PROFOUND
VENTURES

Sky is the limit

Who we are?

We are looking for new innovative projects in ICT sector, mainly software and services for enterprises, innovative applications, mobile and net services.

Our portfolio

Our portfolio companies and start-ups are operating mainly in technology innovation sector. Tomorrow is now.

Profast

ProFast program for innovative startups with high growth potential. Have a closer look at our startups.

About us

Profound Ventures is a venture capital fund which invests mainly in early stage companies from the widely understood ICT field. The fund is also interested in projects from life and biosciences, renewable energy as well as the physicochemical technology and solutions.

Profound Ventures runs a business incubator – 3-months mentoring program for promising start-ups. The mentors offer assistance in writing business plans, market analysis, starting a company. The best projects receive investments and permanent guidance from our international team of mentors.

EU project

Profound Ventures is a beneficiary of a Project “Initiating innovative undertakings with global potential in ICT areas” financed by the European Union from the European Regional Development Fund within the frames of the Innovative Economy Operational Programme, Priority Axis 3. Capital for innovation, Measure 3.1 Initiating of innovative activity.


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Project application

To apply send us your project details at: info@profoundventures.com.pl.

Team

Piotr Sienkiewicz

Education: University of the West Indies, Faculty of Natural Sciences
Uniwersity of Warsaw – MSc. in Physics
Executive MBA z WEMBA Uniwersity of Minnessota and SGH

Piotr Sienkiewicz is cofounder of MSP, first commercial software distributor in Poland (responsible for finance management, marketing, logistics, investment coordination). Piotr also cofounded, with tech guru Esther Dyson among others, Polands first Internet provider and Internet application developer, Polska OnLine. Piotr has also been an investor in the polish Blue Laser, a world class technology for producing quality solid state, GaN based blue light emitting lasers for a broad range of applications.

Awards: INFOSTAR Man of the Year in category Business – Info Star ’93 award of the Polish Informatics Society, for Outstanding Business Achievements

Waldemar Sielski

Education: Uniwersity of Warsaw – MSc. in mathematics
Postgraduate studies at Studium Handlu Zagranicznego, SGPiS

Professional experience in UNIDO (United Nations Industrial Development Organization) and Olivetti. General Director in Microsoft Sp. z o.o.- created Microsoft Corporation Polish office. Former Vice-Chairman of The Program Committee at 3rd Polish Information Congress. Member of management boards of: Multis Sp. z o.o., Gruper Sp. z o.o., Suntech S.A., Sport Medica S.A.

Awards: INFOSTAR ’99 in category Business – award of the Polish Informatics Society, for Outstanding Business Achievements

Jan Kukliński

Ph.D in Teoretical Phisics at Polish Academy of Science

Currently lectures at l’Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales de l’Universite de Lausanne, Switzerland.
Co-founder and CEO of OPTIX Tech Inc. (USA), Partner in ventures capital fund QMT. From year 2006 to year 2011 cooperating with SunTrust RH Capital Markets, Minuteman Quantitative Consulting LLC, Reech AIM Suisse (Volcano Hedge Fund) and Lexington Quantitative Services Inc.

Currently at CRISIL Global Research and Analytics, London Office.