At the 1st annual CEE X-Tech Awards, held 11 September at Warsaw’s Hotel Intercontinental, the following 13 companies were chosen by the VIP Jury as tops in their category from among a highly-competitive list of 69 Short-Listed Companies:
Top Female Exec in Tech
Monika Kania, CEO & Founder, Xchanger.io
Institutional Innovators
Alior Bank S.A.
FinTech Company of the Year
Symmetrical.ai
Gaming Company of the Year
Ten Square Games
Top M&A Deal of the Year
SumUp (UK): acquired Polish e-commerce platform Shoplo
X-Tech Financing Deal of the Year – CEE
Talentuno (Hungary) raises € 4 million Series A round
X-Tech Financing Deal of the Year – Poland
Talent Alpha (Poland) raises € 4.5 million in Seed round
DeepTech Company of the Year
Conelum
Blockchain Solution of the Year
Coinfirm
AI (or Machine Learning) Innovation of the Year
Synerise
HealthTech/ MedTech Company of the Year
AISENS
Transportation Tech Company of the Year
Hyper Poland
Top VC fund of the year in CEE
Startup Wise Guys
Photo highlights from the Awards Gala (nearly 200 Photos posted here).
Here is the Full List of Short-Listed X-Tech Companies:
Top Female Exec in Tech
• Jolanta Piela, CEO, Good Division
• Anna Maj, FinTech Leader, PWC
• Monika Synoradzka, CEO, HugeThing
• Monika Kania, CEO & Founder, Xchanger.io
• Kamila Wincenciak, Head of Fintech Partnerships, Alior Bank
• Agnieszka Maciejowska, Co-Founder & CEO, Evenea.pl
• Honorata Hafke – Dys, Co-Founder, StethoMe
Institutional Innovators
• Alior Bank S.A.
• Huge Thing
• The Foundation for Technology Entrepreneurship/MIT EF CEE
• PKO Bank Polski
• CallBee
• PwC Polska
FinTech Company of the Year
•Swaper
•Twisto
•Symmetrical.ai
•Mintos
•Coinfirm
•Nordigen
•Swaper
•TWINO
Gaming Company of the Year
• Facemetrics
• Monetizr
• Ten Square Game
• ECC Games
Top M&A Deal of the Year
• Bittnet (Romania): takeover of Crescendo International’s IT&C integration business
• SumUp (UK): acquired Polish e-commerce platform Shoplo
• Summa Linguae (Poland): buys Swedish LSP Kommunicera
X-Tech Financing Deal of the Year – CEE
• Talentuno (Hungary) raises € 4 million Series A round
• Oxipit (Lithuania) raises $1.7M Seed round to bring AI into clinical radiology practice
• MyCredit (Ukraine) raises $3 million in its latest funding round
• Estateguru (Estonia) raises €1.3 million
X-Tech Financing Deal of the Year – Poland
• HCM Deck (Poland) raises €2.8 million
• Talent Alpha (Poland) raises € 4.5 million in Seed round
• Infermedica (Poland) raises $3.65 million, continues rapid US expansion
• Symmetrical.ai (Poland) raises €1.35 million
DeepTech Company (Science-based) of the Year
• QNA Technology
• Haxtron SA
• Olympus Sky Technologies
• Conelum
• Eventech
Blockchain Solution of the Year
• Coinfirm
• Alior Bank SA
• PKO Bank Polski
• JMMJ
AI (or Machine Learning) Innovation of the Year
• Emplocity
• Synerise
• Unified Api
HealthTech/ MedTech Company of the Year
• VeritaCell
• AISENS
• MindMe Inc.
Transportation Tech Company of the Year
• ZitiCity
• Hyper Poland
Top VC fund of the year in CEE
• Startup Wise Guys
• mAccelerator
• Experior Venture Fund
• Karma Ventures
• Inovo Venture Partners
• Alfabeat