We have 20 years of international experience in building products and implementing commercial projects in many markets.
Our team has experience in launching companies and successful exits.
We are able to effectively launch products and companies. We have experience in investing in companies at the pre-seed and seed stages. Our team members created and launched several billion worth investment and acceleration programs in Poland. We know how to scale up your business regionally and globally and we are committed to help you with that.
Maciej Majewski
CEO & Head of Acceleration
An expert in implementing innovations in the financial sector with 12 years of experience holding senior positions at BNP Paribas. Has implemented several ScaleUp solutions for BNP Paribas Polska involving startups from Poland, France, and Croatia. Took part in many international projects at BNP and helped build the first sector competency hub for the bank. Since 2013 an external evaluator for innovative projects supported with EU grants with over 2 billion EUR of committed financing.
Jakub Jankowski
Board member
Jakub Jankowski is a serial entrepreneur in the real estate and R&D fields with over ten years of professional marketing, finance, events, and sports club management experience.Jakub is an expert in property management and real estate investments with over ten properties - offices and residential houses, under his supervision. During his career, he has led and completed over 50 real estate transactions.Professional racing sailor and coach.
Michał Bańka
Founding Partner & Advisor
Creator and leader in the Polish start-up capital investment market. One of the most renowned experts in Poland in the field of cooperation between start-ups, seed capital funds, enterprises, and public institutions.A doctor of economic science in the field of business management at the Warsaw University of Technology with years of experience in financial instrument management and supervising programmes for start-ups and entrepreneurs.Author of the programmes: Starter, BizNest, Innovation Loan Fund (FPI). Author and Manager of the ScaleUp programme - Poland's first project providing support for startups in collaboration with large enterprises (including companies owned by the State Treasury).He also managed a loan fund (200M) for startups with participating capital investors.
Hubert Anyżewski
Founding Partner & Advisor
An experienced design, technology, and innovation founder and manager. He has built and managed successfully over a dozen companies, including Uselab (acquired by Deloitte CE). He supervised the Experience Design business line for the Central European region for Deloitte Consulting CE and has extensive experience as a VC fund managing partner.A pioneer and international expert in the field of UX & Product Design. One of Google's global Product Design experts since 2015. Has completed over 500 projects for 45 markets in Europe, the US, Africa, and Asia, winning international awards including the Global Finance award for the Best Digital Banking service in the region (ING Business Online).He founded and managed the UX Poland conference for 8 years (until 2017), one of the largest UX conferences in Europe.Since 2010, he has built and managed one of the first and largest postgraduate UX Design / Product Design study programs in the region at the SWPS University.For several years he has been involved in blockchain projects. He is a speaker at many Polish and international industry conferences. Privately a father of two and a passionate traveler and design
Ewa Retajczyk
Head of AccelBox Acceleration
EU Fund expert with experience in coordinating projects financed under European Funds and national programmes, including: settling accounts; monitoring milestones and financial and substantive progress; planning work for Contractors/Subcontractors, including assignment of tasks and progress evaluation; public procurement; preparing documentation for investment negotiations with grant receivers and participation in Investment Committee meetings.Over a dozen years of experience as Project Manager in the telecommunications industry, having conducted projects in the scope of: creation, development, monitoring and improvement of processes supporting sales; development, implementation and supervision of changes in the sales processes; analysis and identification of potential for automation of business processes for the implementation of solutions; planning and management of tens of millions of dollars in budgets for sales channels.
Maciej Kołtoński
Head of Communications
Maciej Kołtoński is an expert in building a positive brand image with over 10 years of professional experience in the areas of communication, project management, event organisation and marketing. Specialises in building international and national promotional projects in the areas of new technologies, startups and venture capital funds. Former Head of Communications at Startup Poland, a leading technology think-tank in the CEE area.
Mariola Gromadzik
Startup Manager
Member of board in Z.GO - fintech startup combining the function of financial communicator, banking services and m-commerce platform. .She has a wide experience in obtaining and commercialization of projects. She got professional experience in the field of acceleration for over 6 years in AIP and Business Link accelerators: She created the 4th edition of Academic Incubator Startup Business Program by Citi Foundation in which she was responsible for creating the scope of the program, preparing criteria for choosing projects, supervision and coordination of the projects. The Program supports young companies in development – 900 companies covered by the program ( in the frame of the program many nationwide events for startups, such as: trainings, mentoring, Kick offs, mixers). For the last 6 years she has been dealing with scouting, which is providing ready solutions for corporations. She conducted scouting for such companies: Audi, T-mobile, PKP, Idea Bank, mBank, PKO. She also has wide managerial experience, which she obtained in such organizations as: Kredyt Bank, Santander Consumer Bank, Euro Bank. She tries to combine legal and managerial knowledge, which she received on the Law and Administration Faculty at UŁ and MBA Kozminski University.
Piotr Boulangé
Startup Manager
Cowork Expert, and Startup Mentor. Writes PhD thesis on the Benefits of working in coworking spaces. Founded and operated one of the first coworking spaces in Warsaw in 2012. Director at Founder Institute Warsaw. Ex-WeWork Labs Manager in CEE Region. Sociologist and an Executive MBA graduate. Runs ultra-marathons.
Iza Suplewska
Startup Project Manager
Startup enthusiast and a graduate of Production Management and Engineering at Warsaw University of Technology and a student of Finance and Accounting at University of Warsaw. Since 2017, she has been actively involved in student organizations, where she has co-organized scientific picnics, galas, events, and other events for the academic community, and in 2020 she joined the Erasmus Student Network and took a position on the Board as Treasurer.
Iza is interested in process optimization, IoT and pro-climate innovation, and in her free time she explores Warsaw by bike and plans her next trips.
Iza is interested in process optimization, IoT and pro-climate innovation, and in her free time she explores Warsaw by bike and plans her next trips.
