Proud of their success in October 2019 with the organization of the Big Booster program in Lyon allowing 5 Polish start-ups to discover the French entrepreneurial ecosystem and then sign many partnerships, the French Tech ONE Lyon Saint-Étienne and Cracovie communities wished to repeat the same operation and allow this time French start-ups to discover Poland.
La French Tech Cracovie gave the start-ups ITinSell, RYSE, Lightlab.io,YooUp, Factoredin the opportunity to meet a large number of people over a period of 4 days, enabling them to gain a good understanding of the Polish market.
List of people met :
Warsaw:
- His Excellency the French Ambassador to Poland, Mr. Frédéric Billet, as well as all the economic services attached to the Embassy.
- Piotr Marchel, Head of Corporate Club, Ecosystems & Partnerships of The Heart the first business incubator in Poland and Jan Kastory, Founder of the Franco-Polish investment fund Astorya.
- Mrs. Laurence Touchet, Director of Central and Eastern Europe of Business France, .
- Mrs. Malgorzata Ratajska-Grandin, Manager of the Start-up Global Leader program of OVH Cloud, .
- Mrs. Monika Constant and Joanna Jaroch, General and deputy manager of CCI France Poland with Mrs. Antonina Sobczak, Event manager and Mr. François Colombié, Treasurer of CCIFP.
- Interviews with lawyers and investors specialized in Poland.
Krakow:
- The start-up community of Krakow thanks to Paul Kulon, president of our great partner OMGKRK.
- Economic and international relations managers of the Lesser Poland Region (Krakow area).
- Mr. Daniel Kessler and Mr. Mateusz Cybula, respectively head of the industry digitization team and Manager of Krakow Technology Park.
- French Member of Parliament Frédéric Petit, representing the French from abroad established in Central Europe and in the Balkans.