Borys Musielak

Founding Partner, SMOK Ventures

Borys is a Founding Partner at SMOK Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm mapping out software and gaming investments across Central and Eastern Europe. He tracks how regional tech talent networks scale globally, writing extensively on seed-stage investment validation and diaspora startup mechanics. Before becoming an investor, he co-founded the ReaktorX accelerator and the personalized recommendation startup Filmaster, which was subsequently acquired by Samba TV.

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