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ZSŻLudzka strona funduszy venture capital - Maciej Małysz - Inovo Venture PartnersTrzeci muszkieter Inovo Venture Partners zawitał do audycji Zaprojektuj Swoje Życie. Macie Małysz zrobił w ramach Inovo już 40 inwestycji. W dzisiejszym odcinku nasz gość demistyfikuje fundusze VC, opowiada o największych wyzwaniach branży i dzieli się osobistymi doświadczeniami z pracy ze startupami.Posłuchaj rozmów z Partnerami Inovo:🎙 Tomasz Swieboda - www.zaprojektujswojezycie.pl/21 🎙 Michał Rokosz - www.zaprojektujswojezycie.pl/79 ✅ Poznaj Inovo Venture Partners - https://inovo.vc/ 📌 Z dzisiejszej rozmowy dowiesz się:➡ Jaką rolę w sukcesach zawodowych Macieja odgrywa szczęście?➡ Jak wygląda współpraca na...2022-06-231h 03
Inovo PodcastDocPlanner’s Karol Traczykowski on international business expansion | #18 (PL) / Ekspansja międzynarodowa – od czego zacząć?The guest of the 18th episode of the Inovo Podcast is Karol Traczykowski, VP Business Expansion at DocPlanner ⬇️⬇️⬇️DOCPLANNER is the leading healthcare booking platform globally and a SaaS tool for doctors and clinics. Led by Mariusz Gralewski (CEO), DocPlanner is backed by leading VCs including Point Nine Capital, Goldman Sachs Private Capital and One Peak Partners. It is rumored to be the first unicorn from Poland – the recent round is yet to be confirmed. You can find DocPlanner here: https://www.docplanner.com/Karol Traczykowski is responsible for new ventures and commercialization of products to new segments a...2022-05-2654 min
Inovo PodcastHow to translate customer insights into the best product – Maciej Ciołek, Zowie | #17 (ENG)The guest of the 17th episode of the Inovo Podcast is Maciej Ciołek, Co-Founder & CTO of Zowie ⬇️⬇️⬇️ZOWIE is an AI-powered customer service automation tool for enterprise clients, incl. L'Oreal, InPost, Aviva, Avon, and Brainly. It helps fast-growing companies grow even faster by removing customer service bottlenecks. In 24 hours they automate 30% of customer service inquiries and up to 90% in a few weeks. The company was founded by Maja Schaefer and Matt Ciolek, and it is backed by Inovo Venture Partners since September 2020. In January 2022 they announced raising USD 5M (20 mln PLN) in a seed round led by Gradient Vent...2022-02-2434 min
Inovo PodcastFocus on the people and the rest will follow – Tytus Gołas, Tidio | #16 (PL)The guest of the 16th episode of the Inovo Podcast is Tytus Gołas, Co-Founder & CEO of Tidio. TIDIO is one of the fastest-growing IT companies in Europe, supported by Inovo Venture Partners since 2019. Their flagship product is a live-chat app powered by unique chatbot solutions that helps small businesses all over the world serve their clients efficiently. It’s one of the #TOP5 most popular live chat solutions in the world. In 2020 Tidio doubled in size. They now hire 120 people and plan to grow the team even more by the end of 2021. You can find Tidio here: htt...2021-10-2833 minInovo PodcastHow to increase your company’s valuation by 5x? – Michal Rokosz, INOVO | Internet Beta 2021 (PL)Michal Rokosz, Partner at INOVO Venture Partners, was invited to speak at the Internet Beta 2021 conference. He talked about company valuation methods used by venture capital funds and a few key ways that can increase your startup’s valuation by 5x. Here are the slides: https://www.slideshare.net/InovoVC/internet-beta-2021-micha-rokosz✅ 4 key factors that impact startup valuation✅ Why is spending money better that generating revenue?✅ Why should you look for smiling cohorts?✅ Is it better to take money from a Polish VC or a foreign VC?✅ What’s the ‘signaling game’ and how can it impact the...2021-10-0124 minInovo PodcastWhat can you learn from unicorn startups? – Rob Kniaz, Hoxton Ventures | #15 (ENG)The guest of the 15th episode of the Inovo Podcast is Rob Kniaz, Partner at Hoxton Ventures. HOXTON VENTURES is an early stage venture capital firm investing in European technology startups that can scale into large, global winners. It focuses on startups that either disrupt existing industries or invent entirely new market categories. It already has four unicorns in its portfolio: Babylon, Darktrace, Deliveroo, Epic Games and it’s just getting started. To date Inovo Venture Partners made two co-investments with Hoxton Ventures – that was Spacelift and Preply. You can find more on Hoxton Ventures here: https://www.hoxt...2021-08-1940 minInovo PodcastI reinvent myself every year – Stefan Batory, Booksy | #14 (PL)The guest of the 14th episode of the Inovo Podcast is Stefan Batory, Co-Founder & CEO of Booksy. BOOKSY is the leading beauty and wellness appointment booking app used by 13 million consumers in e.g. US, UK, Poland, Spain, Brazil, and South Africa. It was founded by two Polish serial entrepreneurs Stefan Batory (CEO) and Konrad Howard. They partnered with Inovo Venture Partners in 2015 and by 2021 they raised a total of $119 million in VC funding. After the merger with Versum, Booksy is now a team of approx. 600 fantastic people, who shoot for the moon. Their goal is to become...2021-07-2959 minInovo PodcastWhat does the VC way mean – Maja Schaefer, Zowie | #13 (PL)The guest of the 13th episode of the Inovo Podcast is Maja Schaefer, Co-Founder & CEO of Zowie. ZOWIE is an AI-powered customer service automation tool for enterprise clients, incl. L'Oreal, InPost, Aviva, Avon, and Brainly. It helps fast-growing companies grow even faster by removing customer service bottlenecks. In 24 hours they automate 30% of customer service inquiries and up to 90% in a few weeks. The company was founded by Maja Schaefer and Matt Ciolek. In September 2020 Zowie raised a $600k+ seed round backed by Inovo Venture Partners and business angels. And it’s just the beginning of the road! You ca...2021-07-0838 minInovo PodcastScaling a business - the road to the largest software IPO - Marcin Żukowski, Snowflake #12 (PL)The guest of the 12th episode of the Inovo Podcast is Marcin Żukowski, Co-Founder of Snowflake.SNOWFLAKE is a cloud computing data warehousing company. It allows corporate users to store and analyze data using cloud-based hardware and software, generally termed as "data warehouse-as-a-service". The company was founded in 2012 by three data warehousing experts: Benoit Dageville, Thierry Cruanes and Marcin Żukowski. Almost from the beginning it is backed by Sutter Hill Ventures (other VCs joined along the way). In 2018 the company became a unicorn. And on September 16, 2020, Snowflake became a public company via an initial public offering raising $3.4 billion, making it...2021-04-2956 minInovo PodcastStarting a business in USA - Stas Matviyenko #11The guest of the 11th episode of the Inovo Podcast is Stas Matviyenko, the Founder and CEO of allset.allset is a food pre-ordering platform. It allows users to pick up meals directly from restaurants or to dine-in without waiting in lines. So far, allset raised $16.6 million backed by: Inovo Venture Partners, Andreessen Horowitz, Greycroft, FJ Labs and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD). Inovo partnered with allset in March 2020 and allset has been one of Inovo’s portfolio companies since then. You can find allset here: https://allsetnow.com/Michał Rokosz, a Partner at...2021-03-2530 minInovo Podcast#10 Marcin Wyszynski – Founding a startup as a developerMarcin Wyszynski is a co-founder and CEO of Spacelift. The company raised its $6M Series A recently. Maciej Malysz, Inovo’s Partner sat down with Marcin to discuss building remote teams, becoming a founder with a technical background and the first 12 months of the company.Inovo VC partners with ambitious founders to build future unicorns together. We love what we do–backing early-stage, post-traction startups, and helping them grow to $100M and beyond. We're committed to Polish startup ecosystem and help local founder build global products with our knowledge platform, network with leading, international VCs and enterprises and recr...2021-02-2549 minInovo PodcastZach Coelius – How to get funded by SV angels and why founders are like gladiators || Inovo Podcast #9Zach Coelius is a 4x entrepreneur and angel investors based in Silicon Valley. In today’s podcast, we discuss why founders are like gladiators and how European founders can get funding from the US-based investors.Inovo VC partners with ambitious founders to build future unicorns together. We love what we do–backing early-stage, post-traction startups, and helping them grow to $100M and beyond. We're committed to Polish startup ecosystem and help local founder build global products with our knowledge platform, network with leading, international VCs and enterprises and recruiting world-class talent. We're close to our founder – just like them...2021-02-0936 minInovo Podcast#8 Stefan Batory, Sebastian Maska – Booksy x Versum MergerOn December 14th, Booksy and Versum have merged. Two leading booking platforms for the beauty industry are now working together, reaching nearly 13 mln clients and servicing more than 100 mln bookings every year. In this podcast, Michal Rokosz discusses the merger with Sebastian Maska, Co-Founder of Versum and Stefan Batory, Co-founder at Booksy. What was the biggest challenge? What are the plans for the future? Listen in our newest podcast. Inovo Venture Partners backs early-stage, post-traction startups that can grow 100x. We partner up with ambitious founders like Stefan from Booksy, Maja from Zowie, or Piotr from Infermedica. We...2020-12-1530 minInovo Podcast#7 Kai Hansen - how to invest as a business angel and build a startup in the middle of crisisKai Hansen is the founder of Lieferando (merged with Takeaway) and a successful business angel with over 40 investments including Booksy, Spacelift, Sundose and many more. We’re discussing his way to build one of the leading food delivery platforms after 2008 financial crisis and what gets him excited in early stage startups.Listen on Spotify:https://open.spotify.com/episode/5NK7lGREqKRpAjCpFdWVwv?si=gY1m0EC0R7i9BkNZJkPTtQOr watch on YT:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKk_XVdn-Xo&list=PLoOSMuJR20q6csEhDKjWliT1oSBSy3wFQ&index=7Inovo Venture Partners backs early-stage, po...2020-11-2627 minInovo Podcast#6 Piotr Pisarz - Revenue-based Startup FinancingPiotr Pisarz, founder of Uncapped, has very rich professional experience - in the past he was an Investment Banker, Googler, and Venture Capitalist. Today he will share with us his tips on fundraising and recruitment processes. You will also learn what's the role of the CEO, how he has built his network in London, and what's the story behind Uncapped.The episode is in polish, but you can visit Inovo Venture Partners YouTube channel to watch it with English subtitles: https://youtu.be/V5EuT_lUlnsInovo Venture Partners backs early-stage, post-traction startups that can...2020-09-2334 minInovo Podcast#5 Ariel Finkelstein - Bootstrapping vs Venture Capital: Lessons learned bulding the first SaaS company in IsraelAriel Finkelstein is an entrepreneur and business angel who founded one of the first SaaS companies in Israel back in 2007. He will share with us his thoughts on building tech companies and choosing between bootstrapping and venture path. You will also learn how to raise money from the US funds, and why founders should sell!Inovo Venture Partners backs early-stage, post-traction startups that can grow 100x. We partner up with ambitious founders like Stefan from Booksy, Maja from Zowie, or Marcin from Spacelift. We invest between €0.5–2m in startups from Poland and the region.2020-08-0538 minInovo Podcast#4 Dan Lupu - Why we invest in B2B companies?Today we are hosting Dan Lupu, Partner at Earlybird VC. He will tell us about his sweet spot deals and why he prefers to invest in b2b rather than b2c companies. After watching this episode you will also know how big potential your business needs to have if you want to have Earlybird VC in your captable, and how Earlybird could support you after the investment.Inovo Venture Partners backs early-stage, post-traction startups that can grow 100x. We partner up with ambitious founders like Stefan from Booksy, Maja from Zowie, or Marcin from Spacelift. We invest...2020-07-0126 minInovo Podcast#3 Jerry Colonna - What does it mean to grow up as a Leader?Jerry Colonna, Reboot founder coaching tech entrepreneurs, talks about building a culture of our company while working remotely and explains what does it mean to grow up as a leaderInovo Venture Partners backs early-stage, post-traction startups that can grow 100x. We partner up with ambitious founders like Stefan from Booksy, Maja from Zowie, or Marcin from Spacelift. We invest between €0.5–2m in startups from Poland and the region.2020-06-2419 minInovo Podcast#2 Jens Lapinski - What excites Business Angels?Today we are talking with Jens Lapinski, Business Angel from Germany and ex-MD at Techstars who will tell us about patterns he is looking for, and give some hints to early-stage startups on milestone planning as well as doing first hires!Inovo Venture Partners backs early-stage, post-traction startups that can grow 100x. We partner up with ambitious founders like Stefan from Booksy, Maja from Zowie, or Marcin from Spacelift. We invest between €0.5–2m in startups from Poland and the region.2020-06-1726 minInovo Podcast#1 Bogomil Balkansky - What does Sequoia look for in startups?In this episode we are asking Bogumil Balkanski, Partner @ Sequoia, what is he looking for in startups, and how he supports portfolio companies after investmentInovo Venture Partners backs early-stage, post-traction startups that can grow 100x. We partner up with ambitious founders like Stefan from Booksy, Maja from Zowie, or Marcin from Spacelift. We invest between €0.5–2m in startups from Poland and the region.TRANSCRIPTHi, This is Tomasz Swieboda. I'm a partner at Inovo a VC Fund focused in Poland and Central Europe. This is the very first episode of Inovo Podcast in w...2020-06-1028 min
ZSŻTomasz Swieboda-o przedsiębiorcach wariatach-Managing Partner Inovo Venture PartnersW 21 odcinku audycji Zaprojektuj Swoje Życie, Maciej Filipkowski rozmawia z Tomaszem Swiebodą, partnerem zarządzającym funduszem Inovo Venture Partners (wcześniej Inovo VC). Jest to jeden z najbardziej rozpoznawalnych funduszy venture capital w Polsce i regionie, inwestujący w spółki technologiczne na etapie Serii A. Do najbardziej udanych inwestycji Inovo można zaliczyć Booksy (globalny marketplace branży beauty, dostępny w ponad 30 krajach, ponad 20 milionów dolarów od międzynarodowych inwestorów), Brand24 (lider rynku social media monitoring, spółka notowana na NewConnect) czy ECC Games (studio deweloperskie skupiające się na grach motoryzacyjnych, niedawny debiut na NewConnect).2019-08-151h 05