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| 13.04.2022 | Neptune.ai raises 32 mln PLN in Series A for its “Github for machine learning ” platform |
Neptune.ai – the “Github for machine learning” platform helping engineers train machine learning models faster and more efficiently – has raised $8M in Series A funding. The round was led by global VC firm Almaz Capital, with participatio... |
| 20.01.2022 | TDJ Pitango Ventures' First Exit | A 17 million PLN funding round made us the lead investor in the CallPage startup – a Krakow based company which allowed users to monitor customer behaviors on their websites, allowing contact with clients to be made within 28 seconds. CallP... |
| 24.11.2021 | Tylko’s team of experts continues to expand with three new key hires for the departments of Product, Brand and Growth | Following the announcement of a Series C investment round in spring 2021, technology led furniture brand Tylko is taking the next step to further their expansion and international growth. Three senior talents have recently joined Tylko as l... |
| 13.09.2021 | GGPredict has ended round of investment fundraising, securing USD 1 million in new funding. | GGPredict has created an analytical-training platform for gamers taking part in Counter-Strike matches. This tool allows e-players to develop by helping the understand their gaming performance and effectively train under the watchful eye of... |
| 12.07.2021 | Behind the scenes #16 | Portfolio monitoring
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We recently talked about the investment process and why you have to meet with us so often and make so much contact before we arrive at a decision as to whether the time is right for us to start working together. Let us fir... |
| 30.06.2021 | Behind the scenes #15 | Why do we contact startups numerous times?
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A founder approaches a VC, who arranges a meeting… then another and another and still they keep asking for more data. Sounds familiar? Are we causing you frustrating?
Welcome, dear founders, behind the scenes so that you ... |
| 10.06.2021 | Behind the scenes #14 | Can founders be replaced as CEOs?
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An Arab proverb suggests the greatest wisdom comes from knowing oneself, and though this may sounds like a hollow truism, in the world of business it makes perfect sense – especially when we think about our role in a start... |
| 28.05.2021 | Behind the scenes #13 | What returns are funds after?
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How do soccer teams become successful? All those who are familiar with the world of competitive sports will know that what fans see on the pitch is the outcome of endless training sessions, strategies designed by coaches a... |
| 14.05.2021 | Behind the scenes #12 | VC is not for everybody
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Today we wish to shed some light on the matter of choice and certain expectations. As you probably know, there are many paths you can choose in order to secure funding for your startup. But should this path always lead to ... |
| 29.04.2021 | Behind the scenes #11 | Smoke and mirrors
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Obsessions can be cute, like millions of unicorns being painted by little girls all over the world 😉 And yet they most often lead to destruction which can be difficult to undo. The search for perfection is a unique sort of... |
| 15.04.2021 | Behind the scenes #10 | Done is better than perfect
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Obsessions can be cute, like millions of unicorns being painted by little girls all over the world 😉 And yet they most often lead to destruction which can be difficult to undo. The search for perfection is a unique sort of... |
| 01.04.2021 | Behind the scenes #9 | Due diligence on VC funds | cześć
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In order to run a marathon, it is not enough to lace up a pair of sneakers and grab a bottle of water. You must learn a great deal and train a great deal more if you want to make it to the finishing line – plus, you need s... |
| 23.03.2021 | Tylko raises €22 million in Series C as part of its commitment to set new standards in the furniture industry | Tylko, the Polish digital-first furniture company, announced the close of a €22 million Series C round of funding led by Israel-based Pitango Ventures and Finnish Evli Growth Partners. Since its creation in 2015, Tylko has served almost 60,... |
| 18.03.2021 | Vocaly and SmartDust win the TDJ Pitango Seed Competition 2 |
Wojciech Fedorowicz
, managing partner at TDJ Pitango Ventures and one of the TDJ Pitango Seed Competition 2 jurors stressed: “
All five finalist startups made a great impression on our jury. The battle for gold was very evenly waged, w... |
| 26.02.2021 | Behind the scenes #7 | How to plan your financial needs
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Have you ever wondered how much time rowing teams need to synchronise their movements? Or how one team member can affect all the others? And at what point they have the greatest chance of winning races and cups?
We are no... |
| 18.02.2021 | Behind the scenes #8 | Don't let a negative response put you off
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How are you doing? In today’s “Behind the scenes” we would like to say a little about the red cards referees handed out to you during the recent matches. We cannot tell you what all VCs are driven by, but we are keen to sh... |
| 11.02.2021 | Behind the scenes #6 | 6 tips for seed-stage pitch decks
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Let us ask you a question to start with: do you think it is worth taking part in competitions at an early stage of a start-up’s development? We think so, but… you must carefully choose the places to apply to and, what is m... |
| 29.01.2021 | Behind the scenes #5 | Leverage teamwork
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Have you ever wondered how much time rowing teams need to synchronise their movements? Or how one team member can affect all the others? And at what point they have the greatest chance of winning races and cups?
We are no... |
| 25.01.2021 | TDJ Pitango Ventures launches the second edition of its Competition for seeds and pre-seed startups |
TDJ Pitango Ventures in cooperation with the Israeli Pitango VC fund, Google for Startups, NCBR, Startup Poland Foundation and TDJ will revisit the Polish startup scene to identify the most promising seed and pre-seed technology startups.... |
| 14.01.2021 | Behind the scenes #4 | Be ready to take on great ideas
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How’s it going? Are you getting ready to meet a VC? That’s great, because we have prepared a small tip for you, taken straight from our own “backstage bible”. We hope our advice has helped you develop the best possible rel... |
| 07.01.2021 | Behind the scenes #3 | Why is the fund's lifecycle so important?
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Just as each year has its seasons, VCs also work in accordance with certain cycles. The more you understand this, the easier it will be for you to plan the process of fundraising without wasting your time on contacting tho... |
| 17.12.2020 | Behind the scenes #2 | Greed is shortsighted
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If you’ve just entered the ring and are about to start your first (or maybe a new) round of financing, you’ve come to the right place. We will take you behind the Venture Capital scenes, revealing how we think the process ... |
| 07.12.2020 | Behind the scenes #1 | Team comes first!
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Welcome to the first edition of Behind The Scenes, the biweekly newsletter we are launching in order to have a serious conversation about VC markets. We will use it to explain how we make decisions, what matters most as we... |
| 22.09.2020 | Cosmose AI Expands Connected Retail Technology to Southeast Asia through Partnership with ADA, Part of Axiata Group |
Cosmose AI
(“Cosmose” or “the Company”), the platform that predicts and influences how 1 billion people shop offline, today announces a strategic partnership with
ADA
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| 01.09.2020 | Cosmose gets $15 million Series A investment round | The Series A round was led by institutional capital from Tiga Investments, OTB Ventures and TDJ Pitango, supported by a number of ultra-high net worth individuals in Asia.
Founded in 2014, Cosmose harnesses anonymous mobile user IDs and hi... |
| 27.07.2020 | StethoMe® has increased chances for a transformation in telemedicine by $2.5 million |
The StethoMe® team has developed a system that features an electric stethoscope, specially designed application and AI-based algorithms. This solution allows for remote examination of the lungs and heart and also delivers an AI-based anal... |
| 06.03.2020 | Stethome and Syntoil - Products of the Future! | The 22nd edition of the “Polish Product of the Future” competition has selected innovative projects in the field of medicine, chemistry, electronics and biotechnology. Out of the 96 applications, the work of the 2 startups from our portfoli... |
| 07.02.2020 | The IF Design Award 2020 goes to Stethome! | IF Design Award is one of the most prestigious design prize in the world . To receive this distinction, a product must not only have outstanding design, but also it needs to be well constructed and developed with upmost care for customer ex... |
| 31.01.2020 | Our portfolio company snags $3 milion! |
The round is led by btov Partner’s Digital Tech Fund and Private Investor Network along with TDJ Pitango, Rheingau Founders and private angels, well-known data science experts including Marek Cygan, Grzegorz Świrszcz and Mateusz Malinowsk... |
| 16.01.2020 | Stethome once more recognized by Forbes! | In Autumn last year, Forbes published story concentrated on Polish startup which has developed intelligent stethoscope. This year greeted us with even greater notability, Stethome got once again Acknowledge by Forbes in article dedicated to... |
| 24.05.2019 | TDJ Pitango among the leading VC funds in Poland according to the Startup Poland report | However, it still predominantly depends on public funding, since as seen in The Golden Book of Venture Capital in Poland 2019 report, in the last decade as many as 81% of venture financing rounds were implemented with the support of state f... |
| 18.04.2019 | Check out the results of the TDJ Pitango Seed Competition! | The jury, which also included Eyal Niv, managing partner of Pitango, Daniel Star, managing partner of TDJ Pitango Ventures, Julia K Szopa and Michał Kramarz Head of Startups, Export & Entrepreneurship Development in Google, decided to a... |
| 13.02.2019 | Even up to 1 million PLN for each of the best startups. The TDJ Pitango Seed Competition starts. | Even up to 1 million PLN for each of the companies selected during the TDJ Pitango Seed Competition. The TDJ Pitango Ventures, a Polish-Israeli VC fund, wants to find the best, innovative teams and technologies on the Polish startup scene, ... |
| 23.01.2019 | TDJ Pitango Ventures invests 15 million PLN in Polish Tylko | “
Tylko
is not only a new brand of bespoke furniture. We are creating a new category on the market,”
describe themselves the creators of Tylko – the company that sells furniture to 28 countries. This means thousands of shelves ordered ea... |
| 18.09.2018 | 1.7 million USD for neptune.ml | TDJ Pitango Ventures has invested 1.7 million USD in Neptune, which intends to accelerate the development of artificial intelligence as GitHub accelerated the development of software 10 years ago.
Neptune.ml is a platform created for data ... |
| 20.07.2018 | CallPage, the worldwide callback system, raises $4 million from TDJ Pitango Ventures, Innovation Nest and Market One Capital. | CallPage, a Poland-based system enabling direct contact with a potential client within 28 seconds, raises series A funding from TDJ Pitango Ventures, Innovation Nest, and Market One Capital. This is the next investment into the company, fou... |
| 28.05.2018 | How to invest in innovation? | The Infoshare conference is the ideal meeting place for enthusiasts of new technologies, experts and professionals, who use technology in their professional life, owners and employees of IT companies related to the e-commerce and financial ... |
| 12.04.2018 | TDJ Pitango Ventures at Wolves Summit | “We are pleased that more and more entrepreneurs are considering the global scale of their business from the very beginning when planning their development. This is one of the basic conditions for really great success. Our role as an invest... |
| 21.12.2017 | The first investment of TDJ Pitango Ventures | StethoMe is an intelligent medical device that allows to control the health status of the lungs and heart at home. The electronic, wireless stethoscope coupled with a contactless thermometer cooperates with a smartphone, which, thanks to it... |
| 19.10.2017 | Start Ups – Israeli Experience Cooperation Opportunities Conference | According to a Startup Poland study, 84% of startup owners are under 40 years old and 89% have higher education. This means that young, educated people are the future of the startup ecosystem in Poland. This could be observed at the Start U... |
| 13.10.2017 | Wolves Summit – How to use the differences wisely? | Poland is at the outset of its journey when it comes to creating a startup ecosystem. When comparing the Polish environment to the Israeli one many similarities can be noted, but there is also a certain fundamental difference.
At first sig... |
| 12.10.2017 | Wojciech Fedorowicz about 3rd European Cyber Security Forum | Security takes on a new meaning in view of the Internet of Things (IoT). During the workshops that took place within the CYBERSEC conference in Kraków one could observe how a security specialist is able – in a simple and quick manner (in a ... |
| 28.09.2017 | Wojciech Fedorowicz as a speaker during CYBERSEC 2017 | Wojciech Fedorowicz, the managing partner of TDJ Pitango Ventures, will be one of the speakers at the 3
rd
European Cybersecurity Forum – CYBERSEC. He will participate in the panel entitled ,,CEE AS A FIELD OF INVESTMENTS. HOW TO ATTRACT ... |
| 01.06.2017 | New fund on the market: TDJ Pitango Ventures |
Business experience of Polish private investment firm TDJ and 25 years of investing in hi-tech projects of the Israeli Pitango Fund are behind it. The launch of the fund is the result of the Bridge VC initiative of the National Center f... |