# Top 40 Web3 Startup Investors in Poland in October 2023 ## Firstminute Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 3 - 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. ## 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. ## Galaxy Digital - Type: VC Fund - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Series A, Seed - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services Galaxy is a digital asset and blockchain leader helping institutions, startups, and individuals shape a changing economy. ## 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. ## Seedcamp - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, FinTech, SaaS Seedcamp is Europe's seed fund, identifying and investing early in world-class founders attacking large, global markets and solving real problems using technology. The Seedcamp Nation includes over 400 startups building breakout businesses that change the way people live, interact and buy and includes publicly listed UiPath, Wise, and unicornsRevolut, Hopin, Sorare, Pleo, and wefox along with fast-growing businesses such as Grover, viz.ai and Ezra. Seedcamp fast-tracks a founder's vision and creates value through immediate access to smart capital, a lifelong community of support and a global network built upon more than a decade's experience backing exceptional talent.Seedcamp fast-tracks a founder's vision and creates value through immediate access to smart capital, a lifelong community of support, and a global network built upon more than a decade's experience backing exceptional talent. ## NFX - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Marketplace We are a VC firm investing in pre-seed and seed stage startups. We back exceptional Founders building market-transforming companies. ## 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. ## Richard Burton - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: FinTech, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency Richard Burton - CEO @ Balance Software ## Marcin Wenus - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Apps, SaaS, FinTech Marcin Wenus ## 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. ## MakerDAO - Type: VC Fund - Location: Santa Cruz, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Cryptocurrency, FinTech, Blockchain Maker is a decentralized autonomous organization on the Ethereum blockchain. ## Balderton Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C - Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services In the two decades since our founding, we have worked with hundreds of extraordinary European founders, and have raised eight funds totalling more than $3bn. ## 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. ## CV VC - Type: VC Fund - Location: Zug, Zug, Switzerland - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Blockchain, Software, Information Technology We invest in blockchain ## Kenetic - Type: VC Fund - Location: Central, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services Kenetic is a proprietary trading and VC investment firm focused on digital assets and blockchain related companies. They have developed technology to facilitate their quantitative trading strategies and offer various digital asset related structured products to counterparts. ## AU21 Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Initial Coin Offering - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services A fund dedicated to backing the most brilliant minds in the blockchain space ## 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. ## 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. ## Fabric Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Initial Coin Offering - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software Fabric backs the founders of the Open Economy. Investing in builders, businesses, and networks from inception to scaling since 2012. ## 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 ## 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. ## 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. ## 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. ## Fulgur Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Wilmington, Delaware, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Bitcoin, FinTech, Cryptocurrency We believe in Bitcoin as a next generation politically neutral monetary system, the foundation for decentralized finance of the future. While Bitcoin is an efficient settlement layer, it needs a Layer-2 solution for everyday transactions. That is why we support development of the Lightning Network - an essential step towards decentralized finance.As technology entrepreneurs we combine decades of experience creating business from zero and scaling it in emerging and fast-growing industries.We support outstanding teams in several ways: writing checks of $50-$200k for pre-seed startups; granting rewards for acknowledged contributions to the ecosystem; providing startup advisory and mentoring; investing in later stages.Along the way we help startups to navigate cryptocurrency legal and regulatory environment according to the evolving industry standards and best practices. ## ff Venture Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - 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. ## Müller Medien - Type: VC Fund - Location: Nuremberg, Bayern, Germany - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: SaaS, Software, Artificial Intelligence Müller family media and its partner network are very strong companies from different media sectors. Versatile and individually therefore also the CVs and personalities of their employees who every day with passion and curiosity to work in their teams to achieve common goals.Hans Müller has 65 years the telephone directory publisher Hans Müllerfounded from his living room out - the foundation for the company's family Müller media. His pioneering spirit is still felt today by the fourth generation and with all my colleagues.The company Müller family media is locally connected and networked world. With their five business segments directories, radio, print media, book and new business they are represented with locations in Europe, USA and Asia. More than 2,000 people every day win the confidence of consumers and customers. Changes and challenges of the media world motivate us to pick up trends early in order to help shape this. Their cooperative working lives of mutual esteem and trust. ## BlueYard Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Cryptocurrency, Internet BlueYard backs founders building the interconnected elements that can become the fabric of our future. ## Mozilla - Type: VC Fund - Location: Mountain View, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Grant, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Internet, Apps Mozilla is the not-for-profit behind the lightning fast Firefox browser. We put people over profit to give everyone more power online. ## Genblock Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Initial Coin Offering - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming Genblock Capital invests exclusively in blockchain and cryptocurrency, with a focus on decentralized finance. ## 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. ## 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. ## Shima Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming Shima Capital is an investment fund that focuses on supporting cutting-edge blockchain startups. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States. ## Spark Digital Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services Established in 2017, Spark Digital Capital is an NY based family office that invests in Blockchain-enabled companies. They firmly believe in a future where blockchain not only plays a significant role in the world but also creates unlimited efficiencies and opportunities to the society and people’s lives. With their teams' strong finance andtechnology background they aim to bring blockchain into prosperity. ## Buckley Endeavors - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: FinTech, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency Investments ## Momentum 6 - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Initial Coin Offering - Focus: Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency Building momentum for ideas in WEB3. ## 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. ## Pointer.Capital - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Apps, SaaS, FinTech Pointer.Capital is an early stages investment firm that invests in the Web3.0 and Blockchain startups. ## Iain Simpson - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: FinTech, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency Iain Simpson ## 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. ## KOSMOS GROUP - Type: VC Fund - Location: Willemstad, Noord-Brabant, The Netherlands - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Finance, Blockchain KOSMOS GROUP, a startup firm that knows exactly where to invest to get HRI [High Return on Investment]. # About Shizune Shizune.co is an investor database. Core features: - 48,091 startup investors (angels, VCs, accelerators, and others) - Email, phone, LinkedIn (for intros), socials, and other contact data - Updated daily from public funding news - CSV and Excel export The User can access the full database FOR FREE after signing up: shizune.co