Local Hero

Zuzanna Wiak, 'Eurobuild CEE': Most people associate your name with the first portal in Poland - Wirtualna Polska. However, this is all in the past... Maciej Grabski, the investor behind the Olivia Business Centre project in Gdańsk: When I sold Wirtualna Polska in 2004, I thought it would be worthwhile to help young entrepreneurs., so I set up Business Angel Seedfund, which invests in new technologies. Your first successes?We have three or four very interesting companies. One of them was joined by one of the biggest private equity funds in Poland. We are working hard on the others to make this happen, and our plans are ambitious. And who helped you to start your first business?I received a great deal of help from my father. I borrowed money for my first business from him at the beginning of the 1990s. Was it a large amount?For me it was astronomical - several thousand Deutsch-marks. My dad was an entrepreneur himself, so apart from the cash I also received business support from