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:...

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...

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...

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. ✅ 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

The 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...

Marcin 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...

Zach 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...

On 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,...

Kai 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=gY1m0EC0R7i9BkNZJkPTtQ Or watch on...

Piotr 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:...

Ariel 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!

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.

Jerry Colonna, Reboot founder coaching tech entrepreneurs, talks about building culture of our company while working remotely and explains what does it mean to grow up as a leader

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!

In this episode we are asking Bogumil Balkanski, Partner @ Sequoia, what is he looking for in startups, and how he supports portfolio companies after investment