Black Pearls VC News

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

Black Pearls VC Venture Partner Ewa Treitz's research on CVC

As part of the two-year Kauffmann Fellows program, Ewa Treitz investigated the topic of entrepreneurs´ satisfaction with corporate venturing in Western Europe and USA. This is a highly relevant topic as the CVC trend picks up in CEE.

29 July 2016

Space3ac startups progressing with the acceleration

Eight teams have made it to the final phase of the space industry accelerator Space3ac. They now have one and a half months to brush up their projects and prepare a presentation for investors. The winners will take PLN 50k to spend on scientific research and will have a ...

27 July 2016

With Black Pearls VC as Gold Sponsor, the biggest Tech conference in CEE Region brought together 5,000 tech professionals, developers, entrepreneurs and innovation leaders. For three days, Gdansk was the best place for networking, knowledge & experience sharing in Eu...

25 May 2016

Portfolio Companies

Quantum Lab - Best Startup 2016!

On May the 16th, Quantum Lab won Best Startup 2016 – a prestigious competition for companies doing innovative new technology projects applicable for marketing, communication and sales purposes.

23 May 2016