Contact
S20 Management Sp. z o.o. - Alternative Investment Company Manager
ul. Św. Marcin 11/8, 61 – 803 Poznan, Poland
📧: info@s20.team

KRS: 0001059303 | NIP: 7831888279

We are S20 Team - we build long-lasting relationships with tech entrepreneurs.

S20 Team is a group of people absolutely passionate about Venture Capital market in Europe and about acceleration of technology companies. If you are a tech company, you can find us trusted investors, and advisors with uniqe market experience.
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Our history

We're the S20 Team, a bunch of pros who first teamed up at SpeedUp Venture Capital Group (SVCG), a place known for supporting early-stage startups in Poland.

At SVCG, we helped the local startup scene grow and saw some of the first successful company sales in the area. Along the way, we got to work with over 200 amazing founders.

S20 takes all the good stuff we learned at SVCG, like being a true friend to founders and making smart investments that pay off. These are the things that make us who we are.

But now, there's a new group of us at the helm, with fresh ideas for what a modern VC firm in Europe should be.

Our strategy

In today's tech economy, "winner-takes-all" dynamics favor companies with access to large markets and capital, challenging EU firms against US or Asian rivals. We've identified two distinct paths to achieving our target 30x+ returns:

🚀 Tech-Driven Teams
We invest in companies with top technology, global ambitions, and a US trajectory, aiming to capitalize on their potential for rapid global scaling.

💪 Execution-Driven Teams
We also back regional champions focused on their local markets, demonstrating strong business development and proven traction, inspired by B. Graham's value investing principles.

We target companies at their earliest stages, where 30x+ returns are most achievable.

Our agile decision-making process matches the speed of the region's top angel investors, and we actively seek syndication opportunities with them. While we collaborate closely with angel investors, our full-time commitment to portfolio companies allows us to provide more hands-on support and deeper engagement with founding teams.

Manifest

  • We praise above all long and fair relationships with all our partners. Over the last decade, our team has managed to cooperate with countless startup founders and investors in the Baltics & Central Europe region. Through that time we have gained credibility as a trustworthy and insightful partner. We believe that these are the most important traits of investors - especially today, when you have to act dynamically and need to know that you have your back covered by reliable partners, who follow the best market standards. It’s not just saying that. Go and ask the founders we had been working with :)
  • We seek founders who are smarter than us, from whom we can learn and admire. However, we only invest in markets and products we thoroughly understand. As typically the most active investor, even if not the largest, we contribute beyond capital - serving as intellectual sparring partners or helping with recruitment. Our investment is always backed by active involvement; we commit both our funds and expertise. We look for founders who value and are open to this collaborative approach.
  • Investing in technology is often perceived as a fad, driven by illusions and visions lacking economic substance. At S20 Fund, we believe we are on the brink of the next technological revolution. However, we are convinced that this revolution will only materialize if it is grounded in sound economic foundations.

    Our mission is to create value. We focus on three dimensions of value: first, the value that the companies we support create for their customers; second, the value that founders gain through our investment, which contributes to their personal wealth; and third, the value that our investments generate for the fund's investors.

    The sequence outlined above is essential to our approach: value for clients comes first, which then cascades to other stakeholders.

Our team

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We are S20 – we develop longterm realtionships

We are a team with a great sense of mission. We make sure that our partners achieve good returns, but we also think that our projects should serve people in the broader context and save our planet. That is why we pay special attention to projects related to energy transformation, supporting health, and education. Around our activities, we integrate organizations for which a higher goal of what they do and what they engage in is essential. We have shown responsibility for the environment by implementing some of our investments - we have invested in companies such as Stethome, Solytic, Rezonans, and Remmed. Now we have decided to take the next step - our next fund will be focused on startups related to health and energy transformation (S20 Fund I).
We use our time to develop the region's startup ecosystem, providing it with knowledge and resources that help it reach the following levels. A part of our group is the Huge Thing - a company that is not only an operator of acceleration programs for startups at an early stage of development but also the team that supports organizations in understanding and implementing innovations. We believe that the only way to develop the ecosystem effectively is by acting in many ways and cooperating with other ecosystem participants.

Future-proof venture firm

S20 Fund tackles the evolving venture capital market head-on. We recognize three key shifts: AI development dramatically reducing startup costs, markets demanding faster paths to profitability, and investors requiring quicker liquidity through secondary markets. Our approach is targeted and precise. We focus exclusively on the most pressing challenges facing Western civilization—aging populations, remote work transformation, declining healthcare systems, and climate change. These "People and Planet" verticals aren't just buzzwords—they're the foundation of tomorrow's essential solutions. By investing with a small, agile fund structure at the pre-seed stage, we capture maximum value during the critical product development and market entry phases. This strategy allows us to secure optimal positions in tomorrow's breakthrough companies while they're still taking shape.

FAQ

  • We’re easily accessible through multiple channels and always eager to meet new people!
    LinkedIn is a great way to reach us, and given our extensive network, you likely have business connections who know us.
    We regularly post about conferences and events we’ll be attending – come say hi in person!

    While you can email us at getintouch@s20.team, please note that response times through this channel may be longer, and in some cases, we may not be able to respond at all. Looking forward to connecting with you, wherever works best!

  • While we don’t maintain a dedicated Job Board for our portfolio companies, we welcome your application at getintouch@s20.team. Before applying, please review our portfolio and specify in your email which companies interest you and how your experience could benefit their teams. We’ll review your application and forward it to relevant portfolio companies.

  • We welcome co-investments with business angels from CEE and beyond.

    You can either co-invest directly in startups (minimum ticket €25K) or invest in our fund for a diversified portfolio.

    Interested? Reach out to our partners on LinkedIn or email us at getintouch@s20.team.

  • We typically invest between $100K-300K USD per startup, primarily at the pre-seed stage. We prefer to invest as part of a syndicate with business angels and other investors, which helps create a strong support network for our portfolio companies.

    One of our key advantages is speed and flexibility – we work with private capital, which allows us to make quick investment decisions when we see the right opportunity. Feel free to reach out if your startup matches these criteria!