Startup Booster Poland

If you have an innovative idea, product or service, your company has not been on the market for more than 5 years and you are looking for grant funding, the Startup Booster Poland program may be a perfect fit.

How Booster Poland works?

Startup Booster Poland is an acceleration program offering non-equity funding in the amount up to PLN 400,000.

Startup Booster Poland program involves is not only a non-refundable grant, but also training and workshops offered by a given accelerator, as well as support from technology/corporate partners of an accelerator in the development and commercialization of an idea, or the opportunity to present your product to investors at events organized by the accelerator.

Structure of Booster Poland Programme

The Booster Poland program provides for the following acceleration routes:

• Industry Acceleration: development or commercialization of the product in cooperation with the technology recipient (in practice, first big client).
• Investor Acceleration: preparing the startup to raise capital from private investors.
• Go-global: preparing the startup with a ready product for international expansion in cooperation with the accelerator’s foreign partners.
• Sector Agnostic: allows product development without the technology recipient (grant is reduced to PLN 200.000).
• Poland Prize: public funding for relocation of foreign startups to Poland.

The acceleration programme takes 4-6 months.

More details regarding Booster Poland program and how to combine its funding with the most popular programme for startups (Startup Platforms).

What are the application deadlines?

Each of 17 Booster Poland operator has planned around 4-6 application rounds for startups, with the entire program running until 2026. This provides a broad window of opportunities to prepare a successful application.

Each operator has different rules and regulations, different project advancement requirements for each track, or different industry preferences and other business partners (technology recipients). So regardless of the large pool of competitions, it’s worth monitoring the calls to fit yourself into the criteria of the relevant accelerator.