Mary Katherine Loritz

The Warsaw startup scene is moving into high gear. In January, we featured the city’s startup hubs, accelerators, VCs, angels, and tech events in Warsaw’s startup ecosystem at a glance, and CEO World’s readers voted Poland the seventh most startup friendly country in the world. Here we list ten Warsaw startups to put on your watch list.
AioCare has developed an ultraportable spirometer (a device that measures inhalation and exhalation) that helps children and adults suffering from asthma and oth...

Sweden has one of Europe’s most active startup ecosystems, with higher investment volume in tech startups per capita than any other country on the continent. It also has 20 startups for every 1,000 employees – 5x that of the US. Venture capital funding in Sweden has been steadily rising over the past few years, and Stockholm is now known as Europe’s “unicorn factory” – with more unicorns per capita than any city in the world next to Silicon Valley – churning out billion dollar companies such as...

Who would have imagined that Sebastian Siemiatkowski and Niklas Adalberth would go from flipping burgers at Burger King to co-founding one of Europe’s most successful fintechs?
Not them. But according to Sebastian, they had plenty of time to think while working fast food and later, travelling on cargo ships. Match that with an education in economics, and some creative business ideas can surface.
In their twenties the duo teamed up with Victor Jacobsson to create a better way to make e-commerce p...

Research from the UN shows that 821 million people in the world are currently undernourished, a figure that is expected to rise along with population. With land and soil becoming increasingly scarce, and climate change expected to dramatically affect crop yields, how will we feed the projected global population of 11.2 billion people in 2100?
In recent years, startups have emerged providing some incredible innovations in the agricultural industry, with new technologies to make farms more produc...

Back pain is one of the leading self-reported medical problems in the world. In the US alone, the condition is estimated to affect 100 million people per year. It’s also the number one reason why people are prescribed painkillers – which has in turn created an opioid epidemic.
Munich-based digital therapeutics pioneer Kaia Health has developed an alternative to treat back pain through an app that utilises machine learning and computer vision to suggest individualised therapies. Founded in 2016,...