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Imaguru Lost Its Minsk Hub. Its Startup Community Kept Going.
Forced out of its Minsk home, Imaguru rebuilt across borders. Today, its mix of desks, mentors and investor introductions helps founders turn technical talent into a business that can travel.
StartSmart CEE and the art of landing a corporate customer
The Warsaw accelerator helps technology startups get into the room with big companies, test their products and keep their equity. The revealing part is what happens when the first introduction goes wrong.
Survicate
Survey and listen to your customers across every channel, automatically identify key themes, and rally teams around feedback - all in Survicate's platform.
Natalia Panowicz
Natalia Panowicz is the CEO and co-founder of Codility, a technical assessment platform used by enterprise engineering teams to evaluate developers. Trained as a psychologist, she joined Codility in 2012 as a business developer, became COO in 2014, and stepped into the CEO seat in July 2019. She has helped grow the company past 140 employees across Warsaw, London, Berlin and San Francisco, and led the raise of a $22M Series A in 2020.
Wiedza i Praktyka (WIP)
Wiedza i Praktyka (WIP) is one of Poland's largest providers of specialist professional information. Founded in Warsaw in 1997, it equips accountants, HR and payroll specialists, occupational-safety officers, healthcare managers, educators, lawyers and public administrators with the practical, up-to-date guidance they need to apply constantly changing regulations. WIP blends print and e-letters, industry web portals, software tools, expert helplines, and the Educado online learning platform, plus open and in-house training through Akademia Wiedza i Praktyka. Since August 2025 it has been wholly owned by Germany's VNR Group.
Paweł Huryn
Paweł Huryn is a Warsaw-based product management expert, creator of The Product Compass - a Substack newsletter with 133,000+ subscribers ranked #1 in product management worldwide by Favikon. A former software developer turned CPO turned full-time educator, he brings 15+ years of hands-on product experience to weekly deep-dives on AI product management, strategy, and discovery. His philosophy: build it first, test it, then teach it.