Founders

In her daily work, two keywords are important to her: problem and scalability, which is why Bitspiration Booster only invites projects that respond to the important, real needs of people and the world around them, and also have a great potential to scale globally. The program, therefore, focuses mainly on projects from the IT, fin-tech, biotech, and AI, i.e. artificial intelligence, sectors.

Paulina Mazurek has extensive experience in project management. Previously, she worked for large and well-known companies such as Motorola, Google, and Allegro. She has also been involved in volunteering in Ghana, which has taught her how to wisely support and effectively share knowledge.

Bitspiration Booster invested in Secfense in March 2018. It was the first step for the company to start building the User Access Security Broker product and officially start the business.

The fund has offices not only in Tallinn, Estonia but also in London, Amsterdam and Helsinki. For more than a decade, the Tera team has achieved remarkable success in helping its portfolio companies enter the US, UK, and Japan markets.
The mission of Stanislav Ivanov and the Tera fund is to enable and facilitate startups to cooperate with international corporations and help in obtaining additional capital from leading
VCs in the world.

Another strength of Tera Ventures is its global network of advisers, which provides portfolio companies with access to specialist knowledge. As the priority for Secfense was to find investors who could offer not only capital, but most of all knowledge, contacts and support in the strategy of entering new markets, the Tera Venture fund became an ideal partner.

Stanislav Ivanov worked at IBM for 7 years before founding Tera Ventures, and also introduced mobile telephony services to the market in the late 1990s. Therefore, he has extensive experience in the telecommunications and IT industry and knows how to manage teams involved in innovative projects.

He decided to invest in Secfense because one of the biggest challenges facing the world today is securing online identity. As he says himself, he wanted to include Secfense in the Tera Ventures portfolio, because the developed User Access Security Broker technology enables the introduction of strong authentication to companies in an automated manner. He also emphasizes that, until now, organizations had to selectively protect applications because it was very difficult, if not impossible, to implement the new technology. With Secfense, implementing multi-factor authentication is no longer a problem and all organizations can benefit from the highest security standards.

Presto Ventures (formerly BVC) was founded in 2016 by Přemysl Rubeš, a mathematician and entrepreneur, with the support of Tomáš Krsek, a Czech billionaire and philanthropist. Due to the fact that its headquarters are in Prague, which is in the center of Europe, it can closely observe all the noteworthy innovations and discover the work of the most inspiring entrepreneurs. Most often, he invests in startups at the Seed stage (round size up to € 3M), continuing to act in subsequent rounds.

Presto Ventures invested in Secfense because the fund’s specialists agree that even the best network and infrastructure security is not able to protect users from attacks using social engineering. Eduard Kučera himself says that even if the network and infrastructure are sufficiently secured, attackers can use social engineering and passwords to take control of the system. Czech experts also point out that the current trend is multi-factor authentication. Secfense, which they have invested in, solves the problem of a global implementation of multi-factor authentication (MFA), laying the foundations for a zero trust security model.

RKKVC invests in 7-8 companies a year, both in Poland and abroad. One of the investors of the RKKVC fund is a person who had one of the largest cash outings in the history of Poland. He is an entrepreneur with extensive experience, including in the FMCG industry.

The fund focuses on companies that deal with data science. RKKVC tries to look for technology companies that operate in the field of big data, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. Today, its portfolio includes many companies that focus on computer vision. He invested in Secfense a few months ago. Mateusz says, that he found in Secfense founders, the features that the fund cares about the most, i.e. the balance between being an expert in his field and humility, curiosity, the ability to coach others, and willingness to learn and constant search for new information.

Before the fund invested in Secfense and User Access Security Broker, a new technology that solves significant problems with the implementation and implementation of multi-factor authentication in large companies, its representatives talked a lot with existing users and customers.

In April 2022, he returned to Orange Polska, where he became a supervisory board member of the Remuneration Board Committee and the Strategy Committee of the Board. On a daily basis, he also advises companies and startups in the areas of shaping their business model and marketing. He is a graduate of the University of Warsaw (journalism, MBA) and IESE in Barcelona (Advanced Management Program).

Bartosz is a mentor and juror in many important industry reviews and competitions. He was the chairman of the Effie 2016 jury group. In March 2022, Bartosz Dobrzyński became a Secfense business angel. On a daily basis, he advises the company on how to communicate with clients to achieve success.

He has exceptional competencies in the field of sales, data center, SaaS, Business Intelligence, and Business Alliances. His knowledge, intuition, and experience significantly influence the development of IT businesses. He studied at the University of British Columbia, London Business School, and IE Business School.

Today, he is the sales director of UiPath – the Robotic Process Automation market leader, which has developed a program that allows for effective and quick automation of business processes.

Mark Schuster has been a business angel at Secfense since March 2022. He supports the company’s specialists in building appropriately profiled sales channels.

Ela invests in purpose-driven entrepreneurs from diverse backgrounds whose passion and mission are to solve the social pains of humanity while transforming the world of technology and science. Ela is a life-long learner and a big dreamer. She loves reading, learning new languages, theater, traveling, and staying active. For her, a day without learning and laughter is a lost one.

Ela earned her EMBA degree with honors from the University of San Francisco. She also completed her studies focused on International Business and Administration with distinction at UC Berkeley. Additionally, Ela holds MA and BA degrees in German Studies of History and Culture from Nicolaus Copernicus University in Poland.

She invested in Secfense in March 2022.