Boleslaw Drapella

I help companies to grow wisely ### Founder at SaunaGrow.com, LP at Black Pearls VC, Founder & CEO at Saunowy Staw - great outdoor Spa & Sauna place in the North of Poland

📍 Gdańsk, Pomorskie, Poland🔄 Updated October 2026💼 3 investments📅 12 years investing🗓 Last invested Sep 2020𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
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Sep 2020
IamIP has digitalized one of the last few paper-based and manually handled industries, the complex intellectual property industry. This industry is plagued by complexity with over 2.7 M new patents filed every year (growing), and $20Bn+ is lost in double work in R&D in Europe alone. IamIP’s platform enables technology based companies to easily overview and evaluate their intellectual property portfolios, monitor competition and get valuable strategic insights – in time - for determining decision-making in innovation. Trusted by the world’s most innovative companies, IamIP’s Intellectual Property platform provides a secure, web-based portal for centrally managing all published patents worldwide – from the published individual patents to setting up search alerts, sharing, commenting, monitoring, collaborating and more. With robust analytics, IP departments and business units can make informed strategic decisions about what, where and when to take important action; i.e. filing a patent application opposition, acquire a company or technology, or to develop a new technology with a thorough understanding of financial implications of such decisions, their potential risks and opportunities for maximizing value in intellectual property. By using innovative big data functionality IamIP has successfully developed ground-breaking visualization possibilities of patent data that will provide you with strategic actionable insights in one single click. The IamIP platform is the most user-friendly platform on the market, where you can share documents and tasks with colleagues, request feedback including automatic reminders, saved communication history and much more - all in one click. Say goodbye to xls files and emails; with IamIP you and your colleagues will have everything in one place.
Limited Partner / Investor
Feb 2019
We invest all around Europe, concentrating specifically on the Baltic Sea Region. As Black Pearls VC we are sector agnostic and B2B focused with a successful track record of investments in areas such as: Digital Health, Enterprise Software, Fintech, Future of Work, Deep Tech, among others. We are usually one of the first investors in the company, helping founders scale and achieve global reach. We are the first Polish VC fund in Kauffman Fellows – a global network of 500+ leading VCs.
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2020
Board Member
Sep 2020
IamIP has digitalized one of the last few paper-based and manually handled industries, the complex intellectual property industry. This industry is plagued by complexity with over 2.7 M new patents filed every year (growing), and $20Bn+ is lost in double work in R&D in Europe alone. IamIP’s platform enables technology based companies to easily overview and evaluate their intellectual property portfolios, monitor competition and get valuable strategic insights – in time - for determining decision-making in innovation. Trusted by the world’s most innovative companies, IamIP’s Intellectual Property platform provides a secure, web-based portal for centrally managing all published patents worldwide – from the published individual patents to setting up search alerts, sharing, commenting, monitoring, collaborating and more. With robust analytics, IP departments and business units can make informed strategic decisions about what, where and when to take important action; i.e. filing a patent application opposition, acquire a company or technology, or to develop a new technology with a thorough understanding of financial implications of such decisions, their potential risks and opportunities for maximizing value in intellectual property. By using innovative big data functionality IamIP has successfully developed ground-breaking visualization possibilities of patent data that will provide you with strategic actionable insights in one single click. The IamIP platform is the most user-friendly platform on the market, where you can share documents and tasks with colleagues, request feedback including automatic reminders, saved communication history and much more - all in one click. Say goodbye to xls files and emails; with IamIP you and your colleagues will have everything in one place.
2019
Founder
Feb 2019
Place where you can meet an experienced mentor in a Sauna, help growing your business, relax and support charity at the same time. 3in1.
Limited Partner / Investor
Feb 2019
We invest all around Europe, concentrating specifically on the Baltic Sea Region. As Black Pearls VC we are sector agnostic and B2B focused with a successful track record of investments in areas such as: Digital Health, Enterprise Software, Fintech, Future of Work, Deep Tech, among others. We are usually one of the first investors in the company, helping founders scale and achieve global reach. We are the first Polish VC fund in Kauffman Fellows – a global network of 500+ leading VCs.
2016
AppiCare/HospiCare
Vice Chairman of the Supervisory Board
Mar 2016
2014
Board Member
Sep 2014
The University of Gdansk was founded in 1970 by combining higher schools: the Higher School of Economics in Sopot and the Higher Pedagogical School in Gdansk; later the Higher School was also included. The first of the precursors of the University of Gdansk was the Higher School of Marine Trade in Sopot, which was established in 1945. The University of Gdansk is the largest institution of higher education in the Pomeranian region. It offers the possibility of studying in almost thirty different fields with over a hundred specialisations. There are almost thirty-three thousand students in the nine faculties and the Foreign Language Teacher Training College, which employ one thousand seven hundred academic staff members. Such fields as Biology, Biotechnology, Chemistry, Psychology and Pedagogy are among the best in the country. In the field of European programmes, such as Socrates/Erasmus, the students have the opportunity to broaden their knowledge abroad and to gain new experiences. University of Gdansk students also participate in the MOST programme, which enables them to study for one semester at any of Poland’s eighteen universities. The UG Careers Office, which is the leader among vocational counsellors in the Pomorskie Voivodeship, helps graduates to find employment and to undertake decisions concerning vocational development. The numerous foreign placements experienced by the academic staff of the University help in the increasingly more modern and open education of students.
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