LaunchIT 2008, the first open e-business research organised by the Business Angel Seedfund, an investment angel seed fund, has gone live. At launchit.seedfund.pl there is a questionnaire available for e-businessmen and people interested in e-business.

At launchit.seedfund.pl a LaunchIT 2008 survey form is available. The objective of the project organised by Business Angel Seedfund (www.seedfund.pl) is to research the attitude and opinions of persons connected with e-business. Another anticipated result of the project is the identification of barriers in relations with investors and determination of the development opportunities for Polish start-ups. The survey, made available today, will remain open until the end of October of this year. The organisers invite everyone interested in e-business to take part – the participation involves providing answers to a dozen or so questions. Every participant will see detailed results.

“Creators of innovative internet companies become known when new start-ups achieve spectacular success, or in relation to the most popular portals. Usually they remain in the background. There is not enough information about their expectation, special needs, concerns connected e.g. with co-operation with investors” commented Tomasz Woźniak, member of the Management Board of Business Angel Seedfund responsible for investments in internet projects. “We invite everyone to take part in the project. We hope that it will give us knowledge about the condition and the feelings among the polish e-business sector.”

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Business Angel Seedfund Sp. z o.o. (www.seedfund.pl) is the first Polish seed fund created by business angels. The founders of Business Angel Seedfund include Maciej Grabski (co-founder of Wirtualna Polska), Jędrzej Wittchen (Wittchen S.A.), Maciej Duda (PKM DUDA), Jacek Kawalec (co-founder of Wirtualna Polska). Business Angel Seedfund co-operates with Lewiatan Business Angels, Oxford Innovation (OXIN) and Oxford Investment Opportunity Network (OION). The fund has also obtained the support of the Polish Agency for Enterprise Development within the scope of seed capital fund support programme. So far the investments of Business Angel Seedfund included: Screen Network – system for the management of multimedia content in points of sale (POS TV) and Polymem – company developing and manufacturing polypropylene membranes for microfiltration, designing systems for micro, ultra and nanofiltration and reverse osmosis formed by the scientists of the Department of Chemical and Process Engineering of the Warsaw University of Technology.

(source: www.pi.gov.pl)