# Top 20 Payments Angel Investors in Poland in May 2026

## Francesco Simoneschi
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Equity Crowdfunding
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, B2B

Francesco Simoneschi is the co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of TrueLayer. In three short years, Francesco and his co-Founder Luca Martinetti, have built TrueLayer into one of the world's leading providers of financial APIs. Their mission is to grow the Open Banking economy by creating a truly global platform for companies to developnew financial services and products. His leadership has enabled TrueLayer to negotiate integration partnerships with most of Europe’s major banks, winning a host of leading companies as clients, sign a global partnership with Visa, and secure investment from companies including Tencent and Temasek. Over the last decade, Francesco has founded, managed, and grown a number of successful tech companies in the US and Europe. Prior to founding TrueLayer, Francesco launched the angel fund Mission and Market in San Francisco in 2014. Mission and Market provide capital for entrepreneurs in a wide range of industries including healthcare, fintech, biotech, and education. Under Francesco’s guidance, the fund invested in more than 50 startups. Before this, Francesco founded the analytics platform Staq.io in 2012. The startup was later acquired by mobile game developer Playhaven. Following Staq.io’s acquisition, he joined the mobile marketing platform Upsight where he was promoted to Product Owner and Tech Lead. Francesco has also served as VP of Strategy at FOVE, who built the world’s first eye-tracking virtual reality headset.He has a degree in Information Management and Economics from the London School of Economics and a degree in Computer Engineering from La Sapienza University Rome.

## Piotr Smolen
- Type: Angel
- Location: Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland
- Relevant deals: 2
- 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.

## Taavet Hinrikus
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Software

Taavet Hinrikus is co-founder and CEO of TransferWise. Prior to starting TransferWise, Taavet was Skype’s director of strategy until 2008, starting as its first-ever employee. One of the World Economic Forum's Tech Pioneers, Taavet is an adviser to Prime Minister of Estonia on the digital agenda. He’s also a mentor and angel investor; hisinvestments include Tweetdeck, Mendeley, OMGPOP, Property Partner, Sunrise, Improbable and Mapillary.

## Andrew Cronk
- Type: Angel
- Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency

Andrew Cronk is the Co-founder and Chief Product Officer at Figment. He attended Kettering University.

## Roham Gharegozlou
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Blockchain, Software, Cryptocurrency

Roham is founder and CEO of Axiom Zen, an award-winning venture studio that specializes in emerging technology. Axiom Zen’s first public blockchain project, CryptoKitties, is the world’s most successful blockchain game and the first decentralized application to effectively engage a consumer audience. CryptoKitties has been covered by Fortune,Bloomberg, and the BBC, accounting for roughly a quarter of the Ethereum network’s traffic within a week of launch and introducing hundreds of thousands of new users to blockchain technology. Axiom Zen was named first among Canada’s Most Innovative Companies by Canadian Business. Their products have touched 200+ million consumers and are used by the world’s leading companies, including Facebook, Microsoft, and NASA, as well as by eminent academic institutions and government organizations. They pride themselves in diversity of talent: a team of ~80+ creatives includes published authors, over a dozen former founders, diversity from 20+ national origins, and decades of collective experience at startups and Fortune 500s alike. Axiom Zen has been working with Bitcoin and various forms of blockchain and distributed ledger technologies since 2014. Axiom Zen is also the team behind ZenHub, the world’s leading collaboration solution for technical teams using GitHub; and the developer of Timeline, named Apple’s Best App of January, Editor’s Choice in 10 countries, and Best New App in 88 countries. Axiom Zen is the creator of Toby, recognized as Top Chrome Extension of the year by both Google and Product Hunt, and the parent company of Hammer & Tusk, a leader in the world of immersive experiences (AR/VR). Axiom Zen's work has been featured in TIME Magazine, The New York Times, Vice, and Fast Company. History Prior to founding Axiom Zen, Roham served with the Rising Tide Fund bas

## Josh Buckley
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Financial Services

Josh Buckley is the CEO of Product Hunt.

## Max Moldenhauer
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Analytics, Developer Tools, FinTech

Max is a founding partner of Sunfish Partners.He has long been an active investor and business angel. He is also an entrepreneur having co-founded seven companies himself. Previously, he was investing in and building companies as Head of Mobile at Project A.Max holds a B.Sc. and an M.Sc. in Business & Management from WHU Vallendar.

## Lorien Gabel
- Type: Angel
- Location: Wilson, Wyoming, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Events, FinTech, Blockchain

Lorien is an entrepreneur and lawyer who was born in Malaysia while his dad was curing tropical diseases with the Peace Corps. Off to a cool start, he spent the next few years of his life in Hawaii, San Diego, India…before settling into the much more exciting, colorful and exceedingly polite land of Canada.  Determined not to be one hitwonders, Lorien and Matt teamed up again and co-founded Bird on a Wire Networks - a managed web hosting and data-center provider which was one of the first of its kind in Canada. Within two years, the company was acquired by AT&T Canada. Lorien has a LLB from Toronto's Osgoode Hall Law School and is a member in good standing with the Ontario Bar. He resides in NYC where he can be seen running along the west side highway listening to the latest DJ mix or a CBC Canada political podcast

## Marcus Erken
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Software

Happy & curious.Dr. Marcus is a founding partner of Sunfish Partners, an early stage VC that invests in Polish deep tech startups with global ambitions.In addition, he has made angel investments throughout the world and co-lectures an annual university course in which students start their own companies.Previously, Marcus had the privilegeto work with more than 120 student startups at WHU’s university incubator, which he helped establish and run.Marcus holds a B.Sc. and an M.Sc. in Business & Management from WHU Vallendar, a Ph.D. in Entrepreneurship from RWTH Aachen University, and was a Visiting Research Fellow at Harvard University.

## 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.

## Malgorzata Sitkowska
- Type: Angel
- Location: Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Payments, Information Technology

Malgorzata Sitkowska is the Founder of Amano app. She attended the Private College of Business and Administration in Warsaw.

## Marcin Wenus
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Apps, SaaS, FinTech

Marcin Wenus

## Richard Burton
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency

Richard Burton - CEO @ Balance Software

## Michal Zawiasa
- Type: Angel
- Location: Poznan, Wielkopolskie, Poland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Payments, Information Technology

Michal Zawiasa is the Founder & CEO at Glodny.pl.

## Fred Ehrsam
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series C
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software

Fred Ehrsam is the Co-Founder of Paradigm.

## Nicolas Jedraszak
- Type: Angel
- Location: Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Payments, Information Technology

Nicolas Jedraszak is the Co-Founder of Amano. He previously worked at Daily as a Co-Founder.

## Balaji Srinivasan
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software

Balaji S. Srinivasan is the Co-Founder and Board Member of Coin Center. He was the CTO of Coinbase and cofounder of Counsyl, Earn, Teleport, and Coin Center. He was previously CEO at Earn.com, which was recently sold to Coinbase. Prior to taking the CEO role at Earn.com, Dr. Srinivasan was a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz. Prior to joininga16z, he was the cofounder and CTO of Founders Fund-backed Counsyl, where he won the Wall Street Journal Innovation Award for Medicine and was named to the MIT TR35. Dr. Srinivasan holds a BS, MS, and PhD in Electrical Engineering and an MS in Chemical Engineering from Stanford University. He also teaches the occasional class at Stanford, including an online MOOC in 2013 which reached 250,000+ students worldwide.

## Itamar Lesuisse
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Gaming

Itamar is the co-founder and CEO of Argent. Prior to Argent, Itamar founded and led Peak, the top ranked mobile cognitive training service with over 50,000,000 users and 500,000 subscribers. Itamar led Peak to a profitable 8 digit per year business. He successfully sold it to Lagardere SCA in 2016.Before Peak, Itamar worked at Boston ConsultingGroup, Amazon and VISA. He holds a Masters in Computer Science and Electronics Engineering.

## Iain Simpson
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency

Iain Simpson

## Matt Harrop
- Type: Angel
- Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Events, FinTech, Blockchain

Matt is an entrepreneur who was born on a mountaintop, near a town called Rock Creek, somewhere in British Columbia, Canada. For the first five years, his family did not have running water or electricity. Thankfully his parents decided to return to civilization and relocated to the thriving metropolis of Toronto. resh from his successes on theinformation superhighway, Matt set forth to conquer the elements, water and air. He dyed his hair blue, trained for a pilots license, built an ultra light aircraft, joined the crew of Challenge Team Spirit, a 72-foot cutter, in a trans Atlantic yacht race and then spent three years sailing across the Atlantic & Pacific Oceans with his then girlfriend (and now wife) Melissa.Matt is sometimes affectionately referred to as “Matt-apedia” because he seems to know everything from strange ingredients in toothpaste, to how to fix a diesel engine, to the philosophy of Kierkegaard. He currently lives in Toronto where pingg's development office is located.

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