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Welcome on board Stefan Krstevski! 🇲🇰 🇭🇷

In the last 18 months of the Founder Wannabes initiative, we’ve hosted lectures and workshops led by experts from many fields crucial for early-stage startups: marketing, sales, hiring, etc. Many of you have expressed a keen interest in one additional topic - securing the first round of funding and better understanding the perspective of an angel investor. That’s exactly why we’re thrilled to announce our next event with our guest, Piotr Romanowski. Piotr is the Chairman of the Supervisory Board at Selvita and Ryvu Therapeutics, and a former partner at McKinsey & Company and PwC. He is an active early-stage investor with approximately 50 deals primarily in fintech and biotech, and a Limited Partner in around 30 funds covering areas such as VC, growth equity, buyouts, infrastructure, secondary markets, and fund-of-funds. He’s also an advisor to VC funds (BlueYard, Expeditions). ➡️ Apply here to secure your spot: https://lnkd.in/d2Yff5X7

Young Operators is organizing a meeting with Rozalia Hologa, VP of Operations Ramp next week. Half of the spots are already taken, but you can still join us if you register now! (link here https://lnkd.in/d4r4VX8P) You can expect to hear about: 1️⃣ A brief introduction to Rozalia’s background before operations 2️⃣ Her first operations role at Jutro Medical 3️⃣ The changing role of operations and the responsibilities/projects she took on from the Seed phase to Series B 4️⃣ What helped her adapt to the ever-shifting needs of the business and much more…

Another edition of Founder Wannabes is here! This time we’re joining forces with our friends from Sigma Squared Society - a community of over 1,000 young and ambitious founders located in over 30 countries. Join us on June 10th to meet fellow (upcoming) founders, operators, and tech people in general. We’ll also have a fire-side chat moderated by Aleksandra A. Reinert, where Wiktoria Wójcik (inStreamly) and Michał Ratajczak (Gridaly) will discuss the highs and lows of founding a business in the early 20s. ➡ Apply here: https://lnkd.in/d2Yff5X7

Over the last 5 months, we have organized 5 meetings with the top Polish startup operators like Tymoteusz Rommel, Chief of Staff @ Surfer, and Karolina Gronek, VP of Operations @ Daftcode. And this is just the beginning! If you are a Founder Associate, Chief of Staff, Product Manager, Growth Marketer, or you work in any other startup position with <5y of experience - this meeting is for you! Follow our newly launched Young Operators page and be the first to know about all future events! Many thanks to my co-organizers: Tomasz Syta & Ilya Mikhalchyk - Kananenka!

If you're working in consumer brands and you haven't seen Quantia AI - you're doing something wrong! Marta is a true force of nature who is ultimately scratching her own itch - after managing consumer brands at P&G, she decided to make the most of the technical progress of recent years and finally build a tool she needed to boost sales and, ultimately, provide better experience for the end customers. If you're not sure if that is for you - Asahi Europe, Groupe SEB, Nespresso, Procter & Gamble are already on board using it so you'd be in a great company :) Happy to join forces on this one with Ariel Finkelstein and #TeamX Last but not least - #femalefoundersrock!!

Zvonimir, Senko and Leon are one of the most resourceful teams I've recently encountered - trying to do a lot with a little, religiously listening to users and trying to balance the fine line between founders' product vision and popular demand. In a few short months, they managed to build one of the most popular (c. 30k ⭐) open-source projects that, while in beta with rough edges, has builders using it daily to build new app with AI. And while we're far away from completely automating the software developers (duh!), building solutions that significantly speeds up and decreases costs of bringing an app idea to life from scratch is both super ambitious and one I personally enjoy. That's why I've decided to back Pythagora (YC W24) in their last funding round, making it Inovo.vc first investment in #Croatia. I'm sure it's going to be the first of many :) --- If you're building an ambitious tech projects, reach out!

We had a great meeting of #YoungOperators last week. Tymoteusz Rommel shared a lot of actionable insights on how to be a good Chief of Staff, and I was surprised by how knowledge-hungry our community is. The next event will be held in June, so stay tuned! Many thanks to my co-organizers: Ilya Mikhalchyk - Kananenka and Tomasz Syta

What kind of VC would we be if we did not use technology ourselves? 😏 👇

Another exciting opportunity at Zowie! Oliwer and I are looking for a Founders Associate. This role offers a fantastic opportunity to be at the heart of a rapidly growing enterprise AI startup. As a Founders Associate, you'll dive into special projects that cover everything from Go-To-Market strategies and operations to data, finance, and HR. We're seeking someone who's hard-working, ambitious, and endlessly curious. To my incredible network: You did an amazing job helping me find the one and only Oliwer Golinski. Now, we need your help again! Please share, like, comment, and send this opportunity to the right people. Thank youuu!