Many team members at Unicorn Nest are Ukrainians affected by Russian aggression. We do our best to solve any issues and answer your questions in the shortest possible time frames but some delays are possible.

Innovation Nest

Founders Marek Kapturkiewicz Piotr Wilam

Overview

Investments

Unlock datapoints

Portfolio analytics

Team

News & Media

Add fund to favorites
info
Save this fund for later to form your own custom list of funds
This summary is composed by our algorithm based on the analysis of the deals. If you think that some of this information is not accurate, please let us know about it and provide any supporting evidences if possible. Such cases will be analyzed by our ML-algorithm and implemented in our database, which will improve this summary.

Need help with fundraising?

We offer an assisted fundraising option for startups

Learn more
Total investments 76
Average round size
info
The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$2M
Portfolio companies 55
Rounds per year 5.43
Lead investments 7
Follow on index
info
How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.28
Exits 3
Key employees 6
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • SaaS
  • Information Technology
  • Internet of Things
  • Advertising
Summary

Innovation Nest is the famous VC, which was founded in 2010. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Kraku00f3w. The venture was found in Europe in Poland.

The current fund was established by Marek Kapturkiewicz, Piotr Wilam. We also calculated 6 valuable employees in our database.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 participants. Despite the Innovation Nest, startups are often financed by New Europe Ventures, LLC, Digital Garage, Caixa Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Caixa Capital, Ridge Ventures (Formerly known as IDG Ventures USA), Rafau0142 Sonik. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by EASME - EU Executive Agency for SMEs, Ridge Ventures (Formerly known as IDG Ventures USA), Mansour Salame.

The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Infermedica, Growbots, HCM Deck. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - Poland. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Mobile, Software.

When the investment is from Innovation Nest the average startup value is 1-5 millions dollars. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 4 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. The high activity for fund was in 2013. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars.

Read more

Related Funds

Funds investing in previous rounds
These funds often invest in the rounds preceeding the rounds of Innovation Nest:
Typical Co-investors
Innovation Nest is more likely to invest in rounds together with the following funds:
Funds investing in following rounds
These funds have a tendency to invest in the following rounds after Innovation Nest:

Funds with similar focus

Funds from Poland
Funds with similar focus located in Poland:
Funds with the same geo focus
Funds with similar geography of portfolio companies:
Funds doing lead investments
Funds with similar focus acting as lead investors:

Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

AI Clearing

Construction
$14M02 Oct 2023 Austin, Texas, United States

Kenjo

Human Resources
Predictive Analytics
Software
$10M17 Sep 2023 Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Antavo Loyalty Management Platform

Apps
E-Commerce
E-Commerce Platforms
Loyalty Programs
SaaS
Software
$11M09 Nov 2022 London, England, United Kingdom

Autenti

Information Services
Information Technology
Internet
Software
$10M13 Sep 2022 Poznań, Greater Poland Voivodeship, Poland

Meisterwerk

Small and Medium Businesses
$2M02 May 2022 Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Enso.org

Computer
Software
$16M19 Apr 2022 San Francisco, California, United States

Welii

SaaS
Software
$615K18 Jan 2022 -

Infraspeak

Communication Hardware
Information Technology
Software
$6M06 Dec 2021 Portugal, Portugal

Cardiomatics

Artificial Intelligence
Health Care
$2M20 Aug 2021 Krakow, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Poland
News
Cardiomatics bags $3.2M for its ECG-reading AI

– Cardiomatics, a Poland-based health tech AI startup, raised $3.2m seed funding.
– The round was led by Central and Eastern European VC Kaya, with Nina Capital, Nova Capital and Innovation Nest also participating.
– The seed raise also includes a $1m non-equity grant from the Polish National Centre of Research and Development.
– The startup sells a cloud tool to speed up diagnosis and drive efficiency for cardiologists, clinicians and other healthcare professionals to interpret ECGs — automating the detection and analysis of some 20 heart abnormalities and disorders with the software generating reports on scans in minutes, faster than a trained human specialist would be able to work.

Review

  • No reviews are submitted yet.
Do you want more?
We provide dozens of additional datapoints about this fund.
Sign up and get access to full fund profile and advanced analysis.
Full team
Industries heatmap
Stages heatmap
Georgaphy breakdown
Coinvestors
Portfolio analysis
Performance indexes
Latest highlights
Unlock all data
Do you represent Innovation Nest?
Get access to manage this page
Get in touch
Found incorrect info? Let us know!
Total investments 76
Average round size 2M
Rounds per year 5.43
Peak activity year 2013
Lead investments 7
Follow on index 0.28
Exits 3
Group Appearance index 0.54

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

AI Clearing

Construction
$14M02 Oct 2023 Austin, Texas, United States

Kenjo

Human Resources
Predictive Analytics
Software
$10M17 Sep 2023 Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Antavo Loyalty Management Platform

Apps
E-Commerce
E-Commerce Platforms
Loyalty Programs
SaaS
Software
$11M09 Nov 2022 London, England, United Kingdom

Autenti

Information Services
Information Technology
Internet
Software
$10M13 Sep 2022 Poznań, Greater Poland Voivodeship, Poland

Meisterwerk

Small and Medium Businesses
$2M02 May 2022 Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Enso.org

Computer
Software
$16M19 Apr 2022 San Francisco, California, United States

Welii

SaaS
Software
$615K18 Jan 2022 -

Infraspeak

Communication Hardware
Information Technology
Software
$6M06 Dec 2021 Portugal, Portugal

Cardiomatics

Artificial Intelligence
Health Care
$2M20 Aug 2021 Krakow, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Poland
Crunchbase icon

Content report

The following text will be sent to our editors: