Karol Lasota is Partner at Inovo.VC, backing ambitious CEE founders. With roots in entrepreneurship and VC, he’s known for spotting high-potential startups early and driving proactive sourcing.
Karol is a founder & operator turned VC. He invested up to €4M in founders from Central and Eastern Europe, as well as globally, at the pre-seed and seed stages in AI, Infrastructure, Deep tech, and Data science verticals. Before Inovo, he co-founded a B2B marketplace, Cateringoo, raised a seed round, and scaled it to 15 people and over 100 enterprise customers.
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