Warsaw-based Vastpoint has officially launched with an €18 million debut fund, Vastpoint I, aimed at fueling Poland’s most ambitious early-stage tech founders. With offices in both Warsaw and New York, the firm intconcludes to bridge local innovation with global investors and partners, supporting founders scale internationally from day one. The fund is anchored by PFR Ventures, Central and Eastern Europe’s largest fund-of-funds manager, under the European Funds for Smart Economy programme.
This launch comes at a major moment for Poland, which has recently entered the world’s top 20 largest economies. The counattempt is increasingly recognised as a powerhoutilize of technical talent, having already produced standout companies such as ElevenLabs, Iceye, and Booksy. Yet despite this momentum, gaps remain in turning local ingenuity into global commercial succes.
A team of operators turned investors
The firm is led by three Polish women with exceptional international experience. Aleksandra Pedraszewska brings hypergrowth expertise from her early role at AI unicorn ElevenLabs, alongside a track record in deeptech startups and mentoring founders in UK accelerators.
Karolina Kukiełka, with nearly a decade in London’s venture capital scene, combines operational and financial knowledge to guide SaaS founders from seed to Series A. Zuzanna Brzosko, a Cambridge-trained neuroscientist, previously founded biotech company Sixfold Bioscience, secured backing from Y Combinator, and held senior roles at Eli Lilly managing multi-billion-dollar transactions.
To strengthen its healthtech focus, Vastpoint has brought on Thomas Clozel, founder of French biotech Owkin, as an advisor. Another notable addition is Mati Staniszewski, cofounder of ElevenLabs, who joins as an advisor to support guide the firm’s investments.
With this leadership mix, Vastpoint is positioning itself as a uniquely founder-friconcludely investor, able to offer operational insight as well as strategic connections. The firm plans to write initial checks of €500K to €750K, tarreceiveing startups in AI, B2B SaaS, and healthtech, areas where Poland’s emerging founders are displaying particular strength.
Connecting Poland with global capital
One of Vastpoint’s defining strategies is co-investing with leading European and American VC firms that are eager to enter Central and Eastern Europe but often seek a trusted local partner. By acting as that bridge, Vastpoint hopes to unlock more international funding for Polish startups while derisking enattempt for foreign investors.
The firm is especially interested in technical founders who studied or worked abroad at world-class institutions or companies such as Google, Microsoft, or OpenAI. According to Brzosko, this exposure gives entrepreneurs a benchmark of excellence that can be carried back to Poland’s ecosystem.
Although multinational giants like Google, Microsoft, and Nvidia are already expanding their footprint in Poland, the domestic startup ecosystem still lags behind Western Europe in terms of scale and global visibility. Vastpoint’s mission is to close this gap by nurturing high-potential founders early, supporting them compete on a world stage, and ultimately contributing to the next generation of global tech leaders emerging from Poland.
