Private investment firm
focused on early stage VC
WARSAW • LONDON • GENEVA
Private investment
firm focused on
early stage VC
WARSAW • LONDON
• GENEVA
OUR FOCUS
Deep tech and dual use early stage technology investments.
Long-term returns, mission-oriented coupled with a positive impact.
Curiosity, strong commitment to excellence, moral integrity, personal trust and confidentiality.
OUR FOCUS
Deep tech early stage technology investments.
Long-term returns coupled with a positive social and cultural impact.
Strong commitment to professional excellence,
moral integrity, personal trust and confidentiality.
HOW WE ARE DIFFERENT
We are early-stage, specialist, concentrated, research driven private investment firm backed by a close-knit community of sophisticated LPs.
We offer founders capital, operational support and privileged access to top global network and know-how.
Expeditions Fund is a long-term and patient venture capital fund investing in early-stage technology companies globally led by mission-driven founders.
The fund has initially started as venture capital operations of Firlej Kastory family office. In 2021, Firlej Kastory expanded beyond immediate family management and the venture capital firm, Expeditions Fund, was created.
Expeditions Fund today is an independent venture fund backed by multi-billion dollar investors, family offices, founders and CEOs of successful companies.
In each company we are looking at the four core elements:
Mission-driven Founders
We help people who dare to build something meaningful that goes beyond pure financial profit
Uniqueness
A company should have a compelling competitive advantage based on their technology and the plan of how to build a strong long-term moat
Enterprise-oriented
We prefer to invest in B2B SaaS companies
Targeting Big Market
Total Addressable Market over $1bn with a steady growth rate and favourable trends
VALUE CREATION STRATEGY
We are a specialised group focused on particular stage and sectors where we have ability to add a significant value.
We extend our wider investment base to help founders overcome specific challenges, exchange knowledge, and learn from former technology founders.
OUR INVESTMENT CRITERIA
Stage:
Pre-seed to Series A
Geography:
Europe/US
Focus:
Cyber-security, vertical AI, defence, privacy, advanced/edge computing, data infrastructure, tech-bio / bio-defence
Ticket:
€250k – €2.5m
We are hands-on operators who intend
to support the founders in key dimensions:
We are hands-on operators who intend to support the founders in key dimensions:
Partnerships & HR
Attracting customers,
industry partners,
and key employees.
Investment
Structuring financial rounds,
M&As, exit strategies
and connecting with VCs.
Opportunities
for POCs
With our investors’
portfolio companies.
SELECTED PORTFOLIO
We back founders who want to solve important problems with the use of science and technology:
SELECTED PORTFOLIO
We back founders who want to solve important problems with the use of science and technology:
TEAM
Expeditions Team raised from our ecosystem – a global network of families, entrepreneurs, and private companies. We are proud to work closely with our community and through cultivated relationships we widen our circle of competence. Together we learn about problems, explore possible solutions and collaborate closely to expand these solutions globally.
TEAM
Expeditions Team raised from our ecosystem – a global network of families, entrepreneurs, and private companies. We are proud to work closely with our community and through cultivated relationships we widen our circle of competence. Together we learn about problems, explore possible solutions and collaborate closely to expand these solutions globally.
Mikołaj Firlej
Co-founder, General Partner
Mikolaj has spent several years in venture capital and family office in London and Warsaw. He was also advising Netguru, a leading software development agency in the long-term strategy and acquisitions as well as he helped to establish a new academic Centre at the University of Oxford focused on exploring policy and regulatory challenges of frontier technologies. He is a Lecturer at the Surrey Institute for People-Centred Artificial Intelligence, and holds degrees from the University of Oxford and Warsaw in Law, Philosophy, and Public Policy. In his personal life, Mikolaj is supporting gifted schoolchildren, particularly from Beskid Mountains.
Stanisław Kastory
Co-founder, General Partner
Andrzej Rościszewski
Investment Associate
SENIOR ADVISORS
Paweł Kastory
Maciej Radziwiłł
Sabine Bendiek
Steve Ciesinski
President Toomas Hendrik Ilves
Khai Tan
VENTURE PARTNERS
Akshay Kiran
Marcin Zukowski
Jan Krzewinski
Jakub Lipiński
Piotr Romanowski
Anthony Mensier
Leonardo Quattrucci
CONTACT
We are looking to partner with exceptional founders and be an active part of their successful expeditions.
Warsaw office:
Plac Małachowskiego 2
Warsaw, 00-066, Poland
email: info@expeditionsfund.com
London office:
116 Pall Mall, St. James’s
London SW1Y 5ED, United Kingdom
CONTACT
We are looking to partner with exceptional founders and be an active part of their successful expeditions.
Warsaw office:
Plac Małachowskiego 2
Warsaw, 00-066, Poland
email: info@expeditionsfund.com
London office:
116 Pall Mall, St. James’s
London SW1Y 5ED, United Kingdom
© Expeditions Fund 2023