Tomasz Golinski
Startup Mentor at Founder Institute
Tomasz Golinski
Startup Mentor at Founder Institute
San Francisco Bay Area
Overview
Work Experience
Founder & General Partner
2018 - Current
CofounderZone is a vc fund which co-invests with business angels. We leverage knowledge and experience of over 200 angel investors to offer startups a strategic and operational support in the smart money formula. Our focus is on early-stage projects with global ambitions, developed in Central-Eastern Europe.
Business Mentor
2023
Labena Ventures Accelerator empowers CEE startups to scale globally. We take high-potential startup ventures on a fast-paced learning journey to help them explore and access business opportunities. Through highly-customized programmes, mentoring dedicated experts, as well as access to our vast network of business partners and investors, we help startups from all stages and across various industries on their way to international success. Labena Ventures program is aimed at scouting the most promising innovative startups and emerging companies throughout the Biotech, Pharma, Health, Food and Environment value chains.
Startup Mentor
2023
Mentor
2020
Named the "Accelerator Superstar of the Year" by Venturebeat, Alchemist is a venture-backed initiative focused on accelerating the development of seed-stage ventures that monetize from enterprises (not consumers). The accelerator’s primary screening criteria is on teams, with primacy placed on having distinctive technical co-founders. Born out of a 3-year entrepreneurship education outreach started in the Harvard Club of San Francisco, the organization reaches 10,000 technical young alums / students of Ivy League caliber universities. The accelerator seeds around 50 enterprise-monetizing ventures / year.
Mentor and Advisor
2017
Warsaw Accelerator strive to deliver best practices and knowledge to technology startups developing IoT, Life science and mobile solutions. We believe that innovation is a process of understanding and predicting the future of global trends and customers. Therefore we run one of the best acceleration programmes for technology startups in cooperation between global leaders from private (Intel, Deutsche Telekom, Microsoft) and public (city of Warsaw) sectors.
Member of The Supervisory Board
2022
Member of The Supervisory Board
2022
Member of The Supervisory Board
2021
Advisory Board Member
2020
Member of The Supervisory Board
2020
Education
Kosciuszko Foundation Ph.D. Fellow
2015 - 2016
Ph.D. in Economics
2011 - 2016
Postgraduate Studies
2011 - 2012
M.Sc. in Economics
2009 - 2011
B.Sc. in Economics
2006 - 2009