# Top 30 Sports Startup Investors in Poland in May 2026

## Shape VC
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Kraków, Malopolskie, Poland
- Relevant deals: 2
- 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.

## Next Road Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Machine Learning

We are a polish VC fund backed by the global business angels. Our sweet spot is European early stage companies founded by visionary entrepreneurs who aim to become global winners in their respective industry. Together with our affiliates, CEE Business Angel Network, leading European deal flow platform Vestbee as well as our global network of VCfunds and corporate partners, we support our companies with the relevant network, expertise, resources and funds to help them expand to new markets. Next Road Ventures in a nutshell:
GEOGRAPHY - Europe with a strong focus on Central & Eastern Europe;
ROUNDS - seed, pre-series A, series A;
STAGES - product on the market (at least MVP), revenue or growing traction;
SECTORS - multi-sector with a preference on ICT, Big Data, SaaS, Martech, Fintech, Industry 4.0, IoT, e-commerce etc.;
TICKET - up to 1M EUR

## RKKVC
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Machine Learning

To be the first point of call for company founders from Central Europe who want to create history with their start-up.
Our private independent early-stage boutique Venture Capital fund focuses on this promise. Our strategy is linked to technologies that benefit people and the planet. It’s a privilege for us to partner with people who seeopportunities around the corner. To them success is not about mere status, it is about making an impact.

## SMOK Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology

Bridging Silicon Valley to CEE

## ff Venture Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence

ff Venture Capital (ffVC) is a technology venture capital firm investing in some of the strongest growth areas to date, including cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, machine learning, drones, enterprise cloud software, and crowdfunding. The firm identifies and invests in technology and technology-enabled companies at its inception acrossgeographies and emerging industries. With three partners and an acceleration team of 20+ investment and operations professionals, ffVC actively participates with founders to develop products, target markets, and accelerate growth. Since 2008, ffVC has invested in over 100 companies and has helped to create companies with an aggregate market value exceeding $6 billion.

## Innovation Nest
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Kraków, Malopolskie, Poland
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology

Innovation Nest invest in early stage B2B SaaS startups from Europe and help them grow from local to global using our network of contacts and strong in-house competencies. It strongly believes that the path to growth leads through Silicon Valley and strongly encourage our portfolio startups to set up presence there. The company supports high-techcompanies to grow faster and scale their business globally.

## Eteron VC
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Poznan, Wielkopolskie, Poland
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Fitness, Hardware, Software

Private Equity Firm, Venture Capital

## SpeedUp Venture Capital Group
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Poznan, Wielkopolskie, Poland
- Relevant deals: 2
- 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.

## Manta Ray Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Biotechnology, Logistics

Manta Ray Ventures is an early-stage venture capital fund backing mission-driven founders that provides flexible and patient capital, leveraging time, resources, and networks resources and networks as far as possible to support its portfolio companies.

## 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

## 3TS Capital Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Software, Internet, SaaS

3TS Capital Partners is a European technology focused private equity and venture capital firms. 3TS provides expansion capital and buyout funding for small and medium-sized businesses in growth sectors including technology & internet, media & communications and technology-enabled services. Investors in the current and past 3TS fundstotaling over €300 million include EIF, EBRD, Cisco, OTP, Sitra, 3i and KfW among others.Its team of highly qualified experts become active business partners of the portfolio companies and deliver substantial value added beyond financing. When analyzing new investment opportunities and supporting portfolio companies, the company often augment its core team by its sector partners, various co-investors and other industry experts. 3TS is also an active member of several international industry associations and other organizations like EVCA – European Private Equity & Venture Capital Association, the International Venture Club and the Draper Venture Network.

## Colopl Next
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Virtual Reality, E-Commerce

Colopl Next is the corporate venture capital of is Colopl, Inc, which is a leading Japanese gaming company. Colopl, Inc. is founded with the mission of “Entertainment in Real Life”, and constantly put its customer as first priority.Colopl Next is headquartered in Japan, but invests globally in a variety of internet businesses, with the commitmentto support innovative entrepreneurs.

## Programa
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Poznan, Wielkopolskie, Poland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Fitness, Health Care, Medical Device

Programa™  software house create bespoke, non-standard web solutions for companies that want to automate, optimise and streamline daily work.

## TDJ Pitango Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence, Analytics

We invest using the smart money formula in projects with global potential. Get financing for your startup and develop under the supervision of our experts!

## KAYA
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Prague, Hlavni mesto Praha, Czech Republic
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Health Care, SaaS

We are committed to supporting founders at every stage of their journey, from studio projects and pre-seed through to Series A and follow-ons.

## SATUS Starter
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Kraków, Malopolskie, Poland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Private Equity
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning

SATUS Starter is a VC focusing on investments between $ 100k-1M in: AI & Big Data, SaaS, AR & VR, Industry 4.0, FinTech, blockchain, cybersecurity, marketplace.

## Paul Bragiel
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Gaming, Software, SaaS

Paul Bragiel is the Managing Partner at Bragiel Brothers. The Attended University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

## Xevin Investments
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Warszawa, Mazowieckie, Poland
- Relevant deals: 1
- 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.

## Porsche
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Stuttgart, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series C
- Focus: Manufacturing, Automotive, Transportation

Welcome to the official Porsche Website with detailed information about Porsche Models, Pre-owned Cars, Porsche Motorsport, the company, etc.

## Tar Heel Capital Pathfinder
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Focus: Information Technology, Software, Analytics

Tar Heel Capital Pathfinder is a venture capital fund and an experienced venture builder co-creating thriving global tech businesses.

## 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.

## KnowledgeHub
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Warszawa, Mazowieckie, Poland
- Relevant deals: 1
- 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.

## Sleepz
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Internet, MOOC, Soccer

SLEEPZ AG is an e-commerce group focussing on the segment of sleep products. They are establishing ourselves as a “Union for sleep products and home décor”. Since completing our first financial year (2016), they have grown to become one of the largest independent retailers for our market segment in Germany, and they aim to further solidify thisposition in the market.

## Protos Venture Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Warszawa, Mazowieckie, Poland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Mobile Apps, Fashion, Marketplace

Protos Venture Capital is a funding company that is focused on internet businesses in Poland. It also includes mobile projects based on Software-as-a-Service, marketplace, lead-generator, and e-commerce sectors.
Protos Venture Capital is based in Warszawa, Poland.

## Daftcode
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Fitness, Software, Wellness

Daftcode is a Polish venture builder. We create enterprises from scratch, transforming bold ideas into fast-growing products and businesses. We use our expertise and resources to create cutting-edge technologies that influence or disrupt established business models with new ideas, creating future revenue streams.We go beyond investing in techcompanies. We actually establish them. And our ventures have a clear advantage over startups that are developed in other ways.Our portfolio of ventures includes i.e.:– Nethone – the global leader in AI-powered KYU (Know Your Users), providing top-class fraud prevention and customer intelligence solutions;
– Straal – an everything-payments one-stop-shop for online and omnichannel merchants of any size;
– Skriware – a comprehensive educational ecosystem that uses 3D printing to teach interdisciplinary STEAM skills;
– Indoorway – a smart, outstandingly accurate indoor positioning and traffic analysis solution;
– Cateringoo – an online marketplace that connects catering companies with B2B clientsWe work in multidisciplinary and autonomous teams that organize their work themselves. We believe this makes everyone equally important and engaged in the project and able to individually develop their skills, without obeying rules graven in stone. While working on particular projects, we don’t forget about supporting each other and sharing our experience.

## AIP Seed
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Software, SaaS

Our goal is to be the first investor in top CEE startups. Get in touch if you are at day one of building a global tech company.
With more than 110 investments, AIP Seed is the largest fund in Poland and among the largest in CEE.

## PKO BP
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Warszawa, Mazowieckie, Poland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Gaming

PKO BP operates as a commercial bank. The Bank’s operations comprise cash deposits, maintenance of accounts, granting loans and cash advances, granting and confirming bank guarantees.

## Alfabeat
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Gdansk, Pomorskie, Poland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Marketing, Internet

Welcome to Alfabeat, a specialist seed and early stage venture capital fundfocused on Enterprise SaaS companies from Central and Eastern Europe,backed by successful enterprise software founders.

## RTA.vc
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Warszawa, Mazowieckie, Poland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Genetics

RTAventures VC invests early in online businesses with special focus on healthcare related products and business models like SaaS (software as a service) and marketplaces. RTAventures VC is managed by Piotr Kulesza and Lubomir Jurczak and is based in Warsaw, Poland and Berlin, Germany. The largest investments include Docplanner, Typeform, PointNine Capital.

## National Center for Research and Development
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Warszawa, Mazowieckie, Poland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Grant, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Big Data

The National Centre for Research and Development is the implementing agency of the Minister of Science and Higher Education. It was appointed in the summer 2007 as an entity in charge of the performance of the tasks within the area of national science, science and technology and innovation policies. When if was founded, it was the first entity ofthis type, created as the platform of an effective dialogue between the scientific and business communities.Currently, it operates under the Act on National Centre for Research and Development dated 30 April 2010 (Journal of Laws from 2010, No. 96 item 616). The science reform adopted in the autumn 2010 gave the Centre more freedom to manage its financial assets, within the scope of a strategic research programme.In addition, the National Centre for Research and Development extended its activity with new initiatives and possibilities on 1 September 2011. Assigned by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education the function of the Mediation Institution in three operational programmes: Human Capital, Innovative Economy and Infrastructure and Environment, the Centre became one of the greatest innovation centres in Poland.
The activity of the Centre is funded by the national treasury and the European Union.

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