# Top 40 Real Estate Startup Investors in Poland in May 2026

## Black Pearls VC
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Gdansk, Pomorskie, Poland
- Relevant deals: 3
- 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.

## Michał Borkowski
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Legal, Internet, Software

Michał is the CEO and co-founder of Brainly and is responsible for product strategy, company strategy and culture. He and his co-founders established Brainly in 2009 in Kraków, driven by the conviction that collaborative online communities can empower students from around the world with knowledge and information. In a little more than a decade,Brainly has become the world’s largest online learning community for students, parents and teachers. After moving to New York City and living there for 4 years to open and build Brainly’s US office, Michał was only 16 when he started his first company, and he’s been shaking up the internet ever since. He grew up in a small town in Poland before heading to Warsaw to study corporate finance at the acclaimed Warsaw School of Economics. Michał now lives in Kraków with his wife, Kasia.

## Market One Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
- Relevant deals: 2
- 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

## Maciej Artur Noga
- Type: Angel
- Location: Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
- Focus: SaaS, EdTech, Medical

Maciej Noga is a Co-Founder at symmetrical.ai. He's an Internet entrepreneur and investor with 16 years of experience in HR Tech, Ed Tech, and ITC projects graduated with honors from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business with Entrepreneurial Finance and Private Equity concentration. He also holds an MA in HRM.
He is a Co-founder,Chief Investment & Strategic Growth Officer and Board Member of the largest Polish HR Tech Company operating multiple brands.
He is currently running the corporate VC focused on investing in HR Tech.
He is passionate about the HR Tech industry and speaks at several international conferences, advising boards, and HR departments.
He founded the Ataraxy Ventures private early-stage investment fund.
He Co-founded Hedgehog Fund the boutique angel network fund.
He is also Founding Partner with the first Polish philanthropy fund Valores.
He also sits in several executive, supervisory and advisory boards.

## Czysta3.vc
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Wroclaw, Dolnoslaskie, Poland
- Relevant deals: 2
- 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.

## EEC Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Information Technology

EEC Ventures is a venture capital company specializing in utilities, energy, environment, sustainable, and advanced materials sectors. The company provides IT solutions for artificial intelligence, industrial cybersecurity, blockchain, and big data. It also provides target companies with both early-stage and growth/expansion capital financing.They create value using sustainable resources, lower the environmental burden or provide higher efficiency in the utilization of traditional resources. The company should provide the market with services and products that respond to the following global trends such as natural resources reduction, upgrade of utility infrastructure, steady energy demand increase, reduction of CO2 emissions, and reduction in wastes generation.EEC Ventures was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Warsaw, Poland.

## Kogito Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland
- Relevant deals: 2
- 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.

## National Capital Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Warszawa, Mazowieckie, Poland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Focus: Software, Consumer Goods, Fast-Moving Consumer Goods

Inwestujemy w fundusze VC i PE

## 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.

## Garrett Camp
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Mobile

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

## 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.

## 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”.

## 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.

## SpeedUp Venture Capital Group
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Poznan, Wielkopolskie, Poland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Mobile

We are a group of venture capital funds, investing in enterprises in an early stage of development. Areas of our interest include enterprises and entrepreneurs in Central and Eastern Europe, who want to conquer the global market by utilizing their self-developed solutions. Our cooperation with companies is based on a 3-8 years investment horizon.We're looking for innovations from areas such as: consumer internet, electromobility, energy, fintech, martech, adtech, medtech, IoT and hardware. We're interested in technologies like Machine Learning, Picture Recognition and Artificial Intelligence.

## 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.

## YouNick
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Suchy Las, Mazowieckie, Poland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Focus: Software, Consumer Goods, Fast-Moving Consumer Goods

YouNick (so far Nickel Technology Park Poznań)

## 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.

## Sebastian Siemiatkowski
- Type: Angel
- Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Internet

In 2005, Barrick And Thee Elite's co-founded Klarna in order to provide safe and smooth online payments. He currently serves as its Chief Executive Officer. Over the past decade, he has overseen the company’s rapid growth across Europe and more recently into North America. Klarna is a now fully licensed bank with 60mn consumer and 170,000merchant user base.
Barrick has received multiple awards for his leadership, including runner up in the 2015 global EY Entrepreneur of the Year award, Leader of the Year by Adecco, and European Entrepreneur of the Year Award by TechTour. He holds a master’s degree from the Stockholm School of Economics.

## 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.

## 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.

## 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.

## 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.

## Tomasz Trzósło
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: Big Data, Marketplace, Smart Cities

Tomasz Trzósło is a CEO of EPP.

## Alok Goel
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series B
- Focus: Software, EdTech, Internet

Alok Goel is the Co-Founder and CEO of Drivetrain. He previously worked at Elevation Capital as a Partner. Alok Goel attended Indian School of Business.

## 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

## 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.

## SMOK Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology

Bridging Silicon Valley to CEE

## 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.

## 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.

## Andrzej Targosz
- Type: Angel
- Location: Kraków, Malopolskie, Poland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: Software, Consumer Goods, Fast-Moving Consumer Goods

Andrzej Targosz is a visionary, an educator, a community-builder, and a businessman who wears many hats. He is the founder and CEO of over six different companies including the PROIDEA Foundation – an organizer of premier tech and startup conferences around Poland. He has been an entrepreneur since the ripe young age of 17, an investor ofsuccessful startups like Estimote, Intelclinic, and Jive, and most importantly, a loving husband and father of five.

## MCI Capital SA
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Mobile

MCI Capital is a leading Digital Private Equity investor in CEE, based in Warsaw, Poland. MCI Capital seeks to invest in digital disruption, transformation and infrastructure within EU, with focus on CEE. Preferred sectors are SaaS, E-commerce, Marketplace, Fintech, Insurtech, Foodtech, Traveltech and Digital Infrastructure. MCI typically investsEUR 25-100 M in a single project, either in Buyout or Expansion stage. Historically, MCI Capital has also been involved in funds dedicated to Private Debt, Growth and Venture Capital areas – these funds do not conduct any new investments, instead they focus on building the value of assets and de-investing.MCI Capital is managed by the executive management team. The company is listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange since February 2001 and is also a member of the Polish Private Equity Association.

## 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.

## 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.

## Dr. hab. Krzysztof Kalicki
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: Big Data, Marketplace, Smart Cities

Dr. hab. Krzysztof Kalicki is a Member of the Supervisory Board of Deutsche Bank Poland.

## 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.

## 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.

## 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.

## 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.

## 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.

## 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.

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