Innovation Nest

29/11/2022

We're thrilled to announce, that our portfolio company Nethone has been acquired by Mangopay, the payment infrastructure provider!🎉

The acquisition will give marketplaces capabilities to detect and counter complex fraud activities.

Thanks to that, Nethone will be offered to thousands of new businesses and will continue its dynamic expansions. 🧨

Congratulations to Hubert Rachwalski von Rejchwald and the team! 👏 We're looking forward to many upcoming successes of yours! 🙌

MangoPay, a European payment technology provider for marketplaces and platforms, is buying AI fraud detection and prevention company Nethone.

09/11/2022

We are incredibly proud of our portfolio company Antavo Loyalty Management Platform, which announced today a €10M Series A round to empower global brands in their effort to build next-generation, omnichannel loyalty programs. 🎉

Antavo is part of our Fund II portfolio. We have been proud supporters of Antavo since we led their seed round in 2018. Our original investment thesis was focused on the transition from legacy loyalty software platforms to cloud-based platforms. In Antavo, we identified several key elements we believed would position the company as a market leader in the future. The two most distinct differentiators of their approach were a no-code/low-code loyalty engine and the ability to serve loyalty across all channels (online/offline). 👨‍💻

At the time, Antavo’s approach was ahead of the market. It took the company several years to gradually build out its core platform to meet the complex requirements of enterprise customers. The company reached a strong product-market fit in 2020 when the world went into shock as the Covid19 pandemic spread across countries. Large retail brands were quickly adapting to changing market conditions and investing in omnichannel solutions. 👏

The last three years have seen a major uptake in loyalty and retention-focused platform. As customer acquisition is becoming challenging due to rising add costs, brands of all shapes and sizes are looking to build stronger relationships with their existing customers. 😎

Antavo is quickly becoming the platform of choice for forward-thinking retail brands. Companies like BMW Group, KFC, Kathmandu, BrewDog rely on Antavo to deliver personalized customer experiences to their communities of consumers. We still believe that it is day one for Antavo. Enterprise loyalty and retention is a growth market in desperate need of modern cloud-based solutions. 🚀

With a fresh round of funding, Antavo will continue to invest in product R&D, further expanding the capabilities of its core platform. At the same time, the team will look to expand across its core territories, including Europe, Asia, and the US. 💸

We are grateful to Attila, Zsuzsa, and Andras for allowing us to invest early and be part of this great journey. Now we believe it is only up and to the right! 🔥

06/10/2022

Super fun and exciting evening we had yesterday co-hosting Investors Meetup x meetup.vc with Infoshare, SpeedUp Venture Capital Group and PFR Ventures! 🎉

It was great to meet in person with other industry professionals, talk about our challenges, share experiences and learn from each other. ❤️

Big thanks to Grzegorz Borowski, Agnieszka Meller, and all the Infoshare team for making this happen.

Much appreciation to Pawel Dobrowolski for hosting the panel and to our experts Marcin Zabielski, Gabrielė Poteliūnaitė, Ana Wolsztajn, Tomasz Karwatka for sharing their points of view on the current crisis and its impact on the polish ecosystem.

Check out some pics from the event with a magnificent view from Centre in Lovely Gdańsk! 🌊

06/05/2022

🔅 The sunny weekend of May is the perfect time for another dose of knowledge with the Innovation Nest podcast

🎙️ Link: https://anchor.fm/vc-in-conversations/episodes/Sales-strategy-and-tactics-for-your-startup---Vaam---Josef-Fallesen-e1i59dc

In this episode, Josef Fallesen from Vaam shares his sales expertise and explains how to properly start a relationship with a potential customer.

All this and more can be found in the latest podcast, which is now available on Apple Podcast, Spotify and other popular platforms.

28/04/2022

Are you looking for new challenges? 🧑🏻‍💻

Why not join one of the best VC Funds in Poland? 🦄

Now is your chance to join our team as a Controlling Specialist
https://rocketjobs.pl/oferta/innovation-nest-controlling-specialist

Don't hesitate and contact us now! ⚡

Innovation Nest is a Venture Capital fund focused on investments in Software as a Service (SaaS) companies across Europe. We support high-tech companies to grow faster and scale their business globally. Over the years we’ve supported more than 55 startups, some of the most successful ones include Infermedica, Cardiomatics, Autenti.

26/04/2022

If you are building an industrial solution and looking for customers in Poland – KPT ScaleUp might be a perfect fit for you. 🚀

The acceleration program will help your company to organize your stay and help you find business partners to speed up the growth in Poland, as well as and get up to EUR 66K of non-refundable equity free grant. 💡

Recruitment for KPT ScaleUP is open until May 9th

20/04/2022

We are supper happy to share this exciting news from Enso - our portfolio company - that has raised a round of $16.5million lead by SignalFire and Khosla Ventures 🚀

We are especially proud because we had the honor to accompany Enso from the very beginning as their first institutional investor.

Congratulations to Wojtek, Sylwia and the whole team 🦄

Enso, a startup developing a toolset for data processing and analytics, has emerged from stealth and raised a $16.5 million in a funding round.

14/04/2022

📣 The next episode of our podcast is ready for listening to!

📡 Link: https://anchor.fm/vc-in-conversations/episodes/Is-recruitment-the-single-most-important-part-of-your-business----Platypus-io---Nicolas-Blier-Silvestri-e1h612s

This episode answers questions such as:

🗂 What are the most important steps in hiring the right people?
⚖️ Why is the culture in an organization so important?

All this and more can be found in the latest podcast, which is now available on Apple Podcast, Spotify and other popular platforms.

29/03/2022

🎙 We are super happy to let you know that a new episode of our Podcast is already online!

🎧 Link: https://anchor.fm/vc-in-conversations/episodes/A-journey-to-becoming-a-commerce-api-service---Brink-Commerce---Kristian-Tysander-e1gb5qs

In the latest episode, you will find out:

🦄 How to see a unique opportunity when others don't
🎖 How a military background can influence a company’s culture in a completely unexpected way.

Kristian talks also about his approach to product development and shares more stories from the Brink Commerce journey 🚀

All this and more can be found in the latest podcast, which is now available on Apple Podcast, Spotify and other popular platforms.

17/03/2022

Arengu work to fix signup flows and to make them frictionless

They are looking for great people to help them in their mission to empower developers and marketers to build and iterate all these flows in minutes 🚀

✅ Careers: https://www.arengu.com/careers

10/03/2022

In the latest episode of the VC IN Conversations podcast, Wilson Hunter and Blazej Wojtyla from Stream Sage talk about the Effectual Entrepreneurship Framework and how it helped them to build their product and company 🚀

🎧 S01E02: https://anchor.fm/vc-in-conversations/episodes/Effectual-entrepreneurship---StreamSage---Wilson-Hunter-and-Baej-Wojtya-e1f71hk

From this episode you can also learn how data can help you monetise your cooking passion, and how to find a co-founder on the other side of the Ocean.

Hope you find a lot of value in this episode and we look forward to your feedback!

23/02/2022

In this article, we would like to share the top three reasons that convinced us to join upacjenta.pl on its mission 🦄 🚀

We are extremely happy to announce our participation in uPacjenta seed investment round.