About Us
Endeavor is the leading global community of, by, and for High-Impact Entrepreneurs — those who dream bigger, scale faster, and pay it forward. Driven by our belief that High-Impact Entrepreneurs transform economies, Endeavor is on a mission to build thriving entrepreneurial ecosystems in emerging and underserved markets around the world.
Endeavor Poland launched in September 2022, based in Warsaw and headed up by Bartosz Lipnicki, the Managing Director with support of 12 Board Members with Wiktor Schmidt as Board Chair.
Endeavor creates a Multiplier Effect by inspiring high-growth founders to dream bigger, supporting and investing in them to scale faster, and providing a platform pay it forward — thereby compounding their individual impact.
To sustain Endeavor’s long-term operations in a mission-aligned way, Endeavor created Endeavor Catalyst — a rules-based, co-investment fund, set up to invest in the same High-Impact Entrepreneurs that Endeavor supports. Today. Endeavor Catalyst is among the world’s top early-stage funders of startups-turned $1B+ companies (“Unicorns”) outside of the U.S. and China.
"Sustainable economies are dependent on high-impact entrepreneurship. What Endeavor does better than any other organization is to create entire cultures of entrepreneurship that spread within and between countries."
Reid Hoffman, Linkedin/Greylock
Endeavor Global Board Member
What We Believe
Endeavor’s values guide our brand and mission — the way we represent our organization and network, and the choices we make. These values are our founding principles; they have guided our growth and development over two decades and will continue to steer us forward.
We put Endeavor Entrepreneurs at the center of everything we do and make sure we always have their back.
We are a community built on mutual respect and we always safeguard founders’ interests.
We see crazy as a compliment, risk as opportunity, and impact as unlimited.
We are borderless — unified by our belief in the power of entrepreneurship and tech-enabled innovation.
We multiply our impact by empowering the next generation of founders.
We are dynamic and flexible, adapting to changing market dynamics and fresh data points.
Our Operating Model
We select Endeavor Entrepreneurs by searching the globe, identifying founders with the greatest growth potential, and inviting them to participate in our renowned international selection process.
We support Endeavor Entrepreneurs with our expansive global network, unrivaled peer-to-peer community, and highly-curated services.
We elevate Endeavor Entrepreneurs as aspirational role models and provide avenues for them to mentor and inspire others to reimagine what is possible.
We invest in Endeavor Entrepreneurs through our rules-based fund, Endeavor Catalyst.
We advance the conversation around global entrepreneurship and innovation through original content, leveraging Endeavor’s proprietary data set and insights.