in October 2023

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.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, FinTech, Software
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Germany, United Kingdom, France

Portfolio highlights

Lumiform — Lumiform is an easy-to-use & powerful inspection & audit software. The Lumiform mobile app is available on all devices, iOS & Android - Start FOR FREE now.
Cylib — The cylib process transfers waste from end of life batteries or production scrap into marketable products. Cylib covers all steps from the discharging of batteries up to hydrometallurgical extraction. Since the whole process is in one hand, also the processing of production scraps as well as black mass is possible.
Surfboard — Surfboard; Simpler, smarter and fairer scheduling software for customer support teams at scale. Click to learn more about Surfboard.

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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.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Biotechnology, Information Technology
Pre-Seed, Seed
Poland

Portfolio highlights

Checly — Checly simplifies control processes and helps you to save time and money. Our automated platform provides data-driven insights, allowing you to create, manage and check your control processes quickly and easily. Get started now with Checly.
Surveily — Surveily applies Artificial Intelligence to increase safety in manufacturing plants. It integrates with existing CCTV infrastructure to minimise deployment cost. It detects threats in real-time and allows for early prevention and mitigation. We cater to the most dangerous sectors that require an ever increasing safety parameters such as chemical,gas and oil.
Aether Biomedical — Aether Biomedical is a medical robotics company making bionics accessible to all. We aim to deliver medical devices engineered to exceed global standards.

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Tomasz Kolinko is the Founder of Freespace Warsaw. Prior to that, he founded Eveem.org and Trivial.co. He attended the University of Warsaw.

Investment focus

FinTech, Big Data, Wellness
Pre-Seed
Poland

Portfolio highlights

Sundose — Sundose is a manufacturer of data-driven diet supplements.
Ramp — Allow users to buy and sell crypto without leaving your app or wallet. Buy and sell crypto directly on our website.

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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.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Marketplace, Wellness
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
Poland, Brazil, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Reebelo — Reebelo is APAC’s leading marketplace for pre-loved tech devices. Our vision is to reduce e-waste by building the circular economy for refurbished electronics. While doing so, we enable consumers to save up to 70% on their favorite brands and flexibly rent devices instead of buying them. Reebelo is based in Singapore with additional offices inAustralia, New Zeland & Malaysia. Get in touch if you want to be part of a high-growth, disruptive team working to make a positive impact!
PsiBufet — Psibufet offers a healthy and natural diet for dogs.
SonarHome — SonarHome is the first company in Poland to offer iBuying, enabling quick and safe sale of an apartment directly to the company.

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