The guest of the 14th episode of the Inovo Podcast is Stefan Batory, Co-Founder & CEO of Booksy.

BOOKSY is the leading beauty and wellness appointment booking app used by 13 million consumers in e.g. US, UK, Poland, Spain, Brazil, and South Africa. It was founded by two Polish serial entrepreneurs Stefan Batory (CEO) and Konrad Howard. They partnered with Inovo Venture Partners in 2015 and by 2021 they raised a total of $119 million in VC funding. After the merger with Versum, Booksy is now a team of approx. 600 fantastic people, who shoot for the moon. Their goal is to become a unicorn soon, then a decacorn and eventually the biggest company from Poland. You can find Booksy here: https://booksy.com/

Tomasz Swieboda, a Partner at Inovo, sat down with Stefan Batory to discuss:
✅ building a VC-backed global business and what would Stefan do differently if he could start all over again?
✅ how does the founder’s role change as the company grows?
✅ and what has Stefan Batory recently learned from Roger Federer?

The talk is in Polish, but there are English subtitles on YouTube.

INOVO VENTURE PARTNERS is a first-choice VC for ambitious founders from Poland and the CEE region. We back early-stage, post-traction startups with up to €3M of initial investment, and help them build global brands, while driving growth of the local startup ecosystem. We take great pride in being close to top founders who think big. We’re investors in: Booksy, Restaumatic, Sotrender, Infermedica, Spacelift, Tidio, AI Clearing, Zowie, Jutro Medical, Intiaro, Packhelp, Preply, Eyerim, Allset, SunRoof and Archbee. Our recent fund Inovo II reached a total of €54M.

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👉 Website: https://inovo.vc/
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