Endeavor Poland

Today is THE day! It's finally here: Mapping Poland's Tech Sector Report! Today at 11.00 am we officially launched a report that we've been working on since April 2023, among the most active founders, investors, and supporters of the Polish tech ecosystem. 👉 check here: https://lnkd.in/eVJxTpAw After over 100 interviews, collecting data about 1100 companies we traced connections between Polish Tech founders to create this map. We identify company founders with the biggest impact on the entire tech ecosystem. 🏅 DocPlanner - Peter Bialo, Mariusz Gralewski, Konrad Jarowski, Lucjan Samulowski, Jakub Skoczylas, Piotr Ziewiec 🏅 Grupa Pracuj - Przemek Gacek, Pawel Leks, Maciej Artur Noga 🏅 InPost - Rafał Brzoska 🏅 Booksy - Stefan Batory, Konrad Howard 🏅 Goldenline - Dariusz Dudzinski, Mariusz Gralewski, Jakub Skoczylas Thank you for your contribution on breeding the next generations of Polish Founders. This report wouldn't be possible without our amazing sponsors, thank you for your support and contribution: Boston Consulting Group (BCG), BNP Paribas Bank Polska and PwC Polska 🙌 Thank you Google for Startups EU and Michal Kramarz for hosting us! ☺️

Why are we investing in a country at war? Because waiting isn’t an option. We are very proud to announce the launch of Endeavor Ukraine, to help support a strong post-war recovery. Here’s why NOW is the time to invest in the ecosystem: 👥 Ukraine boasts incredible talent, but nearly 1 in 3 Ukrainian startup founders have relocated their companies at least partially outside the country. 🤝 The longer the war persists, the greater the risk that talented entrepreneurs will be absorbed by other ecosystems and may not return to reinvest in Ukraine. 🌍 As Tomáš Fiala, CEO of Dragon Capital in Ukraine shared, “It is more important for Ukraine to get help now than $750B after the war.” Endeavor Ukraine will select and support high-impact entrepreneurs, connecting them with a global network of mentors and investors, whether they're in Ukraine or abroad. Joanna Harries Sviatoslav Sviatnenko #MoreThanScaleMultiply #Entrepreneurship #MultiplierEffect

CEO ICEYE, Rafal Modrzewski, otrzymał Nagrodę Gospodarczą 14 Kongresu Małych i Średnich Przedsiębiorstw w Katowicach. W uzasadnieniu zaznaczono, że nagroda „jest wyrazem wdzięczności i uznania za wielotorowe działania i osiągnięcia, stanowiące inspirację oraz motywację dla wielu przedsiębiorców.” Po odebraniu nagrody Rafal podkreślił, że ma ona dla niego wyjątkowe znaczenie, ponieważ odbiera ją w Katowicach, swoim rodzinnym mieście. Zaznaczył, że wielotorowe podejście do rozwoju – obejmujące rozwój technologii satelitarnych, dostarczanie danych o Ziemi dla różnych sektorów, wspieranie młodych talentów oraz promowanie innowacji – pozwala ICEYE być skutecznym inicjatorem zmian w wielu obszarach życia społecznego i gospodarczego. „Technologie rozwijane przez firmy mają służyć nie tylko zyskowi, ale również wspierać społeczeństwa i państwa w podejmowaniu lepszych decyzji dla wspólnego dobra” – powiedział. Dodał, że wraz z rozwojem ICEYE będzie dostarczać coraz więcej narzędzi do rozwiązywania globalnych problemów. „Wierzę, że rozwój technologii będzie służył lepszej przyszłości, tak jak ICEYE rozwija się z myślą o lepszej przyszłości" – podsumował. Rafal podsumował, sugerując, by młodzi ludzie, rozpoczynający własny biznes czerpali siłę napędową z miłości i pasji do tego co robią!

October brought an amazing wave of innovation to Endeavor! 🌍✨ We’re thrilled to welcome 14 high-impact new Endeavor Entrepreneurs leading 8 visionary companies that are transforming industries worldwide: Carousell Group (Singapore), Incode (Global), minu (Endeavor México), nesto (Endeavor Canada), Nium, Onfly (Endeavor Brasil) Qida (home-care)(Endeavor Spain), Qoala (Endeavor Indonesia) 🙌 From providing homecare services for elderly and dependent individuals across Spain to making buying secondhand easy in Southeast Asia, our newest Endeavor Entrepreneurs are pushing the boundaries of innovation across industries and regions. Each of these founders is pushing boundaries in their field, and we’re proud to welcome them into the Endeavor family! 🚀

Can there be exponential success? Karim Beguir is a strong believer. After building InstaDeep, the $700M deep-tech company responsible for identifying COVID-19 variants, Karim hopes that others in Africa will follow in his footsteps. There is no limit to the innovation that is out there. #entrepreneurship #morethanscalemultiply Endeavor Tunisia

Endeavor is the leading global community of High-Impact Entrepreneurs in underserved markets. Together, we create a Multiplier Effect by inspiring them to dream bigger, supporting and investing in them to scale faster, and providing a platform to pay it forward. Today, Endeavor operates in 40+ countries and has helped over 2,500 entrepreneurs in their journeys to scale.

🧩👨🏻💻💰 Explore the borderline of science and business. Prepare for fun, competition, and prizes! 🧩 Only until Sunday, October 20, you can register for #IDEAHACK – Poland's first sciencepreneurship hackathon, organized by IDEAS NCBR as part of the ELIAS - European Lighthouse of AI for Sustainability #ELIAS project. 📝We already have almost a complete set of participants, but we are still accepting applications! 🎩 In the meantime, the mentors' ensemble and jury has expanded. 🇨🇭 Fabrice Filliez Filliez Fabrice, Ambassador of Switzerland to the Republic of Poland, will share his experience as a mentor and participate in the assessment of projects. ❇️ Paulina Skrzypinska, Chief Innovation Officer at BNP Paribas Bank Polska and board member of Endeavor Poland, will be part of jury. 🎯 Register as part of a team or individually – in case you don't have a team, we'll match you with one on-site. Full details ➡ https://lnkd.in/gvHCdDZF Embassy of Switzerland in Poland #ideasncbr

Endeavor has gone from the best kept secret to incubating the fund with the highest returns…. Not bad for a 12 year old fund (leveraging a 27 year old organization). 🚀🎉 Earlier this week Kauffman Fellows published its Kauffman Fund Returners Index, and to our surprise… Endeavor Catalyst is #1!!! 🥇 The storyline goes as follows: We started as a non-profit, added a fund to support our mission, and now the fund leads in returns based on the thesis of the non-profit. If this is not “doing well by doing good”, then what else is… Measuring returns as apples to apples 🍎 is tough, since traditional metrics like net MOIC (net-realized multiples of investment capital) are private, so Kauffman Fellows created a proxy to evaluate VC success: the number of startups reaching $1B+ valuations, exits, and their corresponding exit values. 📊 As Allen Taylor, Managing Partner of Endeavor Catalyst, stated, “We believe venture capital is truly going global and great founders can be found in markets you might not expect. These non-traditional markets are leading the way, proving incredible things are happening “elsewhere”. To make us even prouder we get to share the Venture Success podium with so many of our venture-friends Koichiro Nakamura (Sozo Ventures), Yinglan Tan (Insignia Ventures Partners), Justin Fishner-Wolfson (137 Ventures), Fredrik Cassel  (Creandum), Mamoon Hamid (Kleiner Perkins), Santi Subotovsky (Emergence Capital), Eric Perez-Grovas (Wollef), Alexandre Lazarow (Fluent Ventures), and Srini Ananth (Intel Capital), among others. Huge congrats to our Endeavor colleagues worldwide 🌍, who select the best entrepreneurs in their respective markets and to the Endeavor Catalyst team for making this dream come true. 👏

Proud moment for our Endeavor Catalyst team and all of us at Endeavor! 🙌 Today, we’re celebrating being ranked #1 on the Kauffman Fund Returners Index — recognizing our team’s amazing work investing in and supporting Endeavor Entrepreneurs worldwide. 🌍 From Africa to Asia, Latin America to the Middle East, we’ve invested in over 300 Endeavor companies, including 59 unicorns and more than a dozen that have already achieved $1B+ exits, proving that building transformational businesses - and delivering top-tier VC returns - is possible anywhere. 🦄 A huge thank-you to Kauffman Fellows for recognizing the power of investing in emerging and underserved markets—and to all of our LPs and partners for believing in our mission! 📊 A few key Insights from the report: ✅ 1 out of 140 VC-backed startups becomes a unicorn. ✅ 1 in 5 unicorns globally have a Kauffman Fellow in the cap table. ✅ 70% of the Top 10 funds in the Fund Returner Index focus on investing outside the US! We believe venture capital is truly going global and great founders can be found in markets you might not expect. These non-traditional markets are leading the way, proving incredible things are happening “elsewhere”. Congrats again to all 500+ Endeavor team members on this great recognition. Together, we’ll keep pushing the boundaries of where innovation can come from! 🚀 🔗 Download the full report here: https://lnkd.in/gK68v-B7

Endeavor Catalyst has been ranked #1 on the Kauffman Fund Returners Index! We’re thrilled to celebrate this milestone, proving that top-tier VC returns can come from investing in places outside Silicon Valley. Since we founded Endeavor Catalyst in 2012, ➡️ From Argentina to Egypt to Malaysia to Mexico, billion-dollar companies are rising in places long overlooked by traditional VC. ➡️ Endeavor Catalyst has invested in over 300 companies across 37+ markets, founded by the same Endeavor Entrepreneurs we’ve been supporting for decades. ➡️ We’re proud to have 59 unicorns and 24 successful exits in our portfolio, including companies like Bending Spoons, Careem, and InstaDeep. Thank you, Kauffman Fellows, for the recognition. Investing in the “rest of the world” markets is not just a bold idea—it is an opportunity. Check the full report here: https://lnkd.in/gK68v-B7. #MorethanScaleMultiply #GlobalVentureCapital Allen Taylor