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@borysmusielak
SMOK Ventures managing partner and co-founder. Engineer turned entrepreneur and investor, backing early-stage founders in Poland and CEE.
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Jun 2025 – Present
SMOK Angels · Warsaw · CEE · 1 yr 6 mos
No-fee angel investor community for Poland and Central and Eastern Europe: 200+ active angels, 17+ investments in the first year, dinners and founder retreats. The LinkedIn experience entry reports creating an angel network with 200+ active investors and 17 investments in the second half of 2025; its summary gives a newer-looking figure of 230+ entrepreneurs and €25k–€100k tickets. Both figures are retained as source statements without assuming identical membership definitions.
PJATK (Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology) · Warsaw
Graduated in 2004, with distinction per his Impact'23 speaker bio. LinkedIn lists M.Sc. in Computer Science – Software Engineering at the Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology for 1999–2004. Year-only dates remain in prose; no months are invented.
University of Westminster · London
Exchange semester in 2002 during his computer science studies.
Jul 2024 – Present
Juo · Wrocław, Poland · 2 yrs 5 mos
Investor role; the profile describes following monthly company reports.
Dec 2022 – Present
HiPets, StepApp (SMOK portfolio) · Warsaw · 4 yrs
Supervisory board seats at portfolio companies: StepApp since December 2022 and HiPets since May 2023, per the Polish company register.
Nov 2021 – Present
Authologic · Warsaw, Poland · 5 yrs 1 mo
Seed investor in a company described as adding electronic identities to existing KYC workflows.
Feb 2021 – Present
Shen AI · 5 yrs 10 mos
Seed investor in a smartphone-based vital-sign and AI health-monitoring company, as described in LinkedIn.
Sep 2020 – Present
inStreamly · 6 yrs 3 mos
LinkedIn dates the role from September 2020 and separately states that he led a pre-seed round in 2021. Both statements are retained as written; no round/start-date equivalence is inferred.
Jul 2019 – Present
ReaktorX · San Francisco Bay Area, United States · 7 yrs 5 mos
Continues supporting ReaktorX as limited partner and advisor after naming Luca Stirbat as successor. Listed as a separate ongoing role from July 2019.
May 2019 – Present
SMOK Ventures · Warsaw · San Francisco · 7 yrs 7 mos
Early-stage VC backing founders from Poland, CEE and the diaspora. Fund I (2019, ~46M PLN, PFR-anchored, 24 companies); Fund II ($25M+, closed January 2024). Leads deals in devtools, AI and gaming; led Authologic, Alokai, inSTREAMLY, Masthead Data, SLS, Slickshift and Primio. LinkedIn title: Founding Partner. The profile lists investments in Alokai (YC W21), inSTREAMLY, Authologic (YC W21), Omnipack, 57hours, Pstryk, Shen AI, Workee, Juo and IntoDNA. It describes the fund as backing pre-seed and seed software and gaming companies from Central and Eastern Europe.
Apr 2015 – Present
Fundacja Startup Poland · Warsaw · Kraków · 11 yrs 8 mos
Initiated the founding coalition in November 2014; the foundation was registered in April 2015. Member of the foundation council since registration; described as chairman of the board in a 2019 event bio. LinkedIn describes co-founding Startup Poland in November 2014 and an ongoing board-member role, helping create an umbrella organisation representing Polish startups to policy-makers, academics and media. The existing April 2015 start marks formal foundation registration; the earlier founding coalition and formal registration dates are preserved separately.
Present
Dziki Warszawa (basketball club) · Warsaw
Minority owner since 2019; a registry entry matching his name sat on the company's supervisory board from October 2020 to June 2024. The club was promoted to the top Polish league and played in European cups. LinkedIn separately lists Angel Investor from April 2020 to present and Supervisory Board Member from October 2020 to April 2024. It states that the club reached Ekstraklasa in 2023. The earlier cited local record gives ownership since 2019 and a registry board end in June 2024; those differences remain unresolved rather than overwriting the prior evidence.
Present
Founder Institute Warsaw, Google for Startups, Huge Thing · Warsaw
Mentor to early-stage founders since 2013 at Founder Institute Warsaw and later at Google for Startups, Huge Thing and mspark.
Nov 2016 – May 2026
ReaktorX · Warsaw · 9 yrs 7 mos
Non-profit pre-acceleration program for first-time founders, co-founded with Diana Koziarska and announced in November 2016. First batch of ten startups in January 2017; 150+ founders helped. President of the board of ReaktorX sp. z o.o. 2017–2019 and 2022–2026; the company entered liquidation in May 2026. LinkedIn lists the operational co-founder role as November 2016–July 2019, with alumni Haip, 3dapi, Heroify, Foodsi and Linghos; it separately lists a Limited Partner/advisor role from July 2019. The existing timeline range is based on the earlier company-register research and is retained rather than treating the operational and legal periods as interchangeable.
Jul 2011 – Jul 2020
Reaktor Warsaw · Warsaw · 9 yrs 1 mo
Co-founded Poland's first coworking space for startups, a Bay-Area-style startup mansion in Żoliborz, with Kuba Filipowski, Anna Walkowska and Paweł Czerski; moved in on 1 July 2011 and hosted the Open Reaktor events. LinkedIn dates Reaktor Warsaw to July 2011–July 2020 and names Anna Walkowska and Kuba Filipowski as fellow co-founders. Hosted monthly OpenReaktor events with international speakers including Marvin Liao, Jerry Colonna, Paul Bragiel and Simon Cross.
Jun 2015 – Jun 2019
Samba TV · San Francisco · Warsaw · 4 yrs 1 mo
2015–2019. Joined after Samba TV acquired Filmaster: head of the Warsaw office, then on the leadership team in San Francisco, then back in Europe to establish and grow the European engineering hub from zero to 50+ engineers and bring products to European markets. LinkedIn dates the Director of Product Management role to June 2015–June 2019. It reports building the Warsaw office and growing its team from 4 to 40 while leading EU operations and international product work across the UK, Germany, France, Italy, Spain and Australia. The earlier biography reports a wider engineering hub of 50+; both source figures are retained for review.
Mar 2010 – Jun 2015
Filmaster · Warsaw · 5 yrs 4 mos
Personalized film recommendation engine started as a side project in 2009, incorporated in March 2010, seed-funded by HackFwd in 2011, and pivoted to B2B personalization and analytics for cinemas and TV providers (Filmaster.TV). Acquired by Samba TV in June 2015. LinkedIn lists a founder/CEO period beginning January 2009, preceding the March 2010 incorporation retained in the existing record. Built entertainment-industry personalisation and analytics for cinema exhibitors and TV operators, raised approximately €500k from international investors, and sold the company to Samba TV in June 2015.
Oct 2007 – Aug 2010
Rule Financial (Barclays Capital and Deutsche Bank projects) · London · 2 yrs 11 mos
2007–2010. Moved to London to try investment banking technology; built Filmaster.pl after hours and left the corporate job in 2010. LinkedIn dates Rule Financial consulting to October 2007–August 2010, Deutsche Bank work to November 2007–August 2010 and Barclays Capital work to January–September 2009. Worked as software engineer, analyst and connector across bank teams on derivatives processing, including swaps/swaptions, FpML and Tibco Business Works.
OSmedia: jakilinux.org, LinuxNews.pl, OSnews.pl · Poland
2005–2007. Built and edited a group of news and community sites around GNU/Linux and open source, the largest in Poland at the time. LinkedIn dates Founder at OSmedia to January 2005–January 2012 and describes GNU/Linux/open-source media sites including jakilinux.org and OSnews.pl generating millions of monthly page views. The earlier biography summarises this chapter as 2005–2007; the different role spans are flagged for review without inventing a resolution.
eo Networks, empolis, CoCoNet · Warsaw · Germany
2003–2007. First job in 2003 as a junior programmer at eo, hired by Stefan Batory while still a student; then engineering and a first team-lead role at empolis and CoCoNet in Germany. LinkedIn lists eo Networks Software Engineer (July 2002–December 2004): J2EE, XSLT, PostgreSQL and Debian GNU/Linux for back-office, archive-security and publishing CMS projects. At empolis Poland (January 2005–January 2006), developed J2EE/Oracle/Solaris search and knowledge-base systems for Rzeczpospolita and the Presidential archive. At coconet (January 2006–September 2007), led a small engineering team building fintech products used by Rabobank and ING. Earlier biography describes the first job as beginning in 2003; that discrepancy remains open.
