Black Pearls VC News

Time to get out of the playground

“Venture funding into Central & Eastern Europe is on the rise. But the region needs more than capital to excel.” – writes Ewa Treitz in her medium.com blogpost focusing on CEE region’s ecosystem properties, chances, and the need of greater connection to the global ec...

10 September 2017

Black Pearls VC invests in algae research project.

Team of scientists originating from the Warsaw University of Technology, led by Mateusz Delekta and supervised by prof. Tomasz Ciach, will develop an innovative way of growing and exploring the applications of marine algae. The Green Goods project will be developed in pa...

1 August 2017

Why now is the time for the European VCs?

Invest Europe’s Report: “The Acceleration Point: Why Now is the Time for European Venture Capital” has been released lately to cover the progress of the European ecosystem and its global position and the unprecedented rise of the European tech industry.The Report provide...

12 July 2017

Portfolio Companies

Our Parkanizer and Piktorex awarded

Two of our portfolio companies have recently been awarded in important regional competitions. Parkanizer and Piktorex – both startups growing within our LQT Fund in cooperation with Narodowe Centrum Badań i Rozwoju (the National Centre of Research and Development) have b...

29 June 2017

Black Pearls VC's Marcin P. Kowalik enters Kauffmann Fellows Class 22

As it is still quite young, Polish innovations and VC industry needs knowledge, good practices and worldwide network to keep up the global pace and use its great potential. We decided that the cradle of the industry is the best place to get them from. Palo Alto, Californ...

20 June 2017

Portfolio Companies

RoboCamp: The Most Creative Startup 2016

For the first time, company from Poland won the international Startup Europe Awards, promoted by the European Commission. Wojciech Syrocki, founder of Robocamp, received the award in Brussels in June. 84 startups from 14 different countries participated in the finals. We...

19 June 2017

Infoshare 2017: Digital Healthcare Hackathon

We had a great pleasure of joining the infoShare’s Digital Healthcare Hackathon. Our Venture Partner Piotr Pągowski was a Jury member and CFO Hubert Szczołek was a business development and financing expert.

15 May 2017

Space3ac finale

September the 8th 2016 will be long remembered as a very important day for the Polish space sector industry. Two of our initiatives aimed at developing space technology projects had their great finale at Gdańsk Science and Technology Park, where Space3ac and POSITON Demo...

20 September 2016

The first Polish VC firm to enter Invest Europe

Another step in the implementation of Black Pearls VC growth strategy has been taken. We have become a member of Invest Europe (previously EVCA) – the association representing Europe’s private equity, venture capital and infrastructure sectors, as well as and their inves...

11 September 2016

Attracting talents from Kiev to Gdansk

We are here to direct Polish startups down the path of their development, assists them until they achieve a global-scale success. With a view to continuous improvement, we too must expand our team’s strength in international relations. Meet Bogdan from Ukraine, who has j...

3 August 2016