5th Annual

Central European tech Start-ups 2019

Connecting capital with innovation

A unique opportunity to meet the most aspiring tech start-ups from
the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia.

1st October 2019

PWC London

4 Countries

20 Start-ups

5th Year

10 Sectors

Central European Start-ups Day

1st October in London2019

Keynote speaker

Ronald Hendrikx

Partner

Bird & Bird – international law firm

Ronald is the joint head of Bird & Bird’s global technology practice, leads their London commercial group and specialises in IT and communications projects where he supports clients in the public and private sector with their innovation projects.

Ronald is particularly interested in the adoption of connectivity to invent, improve and transform products, businesses and our cities for example.

He currently supports a number of clients with their procurement/development of connected technology solutions such as the establishment of IoT platforms, the adoption of connectivity by a number of industries (especially the energy sector, automotive and aviation) and the development of new business models around the data that is being created as a result of all those newly connected devices and services.

Before he joined Bird & Bird in London Ronald qualified as a lawyer in the Netherlands and whilst he no longer practices Dutch law, he continues to regularly work in the Netherlands and spends a lot of time working with his colleagues internationally to help clients with their cross-border technology projects.

Presenting Start-ups

ImpromptMe

Event industry

Country: Czech Republic

Sector: Event industry

Our products and services: All-in-one event platform (including high-end event app for attendees) for professional conference organizers empowering both organizers and attendees.

What makes us unique: What makes us unique: We believe that everything begins with a handshake. We also believe that high-quality services should be provided to all organizers (not just to the biggest and richest) who wish to simplify their life & to deliver long-lasting value to their attendees in the form of invaluable personal connections made at these events.

We are looking for: Clients, Partners

Clients / References: Forbes CZ, Dex Innovation centre, FutureNow Conference

Key team: Andrea Knopova, Martin Kolesar, Lucia Kolesarova, Vojtech Madr, Stepan Stanc

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Motionlab

Technology

Country: Czech Republic

Sector: Technology

Our products and services: Truly personalized video experience Motionlab innovative platform producing personalized video experience its a great tool if you want to increase revenue and conversions, strength the brand loyalty, improve customer experience and satisfaction or personalize the communication. We help to transform and increase the impact of video communication across all industries, in all stages of customer lifecycle and to any audience.

What makes us unique: Motionlab platform is a strategic, long term and powerful tool from which enterprises or the digital/creative agencies can benefit in the same way. We provide deep dynamic personalization combined with the highest quality of creative design.

We are looking for: B2C & B2B Brands with high volume of Customers from across industries (Telco, IT, Banking, Retail, Travel, Manufacturing, Massmedia…) who look for the innovative ways how to drive revenue, cost savings or increase their brand image.

Clients / References: Microsoft, Isobar Dentsu, UNIQA, O2

Key team: Jan Sekerka, Filip Koubek, Radek Psurny - Co-owners

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Roivenue

Marketing technology

Country: Czech Republic

Sector: Marketing technology

Our products and services: Marketing business intelligence

What makes us unique: ROIVENUE™ is a one-stop solution for marketers to integrate all of their advertising, CRM and web analytics data into one place and harness the power of multi-touch attribution to get more ROI from their marketing campaigns.

We are looking for: Investors who will become a long term partners in our growing start up 🙂

Clients / References: Digiline/Orange, Urbanstore, AXA Assistance, Zenith Optimedia, Top4Sport, Donoci, uni-max

Key team: Pavel Šíma - CEO, Martin Faith - Head of Client Success, Tomáš Čeleda - CTO, Emil Jimenez - CMO

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SmartGuide

Travel / Augmented Reality

Country: Czech Republic

Sector: Travel / Augmented Reality

Our products and services: SmartGuide builds a global B2B2C platform that turns every phone into a personal AR audioguide. Our interactive app uses geolocation, audio and Augmented Reality to guide travelers like a live guide. Modern travelers expect a quality tour guide in an app, but destinations struggle to digitize content. Their attempts to build own apps are costly and usually fail. We offer them a ready-made solution that allows them to digitize their guide quickly and free. We exchange technology for content and traffic and monetize end users via affiliate booking, advertising and premium.

What makes us unique: Since the top 10 direct competitors serve 1% of the market, our main competitors are traditional guides - guidebooks, paper maps, tour groups, HWaudioguides. We offer more convenience, affordability and interactivity than these traditional guides. The B2B2C model gives us an advantage in distribution over B2C competitors and in cost advantage over B2B competitors. We offer superior technology with Augmented Reality.

We are looking for: We are looking for business partners in the travel industry and for Series A investors in the spring of 2020 to fund global scaling. Join us in disrupting tour guiding!

Clients / References: We are official guide app of 11 attractions including Prague, guided over 70,000 travelers, have paying B2B and B2C customers, A-team with Harvard and McKinsey alums and great in-house engineers.

Key team: Jan Dolezal (CEO, Harvard MBA, McKinsey), Filip Kinsky (CTO, 17 years SW development), Ondrej Panek (COO, entrepreneur excited to Cisco), Vaclav Juricek (Sales, McKinsey), Jan Hlavaty (Content, professional guide)

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SMUP-UQ

Engineering

Country: Czech Republic

Sector: Engineering

Our products and services: We provide new tool for engineering simulation and product optimization

What makes us unique: With new advances in machine learning and stochastic processes, we were able to develop new tool for statistical analysis of engineering processes. This new tool is extremely effective, very robust and provides unique insight into the engineering problem.

We are looking for: Colleagues with market/sales background and investment to start marketing and selling our tool.

Clients / References: Skoda Auto (EKF department), CEAi, MECAS ESI KEY

Key team: Martin Kubicek, Tomas Koutnik, Jiri Otoupal

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Rocket Shepherd

Marketplace, IT SaaS

Country: Hungary

Sector: Marketplace, IT SaaS

Our products and services: Automatically refreshed startup profiles, company diagnostic reports, marketplace for startups to sell to other startups.

What makes us unique: Automatically updating profiles, granular data analytics, personalized diagnostics tools, automated documents

We are looking for:

Clients / References: Exclusivity with Deloitte to sell 'company as a service' model; IBM Bluemix wholesale partner; cross-selling partnerships with +10 regional startups in photo, content, mentoring services

Key team: Founder Sebastian Tamas who is an accredited CAIA and his contacts

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ArtConscious

AI, Retail (online marketplace)

Country: Hungary

Sector: AI, Retail (online marketplace)

Our products and services: ArtConscious is an online marketplace powered by artificial intelligence and advanced e-commerce strategies, featuring carefully selected, luxury art, fashion and design products. Our services also include art rental, art advisory, tailored commissions and event organising. Currently we focus on the Central and Eastern European region, and our key partners are galleries, fashion and design brands, and professional artists and designers.

What makes us unique: Although the use of AI has become essential, the art market is extremely slow in upgrading itself to the 21st century. Surprisingly enough, there aren't many online marketplaces selling curated art and design products powered by AI. From November 2018 ArtConscious offers safe, transparent and personalised online marketplace solutions based on the mix of different recommendation models and e-commerce strategies. With the help of collaborative filtering, natural language processing, colour coding, rating models and customer profiling, we are able to create a uniquely powerful discovery engine for a smooth and transparent customer experience.

We are looking for:

Clients / References: Our key partners are galleries, fashion and design brands, individual professional artists and designers, and other institutions e.g. fine art universities and art markets. Following our official website launch we have been nominated to the Highlights of Hungary Award.

Key team: • Luca Jakab - Founder and CEO, Dénes Csiszár - Senior Business Development Advisor, Dora Pelczer - Communications and Fine Art Relationships Manager, Ivett Zahorjan - Fashion and Design Manager, Ksenia Feher - Sales and Relationships Manager

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RECASH

Fintech / Retailtech

Country: Hungary

Sector: Fintech / Retailtech

Our products and services: An independent multi-company loyalty system

What makes us unique: We are a revolutionary MARKETING TOOL THAT UPGRADES ANY BANK CARD TO A CASHBACK CARD, THUS ALLOWING TO ENTICE OUR PARTNERS’ CUSTOMERS DIRECTLY FROM THEIR COMPETITORS.

We are looking for:

Clients / References: Contracted, or under negotiation (HUNGARY): • Vision Express • Vista • ALMA+GYÖNGY Pharmacies • ALKO • CEWE • Budai Egézségközpont • ZING BURGER • LIF1 Fitness • DOCKYARDS • Játéksziget (Régió Játék) • Biotech USA • Trilak

Key team: Balazs Zador (CEO), Miklos Nagygyörgy (CMO), Bence Toth (CTO), Peter Zador (CFO), Balazs Keszei (CSO), Andras Wiszkidenszky (Head of Business Development)

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Growberry

Indoor farming, Urban farming

Country: Hungary

Sector: Indoor farming, Urban farming

Our products and services: Growberry – fully-automated mini-greenhouse for urban farming; as part of a subscription-based model we can also provide the plants/seeds and the nutrient solution.

What makes us unique: Value-for-money, integrated AI solution, One-stop-shop for urban farming solutions.

We are looking for:

Clients / References: In progress

Key team: Attila Hudecz - Founder, CEO, Ádám Lipécz - Chief Technology Officer, Judit Körmendy - Chief Marketing officer (CMO), Antal Vass - Chief Operating Officer

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InSimu

Education / Medicine

Country: Hungary

Sector: Education / Medicine

Our products and services: InSimu Patient is an interactive medical case study educational app with simulated patients. We fill the gap between theoretical knowledge and practical skills. InSimu Patient helps medical students and physicians gain clinical experience by making decisions on their own, on simulated virtual patients. Training with our app will enable them to handle real-life cases with higher expertise. Mimicking all possible aspects of real-life diagnostics, InSimu changes the way of thinking and learning of young doctors.

What makes us unique: With InSimu Patient, users can practice the diagnostic work anywhere, anytime. The simulator is built in a way that the user can have access to the infinite number of simulations optimized for their smartphone and tablets. The user can order any diagnostic test on all virtual patients in free gameplay. Realistic cost and time of the ordered diagnostic tests are measured, and the objective feedbacks help the medical professionals improve their cost and time efficient evidence-based diagnosis.

We are looking for:

Clients / References: InSimu has a B2C and a B2B business pillar. In B2C, InSimu targets medical students and physicians. We have 50.000 downloads in App Store and Google Play and have 5.000 active users worldwide as of May 2019. In B2B we target medical schools and hospitals with a complex education tool and publishers with providing interactive supplementary materials.

Key team: Dr. Gabor Toth Co-Founder and CEO, Tamas Katona Co-Founder and CPO, Andrea Herdon Co-Founder and CMO. Partners: University of Debrecen (Hungary); Quinnipiac University (CT, USA), EIT, IFMSA

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Powerful Medical

Health Care

Country: Slovakia

Sector: Health Care

Our products and services: Application for the diagnosis and management of Atrial Fibrillation (A-Fib DPM)

What makes us unique: A-Fib DPM uses AI-based image analysis of ECGs to detect AF and an innovative medical guidelines interpretation system assists cardiologists in providing the highest quality treatment. A-Fib DPM is an AI-powered clinical assistant in the form of a tablet application for the diagnosis and management of patients with AF (Atrial Fibrillation). It allows for faster acquisition of clinically relevant information about patients through an intuitive application interface. Using a state-of-the-art ECG digitization and analysis software doctors are aided in the early detection of AF and an evidence based treatment plan, conforming with the latest guidelines, is recommended. Over the course of July - August 2019, the pilot application will be tested in the clinical environment of the National Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases in Slovakia and the OLV Heart Center in Aalst, Belgium.

We are looking for:

Clients / References: National Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases, Slovak Society of Cardiology, OLV Heart Center Aalst, Oregon Heart Center, Pfizer Pharmaceuticals (educational grant)

Key team: BScMed. Robert Herman, CEO; Prof. Dr. Robert Hatala PhD, Lead Doctor; Martin Herman, Co-Founder and CTO

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Mindworx

Behavioral consulting

Country: Slovakia

Sector: Behavioral consulting

Our products and services: Workshops and consulting with the goal to improve sales, customer experience and Communication with customers using precise methodology and latest findings from psychology and behavioral science. We also launched the first online course on Behavioral Economics & Psychology in Marketing with some of the world’s best known experts from the field MINDWORX Academy.

What makes us unique: We are the first company in CEE region providing consultancy based on evidence based knowledge of behavioural economics, psychology and other well established scientific fields. Mindworx was founded in 2015 and within 2 years we’ve managed to acquire our first corporate clients. In 2018 we launched first international collaborations and grew our corporate client base. The year 2019 marked a significant step in Mindworx’s journey since it established an international team of advisors and launched a unique online video course with some of the brightest minds from around the world. In the autumn 2019 the Mindworx will open its office in Prague, Czech Republic.

We are looking for:

Clients / References: Orange, Union, Bolt, Tatra Banka

Key team: Matej Sucha – Managing Partner, Jakub Dano – Head of Growth, Vladan Fejlek – Head of Marketing, Michal Plevka – Behavioural Consultant, Nikola Bernatova – Behavioural Consultant, Kristina Radova – Behavioural Consultant, Roman Buric – Junior Behavioural Consultant

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Inove

Smart applications | VR | Education

Country: Slovakia

Sector: Smart applications | VR | Education

Our products and services: Solar System Scope application, Solar System Scope VR application

What makes us unique: We have the most popular model of solar system, that is used in 152 countries world wide and translated into 11 languages (). Our calculations and simulations stemming from the latest NASA data. With attractive graphics, number of interesting functionality features and an intuitive use make fun to learn about the Universe. Night sky is definitely worth of trying! Additionally, the Solar System Scope VR takes you directly where only the astronauts hang around – in the Universe. So quickly get into shoes of a space man and enjoy the fantastic VR experience via our application! It has started when it is not even clear if the time even existed, all of a sudden it happened – the Big Bang! Tiny things occurred, which were the ancestors of something that later become large. Billions of years later, somewhere in the Universe on a planet, that we call Earth in the time when life on the planet evolved to a state as we know it from not too long ago, it happened. An interesting tiny idea came into mind of Solar System Scope founders... The first version of Solar came to life at the beginning of 2011, preceded by visualisation of the Earth, being developed already for several years. The Solar system was initiated by the intention to display the solar system in a way that nobody had provided so far, interlinked with the view from Earth and also from the outside of the solar system. Since we were the first and nothing was available at the time, we made our own model. Soon after publishing, our app reached its first million visitors. In 2012 NASA presented and highlighted the Solar System Scope on their website. There are now over 4 million of installations only on GooglePlay with the rating 4.5/5. We are dedicated to constant improvement of our app usability, adding new features, and more distribution channels to keep new users coming every day.

We are looking for:

Clients / References: Google Play (4 million end users), Apple AppStore, Huawei AppGallery

Key team: Zdenek Burda - CEO, Jozef Fasung - CFO, Martin Kristof - Marketing strategist, Andrej Fasung - Project manager, Monika Falbova - Community manager, Adrian Bayer - Designer and developer, Marian Bayer - Developer, Marian Stach - Developer, Gabriel Oksa - Astronomy specialist

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Jarvify

Software Development

Country: Slovakia

Sector: Software Development

Our products and services: Jarvify is a company specialising in building conversational AI products on its own technology platform.

What makes us unique: We are an AI driven technology company delivering AI powered chatbots for companies who want to automate their customer support, processes and marketing, utilising natural language processing, analytics and Custom Chatbot Management dashboards. Our development process is rapid and effective using our own Conversational AI technology platform. This is what allows us to be ahead of the competition. Jarvify is a group of serial entrepreneurs, who joined forces to build a company that creates smart chatbots for niche industries such as hospitality, real estate and travel. Its vision is to create chatbot builder so simple, that any company or entrepreneur will be able to build and implement their chatbot in a manner of minutes, while having all the necessary tools and integrations at hand. Jarvify’s president Dusan is also co-founder of 0100 Ventures, a company builder with mission to help create and support young excellent companies. He is also part of the online media platform SlovakSTARTUP.com and a co-founder of Reflect Festival, the largest future casting event in the Southern Europe (in Cyprus).

We are looking for:

Clients / References: Columbia Restaurant Limassol, Henkel, Elias Neocleous & Co. LLC

Key team: Dusan Duffek - President & Cofounder, Stylianos Lambrou - CEO & Cofounder, David Frtala - CTO & Cofounder

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Talapoin

Software and hardware development | AI computing

Country: Slovakia

Sector: Software and hardware development | AI computing

Our products and services: TalOS operating system, programming language Tal, development environment, development kits as well as set of different devices (e.g. IoT, vision and audio, different sensors and more), and a DIBOT project.

What makes us unique: Talapoin is on mission to provide comprehensive and universal development infrastructure for hardware and software in one ecosystem to allow significantly decrease R&D time for prototypes, proof of concepts, use cases or new products and services. In simple words, Talapoin develops an autonomous human-like robot, which can identify a person by recognising her/his voice, gestures or face, and is able to be integrated with different systems. Founders of Talapoin identified a solid opportunity from the boom of human-like robots development, and decided to turn their hobby into a productive business. The team of young passionate programmers invented its own dedicated TalOS operating system and a unique programming language Tal, and among other things it develops a project of an autonomous robot able to serve people in different areas of life. Rastislav Brencic, leader of the company is an expert in developing & integrating SW solutions, logistics services, and customer experience for manufacturing, retail and corporate relations. He manages the clients of the company in Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Poland, Romania and the UK.

We are looking for:

Clients / References: TBA

Key team: Rastislav Brencic - Co-founder & CEO, Jozef Dubovec - Founder & CTO

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GeoGames

Augmented Reality

Country: Poland

Sector: Augmented Reality

Our products and services: Games and Apps with augmented reality and geolocation; Content Managing System for geolocation and AR games

What makes us unique: GeoGames platform - with our technology we provide 4-time faster and cheaper development of AR, geolocation apps. Content managing system - with every app we provide you with easy to use platform that allow you to change your game without dev skills

We are looking for: Interesting projects, Partners on foreign markets, Investment

Clients / References: Our team worked on AR games with HubRaum and Deutsche Telekom, turist departaments, sport chain stores, game studios, NGOs and many others. For one of our clients we developed AR Games about famous astronomer Nicholaus Copernicus and connected it to the city electronic token system - copernicoin. http://gazetaolsztynska.pl/586595,Kopernik-powinien-byc-jak-Pokemon.html

Key team: Marek Maruszczak (CEO, game designer) PHD (UWM) on Internet Communication. Project manager with 10+ years of commercial experience, game designer and gamification specjalist. Worked with Slavic Monsters, GeoGames, TVP Olsztyn, Polsat Cyfrowy, Play, Allegro, Blomedia sp. z. o. projects with Deutsche Telekom, HubRaum, Zortrax. Linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/in/marek-maruszczak-954930b1/ Marcin Wójcik (CTO) Certified Unity 3D developer, specialist on path prediction algorithms. R&D experience on geolocation projects. Worked on Deutsche Telekom Low Latency Prototyping Programme. Piotr Kurstak (Lead Unity Dev) Certified Steam Partner, game developer and publisher. Worked on geolocation and augmented reality R&D projects. Włodzimierz Chołostiakow (Lead Graphic Designer) PHD (UWM) on philosophy of art. 15 years of experience as an graphic designer and illustrator. Worked on 3D models generators R&D projects.

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Plantalux

Life Sciences, Energy

Country: Poland

Sector: Life Sciences, Energy

Our products and services: Horticulture LED lamps combined with software to enhance plant growth, development, morphology and yield in controlled environment and at the same time decreasing electricity bills.

What makes us unique: We tailor light spectrum to respond plant needs. Our solutions let growers cultivate vegetables, fruits, herbs and flowers all year round regardless the place on Earth.

We are looking for: We are looking for partner to expand our business globally.

Clients / References: We have clients in Poland, Germany, Israel, Canada and Switzerland.

Key team: Jakub Lachowski – Co-Founder, CEO, Managing Director. LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jakub-lachowski-599b52117/ Rafał Lachowski - Co-Founder, Board Member, Business Development Director. LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rafa-lachowski-2a133b40/

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Realko24

PropTech / FinTech

Country: Poland

Sector: PropTech / FinTech

Our products and services: Long story short - we offer the solution for finding a commercial real estate quite similar to what booking.com does for holiday properties 🙂 We enable direct contact between tenant and landlord of commercial space from the very beginning which diminishes the cost&time of finding a right real estate for business (office, warehouse, retail) . You can easily find a hotel in Greece via Booking.com , why not office, warehouse or retail via Realko24 in similar way? It really doesn’t have to be that hard as it is nowadays.

What makes us unique: Our service is few times cheaper than standard middleman service which enables to the landlord lower the rent for tenant. Realko24 treats every landlord the same so there is no favoring real estates like standard brokers tend to do. We operate worldwide dealing also longterm contracts. That is quite unique when it comes to commercial real estate. We are also a PropTech company from commercial sector that is generating revenue being only self funded.

We are looking for: Smart people with smart money that could help us grow globally.

Clients / References: Biggest Landlords in Poland, some of them operating also in London (Skanska Property, Echo Investment, HB Reavis, Regus, WeWork etc.)

Key team: Konrad Okła, CEO/Founder, https://www.linkedin.com/in/konrad-okla-b54b4690/

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Trefix

FinTech

Country: Poland

Sector: FinTech

Our products and services: We simplify and automate currency risk management and improving the financial stability of SME. Our cloud-bases solution is both business intelligence and fintech solution in one spot. A company is able to monitor currency risk, but hedge in the same time.

What makes us unique: Our value is automation of currency risk management. You don't have to monitor your current currency P&L in excel or accounting program. You can integrate all data in one spot.

We are looking for: We are looking for both sales partners and investors to start our business activities in the UK market.

Clients / References: Bio Planet, Fideltronic, Pomona

Key team: Radek Wierzbicki, Founder and CEO, https://www.linkedin.com/in/radwierz/ Tomasz Goljan, Co-Founder and Head of Sales, https://www.linkedin.com/in/tgoljan/ Łukasz Parafianowicz, Co-Founder and Board Advisor https://www.linkedin.com/in/lukaszparafianowicz/

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Zonifero

Proptech

Country: Poland

Sector: Proptech

Our products and services: Zonifero is a comprehensive startup that makes properties and offices labour- and cost-efficient by fusing automation, AI and IoT. Zonifero offers room reservation system, hot-desks, parking lots management systems, virtual lobby, office automation with BMS and HVAC integrations to save the energy and many more, forming a one-off functional hub for properties.

What makes us unique: Being backed by one of Europe's fastest growing software houses makes as extremely agile and flexible to deliver dedicated end-client solutions.

We are looking for: Investors, Clients and Partners.

Clients / References: Microsoft, PwC, Colliers International, Knight Frank

Key team: Robert Strzelecki, Chief Executive Officer: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robert-strzelecki/ Michał Gąsior, Chief Sales and Marketing Officer: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gasiormichal/ Łukasz Muszyński, Chief Product Officer: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lukasz-muszynski/

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