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Piotr Widacki

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Piotr Widacki

He has 20 years of experience in banking, new technologies, digital transformation and investment. He was a member of the founding team of Alior Bank, the first Polish unicorn, and Alior Sync. He was responsible for digital transformation, cooperation with startups and fintech investments at BNP Paribas. Principal at Corviglia Capital (fintech VC) and co-founder of Digital Ocean Ventures (venture builder in fintech and e-commerce). Mentor and expert in startup programs, including MIT EF, Warsaw Booster, BNP Paribas Hackathon, completed VC Leaders Academy and Venture Finance Programme at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford.

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Twenty years of integrations led to killing the integration layer - Why we invested in Graftcode

Seventy percent of what software developers write isn't software.

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The AI decision layer e-commerce marketing was missing - Why we invested in Replenit

Brands spend millions on marketing technology. They have the data. They have the automation. They have the AI-generated subject lines and the perfectly designed email templates. And yet - over half of consumers say the messages they get from brands still miss the mark.

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What if brands could reach only real students? - Why we invested in UniPerks

Brands spend billions trying to reach Gen Z. But they can't tell a student from a bot.

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85% of sales effort goes nowhere - Why we invested in Demoboost

Industry benchmarks consistently show that only 15-20% of sales-qualified leads convert. That means up to 85% of B2B sales effort generates no revenue. Think about that for a second. Teams spend weeks building demos, running calls, following up - and most of it leads nowhere.

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Guardian of your data in the AI era – why we invested in 1.Security

Every tech revolution has its own “invisible problem”. For Microsoft 365 and Copilot it’s … a permissions mess.

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ChatGPT? Thank you. Lawyers are choosing something better. Why did we invest in Gaius Lex?

AI in law?  It sounds great - until you ask a lawyer whether they can send confidential documents to OpenAI’s servers.