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Martin Olczyk

Managing Director at Techstars - Investing in Smart Mobility Tech

📍 Torino, Piedmont, Italy🔄 Updated July 2026💼 75 investments📅 11 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2025
VC🌍 Italy50+ investments
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Jan 2025
Empowering farmers through innovation, were sowing the seeds of agricultural transformation. Join us in cultivating a future where cutting-edge technology and sustainable practices converge to revolutionize farming, making lives easier and harvests more bountiful.
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Jan 2025
Ai-Powered, cookie-free analytics Solution alternative to Google Analytics, MixPanel & Matomo. Web analytics, custom events and conversion funnels within 30 seconds from signup. AI-powered data analyst integrated. Fully GDPR & CCPA complaint. Self-host with docker. +1K 🌟 on Github!
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Jan 2025
spacebrains is an outsourcing and headhunting platform that serves as a conduit between businesses in the fields of non-digital product development, industrial engineering, R&D, and innovation, and highly skilled engineers. We cooperate with pre-vetted professionals that can help your core engineering team to succeed. We are strong in assesing technical abilities of candidates, which in turn saves time for hiring managers. We guarantee only relevant candidate profiles landing at your desk. Drop us a message or visit our website if you want to learn more.
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Jan 2025
Granter.ai is building the first AI Grant Consultant - an autonomous AI agent that finds the right grants, writes and manages applications. Why should your company hire an AI Grant Consultant? - Never Miss a Grant Again – The AI consultant continuously scans and identifies the best funding opportunities for you - Save Up to 90% of Your Time – Automates research, application writing, and management, eliminating manual effort. - Double Your Success Rate – AI-driven optimization ensures higher-quality applications with fewer errors. With more than 2000 companies on our platform, Granter.ai has already supported the submission of applications for more than €20 million in EU funds. Find out more about us at Granter.ai.
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Jan 2025
AlterEcho is redefining aseptic manufacturing by decoupling human operators from cleanroom environments through Remote Robotic Embodiment. Instead of direct intervention, operators control precision robotics remotely via First-Person View headsets and motion controllers, maintaining the dexterity and adaptability of human oversight while eliminating contamination risks. This paradigm shift enables pharmaceutical manufacturers to enhance scalability, optimize facility layouts, and future-proof production against labor shortages and regulatory pressures. Unlike conventional automation, which struggles with edge cases and lengthy validation cycles, AlterEcho keeps human decision-making in the loop while generating the operational data and infrastructure that will enable more autonomous biomanufacturing in the future. A Techstars-backed venture, AlterEcho is not just iterating on aseptic workflows - it’s reengineering the fundamental relationship between humans and pharmaceutical production.
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Jan 2025
VOCATIONS | The Sales Hack for Headhunters. Vocations, a Techstars portfolio company, is a sales intelligence platform for HR companies that leverages an AI agent to scrape job offers directly from company websites. Vocations supports Staffing & Recruiting Agencies in identifying new job openings through daily monitoring of company websites across the territory. Our advanced crawling technology ensures users are first to know about new roles, enabling swift, strategic responses to market needs. Plus, our solution streamlines lead generation, connecting you directly with HR managers at target companies. Build a pipeline of hiring decision-makers, enabling quick talent matches and positioning your agency as a trusted partner in a competitive market.
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Jan 2025
Lemons in the Room believes that innovation is not just a means, but the key to driving evolution. Our mission is to transform challenges into growth opportunities that embrace the pillars of social and economic sustainability. We are committed to being pioneers in promoting digitalization and exploring new technologies in every context we operate. Our approach is based on continuous growth and collaboration, creating an ecosystem where innovative ideas and mutual trust flourish, generating value not only for us but also for our customers
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Jan 2025
We created an open-source developer tool, tailored for embedded software companies, to speed up software development and improve collaboration. Find out more at: https://axemsolutions.io/ Star the project on GitHub: https://github.com/axem-solutions/dem Or join our community on Discord: https://discord.com/invite/Nv6hSzXruK
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Jan 2025
frnt helps retail businesses unify their disjointed systems and significantly reduce the time spent on manual processes by delegating them to its AI-powered digital workers, enabling focus to be redirected towards higher-value activities.
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Jan 2025
MATERIAintel is the worlds first 𝗺𝗮𝗿𝗸𝗲𝘁 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗰𝗮𝗿𝗯𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗳𝗳𝘀, like the 𝗘𝗨 𝗖𝗕𝗔𝗠, empowering stakeholders in the commodity sector with 𝗔𝗜-𝗱𝗿𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗻, 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗹-𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲, 𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗴𝗶𝗰 𝗶𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝘀.
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Jan 2025
Recrewty je digitalni konsultant za profesionalnu selekciju koji automatizuje proces primjene profesionalnih psihometrijskih testova. Naša platforma koristi napredni softver za uparivanje pravih kandidata sa pravim kompanijama u samo nekoliko minuta. Vjerujemo da je talenat ključ uspjeha i da svaka kompanija treba da ima pristup najboljim talentima. Trenutno smo u fazi razvoja i naporno radimo da ovu inovativnu platformu dovedemo u život. Naš tim je posvećen tome da Recrewty postane glavna platforma za kompanije svih veličina koje žele da optimizuju proces selekcije kandidata. Pozivamo vas sve da posjetite našu web stranicu na https://recrewty.com
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Jan 2024
NUBO, New Urban Office is the new network of coworking spaces that supports local businesses through an exclusive partnership model that generates new and rich revenue streams for its partners while offering its members a network of productive and affordable spaces
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Jan 2024
G2Q Computing is a scientific company, expert in developing the most advanced and creative quantum-classical applications to solve complex real-world business problems and help leading companies across all industries to boost their performance. Our knowledge in classical and quantum technology enables us to identify the ingredients of classical computational models that can be improved by quantum algorithms. Leveraging on our expertise, we have developed a quantum and classical modular software, that gives our clients the flexibility to choose the optimal combination of the two modules that would enable them to achieve a more performing solution and solve complex problems that a traditional computer alone is not able to perform in a timely manner and with reasonable costs. The users of our software, will have, considerable strategic technological advantage on certain computations and the possibility to dive into the race to quantum supremacy with the help of our quantum modules that have been studied to give new performing solutions, on the currently available quantum computing hardware. Our main strength is the team of highly skilled scientists that are experts in mathematics, physics, quantum mechanics and statistics and can convert an abstract mathematical concept to code.
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Jan 2024
Empower your learning today! Instantly generate flashcards from anatomy diagrams, textbooks, and notes using AI, OCR, and Voovos unique features. It has always been extremely time-consuming to create flashcards… NOT ANYMORE! Voovo lets you create 150+ flashcards in just under 30 seconds!
early stageE-learning
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Jan 2024
Your agent-enabled platform for automated analysis, evals, and alignment for genAI products. Build for the needs of AI Product Managers, so they can validate, test and improve with 80% less of resources needed from their data scientists, AI engineers and analysts. End-to-end lifecycle in a no-code way, so your teams build valuable AI products that simply work.
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Jan 2025
Empowering farmers through innovation, were sowing the seeds of agricultural transformation. Join us in cultivating a future where cutting-edge technology and sustainable practices converge to revolutionize farming, making lives easier and harvests more bountiful.
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Jan 2025
Ai-Powered, cookie-free analytics Solution alternative to Google Analytics, MixPanel & Matomo. Web analytics, custom events and conversion funnels within 30 seconds from signup. AI-powered data analyst integrated. Fully GDPR & CCPA complaint. Self-host with docker. +1K 🌟 on Github!
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Jan 2025
spacebrains is an outsourcing and headhunting platform that serves as a conduit between businesses in the fields of non-digital product development, industrial engineering, R&D, and innovation, and highly skilled engineers. We cooperate with pre-vetted professionals that can help your core engineering team to succeed. We are strong in assesing technical abilities of candidates, which in turn saves time for hiring managers. We guarantee only relevant candidate profiles landing at your desk. Drop us a message or visit our website if you want to learn more.
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Jan 2025
Bettaknit è il brand che ha rivoluzionato la “maglieria fai da te” con i suoi kit maglia e uncinetto e filati di qualità. La start-up nasce da un progetto tutto al femminile: tre sorelle hanno unito la loro passione per la moda, la maglieria fatta a mano e la sostenibilità con il patrimonio di conoscenza del mondo tessile, frutto di una storica tradizione familiare. Attraverso l’e-commerce Bettaknit ha reso accessibili ad artigiani, creativi e appassionati di tutto il mondo, filati pregiati che da sempre sono passati per le mani delle tre fondatrici. Bettaknit è un progetto i cui driver sono la passione per il Made in Italy più raffinato e una produzione improntata alla sostenibilità. I filati di Bettaknit sono di altissima qualità, in fibre naturali, tutti prodotti in Italia. Sono prodotti in modo sostenibile, spesso frutto del recupero e riciclo di materiali di scarto. BK, le iniziali di BettaKnit ricordano il suo motto “Be Kind”: noi crediamo in uno stile di vita “gentile”, in una moda sostenibile, mai prodotta in serie, realizzata a mano con amore e passione.
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