A new era in payments

Collect instant, one-off payments. Or automated, recurring payments. Without the chasing, stress, or expensive fees.

https://gocardless.com/

Black Pearls VC Partner: Aleksander Dobrzyniecki

From leading a Seed round to exit in 14 months 

Nordigen is a freemium open banking data platform. We teamed up with Nordigen in 2021 leading their Seed round of €2.1 mio. After joining a strong cap table of existing investors in Inventure, Change Ventures and Seedcamp the company was well positioned to grow in the European market on top of a state of the art product it has built. Since our round Nordigen has grew from less than 1000 API connections with European banks to over 2400+ becoming a category leader in Europe.

How we added value to the company

We have been focused on supporting the founders with:

• Doubling down on the vision of a freemium open banking platform through key hires and product roadmap 
• Building traction among the CEE developer community 
• Navigating the exit transaction with a GoCardless as well as working with founders and other investors in aligning on shareholders interest

nordigen.com

Black Pearls VC Partner: Aleksander Dobrzyniecki

Telemedico offers a modern, intuitive telemedical platform technology and remote consultations with doctors of various specialties, via internet or telephone, with 24/7 service, 365 days a year. Their strengths are easy, fast and safe contact with a doctor, time and cost saving technology, avoiding queues, traffic and other annoyances related to stationary visits. The company provides services to insurance companies as part of their health, travel, life, assistance or bancassurance package, as well as to individual patients who need medical assistance at home, at work or while travelling abroad.

Black Pearls VC announces an exit from Telemedi, selling its stake to Mavie, marking the third successful exit this year.

www.telemedi.co

Black Pearls VC Partner: Marcin P. Kowalik

An A-level IT company creating enterprise software Saas, mobile and IoT solutions.

Skyrise.tech

Black Pearls VC Partner: Marcin P. Kowalik 

Founded in August 2022 by Lauris Rutkis, Kristians Jenciuss, and Jekabs Hincenbergs, Swotzy is a logistics startup on a mission to simplify and make last-mile delivery accessible to all businesses. By harnessing smart tech with industry insight, Swotzy is set to change last-mile delivery industry standards.

swotzy.com

Black Pearls VC Partner: Aleksander Dobrzyniecki

Traxlo, a retail execution tasks marketplace, connects local gig workers with grocery stores and FMCG brands to optimize retail operations and drive sales growth. Operating in select cities across Sweden, Lithuania, and Poland, Traxlo offers flexible work opportunities for locals while enhancing in-store performance.

traxlo.com

Black Pearls VC Partner: Aleksander Dobrzyniecki

Founded by a team of ex-bankers, venture builders and technologists, the Tapline team knows the ins and outs of raising capital. Being exposed to the industry presented numerous flaws with traditional funding solutions. Slow funding rounds, personal guarantees and equity dilution are only a few of the countless problems. There needed to be another approach. A better way that truly unlocks funding. That’s why Tapline created an innovative solution by fusing technical expertise with the finance know-how of the founders.

tapline.io

Black Pearls VC Partner: Aleksander Dobrzyniecki

Ondato Saas-based solutions streamline KYC compliance processes from identity verification and business onboarding to the entire client lifecycle and user-based management.

ondato.com

Black Pearls VC Partner: Wojciech Drewczynski

Company’s mission is to provide a safe rental process that connects all parties – individual tenants, landlords and professionals

simpl.rent

Black Pearls VC Partner: Aleksander Dobrzyniecki

Wonderway is a data-driven sales training software dedicated primarily for remote-first companies. By integrating with its customers’ CRM, Wonderway can see how effective its sales training programs are at reducing ramp time and increasing conversion rates. For the first time ever, companies can see what part of their training isn’t working so it gets better every time. Its customers are fast growing tech companies that are rapidly expanding their sales teams and need an efficient tool to onboard and upskill their sales teams.

wonderway.io

Black Pearls VC Partner: Aleksander Dobrzyniecki

Tidaro’s mission is to introduce workplaces to better organization, employee autonomy, and equality for everybody. The company’s main focus lies in simplicity of their solution and maintaining friendly business relationships, which makes them a perfect partner for all companies that value products developed for their needs.

Tidaro’s booking application allows companies to: book parking spots, desks, rooms, and booths; easier organize office visits; conveniently plan meetings; manage office resources in the app; get detailed analysis on offices and parking lots usage;

https://www.tidaro.com/

Black Pearls VC Partner: Marcin P. Kowalik

Surveily allows you to automatically monitor and understand what happens on your CCTV cameras observing people, vehicle and processes – 24/7, automatically and in real time.

surveily.com

Black Pearls VC Partner: Wojciech Drewczynski

Certifier.me is a polish-based startup that creates verifiable infrastructure for managing digital credentials, certificates, and diplomas. The Certifier solution is designed to help universities, businesses, and institutions improve the efficiency of the credentialing process without the need for printed versions of documents.

Certifier.me

Black Pearls VC Partner: Wojciech Drewczynski

A unique marketplace to invest in mortgage loans to help businesses in farming, forestry and infrastructure. Every single item of heavy machinery in this platform is used as collateral to make your investments in business loans safer. Heavyfinance connects you with many debtors to give you more opportunities to choose based on your preferred level of risk and potential returns.

heavyfinance.com

Black Pearls VC Partner: Aleksander Dobrzyniecki

Quality English lessons with world-class teachers from the comfort of your home.

fluentbe.com

Black Pearls VC Partner: Wojciech Drewczynski

The startup’s domain is image processing using artificial intelligence and neural networks. Over 1,500,000 individual and corporate users have already used the product worldwide, and the number of transformed images per month is close to 200,000 and growing.

deep-image.ai

Black Pearls VC Partner: Wojciech Drewczynski

IamIP has digitalized one of the last few paper-based and manually handled industries, the complex intellectual property industry. This industry is plagued by complexity with over 3.2 M new patents filed every year (growing), and $20Bn+ is lost in double work in R&D in Europe alone. IamIP’s platform enables technology based companies to easily overview and evaluate their intellectual property portfolios, monitor competition and get valuable strategic insights – in time – for determining decision-making in innovation.

Trusted by the world’s most innovative companies, IamIP’s Intellectual Property platform provides a secure, web-based portal for centrally managing all published patents worldwide – from the published individual patents to setting up search alerts, sharing, commenting, monitoring, collaborating and more. With robust analytics, IP departments and business units can make informed strategic decisions about what, where and when to take important action; i.e. filing a patent application opposition, acquire a company or technology, or to develop a new technology with a thorough understanding of financial implications of such decisions, their potential risks and opportunities for maximizing value in intellectual property.

Patent Platform

Black Pearls VC Partner: Aleksander Dobrzyniecki

We’re building tools based on psychometrics – the psychological measurement of personality, character traits, abilities and attitudes. These are really useful tools for people developed over many decades of work in psychology, psychometrics and today with data science & machine learning.We’re doing this to help individuals & teams discover:

– their personality traits and motivations

– self-development options via valuable feedback

– personal & career growth recommendations including job matching

– team & company culture fit

Black Pearls VC Partner: Marcin P. Kowalik

Convenient and secure platform for approving documents and signing contracts online enabling access to documents and E-signature anytime and anywhere.

The solution is addressing corporations – representatives of any organization, including board members, specialists working in sales, procurement, legal, financial and HR departments but consumers for private purposes as well.

www.autenti.com

Black Pearls VC Partner: Marcin P. Kowalik

Founded in 2016, eAgronom is an agriculture-focused climate technology company dedicated to helping farmers adopt sustainable practices for the benefit of their farms and the planet through a carbon credit program. Since the establishment of the company, eAgronom has expanded to 12 countries and raised 16M EUR.

Over 70 top specialists from companies like Skeleton Technologies, Wise, Xolo, Nortal, SaleMove, and ZeroTurnaround have joined their forces to mitigate climate change and have a real impact on the food industry and the World.

https://eagronom.com

Black Pearls VC Partner: Marcin P. Kowalik

Easy to use software for insurance brokers and agents, significantly increasing their efficiency and competitiveness by automation of  sales and policy service processes.

www.insly.com

Black Pearls VC Partner: Marcin P. Kowalik

Teamscope combines big data analytics with scientific testing to analyze teams and help team leaders make better hiring decisions. Their unique algorithm combines data about  values, personality characteristics, and core competencies of team members to first profile the existing team. Based on that, the platform recommends what characteristics to look for in a candidate and evaluates how well each candidate fits in with the role and the team. The platform then generates a detailed behavioral profile and interview guide for each candidate to help the hiring manager choose the best person for the team. The data model combines established scientific testing methods with big data analytics.

www.teamscope.io

Black Pearls VC Partner: Marcin P. Kowalik 

infoShare Academy is a coding bootcamp for Software Developers.

You will start our school with a feeling of excitement and eight weeks later, you’ll take languages, tools, methodologies and best practices to your next job.

infoShare Academy is software career accelerator.

https://www.infoshareacademy.online/

Black Pearls VC: Wojciech Drewczyński

Turning your data into knowledge is slow and error-prone. You can’t trust tools that don’t embrace best practices and provide quality assurance. Alumni of Y Combinator

www.enso.org

Black Pearls VC Partner: Wojciech Drewczynski 

Xopero began in 2009, founded as a company serving primarily SMB users. The company’s goal was to create more accessible and affordable secure data protection solution for any businesses.

In 2015, Xopero started cooperation with QNAP Inc. – one of the key global NAS providers. This addition expanded our portfolio to include a true backup appliance,

In 2017, Xopero fully extended into global market thanks to cooperation with ESET. The company took the place previously occupied by StorageCraft in the ESET Technological Alliance.

www.xopero.com

Black Pearls VC Partner: Marcin P. Kowalik

GRID creates IIOT (Industrial Internet of Things) solutions dedicated for energy distributors, industrial energy consumers and photovoltaics. Thanks to the proprietary technology of wireless sensors and distributed computing architecture (fog computing), iGRID provides operators of power grids and owners of photovoltaic installations with accurate and up-to-date data on the condition of transmission infrastructure and energy generation efficiency.

https://igrid.tech/

Black Pearls VC Partner: Maciej Skórkiewicz

Overview

Green Goods is an R&D project developed by the team of scientists originating from the Warsaw University of Technology, led by Mateusz Delekta and supervised by prof. Tomasz Ciach. The project’s  aim is to work out an innovative way of growing and exploring applications of marine algae.

The project’s supervisor – professor Tomasz Ciach is an accomplished Polish scientist specializing in fields such as chemistry, nanotechnology and biology. He is also Head of the Department of Biotechnology and Bioprocessing Engineering at Warsaw University of Technology, a leading technical university in Central and Eastern Europe. Having founded NanoGroup – a biotech company now entering the Warsaw Stock Exchange – he has accumulated vast experience in R&D projects and commercialization.

Black Pearls VC Partner: Maciej Skórkiewicz

Nanoxo is a chemical company with an experience in designing and manufacturing of various functional materials with broad potential applications.  It is represented by a research team highly skilled in chemical research and development.  

The goal of the company is to use scientific expertise in order to rationally design, analyze and finally provide solutions and products for various industries and applications.  

Current key technology of Nanoxo is synthesis of heavy metals free quantum dots based on zinc oxide – unique nanoparticles having unprecedented characteristics in comparison to the products currently available on the market. 

Having deep background in organometallic chemistry Nanoxo plans to develop and introduce a range of other materials highly demanded by emerging industries. 

www.nanoxo.eu

Black Pearls VC Partner: Maciej Skórkiewicz

Overview: The company has developed  a speech to text technology-based solutions applicable for call centers and mobile applications. The technology has been developed by Jacek Kawalec – CTO Wirtualna Polska for many years and by Tomasz Szwelnik – a scientist with his academic roots linked with Gdańsk University of Technology. The idea derives from the need of entities operating in the financial market that have multiple problems with security systems. The solution is also commercialised by the Polish Justice System where the solution is to read biometry and verify data correctness.

Co-investor: JEREMIE Seed Capital Województwa Pomorskiego FIZAN

Innovation: Voice biometry – among the other biometric techniques – is viewed as a practical, easy and inexpensive method to implement, since it does not require additional readers or devices.

Stage development and recent news: Some of VoiceLab’s products include VoiceBanking (implemented in MeritumBank, FMBank), VoiceInsurance, VoiceTelekom, VoiceMed, VoiceLegal, VoiceSecurity, VoiceAutomotive, VoiceInDevice and SpeechWare. The company has received  widespread recognition both in Poland an internationally. Recent achievements include the Gold Medal at Inpex fair 2013 in the USA, as well as a Bronze Medal at the Inst 2013 Fair in Taipei.

www.voicelab.pl

Black Pearls VC Partner: Marcin P. Kowalik

Overview: RTCLab is a company that developed the most advanced webinar software, LiveWebinar – an innovative platform with a wide range of customisation options. With LiveWebinar you can run a webinar with one click without installing any software. Join a room and meet face to face with your clients from any location, operating system and device (computers, mobiles, SMART TV’s).

This easy-to-use webinar platform adapts to all existing systems and allows promoting products or services, onboarding new team members, improving sales and team collaboration.

LiveWebinar offers a wide range of customizable features and enables users to broadcast to Facebook, YouTube and Vimeo simultaneously, moderate Live Chat and interact with their audience by using many collaboration tools. The platform also contains a professional recorder, CTA button, interactive whiteboard, share screening, online certification tests, live streaming, room branding and many more features.

LiveWebinar was founded by Christopher Milkowski and Łukasz Kosikowski – developers with over 14 years of experience in managing large IT projects, R&D, software development and audio-video engineering.

Co-investor/Partner: Black Pearls VC is the sole investor.

Innovation: RTCLab developed their own efficient technology enabling audio-video communication between users and event streaming. LiveWebinar is an original enterprise solution that offers a broad range of customizations, which make it unique in the market.

Stage Development/Recent News: Project is currently in a growth stage. RTCLab launched its SaaS solution for B2B sector in April 2019 and currently is expanding to many international markets. Their upcoming goal is to penetrate markets in the United States, Australia and Canada. The company aims to become a recognisable brand in the modern enterprise online communication & collaboration industry.

www.rtclab.com

www.livewebinar.com

Black Pearls VC Partner: Marcin P. Kowalik

Overview: The company has been involved in a project aimed at performing phase III of clinical studies on an increased number of patients, including the monitoring of undesired effects and development of documentation to register a new complex pain killer patented in the USA.

Co-investor/Partners: The project has been based on a consortium established in close cooperation with the Medical University of Warsaw.

Innovation: A unique global pain-killer solution carried out on the basis of a patent.

Stage Development/Recent News: The company has successfully managed to prepare stage III of clinical trials and is currently monitoring this process on a study of around 100 patients  conducted in cooperation with the Medical University of Warsaw.

Black Pearls VC Partner: Maciej Skórkiewicz

Investment supported by the BRIdge Alfa program of the National Center for Research and Development.

Overview: The company has been working on solving the problem of incorrect dosing of medications (compliance problem) which is a major factor contributing to multiple complications and growth of patient treatment costs. Pilot studies carried out by the author of the project – Dr Piotr Merks showed that 21% of patients were not provided with any information on dosing of medications while as many as 52% lost the instructions with therapeutic indications. Dr Merks is an expert known in Poland and abroad, specializing in the field of pharmaceutical care, having gained over 16 years of experience in the worldwide sector (including Australia and Canada). The objective of the company is to launch medical stickers in the form of pictograms to ensure that full benefits from the therapy are obtained and thus patients’ life quality improves.  Additionally, the project is aimed at ensuring better control and improving the effectiveness of fund spending by the National Health Fund.

Co-investor/Partner: The solution was commercialised in cooperation with Synergia – WUM Sp. z o.o., a company owned by the Medical University of Warsaw. Other partners include Medical University of Warsaw and the Dosing Form Technology Division, Faculty of Pharmacy, Ludwik Rydygier Collegium in Bydgoszcz, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń.

Innovation: The graphic signs (pictograms) developed by the company will contribute to the safety and effectiveness of application of medications by patients, in particular in the ‘65+’ age group. The solution is to support improved effectiveness of medication treatment and effective reduction of patient treatment costs – both by the state treatment system and by individuals.

Stage Development/Recent News: After having tested pictograms on his patients, Dr Merks is currently developing the project further. In order to move forward with the validation of the project, Dr Merks has been working with a children’s hospital in Ottawa. Moreover, the project will be assessed by the Polish Ministry of Health at the end of the year within the scope of a potential cooperation. Until now, Piktorex has already gained the patronage of International Pharmaceutical Federation, Royal Pharmaceutical Society and Polish Pharmaceutical Chamber, among others.

www.lekolepki.pl

Black Pearls VC Partner: Maciej Skorkiewicz

Deep.BI measures content consumption metrics to help publishers distribute content across platforms and grow audiences.

www.deep.bi

Black Pearls VC Partner: Marcin P. Kowalik

Solwit, founded by Leszek Pankiewicz – former CEO of Intel Poland and Wojciech Wasiukiewicz, is a software engineering and testing services company that works with clients across various industries. The company was established in 2011 and, in a short period of time, became one of the most important technology companies in Gdansk. We began working with Solwit in break of 2015 and 2016, providing funding for new innovative solutions.

Black Pearls VC Partner: Marcin P. Kowalik

A young and dynamic biotech company focused on a development of science based nutraceuticals.

Black Pearls VC Partner: Maciej Skórkiewicz

Year invested: 2015

Year of exit: 2017

Year of investment: 2014

Year of exit: 2015

www.everytap.pl