Starting their journey from a small 4 person team in a one-room office in the bustling tech hub of KPT, to winning the title of ‘World’s Best HRTech Startup’ whilst securing an impressive PLN 18 million in funding, Talent Alpha has achieved much more in their first year than many other startups do in CEE…
Krakow-based French entrepreneur, Vincent, has been a CEO of 6 start-ups till now and has experienced his fair share of highs and lows, and very highs and very lows. He is currently leading the Krakow-based gaming startup, Lucky Duck Games, that has reached over 4 million dollars in revenue this year. OMGKRK’s fortunate Dragon’s Cave…
On 26th and 27th of November Dominika Walec, Head of Growth at #OMGKRK startup community along with Matt Delac from SheCodes had the pleasure to visit the European Parliament and present their insights towards running startup operations in Europe. They were invited by Stripe to open up more channels of conversation between startups and policy-makers.…
Did you know that in 1998 when Google was just a startup, it got its seminal PageRank patent No. 6,285,999? Even before it had a business plan, venture funding, or even a domain name — and then paid Stanford University, to which it had been assigned the patent, $336 million in shares to exclusively license…
While most 60-years-olds are planning to spend rest of their lives playing golf, visiting family or holidaying around the world, the concept of retirement seems unknown to this Polish entrepreneur on a mission to revolutionise the world of art with tech and building a unicorn at the age of 65! Meet Marek Zabicki – founder…
With over 100 startups, Krakow is home to only about 10% of Poland’s startups but when it comes to getting funding, Krakow startups are successful in raking in big bucks. Last year, 40% of startups that received over 2.5m in funding were from Krakow! One of the startups that were recently in the limelight for…
Are you a FinTech startup based in Krakow? We are looking for you! Take this excellent opportunity to pitch your startup at the Startup Stage at Impact Fintech, December 4-5 in Katowice – one of the largest events in Poland – bringing together hundreds of speakers and thousands of visitors. Interested? Please write to Milosz if you…
While the total value of the investment of the Polish VC market is already worth €209.2M, entrepreneurs in Krakow are often faced with the challenge of attracting VCs to fund their startups. To bring the issue in the spotlight, we asked Paulina Bialek to author this article. Paulina is a director at Expara VC firm.…
There is a new coming into force on 13th of October which is important for anyone who either has or plans to have a company in Poland (and those wo are in the middle of the process should be aware of this in particular). A new register – Central Register of Beneficial Owners. Who should…