| Date | Title | Description |
| 13.12.2023 | Boxmarket joins Pathfinder’s portfolio | Boxmarket is an e-commerce platform for stores primarily engaged in online business. It provides sellers with everything they need to pack and ship products to buyers, including eco-friendly packaging and other essential accessories. Its cl... |
| 27.10.2023 | Pathfinder invests in teleradiology | The market for diagnostic imaging services is now worth around 7 billion PLN, which is nearly twice as much as in 2015. At the same time, the Polish healthcare system suffers from a shortage of radiologists, with waiting times for test resu... |
| 03.10.2023 | Pathfinder Partners with Santander X Local Award Competition | Are you developing a startup and in need of capital? Are the dynamic market changes posing a challenge for you? Enter the Santander X Local Award competition and have a chance to win cash prizes and personalized mentoring from experts on th... |
| 04.09.2023 | Founders Connect: How to Build and Scale an International Business | Meet founders who have successfully expanded their businesses in international markets. Get inspired by the experiences of other founders and managers. Learn how they tackled the biggest business challenges.
✅ Founders of startups at any s... |
| 03.08.2023 | Primetric joins forces with a giant from the USA | BigTime is a popular American platform for time tracking, project management, and invoicing. Primetric caught the attention of the industry giant with its success in the European market, with over 17,000 users in fifteen countries using the... |
| 18.07.2023 | Selmo revolutionizes sales on Instagram | The tool facilitates sales through private messages, posts, stories, and live broadcasts. It streamlines the customer purchase process and reduces handling time for sellers. It also allows for order collection from live streams conducted si... |
| 05.07.2023 | Wellbee introduces a new psychoeducational platform and welcomes a new investor | Wellbee, a platform supporting Poles in taking care of their mental health and a company from the Tar Heel Capital Pathfinder portfolio, has secured a new investor. The bValue fund has joined the group of funds currently supporting the comp... |
| 18.04.2023 | Tar Heel Capital Pathfinder invests in Innential, a Berlin-based platform supporting tech talent management and employee development | The company had previously also been supported by APX, an early-stage VC based in Berlin that’s backed by both Axel Springer and Porsche.
Innential allows organizations to map and analyze the competency needs of their talent, link them wit... |
| 01.03.2023 | Founders Talks: Great products result from hard work and the ability to iterate quickly. How Sentryc helps fight online product piracy and what it takes to become a founder of a tech startup | Let’s start with introductions. Can you tell us in a couple of words what Sentryc is?
Nicole Jasmin Hofmann, CEO and co-founder, Sentryc: It’s not easy to put it into just a few words. But in a nutshell, it’s a highly efficient digital way... |
| 12.01.2023 | Innovations in the midst of crisis, AI, and climate concerns? What trends will we observe in 2023? | We have gone through another year rich in both expected and unexpected events. The biggest geopolitical crisis of this century turned into a food and energy crisis, resulting in high inflation worldwide. In response, central banks began rai... |
| 03.01.2023 | 2022 in our portfolio companies: a review | Woodpecker.co is a cold email and sales automation SaaS product that helps build valuable business relationships. The company floated on the NewConnect market of the Warsaw Stock Exchange in 2021.
Gamivo.com is an online marketplace for di... |
| 13.12.2022 | Pathfinder and WP2 Investments provide capital to a startup Responsiblee | Responsiblee is an easy-to-use tool for calculating greenhouse gas emissions in accordance with the widely respected GHG Protocol. It provides a clear and transparent examination of all ranges, i.e., categories, of direct and indirect emiss... |
| 08.11.2022 | Venture Building? The most interesting job in the world! | Why venture building?
Arkadiusz Seńko: Venture building is a process of creating businesses from the ideation stage and MVP to scaling and exit, executed by an experienced organisation. To really excel you need skills that can be acquired ... |
| 03.10.2022 | Founders Talks: Market validation is a key stage in creating a start-up. Why is Selmo.io winning the hearts of Facebook sellers? | Where did the idea to create a company that supports live commerce come from?
Filip Szczepanik, co-founder, and CEO of Selmo: The concept of our start-up came about one evening, when Kuba and I were scrolling through Facebook and came acro... |
| 14.09.2022 | Tar Heel Capital Pathfinder invests in PerfectBot of WSE-listed K2 Group | PerfectBot.ai offers intelligent bots that automate customer service in the e-commerce industry within the fashion and beauty categories. The tool ensures top-notch customer experience: it understands the questions asked in natural language... |
| 08.08.2022 | Leadership? Do not confuse with management! What is leadership in a start-up all about? | Understanding leadership
Coming up with a good definition of “leadership” is not easy, because we are dealing here with a set of competencies that are multifaceted and difficult to verify, and which can be acquired almost exclusively throu... |
| 19.07.2022 | To build a company, you need an element of madness | How did the idea of creating Woodpecker come about?
Matt Tarczyński, CEO and founder, Woodpecker.co: The road to building the company was long and led through several other, more or less successful, businesses and Woodpecker was actually c... |
| 14.07.2022 | Sentryc raises EUR 5 M for further expansion in Europe | Sentryc’s proprietary AI-driven software helps protect intellectual property and brand reputation online. The tool helps detect and curb product piracy and brand abuse on online marketplaces, among other places.
“Our goal is to protect com... |
| 04.07.2022 | Hope for the best, prepare for the worst? How to survive the coming months as a start-up | What? How? Why? The reasons behind the changes in the VC market
Recently, interest rates have started to rise rapidly in many countries around the world (such as the USA and many European countries, including Poland). This is the result of... |
| 22.06.2022 | Joanna Włoch joins Pathfinder as the Interim CFO of portfolio companies | – We want to make sure our founders get 360-degree support at every stage of their entrepreneurial journey. The cooperation with experienced experts is the best guarantee for that. We are continuously enhancing the team’s skills. The arriva... |
| 30.05.2022 | 11 (un)obvious mistakes in managing a start-up. Part II | 6. Inability to turn strategic goals into short-term goals
Creating a start-up business plan begins with developing a long-term strategy and financial model – that allows to verify whether the business can become profitable and whether it ... |
| 09.05.2022 | Science and venture building – a match made in heaven. How NaturalAntibody is changing the pharmaceutical market | When did you decide to found NaturalAntibody?
Konrad Krawczyk, PhD: The decision to found my own company was a long-term process and was maturing within me for many years. In 2009, after graduating from the University of Oxford with a degr... |
| 04.05.2022 | Five stars for Rating Captain. Pathfinder invests in the platform for managing customer feedback and satisfaction | Rating Captain, a Wrocław-based company, has developed an app that facilitates processes such as getting recommendations and monitoring the reviews posted by customers, as well as communicating with shoppers in the after-sales process. User... |
| 19.04.2022 | Pathfinder invests in Selmo.io, Facebook sellers’ assistant | Live commerce is a trend that has been evolving in the e-commerce industry for several years. During live streams on popular online platforms such as Facebook or TikTok, retailers and online stores combine a fashion show with user interacti... |
| 14.04.2022 | 11 (un)obvious mistakes in managing a startup. Part I | Challenges vary depending on what business, industry, scale, market and team we are talking about. However, there are a few areas that cause trouble for start-ups more often than others. Today we let you in on ways to avoid such mistakes.
... |
| 24.03.2022 | CMK backed by new investor enters next stage of development | “We are glad that WP2 Investments – a fund known for investing in companies and industries for which innovation is at their core – has joined the ranks of our shareholders. The raised funds will help us carry out further activities related ... |
| 15.02.2022 | Skinwallet joins the NFT trend with Cyber Warriors Army | The Cyber Warriors Army (CWA) collection is a part of the CyberVersum project – a virtual world created by Skinwallet that merges a science-fiction setting with esport themes and gaming. It is going to be the first narrative NFT project co-... |
| 02.02.2022 | Startup with a mission: how Wellbee destigmatises mental health and makes lives more comfortable |
How did the idea to create Wellbee come about?
Paweł Chrzan, Wellbee’s CEO: Wellbee was established in 2020, the first year of the pandemic, which undoubtedly affected the creation and shape of the platform significantly.
I come from an... |
| 05.01.2022 | Pathfinder’s venture building team expands | Marek started his career in media (first agency then leading private hold media groups in Poland and Ukraine), to move into ecommerce. He was a board member of a public listed e-commerce company, Merlin Group S.A.
“We are glad to see the t... |
| 06.12.2021 | Key characteristic of a good founder? Determination in searching for solutions | How come you’ve become professionally involved in the startup industry? For most it’s a no-brainer that a corporate career gives a much greater safety net.
Jakub Pietraszek: I’ve never liked pigeonholing and I’ve always focused on all-roun... |
| 24.11.2021 | Jan Brandes joins Tar Heel Capital Pathfinder as advisor | Jan is an independent corporate finance professional. With over 16 years’ experience in investment banking at Lehman Brothers and NOAH Advisors, he provides M&A and capital raising advisory for growth- and late-stage technology companie... |
| 09.11.2021 | RemoteMyApp moves to the next level: Polish tech startup acquired by international corporation |
“My gaming adventure began with the iconic Duke Nukem 3D game and led to a place where together with the RemoteMyApp team we created a top-quality technology service that allows millions of players around the world to access their favorit... |
| 27.10.2021 | Zalando – brainchild of venture building | According to Enhance Ventures’ data there were about 560 venture building companies operating worldwide in 2020, which is a 625% increase in the VB segment since 2013. This promising business model led to the creation of services such as Za... |
| 16.09.2021 | A strong debut of Woodpecker on NewConnect | 14 September 2021 was the first trading day for Woodpecker S.A. on the NewConnect market of the Warsaw Stock Exchange. The tech company is the 11th newcomer this year.
The share price at the opening bell was at PLN 15,40 and was 28% higher... |
| 24.08.2021 | NaturalAntibody: Oxford scientist joins forces with Tar Heel Capital Pathfinder to revolutionise the process of drug manufacturing |
NaturalAntibody helps IT-engineer therapeutic antibodies by discovering and optimizing those that may be used as drugs. To this end, it uses a proprietary database of previously neglected data on therapeutic antibodies together with custo... |
| 16.08.2021 | Unikrn to be acquired by the betting and gaming giant, Entain |
Unikrn allows people to bet on esports matches in games such as League of Legends or Counter-Strike. Founded in 2014 by Rahul Sood and Karl Flores, it was backed by, among others, celebrity investors such as Mark Cuban and Ashton Kutcher.... |
| 24.06.2021 | Pathfinder invests in Portside | Portside.pl is an e-commerce platform offering the opportunity to purchase fish, seafood and derivative products. Its founders focus on the quality and freshness of the goods, as well as on expanding the offer with less available products i... |
| 15.06.2021 | Booste raises PLN 54 million and begins global expansion |
Revenue-based financing (RBF) offered by Booste.com is a flexible financing model that allows the repayment terms to be adjusted to the customer’s future revenue. The platform does not require its users to provide guarantees or collateral... |
| 01.06.2021 | Pathfinder invests in chat commerce | The conversational commerce market is booming – it is currently valued at $4.8 billion and is projected to reach as much as $13.9 billion in 2025. Gizmi.io is entering this market with a tool that helps easily monetise digital content and t... |
| 01.06.2021 | Pathfinder nominated for the “Venture capital fund of the year” award | The other finalists are: Inovo Venture Partners and Cogito Capital Partners.
For more information, please visit the organiser’s website: https://psik.org.pl/en/
The awards ceremony will take place on the 7th of June 2021.
Our sincere c... |
| 31.05.2021 | Woodpecker.co set to debut on the WSE | Woodpecker.co app – a smart sales assistant – facilitates client acquisition and maintaining relationships by automating time-consuming processes related to business communication. This SaaS-based app is used by more than 3,000 companies in... |
| 10.05.2021 | StreamCards raises PLN 2 million to revolutionise the world of esports streaming | StreamCards’s flagship product is a card game running within Twitch’s environment, the world’s most popular live streaming platform. The game has the form of a so-called Twitch Overlay extension (displays on top of the whole video as a tran... |
| 25.04.2021 | Another company in Pathfinder’s portfolio floated on NewConnect | April 22 saw the first trading day of Gamivo S.A. shares on NewConnect market. The owner of Gamivo.com is the 379th company listed on NewConnect and the 11th of this year’s newcomers.
“Gamivo’s stock market debut on NewConnect is not onl... |
| 22.04.2021 | Shortcut #3: creator economy, trzy ciekawe raporty i kilka inwestycji |
🦸 📸 🎥 Creator economy
W ciągu ostatnich 10 lat na świecie pojawiło się ponad 50 milionów twórców (rozumianych jako niezależne osoby utrzymujące się ze swojej cyfrowej twórczości), a co trzecie amerykańskie dziecko w kontekście wymarzoneg... |
| 21.04.2021 | Gamivo wchodzi na NewConnect | Gamivo jest miejscem łączenia sprzedawców z graczami. Spółka ma mocną ekspozycję na dwa dynamicznie rosnące rynki: e-commerce i gaming. Nieustannie rozwija platformę i zamierza poszerzyć ofertę o produkty fizyczne, w tym akcesoria gamingowe... |
| 12.04.2021 | Data Platform for Esports and Gaming, GRID, Secures USD 10M Series A | GRID Esports GmbH, the leading provider of data solutions for the esports and gaming industry, has announced the completion of a USD 10 million Series A round of funding. The round includes leading investors in the gaming, iGaming and tech ... |
| 10.03.2021 | Pathfinder invests in Fincastly, a fintech startup replacing CFO in micro, small and medium-sized businesses | Fincastly.com is a software that supports financial management in a comprehensive way, including budgeting and liquidity control processes in micro, small and medium-sized companies. It supports clients in running a more profitable business... |
| 27.01.2021 | Bespoke financing for modern e-commerce: Pathfinder invests in Booste | A new player has come on the European fintech stage: Booste, a start-up offeringrevenue-based financing to e-commerce businesses.
Booste is the perfect partner for small and medium-sized enterprises, whose owners value independence and ful... |
| 27.01.2021 | Bespoke financing for modern e-commerce: Pathfinder invests in Booste | A new player has come on the European fintech stage: Booste, a start-up offeringrevenue-based financing to e-commerce businesses.
Booste is the perfect partner for small and medium-sized enterprises, whose owners value independence and ful... |
| 05.01.2021 | Andrzej Różycki opowiada o Tar Heel Capital Pathfinder w podcaście „Wszystkie twarze biznesu” | Andrzej Różycki, partner zarządzający Tar Heel Capital oraz pomysłodawca Tar Heel Capital Pathfinder był gościem pierwszego w nowym roku odcinka podcastu „Wszystkie twarze biznesu”.
Był to 148 odcinek audycji, której twórcą i prowadzącym j... |
| 05.01.2021 | Andrzej Różycki opowiada o Tar Heel Capital Pathfinder w podcaście „Wszystkie twarze biznesu” | Andrzej Różycki, partner zarządzający Tar Heel Capital oraz pomysłodawca Tar Heel Capital Pathfinder był gościem pierwszego w nowym roku odcinka podcastu „Wszystkie twarze biznesu”.
Był to 148 odcinek audycji, której twórcą i prowadzącym j... |
| 04.01.2021 | Pathfinder invests in Homly.to – startup facilitating a quick sale of flats and investments in the real estate market | Tar Heel Capital Pathfinder has invested PLN 1.2 million in Homly, a platform facilitating the sale of residential properties in the Instant Buyer model, as well as building an offer to allow private investors an opportunity to invest in re... |
| 27.10.2020 | Pathfinder invests in Homly.to – startup facilitating a quick sale of flats and investments in the real estate market | Tar Heel Capital Pathfinder has invested PLN 1.2 million in Homly, a platform facilitating the sale of residential properties in the Instant Buyer model, as well as building an offer to allow private investors an opportunity to invest in re... |
| 22.09.2020 | Pathfinder invests in Wellbee, a platform that facilitates access to online psychotherapy | Tar Heel Capital Pathfinder has invested PLN 1 million in Wellbee – a platform that facilitates access to psychotherapy by supporting clients in the selection of therapists matched to their needs in terms of diagnosis and therapeutic experi... |
| 22.09.2020 | Pathfinder invests in Wellbee, a platform that facilitates access to online psychotherapy | Tar Heel Capital Pathfinder has invested PLN 1 million in Wellbee – a platform that facilitates access to psychotherapy by supporting clients in the selection of therapists matched to their needs in terms of diagnosis and therapeutic experi... |
| 09.09.2020 | Skinwallet debuts on NewConnect | Skinwallet, the first ever company from the Tar Heel Capital Pathfinder portfolio, has debuted on the NewConnect market in Warsaw. The owner of the Skinwallet.com platform is also the first entity from the e-sports and digital goods market ... |
| 26.08.2020 | RemoteMyApp powers MagentaGaming, Deutsche Telekom’s brand-new cloud gaming app | Deutsche Telekom has announced the official release of MagentaGaming, the telecom giant’s own cloud gaming platform, which will allow millions of subscribers to access a seamless online gaming experience instantly. It is now officially avai... |
| 26.08.2020 | RemoteMyApp powers MagentaGaming, Deutsche Telekom’s brand-new cloud gaming app | Deutsche Telekom has announced the official release of MagentaGaming, the telecom giant’s own cloud gaming platform, which will allow millions of subscribers to access a seamless online gaming experience instantly. It is now officially avai... |
| 31.07.2020 | Hollywood is Not Enough: Plum Research raises PLN 10M to conquer the global entertainment market | Plum Research has closed a PLN 10 million (approx. USD 2.6 million) investment round, led by Polish venture capital firm Montis Capital and the British investment firm Weston Investment Management.
The startup measures audience engagement ... |
| 31.07.2020 | Hollywood is Not Enough: Plum Research raises PLN 10M to conquer the global entertainment market | Plum Research has closed a PLN 10 million (approx. USD 2.6 million) investment round, led by Polish venture capital firm Montis Capital and the British investment firm Weston Investment Management.
The startup measures audience engagement ... |
| 07.07.2020 | Close to PLN 2 million for SaaS facilitating company management in uncertain times | GrenadeHub, a startup offering solutions for corporate team planning and financial management, has raised PLN 1.75 million for further growth. Venture capital funds Tar Heel Capital Pathfinder and Venture Inc believed in its potential.
Tar... |
| 01.07.2020 | Game-changer in cloud gaming: Deutsche Telekom invests in RemoteMyApp, the company behind Vortex | Telekom Innovation Pool GmbH, the strategic investment fund of the international telecommunications giant Deutsche Telekom (DT), has invested €2 million in the Polish cloud gaming company RemoteMyApp. RemoteMyApp provides cutting-edge techn... |
| 01.07.2020 | Game-changer in cloud gaming: Deutsche Telekom invests in RemoteMyApp, the company behind Vortex | Telekom Innovation Pool GmbH, the strategic investment fund of the international telecommunications giant Deutsche Telekom (DT), has invested €2 million in the Polish cloud gaming company RemoteMyApp. RemoteMyApp provides cutting-edge techn... |
| 28.06.2020 | No business like showbusiness – interview with Łukasz Jeziorski | “Build your stuff, push it out to the market, sell it as soon as you can, and then work with your initial customers on fine-tuning that product” is Łukasz Jeziorski‘s (CEO of Plum Research) recipe for success.
The interview was published b... |
| 27.05.2020 | Digital goods in computer games and their value: skins | Imagine that you could change your appearance for a few hours. Would you be willing to pay for it? Avid players do this on a regular basis – they change the character models, weapons, and other items they use in the virtual world. For skins... |
| 22.04.2020 | #Stayhome and build a startup | A report published at the beginning of April by PFR Ventures, a fund of funds manager investing in VC funds, in the first quarter of 2020, VC funds have invested in the Polish market 190 million PLN (close to 42 million EUR calculated by th... |
