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📢I had the pleasure, together with Maciej Cwikiewicz and Grzegorz C. in Puls Biznesu, of discussing the chances of Polish #AI companies to obtain funding from #VCs and, more broadly, to build a new #flywheel for our economy. According to a recent Dealroom.co's report, the AI Core startups received 45% of all VC investment in the CEE region. This is an opportunity we cannot miss!💥 My key theses: 📌At Movens Capital, we are investing in AI-enabled companies starting in 2019 based on our previous startup experience. They distinguish the #CEE region. By 2023, more than 1,000 AI/ML startups had emerged here, raising more than USD 4 billion in funding. 📌We see a great opportunity for Polish AI startups to succeed due to their unique technological talent. Building a sustainable #competitiveadvantage is key, as illustrated by ElevenLabs, but also examples from our portfolio, such as Talkie.ai or SKY ENGINE AI. 📌 The current stagnation in the VC sector has led to lower startup valuations, benefiting funds in executing transactions. In Poland, VC fund conditions will remain favorable in the coming years, but careful selection of AI companies is necessary, as most new entities have little chance of building lasting entry barriers. Thank you, Anna Bełcik, for taking on an important topic and inviting us to talk. 👉 https://lnkd.in/dxtGvvD7

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📣 How Do Polish Health Tech Companies Communicate? Let's summarize it! 🔥 After 8 months of conversations and interviews with representatives of Health Tech companies in Poland, I am happy to share my insights on the communication challenges Polish startups face. The development of technology and AI solutions can undoubtedly improve our everyday lives and save time, but health remains the most important aspect of our lives. For this reason, with great interest, I and my Come Creations Group team created the HealthTech of the Week series, in which on Wednesdays we presented innovative HealthTechs that are changing the medical industry. 🚀 Congratulations to the organizations featured in the 1st edition: Talkie.ai, SDS Optic Inc., FEYENALLY, Calmsie, GeneMe, upmedic, HearMe.pl, eOS, BioCam, AILIS Care, finECRF, Locon Sp. z o.o., CliniNote, Clebre, VR TierOne, and The Linghos! 🚀 I encourage you to get to know this HealthTech better! I would also like to thank the support of experts such as Olivia BLANCHARD from Health Venture Lab, Jakub Chwiecko from the Medical Innovation Institute, and Kazimierz Cięciak from Comarch Healthcare, thanks to whom I could understand the challenges of the medical industry better. 🤝 📖 For a full summary of the HealthTech of the Week series, visit my blog. 👉EN: https://lnkd.in/d9yRTFgc 👉PL: https://lnkd.in/dTuEjraD 📅 The series will continue in September, and we are looking for more innovative projects to feature. If you know a startup at the intersection of new technologies and medicine, or if you have a project to recommend, please tag it in a comment or contact us! 🔥 Or maybe your project is the one that deserves the spotlight? Tell us about your business, and maybe your HealthTech startup will be featured in the next series! #HealthcareInnovation #Startups #Reports #HealthTechOfTheWeek #MedTech #DisruptorsinHealthcare

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🎉 Last week it was exactly 18 years since I started my professional career! It's hard to believe that I have been working professionally for so many years. My career started 18 years ago at the Urząd Marszałkowski Województwa Świętokrzyskiego, where I was involved in supporting the activities of the Voivodeship Board. 🏛️ I attended meetings, took minutes, and assigned numbers to resolutions and decisions. Over time, I was tasked with coordinating the voivodeship's participation in the Committee of the Regions at the EU and later with creating everything that today some of you may know as the "Świętokrzyska Victoria Award". 🏆 I experienced a true adventure organizing the 10th anniversary of the Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship! It was a beautiful time that taught me a lot about working in local government and introduced me to many wonderful people. ❤️ What have these 18 years taught me? 💡 🔑Commitment and determination are key to success. 🤝Building relationships is as important as achieving goals. 🌟There are no challenges that cannot be overcome - everything is possible with the right motivation. How about you? 🤔 🔹 How did you start your professional career? 🔹 What was your first professional job? 🔹 What are the most important lessons you've learned from your career? Share your experiences in the comments below! 👇 #Career #Experience #Inspiration #Networking #Work #Świętokrzyskie

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Poland’s privatization launched in the 1990s had resulted in the creation of a vibrant and competitive economy that has been delivering growth well above EUs average, since then. Consecutive governments slowed down and reversed the process, increasing the role of the state in the Polish economy. Did this process alter the competitive conditions of doing business in Poland? Did it impact the Warsaw Stock Exchange and the influx of foreign investment? What was the planned role of Polish Development Fund in supporting the Polish enterprises and how it played out? I will have an opportunity to give a private-equity perspective on these issues during a panel discussion at the European Economic Congress in Katowice on May 7th at 14:00, along with Prof Leszek Balcerowicz of Civil Development Forum, the author of the Polish economic reform and Jacek Bartmiński, the Deputy Minister of State Assets Ministry. 

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For the third presentation at WarsawJS Meetup #116, it's worth staying until the end. We guarantee you won't be disappointed! 👍 The third to take our stage will be Przemysław Konefał — Lead Frontend Developer at Neuraum Ventures GmbH. Przemysław has a business-oriented mindset and over 6 years of commercial experience. As a T-shaped developer, he is familiar with backend development, DevOps, and data work. He specializes in Web Vitals and website performance optimizations. A philosopher by passion, sports are his second nature. So, what will he share with us? 👨‍🏫 Simplicity in the spectrum: Identifying and overcoming overengineering 👨‍🏫 One of the main pillars of maturing as a developer is mastering the skill of striking the right balance between underengineering and overengineering. This session aims to equip developers with a systematic approach to dealing with the latter. We'll explore the common reasons that drive developers to overshoot their solutions, particularly in the realm of frontend development. Then, we'll discuss the signs and in-code symptoms of unnecessary complexity. In the end, we'll dive into useful heuristics, mental models, and thought filters to refine our approach to project complexity, to find that sweet spot more consistently. Social media 🖱 ➛ https://lnkd.in/dxJ3s7pg ➛ https://lnkd.in/di4dz7ph 🔖 Reservation — https://lnkd.in/d3wy-w2z 👉 Livestream — https://warsawjs.com/live Przemysław Konefał will be presenting on Wednesday, 10.07 at 18:30 🕡 at our Meetup. You can't miss this! 🎉 #WarsawJS #Meetup #FrontendDevelopment #WebPerformance

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85.8% of shareholders at the time of registration, were natural persons, while 14.2% were legal entities. What was the shareholder structure broken down into startup categories? Did Venture Capital funds appear already at the stage of establishing companies? We invite you to read the free report DEEPTECH STARTUPS POLAND 2023 👉 https://lnkd.in/dHTADgiC [EN] 👉 https://lnkd.in/dadCp3nM [PL] prepared by Taylor Economics and the author's team: Michal Przybylowski, PhD, Piotr Tamowicz PhD, Michał Bańka Ph.D, Darek Lubomski, Anna Zamojska PhD. The report’s partners are the Polish Agency for Enterprise Development, Accelpoint, PKO Bank Polski and the Pomorski Park Naukowo-Technologiczny Gdynia / Pomeranian Science and Technology Park Gdynia #startup #hightech #venturecapital #poland #deeptech

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Fintech is the most innovative component of the financial sector. Poland is a country where not only ideas are born, but they are also implemented to the market. Interesting facts: 📊 there are over 300 #fintechs registered in Poland which places our country at no 1 🥇 in the CEE region. 📊 40 % of them are present on the foreign markets. 🥇 if we put aside such global companies as PayPal, Visa or MasterCard, BLIK - Polish mobile payment system is currently the number 1 among top European players dealing with the mobile payments. Polish Investment and Trade Agency (PAIH) proudly supports Polish fintechs on the foreign markets, among others in Switzerland. If you are interested to learn more about Polish fintech landscape, you shouldn't miss our Fintech Business Breakfast in Zurich. Use this great opportunity to meet the representatives of 12 innovative companies & establish new business contacts and 📌 reserve your free entrance at https://lnkd.in/dQQvXFri 📆 April 25th, at Tenity, Pfingstweidstrasse 110, Zurich, 8:30-11 AM Łukasz Chrabański, Anna Polanska, Kasia Jedlińska, Piotr Brewiński, Dr. Katharina - Kasia Lasota Heller, Oliver Bertschinger, Michael Katz, Wiktoria (Victoria) Przybylska, Dawid Ostrowski

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We knew we wanted more than building marketing websites before we even started Webnomads - Webflow Design & Development Studio. That is not our endgame, even though we enjoyed every day of it. Since day one, we dreamt of creating full-blown software products with no-code tools. The thrill of web apps and startups got us hooked years ago. For the past years, we've been on a mission, constantly exploring different no-code tools. And exactly one year ago, we took the plunge with Bubble, a no-code platform that lets anyone build web applications. Sure, the learning curve was steeper than Webflow, but we were all in, ready to make it part of our tech stack. Fast forward to today: we've already delivered several projects using Bubble and are chatting with early-stage startups about this game-changing technology. Bubble lets us whip up MVPs in just weeks. Startups can test their ideas, get market feedback, iterate fast and wow VCs. Oh, and a little secret... we're gearing up to launch our own product soon. Can’t wait! Filip Załęski will be sharing our journey at the Poland Bubble meet-up, organized by the awesome Tomasz Wesolowski, who has been instrumental in helping us master Bubble and maximize its potential. Come join us! And we're just getting started.

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The time has come to read a very interesting report: the GREENTECH REPORT POLAND 2024 prepared by Accelpoint, Taylor Economics in partnership with PKO BP, and EIT Climate KIC   We are delighted to see the presence of three of our portfolio companies (Solwena, The SmokeD wildfire detectors, and Waste24) in the cited report. EEC Ventures is at the forefront of green VC funds, as proven by the number of portfolio companies mentioned in the report in relation to the total number of all companies in the portfolio.   Our companies have verified and confirmed the market value of the technologies and their products. They have also established partnerships with large regional or global players, and their revenues are growing.   Both The SmokeD wildfire detectors and Waste24 are already generating revenue in foreign markets. Solwena is working with major international corporations and is in the process of negotiating agreements that will result in revenues from abroad. The report contains a very thorough analysis, starting from the good definition of concepts such as greentech, cleantech, climatetech, and many interesting analyses. The report paints a picture of a young and delicate ecosystem. Quantitatively, the community of 133 "green" startups is indeed a very small percentage compared to the 4,900 technological companies in Poland. These startups are in the early stages of development, they still have modest revenues, and individual investors dominate among the investors. VC funds associated with PFR Ventures are among the largest capital donors This early stage of the system is likely the reason why less than one-third of the described startups have sought R&D funding, which is usually an appropriate source of financing for projects at this stage. It is also surprising to note that Hungary and Lithuania have attracted more investment in this sector than Poland. Reading the entire report is highly recommended.  

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#Sharingknowledge and inspiring #founders is central to Movens Capital's work. That is why we are very proud of yesterday's "Foundations of Scaling Open Day Warsaw" event organized in partnership with Google for Startups and one of the world's best business schools, IESE Business School ;- consider their #SchoolofFounders if you are in a seed or Series A startup. Many thanks for sharing your knowledge and experience to: Growth strategy: Prof. Germán Loewe Scaling yourself and your business: Dr Sebastian Ross and a panel of great experts and entrepreneurs Pricing: Wojciech Gorzeń Operational growth procedures: Konrad Kwiatkowski A special tribute to Prof. Germán Loewe for the most elegant definition of strategy I have ever encountered: "#Strategy is Your choice of where and how to compete". #Founders, choose wisely! Maciej Kraus, Przemek Jurgiel-Żyła, Zofia Sidorska, Amelia Niemiec dzieki za super organizację!

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News from 4PM Ventures We are pleased to announce that the willingness to cooperate with us, to jointly invest in startups that will come to the https://lnkd.in/enNVcpHT, to develop the ecosystem is supported by more and more partners and venture funds. Meet the Polish fund Impera Alfa ASI Sp. z o.o. and join our lab. Startups with a Healthtech focus have time to apply by June 8 to participate in the laboratory. And another important offer for private investors and venture funds: we know that you have investments in healthtech startups with the focus of our laboratory. We also know that many of them are developing more slowly than you would like, or maybe there is a question about pivot. Send startups to our laboratory, we are sure that many of them will develop faster and solve problems that hinder their development. More info here 4PM Ventures #vc; #health; #healthtech; #4PM; #medicine; #medicaldevices; #rehabtech

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Another example of how e-shops could benefit from #AI search - there's never an excuse for showing a user "no results", especially when they simply worded the query in a clumsy way. Bad #UX yields low conversion rates. #semanticsearch #search #artificialintelligence #LLMs #ecommerce

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Very True. Because in the contemporary business environment, it's not easy for businesses to be authentic and trustworthy. Social media, digital marketing, high expectations from shareholders, consumer preferences variations, evolving standards and regulations and economic uncertainty, will push the business to build an image, even if it's a flawless reputation. The quantity and not the quality of information given to consumers, they make it hard for businesses to stand out and be seen as genuine amidst the noise. The Complex Supply Chains, the Competitive Pressure and the Intense competition can sometimes lead businesses to cut corners or engage in misleading marketing practices to stand out, which can damage long-term trustworthiness. Navigating these challenges requires businesses to be consistently transparent, ethical, and responsive to consumer concerns, which demands significant effort and resources from management and shareholders.

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Some thoughts about our new case and how AI is changing the industry from our CEO

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I am at ATAM and MASCA 2024 (Wroclaw, Poland) conference. We just had a very interesting pannel discussion on deep tech startups in Poland. It is so good to finally see a positive discussion about Polish innovation. While there are many difficulties in setting up and running startups there is a new generation of enthusiasts that is taking it over and driving forward. What is your experience in starting deep tech business in your country or community? #startup #deeptech #nano #polska #wroclaw #Lukasiewicz #innovation #investment #Badania #rozwój https://atam.port.org.pl/

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Here are some interesting figures: ▪️Ukraine ranks second among CEE countries in the number of IT professionals, with 307,000 specialists. AI specialists make up less than 1% of all IT professionals, but there's significant potential for growth. We expect a 330% increase in the number of AI specialists in the coming years. ▪️Over the past 10 years, the number of AI/ML specialists has grown fivefold to 5,200, with nearly 36% of them being young talents aged 21-25. ▪️Compared to other European countries, Ukraine has a higher concentration of AI startups in marketing, gaming, and business software. ▪️Ukraine ranks first among CEE countries in the number of IT graduates, with 25% of them having studied in specialized AI/ML programs. ▪️Each year, 40-80% of Ukrainian startups that raise venture capital receive funding from foreign investors. Today, we at Roosh and AI HOUSE, with the support of the Ministry of Digital Transformation of Ukraine, presented the first large-scale research of the Ukrainian AI market, titled "AI Ecosystem of Ukraine: Talents, Companies, Education." The goal is to highlight key industry trends, identify the needs of specialists, and understand Ukraine's place on the global AI map. It also aims to provide a basis for strategic decision-making at the state level. More details are available on the AI HOUSE website: https://lnkd.in/d2NXvhMu

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🚀 Technological trends are my passion. Unsurprisingly, I have been deeply focused on AI development recently: testing new features, participating in trainings, and observing trends. I was delighted to share my insights on ChatGPT-4o in the MamStartup article. 👉What surprises does ChatGPT-4o hold? 👉How will the new version of ChatGPT change things? 👉What do experts believe is missing in Omni? 👉How can the new model from OpenAI be utilized? You can find the answers to these questions in the article by Przemysław Zieliński, where I had the opportunity to provide my insights: https://lnkd.in/dbhviZz2 The article also features thoughts from other experienced experts: 🔹Małgorzata Pietraszewska, CEO at 10Clouds, 🔹Mateusz Chechliński, member of AI Chamber and CEO at Appotype, 🔹Jan Szumada, Investment Associate at Warsaw Equity Group, 🔹Mariusz Tarnaski, member of AI Chamber and CTO at Develtio. I am delighted to read the insights from Małgorzata Pietraszewska, because as Come Creations Group we have the opportunity to work with the 10Clouds team for their communications and PR for a few months! I encourage you to read the article and share your insights in the comments. 💬 I would also like to know your answers to the questions asked in the article. Feel free to express your opinion! ✍ #AI #ChatGPT4o #Trends #Communication #PR #NewTechnologies #Innovations

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