Follow the Founders — Where CEE founders get discovered
NEW A Wolves Summit publication

Where CEE founders
get discovered.

An editorial hub connecting ambitious founders across Central & Eastern Europe with 100+ active investors. Built on the Wolves Summit network — 10,500+ startups, 3,792 investors, 90 countries.

Founding-member access for the first 500
FOUNDER №043
Marta Kowalska
CEO · Lumina AI
€2.4M
Raised
42
Team
FOUNDER №117
Dmitri Volkov
CTO · FibriTech
Deep Tech
FOUNDER №088
Anna Richter
Founder · Pekat Vision
Seed
Stage
8.2×
YoY Growth
Warsaw Berlin Prague Vilnius Bucharest Tallinn Budapest Sofia Kraków Riga Warsaw Berlin Prague Vilnius Bucharest Tallinn Budapest Sofia Kraków Riga
For Investors

See the next round
before it closes.

A weekly drop of editorially-curated founders from CEE — with verified traction, direct messaging, and pitch-deck access before the round opens. Built for active VCs, Super-Angels, and CVCs.

01 / Cadence

Every Tuesday.
A fresh drop in your inbox.

One curated batch per week. Never more, never less. Skip the noise, read the shortlist.

Marta Kowalska
Lumina AI · Warsaw
Hot
Dmitri Volkov
FibriTech · Prague
Seed
Anna Richter
Pekat Vision · Berlin
Pre-seed
02 / Network

The Wolves network.

Plug into 10,500+ startups and 3,792 investors across 90 countries.

03 / Connect

Message founders directly.

Verified investor inbox. Skip the warm-intro dance.

Saw your write-up. Free Thursday?
10am works. Sending invite.
04 / Data

Verified traction data — signed off by the founder.

Revenue, growth, team size. No back-channel guesswork.

05 / Discovery

Filter like a VC.

Stage, sector, country, ARR — the way you actually think.

Pre-seed AI/ML Poland €500K+ ARR B2B SaaS 2024
06 / Access

Decks before the round opens.

Verified investors get pitch-deck access ahead of announcements.

For Founders

Pitch once.
Reach the whole pack.

Submit your financing pitch and we'll feature the most interesting founders across Issue №01. Our editorial team writes you up properly — then puts your story in front of 3,792+ active VCs, Super-Angels and CVCs.

01 / Editorial

We write you up properly.

No scraped one-pager. Our editors frame your story the way investors actually want to read it.

FOUNDER №128 · ISSUE №01
A Warsaw founder rethinking on-device inference —
02 / Reach

Get seen by 3,792+ VCs.

Live activity feed. Every view logged, every signal visible.

17 investors
viewed your profile
NOW
Lightspeed
saved your profile
2H
03 / Quality

Selected founders get featured.

Only 50 per quarter. Every one editorially reviewed.

04 / Connect

Investors reach out to you.

Featured founders get direct messages from verified VCs. No cold inbox, no warm-intro chase.

Love what you're building. 30 min next week?
Sure — Tuesday 4pm CET?
05 / IRL

1:1 meetings at Wolves Summit.

Top pitches get invited to pitch live in Warsaw or Kraków.

10:00
Atomico · Warsaw
10:30
Lightspeed Partners
11:00
BMW i Ventures
06 / Deck

Your deck, in their hands.

Verified investors on the waitlist see your deck before the round opens.

What's inside

Not a directory.
A publication for the hunt.

Every founder on Follow the Founders is editorially curated, verified, and written up the way you'd want to read it — before anyone else does.

01 / Profiles

Curated founder profiles,
not scraped LinkedIn exports.

Every profile is editorially built — the why, the traction, the team, the ask. Vetted before it goes live.

AI
FinTech
SaaS
02 / Connect

Message founders directly.

Skip the intros. If you're a verified investor, the inbox is open.

Hey Marta — saw your write-up. Free for a call Thursday?
03 / Cadence

Weekly founder drops.

Every Tuesday, a new batch. Never more, never less.

04 / Discovery

Filter by stage, sector, country.

Search the way VCs actually think.

Pre-seed AI/ML Poland €500K+ ARR B2B SaaS
05 / Data

Verified traction data.

Revenue, growth, team size — signed off by the founder.

06 / Access

Early access to pitch decks.

For verified investors on the waitlist — decks land before the round opens.

07 / Quality

One pack. No noise.

We don't publish 10,000 founders. We publish the ones who matter this quarter — and write them up like they deserve.

~50 founders
per quarter
/ 100% editorially
reviewed
10K+
Startups in the Wolves network
3,792
Active investors
90
Countries represented
Q2
2026 launch window
Limited early access

Be in the first pack.

Investors get the first drop in their inbox. Founders get their pitch in front of 3,792 active VCs. The first 500 get founding-member access.