SMOK Ventures

Our partner Borys Musielak is warning founders not to take money from unverified investors.

"Always due diligence your potential investors just like they due diligence founders".

Watch the whole Forsal.pl interview (in Polish):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1rGJcm5eMo

FOUNDER vs INWESTOR – kto wygrywa? Jak to jest być founderem i inwestorem? 🔥W tym odcinku – Obiektywnie o Biznesie na Forsal.pl Szymon Glonek, rozmawia z Borysem Musielakiem z Smok Ventures o...

Our portfolio company Proteine Resources secures €9.5M EUR in funding for its autonomous factories of beef replacement protein.

We don't always do deep tech but when we do it's quite epic!

Congrats Bart Roszkowski & Konrad Włodarczyk!

Polish Proteine Resources Secures €9.5M in EU EIC Accelerator Funding Polish biotech startup Proteine Resources has raised €9.5 million in blended funding from the EU EIC Accelerator program, making it one of 40 companies

New investment alert!

We're happy to announce we've joined the seed round of Defguard, a Wireguard-based open-source zero-trust enterprise VPN with 100% European tech.

As geo-politics is getting crazy, technology is now more national than ever. Transparency and openness are becoming crucial for enterprises to choose their cybersecurity solutions.

Robert Olejnik and Michal Gryczka have transformed teonite into a product company 100% focused on building Defguard and we're super happy to be a small part of their journey, together with Hard2beat (Maciej Zawadzinski), S20 (Marcin Fejfer) and amazing business angels Łukasz Jesis, Tomasz Karwatka, Piotr Karwatka & Maurycy Prodeus.