💥We are super proud that Movens Capital is the only #VC fund to be recognized for the third time in a row in the "Brave Seed" (pol. :"Odważny Zasiew") category of the KREATORZY ranking by MamStartup in cooperation with PFR Ventures.
As every year, we are in great company - this time together with ElevenLabs Business Angels (Bartosz Majewski, Bartek Pucek, Tomasz Karwatka or Piotr Karwatka, to name a few, Inovo.vc, Sunfish Partners and Tar Heel Capital Pathfinder.
Why is this important to us? From the very first of our investment, we strongly believe in the active engagement model as the first (or one of the first) institutional investors in a company. The fact that over the past years we have been able to support from the early days founders of companies such as Vue Storefront, Packhelp, Demoboost, Talkie.ai, Certifier, Doctor.One, SKY ENGINE AI, Blisko (formerly The Village Network) or more recently ForActive and Gotiva motivates us to work even harder and launch Movens Fund 2. Many Polish/CEE founders are ready to build international, fast-growing 🚀🚀🚀 tech companies and it is great to be part of these stories!
The model also works financially💰💰💰 - our companies have raised over €93m from renowned western VCs - 8x more than in rounds when we invested. Of course, this also translates into a leap in the valuations of the entire portfolio.
From the beginning, we have placed great emphasis on our founders' #support #platform - in each of the critical elements (#strategy, #HR, #GTM, #education - #MovensAcademy, #fundraising & #exits) we have managed to develop it vigorously and learn to use it in a way that supports the growth of the companies.
In summary - times are tough, everyone needs to work harder and be more patient. But from our perspective, we can see best - the #GoldenAge of Polish start-ups is coming!
Michal Olszewski, Przemysław Jurgiel-Żyła Yaroslav Krempovych 🇺🇦 - thanks for these 3 years of super cooperation🙏! Radoslaw Rejman, Lukasz Pawlowski, Maciej Kraus, Wojciech Gorzeń, Zofia Sidorska - thanks for your continuous support 🙏!
PS. Congratulations to Krzysztof Domaradzki and Artur 🤖 Kurasinski for the award for the "Startupowcy" for the award for the Startupowcy book - fully deserved! It's great that it was created and can be an inspiration for new generations of founders in the region!