Central & Eastern Europe has been creating outsized tech value over the past decade – enterprise value growth in CEE reached 15.5x vs Europe’s 7.0x. according to Dealroom-CEE-Report-2025
Within that story, Poland stands out as the largest scaleup hub in the region.
How does that look like in numbers?
🔹 Scale & value: Dealroom estimates Poland’s startup ecosystem at ~€58B in combined enterprise value (Q1 2025) – the highest in CEE.
🔹 A deep pipeline across stages: Poland combines high volume at early stage with a visible path to later stages – including breakout and late-stage scaleups and a growing base of €1B+ outcomes (unicorns and €1B+ exits).
🔹 Why investors should care now: Funding is recovering regionally – CEE companies raised €2.3B of VC in 2024 and €442M in Q1 2025.
But the capital structure is still uneven: 74% of CEE VC investment (2020-2024) went into breakout + late-stage rounds, even though these rounds were only ~4% of all VC rounds. In other words: growth capital is scarce and concentrated – which creates whitespace for international investors who can help the best Polish companies scale faster.
Add to that the fact that ~48% of CEE scaleups relocate as they scale (often following capital and market access). More growth-stage investment momentum in Poland can help keep more global winners anchored in the region.
Interested in Poland (and partner ecosystems in Lithuania and Spain) as an investment destination?
Get in touch with the atTRACTION team at PPNT: attraction@ppnt.poznan.pl and explore our curated portfolio of startup champions here.
Source: Dealroom.co, “Central and Eastern European startups 2025: Spotlight on scaleups” (data captured Q1 2025).
(Enterprise value here is the sum of estimated startup valuations based on VC rounds, public markets and disclosed valuations.)
