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Scale CEE Cohort I | January 2025

Scale CEE Cohort I | January 2025

Jobful is a developer of a recruitment platform focused on gamification and psychometric testing to empower young professionals. The platform prioritizes personal growth, allowing candidates to create profiles based on tested skills, enabling job seekers to find tailored job matches.

Founder: Mihai Cepoi

Contact: mihai@jobful.ro

Website: jobful.io

HQ: Bucharest (RO)

Info Deck HERE

Gyfted offers SaaS platforms for remote hiring, using psychometrics and AI to assess candidates' personality, abilities, preferences, and motivations. These tools help optimize hiring, save time, and support career transitions.

Founder: Robert Kowalski

Contact: roberto@gyfted.me

Website: gyfted.me

HQ: Szczecin (PL)

Info Deck HERE

Nettle.ai is a company focused on developing conversational artificial intelligence (AI) software to enhance e-commerce businesses. Their platform helps automate and streamline customer care, augment sales and marketing, and enrich communications, enabling enterprises to provide better customer experiences and build brand loyalty.

Founder: Andrej Greguš

Contact: andrej@nettle.ai

Website: peopleby.nettle.ai

HQ: Bratislava (SK)

Info Deck HERE

jobful.io

gyfted.me

peopleby.nettle.ai

Jobful is a developer of a recruitment platform focused on gamification and psychometric testing to empower young professionals. The platform prioritizes personal growth, allowing candidates to create profiles based on tested skills, enabling job seekers to find tailored job matches.

Gyfted offers SaaS platforms for remote hiring, using psychometrics and AI to assess candidates' personality, abilities, preferences, and motivations. These tools help optimize hiring, save time, and support career transitions.

Nettle.ai is a company focused on developing conversational artificial intelligence (AI) software to enhance e-commerce businesses. Their platform helps automate and streamline customer care, augment sales and marketing, and enrich communications, enabling enterprises to provide better customer experiences and build brand loyalty.

Founder: Mihai Cepoi

Contact: mihai@jobful.ro

HQ: Bucharest (RO)

Sales Deck HERE

Founder: Robert Kowalski

Contact: roberto@gyfted.me

HQ: Szczecin (PL)

Sales Deck HERE

Founder: Andrej Greguš

Contact: andrej@nettle.ai

HQ: Bratislava (SK)

Sales Deck HERE

Hop.City is building large-scale green mobility solutions for last-mile and corporate mobility companies offering e-bike and e-moped services with SaaS management system and battery charging infrastructure. The platform aims to provide a sustainable and efficient solution for urban transportation.

Founder: Lukasz Banach

Contact: karolina.sikorska@hop.city

Website: hop.city

HQ: Warsaw (PL)

Info Deck HERE

MELP is a digital platform for managing employee well-being, offering solutions for benefits management, engagement, and loyalty. It provides personalized benefits through a marketplace and covers areas such as Medicine and Pharmacy, Employee Benefits, Lifestyle & Longevity, and Protection & Financing.

Founder: Vidmantas Šiugždinis

Contact: vidmantas.siugzdinis@melp.com

Website: melp.com

HQ: Vilnius (LT)

Info Deck: HERE

1Security is a cybersecurity company that enhances digital asset protection through automated solutions. The platform manages permissions, identifies sensitive data, and ensures secure AI usage with real-time alerts, strengthening an organization's security posture.

Founder: Mateusz Olek

Contact: adam@1security.ai

Website: 1Security.ai

HQ: Łódź (PL)

Info Deck HERE

hop.city

melp.com

1Security.ai

Hop.City is building large-scale green mobility solutions for last-mile and corporate mobility companies offering e-bike and e-moped services with SaaS management system and battery charging infrastructure. The platform aims to provide a sustainable and efficient solution for urban transportation.

MELP is a digital platform for managing employee well-being, offering solutions for benefits management, engagement, and loyalty. It provides personalized benefits through a marketplace and covers areas such as Medicine and Pharmacy, Employee Benefits, Lifestyle & Longevity, and Protection & Financing.

1Security is a cybersecurity company that enhances digital asset protection through automated solutions. The platform manages permissions, identifies sensitive data, and ensures secure AI usage with real-time alerts, strengthening an organization's security posture.

Founder: Lukasz Banach

Contact: karolina.sikorska@hop.city

HQ: Warsaw (PL)

Sales Deck HERE

Founder: Vidmantas Šiugždinis

Contact: vidmantas.siugzdinis@melp.com

HQ: Vilnius (LT)

Sales Deck HERE

Founder: Adam Żaczek

Contact: adam@1security.ai

HQ: Łódź (PL)

Sales Deck HERE

Mentiway helps big companies easily launch, manage, and track mentoring programs. We assist mentoring organizers in saving time, scaling and standardizing their programs, supporting them with monitoring and data-driven decision-making.

Founder: Tomasz Sąsiadek

Contact: t.sasiadek@mentiway.com

Website: mentiway.com

HQ: Łódź (PL)

Info Deck HERE

Zonifero is a leading Tenant Experience and Smart Building platform for commercial real estate combined with workplace management system for companies working in hybrid mode. Our goal is to create an open Building API platform, enabling a proptech revolution similar to how PSD2 fueled fintech.

Founder: Jacek Ratajczak

Contact: jacek.ratajczak@zonifero.com

Website: zonifero.com

HQ: Białystok (PL)

Info Deck HERE

Gekko Photonics, a deep-tech company, that specializes in optical diagnostics of chemicals. Their core product, Spectrally, optimizes chemical production through real-time monitoring, helping producers cut costs related to energy, HR, substrate purchases, and waste reduction.

Founder: Robert Stachurski

Contact: robert.stachurski@gekkophotonics.com

Website: gekkophotonics.com

HQ: Wroclaw (PL)

Info Deck HERE

mentiway.com

zonifero.com

gekkophotonics.com

Mentiway helps big companies easily launch, manage, and track mentoring programs. We assist mentoring organizers in saving time, scaling and standardizing their programs, supporting them with monitoring and data-driven decision-making.

Zonifero is a leading Tenant Experience and Smart Building platform for commercial real estate combined with workplace management system for companies working in hybrid mode. Our goal is to create an open Building API platform, enabling a proptech revolution similar to how PSD2 fueled fintech.

Gekko Photonics, a deep-tech company, that specializes in optical diagnostics of chemicals. Their core product, Spectrally, optimizes chemical production through real-time monitoring, helping producers cut costs related to energy, HR, substrate purchases, and waste reduction.

Founder: Tomasz Sąsiadek

Contact: t.sasiadek@mentiway.com

HQ: Łódź (PL)

Sales Deck HERE

Founder: Jacek Ratajczak

Contact: jacek.ratajczak@zonifero.com

HQ: Białystok (PL)

Sales Deck HERE

Founder: Robert Stachurski

Contact: robert.stachurski@gekkophotonics.com

HQ: Wroclaw (PL)

Sales Deck HERE

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