This podcast is aimed to help CEE founders in building global tech companies. INOVO VENTURE PARTNERS is a first-choice VC for ambitious founders from Poland and the CEE region. We back early-stage, post-traction startups with up to €3M of initial investment, and help them build global brands, while driving growth of the local startup ecosystem. We take great pride in being close to top founders who think big. We’re investors in: Booksy, Restaumatic, Sotrender, Infermedica, Spacelift, Tidio, ...
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DocPlanner’s Karol Traczykowski on international business expansion | #18 (PL) / Ekspansja międzynarodowa – od czego zacząć?
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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 a…
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How to translate customer insights into the best product – Maciej Ciołek, Zowie | #17 (ENG)
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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…
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Focus on the people and the rest will follow – Tytus Gołas, Tidio | #16 (PL)
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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 eff…
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How to increase your company’s valuation by 5x? – Michal Rokosz, INOVO | Internet Beta 2021 (PL)
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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. Here are the slides: https://www.slideshare.net/InovoVC/internet-beta-2021-micha-rokosz ✅ 4 key fact…
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What can you learn from unicorn startups? – Rob Kniaz, Hoxton Ventures | #15 (ENG)
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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 h…
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I reinvent myself every year – Stefan Batory, Booksy | #14 (PL)
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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 partner…
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What does the VC way mean – Maja Schaefer, Zowie | #13 (PL)
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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 c…
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Scaling a business - the road to the largest software IPO - Marcin Żukowski, Snowflake #12 (PL)
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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 warehou…
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Starting a business in USA - Stas Matviyenko #11
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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 Lab…
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#10 Marcin Wyszynski – Founding a startup as a developer
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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.…
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Zach Coelius – How to get funded by SV angels and why founders are like gladiators || Inovo Podcast #9
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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 start…
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#8 Stefan Batory, Sebastian Maska – Booksy x Versum Merger
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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. W…
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#7 Kai Hansen - how to invest as a business angel and build a startup in the middle of crisis
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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: htt…
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#6 Piotr Pisarz - Revenue-based Startup Financing
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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 Uncapp…
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#5 Ariel Finkelstein - Bootstrapping vs Venture Capital: Lessons learned bulding the first SaaS company in Israel
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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! Inovo Venture Partners …
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#4 Dan Lupu - Why we invest in B2B companies?
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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 th…
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#3 Jerry Colonna - What does it mean to grow up as a Leader?
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Jerry Colonna, Reboot founder coaching tech entrepreneurs, talks about building a culture of our company while working remotely and explains what does it mean to grow up as a leader Inovo Venture Partners backs early-stage, post-traction startups that can grow 100x. We partner up with ambitious founders like Stefan from Booksy, Maja from Zowie, or …
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#2 Jens Lapinski - What excites Business Angels?
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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! Inovo Venture Partners backs early-stage, post-traction startups that can grow 100x. We partner up with ambitio…
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#1 Bogomil Balkansky - What does Sequoia look for in startups?
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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 Inovo Venture Partners backs early-stage, post-traction startups that can grow 100x. We partner up with ambitious founders like Stefan from Booksy, Maja from Zowie, or Marcin from Spacelift…
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