Seed fund empowering
network effects platforms
across Europe
Our values
Our purpose is to back the optimists building a future we want to share.
Founders first
Stay hungry
Do what you love
Team up with the best
Be honest and open
Founders first
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Founders are the most crucial stakeholders in a project. Investors are not bosses, they are there to support and not disturb.
Stay hungry
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Incessant drive to learn and develop will help you succeed. Be better each day by only a small bit. As saying goes „stay hungry, stay foolish”
Do what you love
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There will be nice and ugly moments. Tenacity and perseverance are a must and are easier to find within yourself when you enjoy the ride.
Team up with the best
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Great things need great teams to happen. Behind all „Bezoses, Musks and Jobses” of the world there are always teams delivering results. More diverse they are, the better results they deliver. We respect different points of view.
Be honest and open
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We believe in honesty among ourselves in our team as well as giving feedback to founders. There is no bad idea or founder. But there might be a wrong time to enter a market or insufficient potential of returns for our VC.
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Our focus
We want you to understand best when, where and in what we invest.
Marketplaces
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Pre-seed/Seed
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Europe, CEE
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Network effects platform
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Our team
We are a team of people working together to find, invest and support founders in their endeavors.
Elżbieta Obrębowska
Marketing and Operations Manager
Ela has nearly 8 years of experience in VC with a proven track record in investor relations, marketing and fund operations. Ela is a Marketing and Operations Manager at Market One Capital responsible for communication, marketing, organisation of community-related events and daily fund’s operations. Before she joined the Fund, she worked at Experior VC, where she acted as Marketing and Investor Relations Manager. In addition to investor relations and marketing, her duties covered administrative and legal matters related to the Fund. She is a former Community Manager and Head of Events for the European Women in VC initiative which brings together over 500 senior women VC professionals from all over Europe and Israel. Privately, a cross-fit enthusiast and mother of a beautiful baby girl.
Marcin Kurek
Partner
Marcin is the co-founder and Managing Partner at Market One. Before that he went through almost all steps in tech industry. From 2004-2008 worked at startups and in 2008 founded his own marketplace business. Successfully exited in 2011, became an angel investor backing +10 projects. He founded his first VC fund in 2012 and finally second fund, Market One Capital in December 2017. In his investment career invested in +30 marketplace and SaaS projects. Marcin is the network effects and marketplaces lover:). Apart from general support to companies, Marcin likes to be close to strategic, marketing and product matters thanks to his entrepreneurial experience. Passionate about entrepreneurship, sports and history.
Katarzyna Kopeć
General Counsel
Katarzyna is a Legal Counsel with more than 10 years of experience in the capital markets including over 8 years experience in VC industry. She started the Carrier at Investment Bank and worked as a General Counsel for one of Polish VC funds. At her private practice she was providing legal advice mainly in corporate, M&A and commercial areas, including intellectual property issues.
Jacek Łubiński
Partner
Jacek is a software engineer turned finance professional turned VC. He has more than 8 years of experience in VC, during which he analyzed thousands of startups, invested in more than 40 of them and became a trusted supporter and sparring-partner for selected portfolio companies. Apart from digital platforms and software, he is interested in crypto. He holds three Masters from Austrian and Polish universities (two in computer science and one in finance) and enjoys reading books and drinking yerba mate.
Piotr Łupiński
Associate
Piotr has an academic background in economics and career background in marketing, advertising and media, where he was responsible for communication strategies for world-renown brands. He gained experience in a high-growing startup at DocPlanner, led a startup project as a CEO, and now talks to founders about their ideas to find the gems. Loves to discuss strategy, vision, and product. Interested in curated platforms, Fintech, Adtech, AI and data-driven businesses. Enjoys modern art, football tactics, and good stories regardless of medium.
Michał Mroczkowski
Principal
Michał graduated from Ross School of Business at University of Michigan, Warsaw School of Economics and Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education. During his student years he co-founded and developed the i-sgh platform, a calendar for students with schedule of their courses and other events. Additionally, tried and failed in developing P2P carsharing marketplace. After graduation, associated with Microsoft Corporation and Protos VC where he started his journey in VC. Michal is a Business Associate at Market One Capital where he is responsible for startups sourcing and evaluation, market analysis and product/marketing support for portfolio companies . Michal specializes in the fields of marketplace mechanics, developing business models, strategies and tactics. Currently interested in decentralized networks, network effects, sharing economy, proptech and edtech categories. Privately, enthusiast of architecture, art, football, Real Madrid, tennis and backpack travelling.
Jakub Ślusarczyk
Partner
Jakub has been an active participant in Polish and European start-up scene since 2007 – both as institutional investor and business angel. Kuba started his professional career at bmp AG, a German venture capital fund, whose Polish investments include, among others, bankier.pl, nokaut or k2internet. In 2012 he co-founded Protos – a Warsaw base micro VC and in 2017 Market One Capital. Graduate of the Warsaw School of Economics and CEMS International Management programme.
Marcin Zabielski
Partner
Marcin has more than 20 years of diverse, professional experience. His up-to-date experience aimed at gathering broad know-how in the Internet, Telecoms, Business Consulting and most recently - Venture Capital. Since the year 2000, he was the entrepreneur creating European online auctions (Vatera) and was co-responsible for the success of biggest CEE online recruitment business - Grupa Pracuj. He has been involved in VC since 2012 managing firstly a micro VC (Hedgehog Fund) and recently - Market One Capital. During his VC career, he has invested in more than 60 marketplaces and SaaS startups assessing a couple of thousands of them. Marcin specializes in strategic and operational aspects of Sales processes, business models and startup valuations. His business maturity allows himself also to see some specific human aspects of the team and entrepreneurs. Marcin is a father of 3 daughters, amateur rock singer and devoted fan of Chelsea FC.
Szymon Brodziak
Analyst
Szymon is Analyst responsible for deal sourcing, initial meetings with the founders, market research and building sector investment theses, supporting the ongoing investment processes. Previous professional experience gained in investment banking (Vienna Capital Partners, Rothschild & Co, Santander), specializing in M&A advisory within the TMT sector; complemented with short stints in asset management and consulting. Academic background in law (Jagiellonian University) with a special focus on theory & philosophy of law as well as in corporate finance (Columbia University, Cracow University of Economics)
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