Techstars Startup Weekend Warsaw
Google Campus Warsaw
Plac Konesera 10, 03-736,
Warsaw
Od 15 mar 17:00 do 17 mar 19:30
Borys Musielak |
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| Founding Partner, SMOK Ventures |
| Engineer turned entrepreneur turned investor. Founding Partner at SMOK Ventures, an early stage venture capital firm bridging Silicon Valley to Poland and the CEE region. Formerly as an entrepreneur, co-founded Filmaster, a personalized recommendation startup acquired in 2015 by Samba TV. During his four years at Samba he built a team of 40 engineers in Warsaw and helped grow the company's products onto the British and German markets. Borys also co-founded ReaktorWarsaw startup hub, ReaktorX accelerator which helped 100+ first-time founders kickstart their startups, and Startup Poland, a leading think tank. |
Yuriy Golikov |
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| Engineer, CEO, Founder, StartupsAdvisor, Angel Investor |
| Yuriy has a master's degree in computer science, 7 years ago launched his tech company "DevBrother" and runs a dev community. DevBrother is officially established in 3 countries - Poland, Ukraine, USA has almost 100 developers in the core team and thousands of people in the community. He made 50+ startups and tech products, currently advising early stage companies and startups, helping other teams with building their projects, and with hiring tech talents. |
Darek Żuk |
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| CEO, AIP Seed |
| Darek is the creator of AIP Seed - one of the first preseed funds in Europe investing in a straightforward model at the earliest stages of startup development. The fund has so far invested in and developed projects like CallPage, Plenti, Foodsi, Glov, Sidly, and Qpony-Blix. In 2022, AIP Seed 2.0 was established with a capitalization of 25 million euros, aiming to invest in 100 more startups from the CEE region by 2025. In 2015, Darek, together with Rafał Brzoska, founded the VC fund bValue. |
Milana Slobtcova |
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| Principal, Underline Ventures |
| Milana is a Principal at Underline Ventures investing in pre-seed and seed stage startups in CEE. She has been a startup enthusiast since day 1 of her career. Previously worked as a Business Development Specialist for Polish startup Renderro |
Tetiana Nikitenko |
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| Founder, Product-Market Fit Labs |
| Entrepreneurial and driven startup generalist focused on business side/product/bus dev. Specializing in early-stage B2B Martech Saas startups. • Techstars LA 2021 alumna • > 13 years in IT • 8+ years with social media analytics and listening BI products for Fortune 500 companies • Worked at two Techstars-backed companies • Founding member and Product person at ViralMoment (AI-backed social listening tool for short-form video with Fortune 500 clients) • Co-founder TrueSocialMetrics (social media analytics tool with Fortune 500 clients). Key competencies: Finding Product-Market fit, Customer Discovery, Customer Segmentation, finding Ideal User Persona, MVP, Entrepreneurship, BusDev, Lead Gen, Analytics, Public Speaking |
Masayuki Ohta |
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| Partner, ff Venture Capital |
| Partner at ff Venture Capital (ffVC), an early-stage VC firm with offices in New York and Warsaw. Founding Member of JBIC IG Partners, a private equity firm based in Japan.At ffVC's Warsaw office, I lead investment activities in the CEE region and facilitate connections between startups in the region and corporate partners in Japan. |