# Top 50 Software Angel Investors in Poland in May 2026

## Marcin Zukowski
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Mateo, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Apps, Manufacturing

Marcin invented vectorized query execution for databases. His innovation emerged from his PhD research into optimizing database query execution for modern processors.The technology inspired him to co-found Vectorwise, which produced the fastest single-node analytical database on the market. As Vectorwise CEO, Marcin led the company through itsacquisition by Actian in 2010. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Amsterdam.

## Chris Schagen
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS

I help developer tech entrepreneurs beginning from crazy idea, through MVP stage, product market fit, go-to-market fit, up to go-to-market scaling. Also I help you get your first 1000 leads. Before, I was the CMO at Contentful and helped it grow from $0m to $50m in ARR, and before that founded 3 companies, including Wooga (exit to Playtika),Linklift, and Mundwerk.I obsess about being customer-centric and customer-driven in building your organization. And I am the curmodgeon who tells you things you need to (but probably don't want to) hear.

## Rafał Brzoska
- Type: Angel
- Location: Cracow, Malopolskie, Poland
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: B2B, E-Commerce, Information Technology

Rafał Brzoska - CEO @ Integer.pl Group

## 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.

## Christian Dahlen
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Analytics

Christian Dahlen is a business angel. He provides expert capital and venture advice to B2B SW startups in Silicon Valley and in Germany. He is a member of the Band of Angels, Silicon Valley's oldest seed funding organization. Christian was a VP at SAP and held various roles in business strategy and operations. Prior to SAP, he was theGeneral Manager for the Internet and phone business of Kabel Deutschland (KDG), Germany's largest cable operator. He joined KDG from Excite@Home, and before that was with McKinsey & Co.

## Kevin Mahaffey
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software

Kevin Patrick Mahaffey is the Founder of Lookout and SNR. He is also the Executive Chairman of Stork Club and an Investor.

## Ronald Cohen
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- 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”.

## Piotr Krzysztofik
- Type: Angel
- Location: Brussels, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Internet

Business angel, entrepreneur, strategic advisor and innovator with over 22 years of experience in managing large international organizations with budgets of over $100 million. He was responsible for building, optimizing and developing new organizations, locations and branches of international, global companies providing IT services both in themarket in Poland and in nearshoring models (research and development, systems integration, IT engineering) for clients around the world. He participated in strategic business initiatives of companies such as Siemens, Atos, Global Logic in Poland and Europe. He has held positions such as CEO, President, Board Member or VP in global structures. He graduated with an MBA, is a certified coach (ICC) and mentor (EMCC). His key expertise is in scaling organizations, managing strategy and growth, operations and people; leadership; project management, mentoring. After the successful acquisition of GlobalLogic by Hitachi, he started his business as an entrepreneur. Peter's recent work experience includes being an Investor, CEO, Partner, Supervisory Board Member, Strategy Consultant in various start-ups and private initiatives. He supports the startup community by managing a ventures builder - Ventures21 - and through pro bono activities for young entrepreneurs as a coach, mentor and advisor.

## Maciej Frankowicz
- Type: Angel
- Location: Wroclaw, Dolnoslaskie, Poland
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Biotechnology, Information Technology

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.

## 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.

## Jaroslaw Krolewski
- Type: Angel
- Location: Kraków, Malopolskie, Poland
- Relevant deals: 2
- Focus: Soccer, Sports, Software

CEO Synerise. Co-Owner of Wisla Krakow. During professional career he used to work Fortune 500 companies and got numerous prestigious national and international awards with Synerise Team.Since 2010 lecturer and researcher at the AGH University of Science and Technology (two faculties) in Krakow, where he co-founded award-winning courses and fulltime program studies of my own authorship from the scratch, including; Social Informatics, E-Economy (the most innovative course of study in Poland in 2012 according to the Ministry of Science and Higher Education) and Digital Marketing. He is an ambassador of the AGH brand and a mentor in the Polish Development Fund network. He graduated from two fields of study (computer science and sociology), and he is currently working on an interdisciplinary PhD. He has been a participant of many conferences and a guest lecturer at Polish and foreign universities. Together with partners he rolled out PhD Data Science Studies. He is also the author of publications, including bestsellers, inter alia published as part of the PWN Scientific Publishers. He is founder and creator of AI School Program and Academy for schools and kindergartens started in 2019 in Poland.

## 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.

## Guillermo Rauch
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Developer Tools

Before starting ZEIT in November 2015, Guillermo was the CTO and co-founder of LearnBoost and Cloudup, acquired by Automattic in 2013. He's the creator of several popular Node.JS open source libraries like socket.io, mongoose and slackin. Prior to Node.JS, he was a core developer of the MooTools frontend toolkit.

## Apostolos Apostolakis
- Type: Angel
- Location: Athens, Attiki, Greece
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Apps

Apostolos is a serial entrepreneur turned investor. He started his career at Boston Consulting Group where he spent 2 years consulting businesses. On his entrepreneurial path, he has co-founded e-shop.gr, Openfund, e-food, doctoranytime and was a key investor in Taxibeat. Since 2010 he has invested and supported a large number of startups with afocus on e-marketplaces and SaaS. He studied civil engineering at NTUA and holds an MBA from Columbia Business School.

## Pawel Chodaczek
- Type: Angel
- Location: Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: Software, Analytics, Machine Learning

Enterpreneur, innovator, investor. Founder of many successful IT and e-commerce companies. Co--author of the state-of-the art technology that contributed to the success of companies such as Cloud Technologies and RTB House. Investor in technology-oriented start-up projects and real estate.

## Rafał Sonik
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: B2B, SaaS, Software

Rafał Sonik

## Charles Zedlewski
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Open Source, Drones

Charles Zedlewski - Chief Product Officer @ Temporal Technologies

## Antoni Kozelski
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: SaaS, Software

Startup-minded tech entrepreneur and business angel. Co-founder and CEO at Vstorm and Ventures21. Working globally, focusing mainly on western Europe, CEE, and the USA. Key areas of expertise: strategy; team development; finances; management; business growth; scaling and marketing. My personal interests are growth management; strategy; investment& advisory; energy management; anthropology; creating music & DJ; traveling and surf/snow/wakeboarding.

## 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.

## 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.

## 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.

## Szymon Horaczuk
- Type: Angel
- Location: Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Medical, Wellness, Health Care

Szymon Horaczuk

## Szymon Klimczak
- Type: Angel
- Location: Wroclaw, Dolnoslaskie, Poland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Marketing, Reputation, Social CRM

CMO at LiveChat.
Professional with B2B ecommerce & marketing background.
Focuses on B2B eCommerce, including online advertising, affiliate, partner & channel programs and public relations. Experienced in introducing new IT products to global market. Always interested in further personal development and new opportunities.

## Lucjan Samulowski
- Type: Angel
- Location: Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: SaaS, Internet, Software

Lucjan Samulowski - Cofounder & CPO @ DocPlanner

## Wojtek Sadowski
- Type: Angel
- Location: Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Text Analytics, Machine Learning, Image Recognition

I leverage my broad knowledge of IT and advertising in my everyday work by creating innovative products and marketing strategies.Those that have worked with me value my complete dedication to the project and experience in all areas of digital world. With clients, I position myself as a partner not a contractor, what tends to help me inestablishing long lasting business relationships. I'm eager to meet new people so please don't hesitate to contact me if you want to exchange opinions.

## Matt Billmann Christensen
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Developer Tools, Information Technology

Matt Biilmann is the CEO and Co-founder of Netlify.

## Jonathan Siegel
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology

Mr. Siegel is a serial entrepreneur, angel investor, and advisor to many cloud companies.Jonathan is the founder of four internet companies: ELC Technologies (acquired by PriceGrabber’s former CEO), RightCart (acquired by Buy.com), RightScale (funded by Benchmark Capital and Index Ventures), and RightSignature.He has worked in venturedevelopment with Accel Partners London and been on Amazon Web Services’ customer advisory board since 2008.

## Bartosz Olchówka
- Type: Angel
- Location: Wroclaw, Dolnoslaskie, Poland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Marketing, Reputation, Social CRM

Bartosz Olchówka - Venture Partner @ Unfold.vc

## 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.

## 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.

## 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.

## Szymon Sypniewicz
- Type: Angel
- Location: Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Biotechnology, Artificial Intelligence

Szymon Sypniewicz is a Co-Founder and CEO at Ramp.

## Maciej Maliszewski
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence

Maciej Maliszewski

## Sebastian Szczygiel
- Type: Angel
- Location: Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Apps, Consumer, E-Commerce

Sebastian Szczygiel

## Blaine Vess
- Type: Angel
- Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services

Blaine Vess is the Founder of Immeasurable. Attended at Y Combinator.

## 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

## Luca Puccioni
- Type: Angel
- Location: Rome, Lazio, Italy
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Text Analytics, Machine Learning, Image Recognition

Luca Puccioni is the Founder and CEO of MioDottore. He previously worked at HomeAway as a Director, Sales Southern Europe . Luca Puccioni attended IE Business School.

## Christian Bach
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Developer Tools

Christian Bach is the President & Co-founder of Netlify.

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

Marcin Wenus

## Mikołaj Machowczyk
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence

Mikołaj Machowczyk

## 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.

## Maciej Zając
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Apps, Consumer, E-Commerce

Maciej Zając

## Tom Kemp
- Type: Angel
- Location: Santa Clara, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Cyber Security, Software, Identity Management

Tom Kemp is co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Centrify Corporation, a software and cloud security provider that is the leader in securing enterprise identities against cyberthreats that target today’s hybrid IT environment of cloud, mobile and on-premises. The Centrify Identity Platform protects against the leading point of attack used indata breaches ― compromised credentials — by securing an enterprise’s internal and external users as well as its privileged accounts. Under his leadership Centrify has become one of the fastest growing security vendors in the industry and has amassed over 5000 customers including half of the Fortune 50. Prior to Centrify Kemp held various executive, technical and marketing roles at NetIQ Corporation, Compuware, EcoSystems Software, and Oracle. Mr. Kemp was also an Entrepreneur in Residence at Mayfield, a leading venture capital firm. He is an avid blogger on the Centrify website (http://www.centrify.com/blogs/tomkemp/overview.asp). He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in computer science and in history from the University of Michigan.

## Łukasz Lewandowski
- Type: Angel
- Location: Warszawa, Mazowieckie, Poland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence

Łukasz Lewandowski is thee CEO at K2 Internet.

## Elżbieta Kozera
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Focus: Software, Cyber Security, Information Technology

Elżbieta Kozera

## Bartosz Dobrzyński
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Focus: Software, Cyber Security, Information Technology

Bartosz Dobrzyński

## 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.

## Krzysztof Polak
- Type: Angel
- Location: Kraków, Malopolskie, Poland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Private Cloud, Developer Tools

Experienced Executive Director with a demonstrated history of working in the banking industry. Skilled in Financial Structuring, Capital Markets, Financial Institutions, Banking, and Retail. Strong business development professional with a Magister (Mgr) focused in Prawo from Uniwersytet Śląski w Katowicach.

## 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.

## 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.

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