Chance Yearbook is a short summary of first year of activity of Chance Academy. It contains all the details, explain how the idea was born and how it was growing up. Where we have been last year, who we met and thanks to who we've reached the goal.

1. chance yearbook
2013

2. how the idea was born
8-17 march 2013
The idea was born a year ago at SXSW in Austin. Rafał Han and Marek Przystaś
had a brilliant idea to connect startups and investors in a extraordinary new way.
The name Chance was first proposed by Maciej Wicha from Agora S.A

3. launch of the idea
march 2013
Startup Stage #3 in March, 2013 in Kraków.

4. chance On tour became reality
Rules:
we sleep in a dorm at a local hostel,
we replace formal clothes for comfortable ones,
we talk a lot,
we share knowledge and experiences mainly about
the business but other things as well.
First day
Second day
Meetup
Office hours

5. first stop, Olcamp in Olsztyn
20-21.05.2013
olsztyn

6. olsztyn
20-21.05.2013
Crew
Marek
Przystaś
Krzysztof
Bełech
Michał
Łukaszewski
Michał
Dyrda
Duckie Deck
Satus
Ainot
Vocabla

7. olsztyn
20-21.05.2013

8. Meanwhile...
We had our first office in Colab and worked
on the idea of Chance Academy.

9. then, lubcamp in lublin
13-16.06.2013
lublin

10. lublin
13-16.06.2013
Crew
Marek
Kapturkiewicz
Marcin
Bielówka
Marcin
Jaśkiewicz
Innovation Nest
FZ KPT
ISTV

11. lublin
13-16.06.2013

12. first class
Chance on Tour brought us very good results. We met awesome
people and created our first class.
Selly a tool for creating sales
offers and analyzing the results
of sales department.
Spiruu the device for
health production.

13. first class
Mechatronix, create a large
scale economical 3D printers.
Harimata, technology to recognise
behavioural patterns as well as
contexts based on data received
from mobile devices.

14. moment of fame has come
Opportunity for startups on
the way! They travel by bus
from the 80s in Poland, and
not only. They sleep in local
dormitories in hostels.
And all this, in order to meet
with startups.
proseedmag.pl
23.05.2013
Cracovians who want to attract
the most talented people from
all around the Poland not only
start-ups from their own
backyard. Helping them grow is
the way Chance on Tour works.
przekrój.pl
11.08.2013

15. time to go further...
We hit Berlin to see the startupscene there
and to chill a bit in a good company.
Krzysztof
Bełech
Michał
Łukaszewski
Marek
Kapturkiewicz
Innovation Nest
Bitspiration
Topicmarks
Tomasz
Han
Marcin
Jaśkiewicz
Kamil
Sumera
Paweł
Jarmołkowicz
Ola
Ławrynowicz
Satus
Hanbright S.A
Ainot
ISTV
Mechatronix
Andrzej
Targosz
Harimata
Jaromir
Działo
Spiruu

16. first autumn stop-rzeszow,
xraii and internetBeta
10-13.09.2013
rzeszow

17. rzeszow
10-13.09.2013
Crew
Bartosz
Gołuszka
Przemek
Kadula
Marcin
Zabielski
Michał
Dyrda
Satus
Notatek
Hedgehog Fund
Vocabla

18. rzeszow
10-13.09.2013

19. north of poland,
Startup pirates in gdansk
20-21.09.2013
gdansk

20. gdansk
20-21.09.2013
Crew
Agata
Mazur
Paweł
Nowak
Bartosz
Gołuszka
Base CRM
PressPad
Satus

21. gdansk
20-21.09.2013
PHOTO:
Michał Skotarczak @Starter

22. we found a perfect hQ
200m2 of good energy.

23. poznan opening of very first hive 61
9-10.10.2013
poznan

24. poznan
9-10.10.2013
Crew:
Bartek
Gola
Marcin
Szeląg
Marek
Przystaś
Łukasz
Haluch
SpeedUp Group
Innovation Nest
Duckie Deck
Brainly

25. poznan
9-10.10.2013

26. last stop bootstrap in wroclaw
10-11.10.2013
wroclaw

27. wroclaw
10-11.10.2013
Crew
Marcin
Szeląg
Marek
Przystaś
Łukasz
Haluch
Innovation Nest
Duckie Deck
Brainly

28. wroclaw
10-11.10.2013
PHOTO:
skalska-karolina.pl

29. brief summary of chance On tour
7
different cities
visited during the
Chance on Tour
22
mentors on the
board of VW T3
8720 km
made with VW T3
10
startups invited
from warm up
1500
people
had sign up for meetups
20160
minutes of hard work

30. more glory and fame
Classic from 80s, 6 people,
hundreds of kilometers and
endless conversations about ...
business. Boredom? Not on
board old school VW T3 full of
startup freaks, who travel the
length and breadth of Poland
in search of new technical
talent…
antyweb.pl
Raiders of business talent
running on central and eastern
Europe will visit on Thursday in
Poznan. Their project Chance on
Tour will give a chance to young
entrepreneurs...
gazeta.pl
08.10.2013
The Top 10 who’s who of Polish
Startups in Berlin this week
2013-09-23
siliconallee.com
05.09.2013

31. you could also have seen us on

32. warm up
one week of intensive work in krk
8 teams with great ideas from all around Poland
6 internal mentors (Marek, Michał, Kuba, Marek, Agata, Paweł)
168h of hard work
Lots of briliant conversations, ideas,
pivots and meetings with awesome advisors

33. For warm up we invited mentors to help
us and make it pro. We would like to thank:
Marek
Przystaś
Agata
Mazur
Paweł
Nowak
Jakub
Krzych
Michał
Dyrda
Adam
Gembala
Ramon
Tancinco
Duckie Deck
Base CRM
PressPad
Vincent
Vergonjeanne
Dan
Bragiel
Paweł
Wujec
EVERYDAYiPLAY
I/O ventures
Agora
Estimote
HomerSoft
Vocabla
Cisco Systems

34. what people said
Even if you have already planned a business, you can get a chance to be at
warm-up and do everything to make it happen! One week spent with very
positive and creative people will give you much more feedback then one
year driving on different types of events. This week in Krakow will be as
memorable as special homemade peppermint :)
Marcin from upolujebooka.pl
PHOTO:
Bartek Pawlik

35. We have come with existing project like "couchsurfing for cooking" and we
have left Krakow with a lot of checkpoints which we have to do to become
"airbnb for cooking" and scale our businessmodel.
Paweł from DinnerClub
PHOTO:
Bartek Pawlik

36. finally- Chance academy has started!
We chose 3 teams from Warm Up to work with us
for 3 months in our Academy:
Kalefixy
Homeboxapp
Brand of new type of
underwear – namely
long johns.
PHOTO:
Metromundi
Smart online platform directly
connecting international
companies, hundreds of
cities and thousands of local
opportunities.
Tool for creating
interactive plans for real
estate agencies.
Bartek Pawlik

37. What our teams think about the time we spent together
Collaboration with Chance Academy gave
me invaluable help in the rapid development and implementation of my project,
mostly thanks to knowledge and support
from more experienced colleagues from
other teams.
Ania
Kalefixy
PHOTO:
Bartek Pawlik
Marcin
Homeboxapp
Chance Academy gives us great opportunity to
develop our ideas and see the wider picture of
our product. Creative atmosphere,
constructive feedback, valuable meetings with
mentors and people from start-up community
have already helped our vision to grow and we
are waiting for more :)

38. 2013
was pretty awesome and we spent a great time
working hard to built successful business.
2014
is getting more exciting... and for sure
will bring some changes.
If you want to be a part of Chance Academy just contact us
kasia@chanceacademy.com
www.chanceacademy.com