Poland’s new tech wave: 10 of the most promising startups to watch in 2026
Following up on our country deep-dive series, we now turn to Poland, one of Central and Eastern Europe’s largest and most established startup ecosystems. With major hubs in Warsaw and Kraków, Poland combines a strong technical talent base with growing venture activity across AI, healthtech, cybersecurity, agritech, defence, and digital platforms.
Poland’s ecosystem benefits from a deep pool of engineering talent, competitive operating costs, and increasing integration with European and global markets. In recent years, a new wave of venture-backed startups has emerged, building AI-driven tools, digital health solutions, enterprise software, security platforms, and hardware-enabled technologies designed to scale internationally from day one.
In this article, we highlight 10 of the most promising Poland-based startups founded from 2023 onwards. Presented in alphabetical order, the selection focuses on companies that have secured funding, developed defined products, and are positioning themselves for continued growth into 2026 and beyond.
Founded in 2023 and headquartered in Warsaw, CampusAI is a generative AI learning platform designed to help individuals and organisations develop practical artificial intelligence skills. The company provides access to educational programmes, AI tools, and expert-led training through a combination of 3D virtual environments, web applications, and in-person sessions.
Its offering includes structured learning pathways, access to multiple AI models through a unified interface, an AI skills training environment called AI Gym, and a curated database of AI applications organised by use case. CampusAI also provides tailored programmes for businesses focused on improving efficiency and integrating AI into daily workflows. The company reports over 35,000 trained users and has secured more than €9 million in funding to date.
Founded in 2024 and headquartered in Warsaw, Clinical Trials Information Network operates ClinicalTrials.eu, a patient-focused platform designed to make clinical trial information across Europe more accessible and easier to understand. The platform aggregates publicly available data from international trial registries, academic centres, national regulators, and commercial sponsors.
Users can search for trials by disease, drug name, or location, explore rare disease resources, and access structured patient materials explaining conditions and treatment pathways. The platform includes advanced matching tools and supports cross-border trial discovery, aiming to reduce barriers to participation and improve transparency within the European clinical research ecosystem. The company has secured €850K in funding to date.
Founded in 2023 and headquartered in Warsaw, Cropler develops a portable digital agronomy system that delivers real-time field insights through smart agri-cameras and soil data sensors. The company combines on-field hardware with a web-based analytics platform to provide continuous monitoring of plant health and soil conditions.
Its solution enables farmers to track phenophases, detect diseases early, and receive AI-based recommendations based on plant imagery, NDVI indicators, weather data, and soil metrics such as humidity, temperature, and salinity. The system supports remote field scouting, crop rotation planning, and data-driven decision-making, aiming to reduce scouting costs and improve input efficiency. Cropler reports that its devices are used in 25 countries and has secured €390K in funding to date.
Founded in 2023 and headquartered in Kraków, DefendEye develops a tube-launched, fully autonomous AI-powered drone designed for defence, emergency, and security applications. The system operates without a remote control or pilot, allowing users to launch the drone with a single button press and receive live video within seconds.
Weighing under 250 grams, the drone streams real-time footage to a cloud-based command centre and uses onboard AI to detect, identify, and track humans, including in low-light and GPS-denied environments. The company positions its solution for use cases such as search and rescue, perimeter breach response, border control, and rapid incident assessment. DefendEye has secured over €1 million in funding to date.
Founded in 2023 and headquartered in Szczecin, Defguard develops an open-source, enterprise-grade VPN solution built around the WireGuard protocol. The platform is designed for organisations that require full control, transparency, and compliance, operating entirely under EU jurisdiction.
Defguard integrates multi-factor authentication directly at the VPN protocol level, rather than only at the application layer, and supports identity and SSO integrations with providers such as Microsoft Entra ID, Google Workspace, Okta, Keycloak, and LDAP systems. Written in Rust and built for private or hybrid infrastructure, the solution enables secure remote access, identity management, and device control within a single platform. The company is ISO 27001 certified and has secured €1.2 million in funding to date.
Founded in 2023 and headquartered in Wrocław, ForActive develops a cloud-based business management app for independent personal trainers, coaches, and fitness instructors. The platform enables professionals to sell memberships, class packages, and one-off sessions while automating payments, attendance tracking, and client communication.
The app supports recurring billing, automated reminders, QR-based check-ins, class and event management, and basic content generation for social media. Designed to reduce administrative work and payment delays, ForActive operates on a pay-as-you-go model without a fixed subscription fee. The company has secured €1.36 million in funding to date.
Founded in 2025 and headquartered in Bydgoszcz, FOTOhub is an AI-powered creative platform that enables users to generate and edit images, video, audio, and text within a single system. The platform integrates multiple AI models through its orchestration layer, allowing creators and businesses to produce multimedia content without switching between separate tools.
Its offering includes AI image generation, cinematic video creation, music composition, voice synthesis, chat-based content generation, and automation workflows. FOTOhub also provides a browser-based editing studio with timeline video editing, audio mixing, graphic design tools, cloud storage, and API integrations for developers. The company reports over 400,000 users globally and has secured over €3.1 million in funding to date.
Founded in 2023 and headquartered in Warsaw, Holi is a digital metabolic wellness clinic focused on obesity treatment and long-term weight management. The company combines medical supervision, GLP-1-based pharmacotherapy where appropriate, and behavioural support delivered through an integrated digital platform.
Patients receive ongoing care from physicians and psycho-dietitians, including consultations, habit-building plans, measurement tracking, and 24/7 chat support via the Holi app. The programme is designed as a structured, step-by-step treatment process that integrates medical monitoring, blood tests, ePrescriptions, and educational resources. Holi reports over 2,500 patients served and has secured more than €3.5 million in funding to date.
Founded in 2023 and headquartered in Warsaw, Ingenix is developing a multimodal AI foundation model designed to simulate clinical trials using digital twins. The platform integrates biological and medical knowledge across multiple modalities, including text, imaging, molecular structures, sequences, and time-series data, to generate predictive insights across different biological scales.
Its system operates from molecular-level interactions through to cellular, tissue, organism, and population-level modelling, aiming to provide granular predictions of clinical endpoint values and potential adverse events. Positioned as an AI co-pilot for clinical development teams, the platform enables natural language querying and supports drug candidate selection, R&D strategy decisions, and trial optimisation. Ingenix has secured €9 million in funding to date.
Founded in 2023 and headquartered in Warsaw, Revoize develops real-time speech-to-speech AI infrastructure designed for programmable human voice. The company is building an end-to-end transformer model capable of running locally on devices, enabling translation, accent transformation, and audio quality enhancement without relying on cloud-based processing.
Its technology focuses on low-latency speech processing, allowing use cases such as real-time translation for communication platforms, accent normalisation for call centres, privacy-focused voice modification for gaming, and studio-grade voice reconstruction for OEM hardware. Designed for mass deployment, the solution offers cross-platform SDKs and on-device processing to reduce latency and maintain data control. Revoize has secured €458K in funding to date.
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