SMOK Team

Physics graduate. ReaktorX co-founder. Community leader of the Polish startup scene. Ambassador of Startup Poland. Named CESA Female Role Model of the Year, Strong Woman in IT, Forbes 30 Under 30.

Industries: game development, edutech

Led deals in Exit Plan Games, Madcore, Frying Jelly and two more game studios in stealth mode.

Contact: diana@smok.vc

Engineer and entrepreneur. Product guy. Sold his previous startup Filmaster to Samba TV in 2015 to build the company’s thriving European business. Co-founded Poland’s first coworking space for startups, Reaktor, first private acceleration program, ReaktorX, and the biggest tech think tank, Startup Poland.

Industries: software development tools, artificial technology

Led deals in: Authologic, Vue Storefront, Hipets, inStreamly, SLS

Contact: borys@smok.vc

Entrepreneur turned investor. He’s advised or invested in the seed rounds of 200+ companies which includes holdings in billion dollar companies Uber, Niantic (Pokemon Go), Stripe, Unity & Zappos. Paul has founded and oversees 6 funds with over $ 400m under management across 4 continents.

Headquartered in SF as managing partner of Bragiel Brothers, an early stage fund with over 30 investments at pre-seed and seed. Previously he was angel investor of 25 companies and partner at i / o ventures.

Ukrainian insider and entrepreneur.

Managing Partner at BRISE Capital, CEE-aimed family office. Co-founder and Head of Board at Ukrainian Tech Ecosystem Union. Previously, he had strong corporate experience as Chief Digital Officer at Dentsu Ukraine and Chief Operating Officer at RBC. Honored with awards Founders’ Choice and Ecosystem Builder of the year 2021.

Interested in: pre-seed startups from Ukraine and the Baltic states

Led deals in: Workee, Finmap

Contact: sasha@smok.vc

AI researcher, startups and VC investment expert. Research and Teaching Fellow at Kozminski University, teaching classes on: business planning, venture capital and new product development. Previously investment manager at hub:raum.

Interested in: artificial intelligence, deeptech

Led deals in: Bitskout, Gitgut

Contact: konrad@smok.vc

Economics graduate. Business and investing enthusiast. Stock market expert – founder of the Solid Portfolio newsletter dedicated to Polish individual investors. Early employee of the Polish scale-up Talkin’ Things where was responsible for business and financial area. Alumnus of the Lesław A. Paga Foundation.

Interested in: fintech, proptech, game development

Contact: tomasz.koscielniak@smok.vc

Cost and cash flow management specialist. 

Expert at Guarana Biznes. Has helped many innovative companies to raise EU funding for Research & Development projects and to master their profitability.  

Specialist in front-end and WP development. 

With HTML, CSS, JavaScript and PHP, worked on over 200 projects from the USA to Bangladesh. Co-founder and CTO of two startups. Knowledge in business, design, finance, crowdfunding, and presentation.