Startup Guide Warsaw will be packed with information about the city’s startup scene, including essential tips about starting a business here, founder interviews and exclusive insights from key players. Locals and the wider business community are encouraged to nominate startups, founders, programs, coworking spaces, universities and investors for inclusion through the online form, which closes on June 28, 2021.
Warsaw has a rich history and is Central Europe’s leading economic hub. In recent years, it’s developed a strong startup ecosystem and tech scene, which continues to grow with the support of international tech companies and enthusiastic local programs.
Sissel Hansen, Startup Guide’s founder and CEO says, “We’re thrilled to expand our series of entrepreneurial guidebooks to Warsaw, which has a thriving startup ecosystem and impressive tech scene.”
Startup Guide Warsaw will be created in partnership with Venture Café Warsaw and it is supported by Google for Startups, Santander Bank Polska, InnoEnergy and the City of Warsaw.
Aureliusz Górski, co-founder of CIC Poland and founding executive director at Venture Café Warsaw, says “As Venture Café Warsaw Foundation we lead by sharing tools and resources openly and by creating a platform with solutions that align and amplify the efforts of our community partners. Starting from July 2020, we’ve been focused on empowering the innovation ecosystem in Warsaw. This was the first step to create an organic innovation district and fully inclusive platform for collaboration. This year we are launching the Innovation Visitors Bureau in Warsaw as a part of the Innovation District. Rightfully so, Startup Guide is our dream partner – a very experienced external expert, specialized in searching and publishing unbiased information about the startup ecosystem in the city. Startup Guide Warsaw will be available in key places uniting entrepreneurs, investors, startups and innovators around the world. We believe that it will surge the entrepreneurial movement in Warsaw.”
Michał Kramarz, head of Google for Startups, Central Europe, says “Warsaw mixes cultures and experiences, ambition and creativity. When we saw the site of the former vodka factory in the historic Praga district, we knew it’s the perfect location for our Google for Startups Campus. And since then, we have witnessed the city transforming at a rapid pace, attracting investors and talent from across the world, filling the corridors of Warsaw’s many universities and skyscrapers springing up here. If you are looking for the most dynamic and exciting city to grow startups in Europe, Warsaw is the place to be and Startup Guide Warsaw will help you navigate the community here.”
The book will be released in February 2022.
ABOUT STARTUP GUIDE:
Startup Guide was founded in 2014, when founder and CEO Sissel Hansen moved from Copenhagen to Berlin to start a business and discovered that it was difficult to find useful information about the process. After being rejected by multiple investors, she bootstrapped the project and launched Startup Guide Berlin in 2014 – it sold out in less than 48 hours and is now on its fourth volume. In the years since, it has created guides to more than 40 cities and regions across Europe, Africa, North America, Asia and the Middle East. In autumn 2018, the company launched a media website, startupguide.com, to explore different types of content and reach a wider audience. Startup Guide’s offices are in Lisbon and Copenhagen.
MEDIA CONTACT:
Anna Weissensteiner
anna@startupguide.com
Ewa Geresz
ewa@venturecafewarsaw.org
