http://idcee.org/p/aleksander-mokrecki/ Aleksander is responsible for digging deeply into business model of every innovative project. Graduated from the Warsaw School of Economics in Management and International Relations, he gained his business experience as entrepreneur running number of innovative projects, and also as an employee of international auditing company Ernst&Young. He built his experience in business investments working as a financial analyst in Black Lion. Aleksander was born in Ukraine and he penetrates Polish as well as Ukrainian network of entrepreneurs. He speaks Polish, Ukrainian, Russian and English. In his free time Aleksander travels to interesting places, enjoys hiking in the mountains and reads a lot. Pic's are here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/idcee/sets/ More @ http://idcee.org Follow us on: YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/OfficialIDCEEChannel Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/IDCEE Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/groups/IDCEE-3940138 Twitter: https://twitter.com/idcee_eu Google+: http://gplus.to/idcee Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/idcee/collections/

1. Polish experience in developing startup environment
Aleksander Mokrecki,
StartUpHub Poland
aleksander.mokrecki@startuphub.pl
10.10.2014, IDCEE, Kiev
or
Why We decided to establish Startup Hub for
CEE region?

2. Enigma
• Enigma was a competitive
advantage of Abwehra during
the WWII
• The code of Enigma was
cracked by Polish scientists…
•… but it was „commercialized”
in Britain

3. Blue - Ray
• Studies on GaN based laser
were successsfully conducted in
Warsaw, Poland, but …
•… the blue-ray technology was
commercialized in Japan
• The Japanese concentrated on
less costly method,
• while scientists in Poland were
performing sophisticated trials.

4. They didn’t know that they had to make a
Startup… 

5. …but how many innovations have been wasted
because of lack of support?

6. Key issues
•How to build innovative economy?
•How to develop innovative
technologies?
•How to support innovative startup
environment in Poland?

7. Supporting of
disruptive innovations
• Grafen – the future of
electronics, material to replace
silicon
• Coal gazification
• Perovskite - production of low-cost
photovoltaic cells

8. Supporting of
startups:
• EU funds for innovations:
• Grants for e-business up to €
200K
• Grants for VC: seed
investments up to € 200K
• National Capital Fund – fund of
funds, investment up to € 1,5M
• The National Centre for
Research and Development -
grants for research and
developing technology

9. New technologies
emerge
• iBeacons – the revolution
started by Estimote as a result
of simple idea
• IVONA software – text to
speech technology. The
company was bougth by
Amazon
• Audioteka –audiobook selling
platform
• Fast international expantion of
SaaS tools:
• LiveChat
• BaseCRM
• Brand24

10. Problem with comercialisation
of scientific research
•Building links between
different worlds of Business
and Science
•Scientists cannot understand
Business
•Business doesn’t want to to
finance projects on initial
phase of trials
•Problems with university spin-offs
and their valuation

11. Nano Velos
• Comertialisation of the research
• Warsaw Technical University
spin-off
• Investment of Giza Polish
Ventures
• Developing unique drug delivery
system

12. Why we believe in creating Startup Hub
for CEE region?

13. Our asumptions
• We believe that Universities in
region of Central and Eastern
Europe could unveil many
disruptive technologies
• We believe that statups from
CEE could start another
technological revolution
•They just need our support

14. Our strenths
• We base on experience and
network of contacts of Giza
Polish Ventures - Polish-Israeli
Venture Capital Fund
• We succesfuly created the
NanoVelos spin-off
• We have experience in
developing global startups
• Our partners are experienced
entrepeneurs

15. The mission of
StartUpHub Poland
• To create an entrepreneurial
Hub for Central-Eastern Europe
innovators
• To commercialize research and
support R&D on initial stage
• To help innovators build
prototypes and finance
development of the technology
• To help with starting the
company in the EU

16. What StartUpHub
Poland offer
• Conducting research in EU
• Poland: good located & fastes
devoloping market!
• Pre-incubation support from fund:
up to € 50K!
• Far bigger seed capital follows: up
to € 350K!
• Global investors know-how &
finantial support from our partners
• Access to European science
infrastructure

18. Investment focus
• clean-tech,
• nano-tech,
• bio-tech,
• new materials,
• robotics
• ICT and software applications
• Internet & web technologies

19. Questions ???

20. Thank you for your attention!
Aleksander Mokrecki,
StartUpHub Poland
aleksander.mokrecki@startuphub.pl