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PRE-SEED

pre-seed round

The earliest funding round, typically 50–500 thousand PLN. Funds come from the founders themselves, family, friends, or angel investors — before any institutional venture capital.

Why it matters

Funds the prototype and the first test of the idea in the market — the stage where there’s nothing to show to institutional investors yet.

What's missing without it

Without this round, most ideas never go beyond a presentation — there’s nothing to build even a working prototype from.

When it is used

When you have a team and an idea, but no product or revenue yet.

How we use it

An angel invests 200 thousand PLN for a 10% stake, most often via SAFE with a valuation cap of 5 million PLN.

Fun fact

In English, it’s called 'friends, family and fools' — the three groups that provide funding before there’s anything tangible to evaluate.

Numbers worth knowing

Startups in data

470 000 000 000

IDC Worldwide AI and Generative AI Spending Guide 2026 V2 prognozuje, że europejskie wydatki na AI osiągną blisko 470 mld dolarów do 2030 roku

IDC09/2026Europe

470 000 000 000

Prognozowane całkowite wydatki na AI w Europie w 2030 roku według IDC Worldwide AI and Generative AI Spending Guide 2026 V2

IDC09/2026Europe

26%

Prognozowany udział w pełni elektrycznych pojazdów (BEV, bez hybryd) w europejskim parku samochodowym do 2035 roku, w porównaniu z 4% w 2025 r.

BCG2035Europe

Figures from the same field — collected in our market data base.

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