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The Industry Lab is an acceleration programme for start-ups initiated by DGA S.A., a consulting company that has been listed on the Stock Exchange for 20 years. As DGA S.A., we have been advising organisations and implementing bold solutions for over 34 years. Under the motto ‘We support the Greatest of Tomorrow’, we create the future of start-ups, but at the same time – thanks to our rich and diverse experience – we are a trusted partner to many large companies and public institutions.
Our main areas of activity are start-ups, acceleration, and technological innovations, social innovations, occupational activation, training, education, and companies restructuring.
Our representatives are members of prestigious business organisations and associations, including the Wielkopolska Capital Club, the Association of Stock Exchange Issuers, the Association of Restructuring Advisers, the Partner Club of the Poznań University of Economics and Business, and the Wielkopolska Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
We have more than 2,000 successfully completed projects and more than 200 implemented innovations.
Meet our team
Joanna
Juszczyszyn-Klimek
Start-up mentor
Joanna Juszczyszyn-Klimek
Start-up mentor
Since 2003, she is professionally associated with DGA S.A., currently the Director of the Project Management Department. She has participated in the preparation and coordination of dozens of projects co-financed by aid funds. Since 2014, she has also performed the function of the Vice President of the Supporting of the Greatest of Tomorrow Foundation. She combines social and business experience in an innovative and effective way by creating initiatives on cooperation between business, science, and NGOs. She is particularly fond of ‘other’, unconventional, pilots projects, and innovations on a national scale. As part of the incubation and acceleration processes implemented by DGA S.A., she participates as an expert in the evaluation of innovative ideas and products. She was the manager of the successfully completed two previous editions of the INDUSTRYLAB acceleration programme (the ScaleUP pilot and INDUSTRYLAB II).
Anna
Szymańska
Programme coordinator
Anna Szymańska
Programme coordinator
She is associated with the consulting sector since the beginning of her professional career. She is the Vice President of the management board at DGA S.A. During her 25 years in this sector, she has supervised several hundred projects concerning both the SME sector, large entities and administration. These included projects related to, among others, privatisation, valuations, M&A processes, restructuring processes, and development strategies. At DGA S.A., she is responsible for the acquisition and implementation of advisory and training projects co-financed from external funds, including the European Union funds. As a licensed insolvency administrator and restructuring advisor, she specialises in the selection of procedures and preparation of restructuring plans. She is the initiator of the establishment of the Association of Women Business Owners in Wielkopolska. Since 2008, Anna Szymańska is the President of the ‘Supporting the Greatest of Tomorrow’ Foundation based in Poznań, supporting entrepreneurship among young people.
Adam
Szumilas
Monitoring expert
Adam Szumilas
Monitoring expert
At Industry Lab, he is responsible for monitoring the start-ups’ activities in terms of financial data and content during acceleration and post-acceleration. He represents the accelerator during events, conferences, meetings, and workshops. His experience includes both the implementation and coordination of projects co-financed by the European Union (including grant projects on acceleration combining the needs of corporations with the potential of start-ups). He is the expert with several years of experience in the field of project financing, business consulting, acceleration, and incubation. Creator and coordinator of dozens of consulting and training projects. He has more than 15 years of experience in gaining external funding for investment, advisory, and training projects for both companies and public institutions.
Daria
Olech
Marketing
and promotions expert
Piotr Piątek
Marketing and promotions expert
Daria prepares and carries out the promotional activities planned in the programme and takes care of the visualisation of the project (including the appropriate promotion of our partners). She is a specialist in content creation with 14 years of experience and 4 years in marketing. She has gained practical knowledge in the media, the largest network of non-public universities in Poland, and interactive agencies.
Wiesława
Maj
Financial and accounting expert
Wiesława Maj
Financial and accounting expert
She is the most experienced expert in accounting for external funding at DGA S.A.. At Industry Lab, she deals with the settlement of grants and verification of start-ups’ settlement documentation. In her ongoing work, she consults with the project team on the project budget. Wiesława has benn responsible for settlement of projects with a total value of over PLN 100,000,000.
Bartek
Janowicz
Start-up mentor
Bartek Janowicz
Start-up mentor
For many years, he has combined his experience working for medium and large companies with supporting start-ups. He helps both sides in acceleration programmes (where a start-up implements its solution on a pilot basis for a larger company) or mentors employees of established companies in a start-up approach to projects and products.
For years, he has studied what the development of a start-up and its subsequent growth into a larger company depends on. He believes that the key two elements are:
- the effectiveness of a team formed by the founders setting up the start-up and if the founders are able to teach teamwork to other members of their team,
- the ability of the members of the start-up to define customer needs and test quickly if their product responds to those needs.
He has helped start-up founders to grow companies – from a team of founders to around 20-30 people – and board members to scale organisations from a few hundred to a few thousand. Currently, for several years he has been responsible for the development of the organisation’s culture and all topics of HR strategy in a game dev company in a rapid growth phase (from a scale of less than 100 people to around 300).
As an expert in Customer Development and Lean Startup methodologies, he teaches start-ups how to verify through experimentation if their products meet customers’ needs (in the Problem-Solution Fit and Product-Market Fit phases). He mentors start-ups in many acceleration programmes apart from Industry Lab, e.g.: Foodtech.ac, Mazovian Startup, TeenCrunch, etc. He also ran a private accelerator programme People Power in the HR-tech industry.
Consulting and mentoring areas:
- researching customer needs (Problem Fit phase),
- experimental verification of the fit between the start-up’s product and customers’ needs (in the Solution Fit phase),
- creation and implementation of the company’s development strategy (in the Company Building phase),
- development of the organisation’s culture and systematisation of personnel processes (in the Rapid Growth phase),
- development of founders’ leadership skills and effective teamwork (from the Company Building phase to the Scaling phase).
Łukasz
Klimek
Start-up mentor
Łukasz Klimek
Start-up mentor
He is associated with Industry Lab since 2017. He has participated in 6 editions of the accelerator programme. He is responsible for the day-to-day support of start-up teams in setting and monitoring KPIs. He supports the teams in contacts with business partners and technology recipients. As part of the incubation and acceleration processes implemented by DGA S.A., he participates as an expert in the evaluation of innovative ideas and products. Łukasz is the expert in the field of social innovations dedicated to the support of dependent persons and persons with disabilities. He is also the expert with several years of experience in the field of project financing, business consulting, acceleration, and incubation. Łukasz is a creator and coordinator of dozens of advisory and training projects.
Jarosław
Dudko
Start-up mentor
Jarosław Dudko
Start-up mentor
Innovation broker with international experience in financial institutions and PE/VC funds.
Topics:
(a) financial consultancy – preparation of the financial part of the presentation, including business model validation and valuation:
- preparation of financial projections, introduction to methodologies;
- mapping of available funding sources and matching presentation language to these.
(b) Internationalisation – identification and mapping of optimal geographical expansion, including stakeholders:
- introduction to business culture, especially English- and German-speaking countries;
- developing the business presentation and validating the value proposition.
(c) networking and team building – identification of needs, mapping and validation of communication and recruitment tasks:
- preparation of optimal communication.
EXPERIENCE
Accelerations, Europe – Tutor/Scout/Supervisor of start-ups
2018 – present – finding, evaluating and supporting innovative entrepreneurs through mentoring, internationalisation and capital raising in Polish Agency for Enterprise Development and other programmes.
OTHER PROJECTS
Techleaders/Women in Technology – mentoring
Institute of Mathematics of the Polish Academy of Sciences – summer research internships
SKILLS
Evaluation of over a thousand start-ups, business needs assessment, mentoring and financial consultancy in programmes, Scale Up (industrylab.pl), Poland Prize (Huge Thing) and many others.
Grzegorz
Maciaszek
Start-up mentor
Grzegorz Maciaszek
Start-up mentor
He is a manager with over 16 years of experience in management positions in Polish and international companies. Grzegorz is also a founder of MedLegalis, a company providing advanced insurance programmes for the beauty industry. In his work he focuses on the practical side of implementing innovations and developing innovations in organisations. He is an investment manager at Space Bridge Fund.
Grzegorz has also supported start-ups in Polish accelerator programmes, Huge Thing, Google for Startups, Warsaw Booster and Mazovian Startup, and foreign ones, Enefit Accelerator Tehnopol (Estonia). He leads projects for the commercialisation and further development of start-ups, especially in the field of RES energy.
He is the expert and advisor in business psychology, marketing, and sales strategies, sales and customer service standards, Service Design, and methods: La Salle Matrix Thinking and Design Thinking, Business Model Canvas, Lean Startup, and SCRUM.
Consulting and mentoring areas:
- preparing and delivering pitch deck presentations,
- sourcing of funding,
- creating business development strategies,
- preparing investment presentations,
- operational management in a start-up,
- introduction of Agile methodologies in the company,
- scaling and commercialisation in a start-up.
Piotr
Piątek
Start-up mentor
Piotr Piątek
Start-up mentor
He is a mentor of Academic Business Incubators. Piotr previously managed a branch of Business Link Poznań. He is interested in the area of new technologies in every field. Piotr is the author of publications, speeches, and creator of companies’ business models. Since 2008, he is an active participant in many start-ups and projects, including the social campaign: ‘I don’t do it for free’. He has participated in the creation of an In Vitro medical device, a biodegradable ashtray, the ‘Scientist Portal’ project (evaluation and monitoring), the ‘Four Seasons’ project for school children, and the ‘First Step’ a project made by students . Currently Piotr is co-developing solutions in the field of telemedicine and pharmacy. He is the co-developer of the iVAC device and project manager at Medigent.
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