Krzysztof Jakubowski

I’m on Notion Capital’s Growth team, backing European B2B tech companies from Series B onwards. I grew up in Poland, spent a decade in the US and have now made London home for good. Europe is where my roots are, and I believe it’s where some of the world’s best tech companies are being built today.

My very first job was an internship at a venture firm in Poland. I met founders building big things in a market most investors overlooked. Their ambition stuck with me, and so did the sense that they deserved more backing than they were getting. Europe still has a growth capital gap, and I joined Notion to help close it.

I’ve spent most of my career working with management teams on growth. I started at McKinsey in New York, helping tech companies with their growth strategy, and then invested in software at Cove Hill Partners in Boston, working closely with the teams we backed. Working that closely with management taught me how different a business looks from the inside than from the board pack, and it’s why I try to be useful between board meetings, not just in them.

Along the way I learned how investors take a business apart. I ran diligence on software companies for private equity and growth funds, and I helped management teams prepare for it. Now I put that to work for the companies I partner with as they think about their next round: what investors will focus on, where the story is strong and what to fix before going out to raise.

For many of them, the US is the next step. I use the relationships I built there, from New York and Boston to San Francisco, to help, whether that means landing American customers, hiring US leadership or meeting the right investors.

Joining Notion closes a loop that started in Poland. I’m back in venture, working with the kind of founders who first got me hooked.

Outside work, you’ll find me playing electric guitar, listening to melodic techno, adding to my vinyl collection or breathing fire (yes - this is not a typo).