Marcin P. Kowalik

General Partner

Marcin is leading investments, particularly in DeepTech and dual-use projects. With extensive experience across Poland and the Baltics, Marcin is passionate about backing resilient founders and leveraging his network to help companies scale globally.

Satim
2024

Marcin plays a pivotal role in leading investments, ensuring that his expertise and long-term relationships benefit the next generation of tech leaders.

Entrepreneur and Venture Capital investor with over a decade of experience in the tech industry. As a founder of two companies, Marcin successfully led both to exit—one sold to a Norwegian strategic investor and the other via a Private Equity-backed management buyout (MBO). Marcin was the Solo General Partner at Black Pearls VC, where he achieved a standout "dragon" exit with an 18.6x return from a NASDAQ-listed buyer. His entrepreneurial background gives him a unique understanding of the challenges and opportunities faced by early stage companies.

Alumni of Kauffman Fellows Class #22, a Silicon Valley based leadership development programme for venture capitalists spanning over 600 leading VCs worldwide.

Board Member of Polish Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (PSIK)

Privately, husband and father of three children.

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Deep.BI
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USA

Deep.BI measures content consumption metrics to help publishers distribute content across platforms and grow audiences.

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Insly
Pre-Seed
Estonia

Efficiency-increasing software tool for insurance brokers and agents

Easy to use software for insurance brokers and agents, significantly increasing their efficiency and competitiveness by automation of  sales and policy service processes.

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RTCLab
Pre-Seed
Poland

Simple and reliable video communication platform in your browser.

Overview: RTCLab is a company that developed the most advanced webinar software, LiveWebinar – an innovative platform with a wide range of customisation options. With LiveWebinar you can run a webinar with one click without installing any software. Join a room and meet face to face with your clients from any location, operating system and device (computers, mobiles, SMART TV’s). This easy-to-use webinar platform adapts to all existing systems and allows promoting products or services, onboarding new team members, improving sales and team collaboration. LiveWebinar offers a wide range of customizable features and enables users to broadcast to Facebook, YouTube and Vimeo simultaneously, moderate Live Chat and interact with their audience by using many collaboration tools. The platform also contains a professional recorder, CTA button, interactive whiteboard, share screening, online certification tests, live streaming, room branding and many more features. LiveWebinar was founded by Christopher Milkowski and Łukasz Kosikowski – developers with over 14 years of experience in managing large IT projects, R&D, software development and audio-video engineering.

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Jarosław Pilarczyk
Skyrise
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Poland

An A-level IT company creating enterprise software Saas, mobile and IoT solutions.

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Autenti
Seed
Poland

Sign documents online. With one click.

Convenient and secure platform for approving documents and signing contracts online enabling access to documents and E-signature anytime and anywhere.

The solution is addressing corporations – representatives of any organization, including board members, specialists working in sales, procurement, legal, financial and HR departments but consumers for private purposes as well.

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Wojciech Danilo, Co-Founder
ENSO
2022
Pre-Seed
USA

Turning your data into knowledge is slow and error-prone. You can’t trust tools that don’t embrace best practices and provide quality assurance. Alumni of Y Combinator

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Solwit
2020
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Poland

Solwit, founded by Leszek Pankiewicz – former CEO of Intel Poland and Wojciech Wasiukiewicz, is a software engineering and testing services company that works with clients across various industries. The company was established in 2011 and, in a short period of time, became one of the most important technology companies in Gdansk. We began working with Solwit in break of 2015 and 2016, providing funding for new innovative solutions.

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Tidaro
2022
Pre-Seed
Poland

Workplace management with a focus on YOU

Tidaro’s mission is to introduce workplaces to better organization, employee autonomy, and equality for everybody. The company’s main focus lies in simplicity of their solution and maintaining friendly business relationships, which makes them a perfect partner for all companies that value products developed for their needs.

Tidaro’s booking application allows companies to: book parking spots, desks, rooms, and booths; easier organize office visits; conveniently plan meetings; manage office resources in the app; get detailed analysis on offices and parking lots usage;

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Stanisława Porzycka-Strzelczyk, Co-Founder
Satim
2024
Seed
Poland

SATIM is a leading AI technology for object detection and classification using SAR satellite imagery. With a dedicated team of data scientists, remote sensing experts, AI and SAR specialists, and marine situational awareness experts, SATIM delivers highly accurate and innovative solutions tailored to the needs of governmental, and commercial sectors.