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Karolina Wojtas

Venture Partner at Eurazeo

Warsaw, Mazowieckie

Overview

Work Experience

  • Director of Strategic Development

    2023 - Current

    Everix is a US-based deeptech startup that enables hardware manufacturers and OEMs to enter new markets, decrease their production costs and save energy. The company developed the thinnest optical filters in the world, which are manufactured in a way that uses up to 70x less energy than traditional methods of filter production.

  • Venture Partner

    2023

    Focused on the CEE region and climate tech, smart city and digital companies, from seed to series B. If you are an entrepreneur looking for funding, please feel free to drop me an email at kwojtas@eurazeo.com. Eurazeo is a leading global investment company, with a diversified portfolio of €35 billion in assets under management, including nearly €24.7 billion from third parties, invested in around 600 companies. With its considerable private equity, private debt as well as real estate and infrastructure asset expertise, Eurazeo accompanies companies of all sizes, supporting their development through the commitment of its nearly 410 professionals and by offering deep sector expertise, a gateway to global markets, and a responsible and stable foothold for transformational growth. Its solid institutional and family shareholder base, robust financial structure free of structural debt, and flexible investment horizon enable Eurazeo to support its companies over the long term. Eurazeo has offices in Paris, New York, London, Frankfurt, Berlin, Milan, Madrid, Luxembourg, Shanghai, Seoul, Singapore and Sao Paulo.

  • Curator

    2021

    Hello Tomorrow is a mission-driven global organisation that aims to accelerate the transfer of deep technologies to solve some of our most pressing industrial, environmental and societal challenges.

  • Supervisory Board Member

    2020 - 2023

  • Investment Manager

    2021 - 2023

    Fields: Industry 4.0, (Agri)Food Tech, (Bio)Chemicals, Cleantech, DeepTech, Sustainbility, Digitization Geography: Europe & Israel Icos Capital is a deeptech VC fund working in the uniquely established collaborative venturing model. This model engages corporations and financial institutions in a collaborative partnership to facilitate growth of promising scale-ups. The ICF III collaborative partnership includes three leading European corporations: Switzerland based Bühler Group, market leader in system & solutions for agrifood and the automotive sector; The Netherlands based and Nouryon, formerly known as AkzoNobel and Specialty Chemicals and Royal Cosun, leading European agrifood and biochemicals cooperative headquartered in The Netherlands.

  • Investment Associate

    2020 - 2021

  • Board Observer

    2021 - 2023

    Invert Robotics, originally founded in New Zealand, is an Irish-based company with global presence which has developed a pioneering climbing robot technology to provide accurate, efficient and safe industrial inspections on high value assets across the food production, aerospace, pharmaceutical, chemical and energy industries.

  • Co-Founder

    2018 - 2021

    A medtech startup.

  • Senior Investment Analyst

    2020 - 2020

  • Investment Analyst

    2018 - 2020

    ValueTech Seed is an early stage venture capital fund focusing on innovations in Energy and Industrial Manufacturing. We seek to partner with dedicated teams developing breakthrough technologies that can be deployed within the next 2-5 years. Our areas of particular interest include but are not limited to: Industry 4.0, renewables, clean-tech, energy storage, smart grid and smart home, predictive analytics.

  • FinTech and InsurTech startups Path Manager

    2019 - 2020

    Working in the field of corporate-startups cooperation in the FinTech and InsurTech Path including partners such as PZU (the biggest insurer in the CEE region), Nationale Nederlanden, Sollers Consulting. Helping startups with strategy and their solutions' implementations in partner organizations.

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