Chris Kowalczyk

hardGAMMA Ventures, Founder and Managing Partner

Early stage investor (HardGamma Ventures) in technology startups and strategy consultant (UBIK BC) - with deep expertise in Internet, software and digital media.

Recoginsed in The Europas 2011 as Highly Commended in 3 categories - Best VC Partner, Best VC of the Year 2011 (HardGamma) and Best European Startup Accelerator (GammaRebels):
http://eu.techcrunch.com/2011/11/18/peer-index-takes-the-honours-as-the-europas-awards-drifts-east/

Founder of first YC/TechStars-like startup accelerator in Poland (http://eu.techcrunch.com/2011/07/04/gammarebels-aims-to-be-the-ycombinator-for-central-europe/).

Mentor with Labstar.pl (2011), a corporate accelerator by Wirtualna Polska (part of France Telecom group).

Mentor with IPO48 (2011)

Mentor with Springboard (2011), a Cambridge-based accelerator for startups.

E-nnovation 2010 (E-commerce Conference&startup competition) Program Committee (http://e-nnovation.pl/rada-programowa//lang-pref/en/).

Referrer at HackFwd (http://hackfwd.com/) - a pan-European startup program launched in 2010.

Mentor during Seedcamp finals in London in 2009, Mini Seedcamp Warsaw 2009 and Mini Seedcamp Prague 2010.

Co-organizer of first Polish