Patrick Polak

Partner Fund I-IV, Newion
Patrick Polak, Head of Failure who takes blame so founders keep credit, uses his Delft engineering and founder background with Steve Blank/lean methods to pursue niches and protect founder ownership.
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€1M–€10M
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Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), selectively other EU or EU candidate countries
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SaaS
Enterprise
AI
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Devtools
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About Patrick Polak

Patrick Polak calls himself the Head of Failure, believing founders deserve credit for success while he owns the mistakes—an approach shaped by his engineering background at Delft and his own experience running a software company before becoming an investor. He builds on frameworks like Steve Blank's Startup Owner's Manual and lean startup thinking, favoring a narrow niche approach over going big right away, and he pushes to keep founders' ownership meaningful for longer rather than diluting them into hired managers.

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SaaS, Enterprise, AI, Data, Devtools
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Seed - Series A
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€1M–€10M

Founded in 2000, Newion has stayed focused on B2B software investing across the Benelux, Nordics, and Germany, backing companies that use software to modernize industries with complex, manual operations, such as restaurants, air cargo, construction, and compliance work. The firm keeps its fund size and portfolio concentrated—for example, its €130 million fourth fund was meant for only about 20 new startups—and it has backed early data and infrastructure companies like Collibra and Deliverect, while every investor from its earlier funds chose to invest again in the new one.

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