Investment Associate at the Polish venture capital firm Inovo Venture Partners Kacper Zambrzycki is his Medium blog has selected 10 most funded startups in Poland. AIN.TECH publishes the abridged version.
Founded: 2011
Founders: Mariusz Gralewski, Lucjan Samulowski, Konrad Jarowski, Jacek Perkowski, Grzegorz Krysiak, Luca Puccioni
Total funding: $140.5M
Largest round: $90M Series E in 2019
Investors: Target Global, Point Nine Capital, ENERN, One Peak Partners, Goldman Sachs, EBRD, FJ Labs, Piton Capital, RTAventures
DocPlanner is the world’s biggest healthcare booking platform, with millions of appointments booked each month in 10+ countries globally. The offering is based on two fundamental products:
- SaaS solution for healthcare professionals
- Consumer-facing booking marketplace and reviews site
Founded: 2009
Founders: Michał Borkowski, Lukasz Haluch, Tomasz Kraus
Total funding: $68.5M
Largest round: $30M Series C in 2019
Investors: General Catalyst, Prosus & Naspers, Runa Capital, Point Nine Capital, Learn Capital, Manta Ray Ventures, Kulczyk Investments
Brainly has managed to build, most probably, the world’s largest peer-to-peer Q&A learning community, amassing over 200 million users. Currently based in New York, the company states around 10–15% of US students already use Brainly.
Founded: 2013
Founders: Stefan Batory, Konrad Howard
Total funding: $48.7M
Largest single round: $28.5M Series B in 2019
Investors: Inovo Venture Partners, ENERN, OpeanOcean, Piton Capital, Industry Ventures, XG Ventures, Investible, Manta Ray, Muller Medien
As the story goes, Stefan Batory, an ultramarathoner, had tons of trouble to schedule an appointment with his physiotherapist via phone calls. Being a serial entrepreneur already, he decided to build an online booking platform himself. Fast-forward 7 years later, Booksy is among the very top global beauty&wellness marketplaces, powered by software for providers of such services.
Founded: 2014
Founders: Miron Mironiuk
Total funding: $27M
Largest single round: $15M Series A in 2020
Investors: Tiga Investments, OTB Ventures, TDJ Pitango Ventures, Experior Venture Fund, Founders Factory
As the company states, Cosmose understands, predicts, and influences how 1 billion people shop offline. How does a company coming out of Poland reach 1B individuals? The answer is simple – Asia. Add data on more than 360k offline stores to that and you’ll land enterprise clients like i.a. LVMH, Walmart, L’Oreal, Marriott, or Samsung.
Founded: 2009
Founders: Greg Jakacki, Tomasz Walen
Total funding: 22m USD
Largest single round: $22M Series A in 2020
Investors: Kennet Partners, Oxx
Codility, a recruitment platform for screening and testing tech candidates, has raised its first round after 11 years of operations. Still, to date, they served the likes of Microsoft, Amazon, PayPal, Slack, and many more.
Founded: 2012
Founders: Piotr Orzechowski
Total funding: $15M
Largest single round: $10.3M Series A in 2020
Investors: Inovo Venture Partners, Heal Capital, Karma Ventures, Innovation Nest, EBRD, Dreamit Ventures, Venture Inc, RTAventures
Your technology is outstanding when Microsoft selects it as the core of its own tool. Infermedica has built an AI-powered preliminary diagnosis and triage technology used by the premier global enterprises.
Founded: 2014
Founders: Benjamin Kuna, Hania Kokczynska, Jacek Majewski, Michal Piasecki, Mikolaj Molenda
Total funding: $12.8M
Largest single round: $8M Series B in 2019
Lead Investors: Paua Ventures, TDJ Pitango Ventures, Experior Venture Fund, G+J Digital Ventures, Daftcode
Tylko has already served 40k+ customers from all over Europe with a fairly narrow product catalogue – now it’s on the way to expand its offer and bring bespoke designer furniture to an even larger audience.
Founded: 2015
Founders: Wojtek Sadowski, Maciej Zając, Konrad Kwiatkowski, Maciej Woźniczko, Patryk Kabaj, Arkadiusz Wasilonek
Total funding: $12.7M
Largest single round: $10M Series A in 2019
Investors: White Star Capital, Speedinvest, PROfounders, Market One Capital, Kogito Ventures, Movens Capital
E-commerce & D2C is massive and growing heavily, while the so-called “unboxing experience” has become an integral part of the customer journey. Packhelp enables it by offering personalized packaging in numerous shapes and sizes in quantities from 30 to 100 000+ in just a couple of days.
Founded: 2019
Founders: Piotr Pisarz, Asher Ismail
Total funding: $11.1M
Largest single round: $11.1M Seed in 2019
Investors: Global Founders Capital, White Star Capital, Seedcamp
Despite being less than 2 years old, Uncapped, a revenue-based finance provider, which allows founders to raise capital without giving away shares, has already managed to be listed among the top Polish tech startups.
Founded: 2017
Founders: Kacper Nowicki, Marek Cygan, Tristan d’Orgeval
Total funding: $8.6M
Largest single round: $8.6M Seed in 2020
Investors: Khosla Ventures, DN Capital, Hoxton Ventures, Capnamic Ventures, Manta Ray Ventures
I’ve been to nomagic’s office and I have to admit it really is one of a kind. How many other HQs out there have automated robotic arms working in the background? The hardware is great, but the software behind it must be magic, as it helped raise probably the most impressive rounds in Poland – how often do you see Khosla and Hoxton financing a Seed deal in Europe?
