“Huge Thing Startup Booster” jest współfinansowany ze środków Unii Europejskiej w ramach programu Fundusze Europejskie dla Nowoczesnej Gospodarki 2021-2027, Priorytet FENG.02 Środowisko sprzyjające innowacjom, Działanie FENG.02.28 Startup Booster Poland – Smart UP. Całkowita wartość projektu 15 780 300,00 zł, dofinansowanie 15 187 072,00 zł.
Huge Thing is offering you a wide range of mentorship services, including workshops. In this acceleration path, you will participate in the following workshops: pricing, B2B/B2C sales, team management, mindfulness, CSR&ESG, and VC ecosystem.
Below is a list of partners and challenges from current edition of the program.
PM3D S.A.
PM3D S.A. is an experienced technology company specializing in Smart City solutions, urban infrastructure management, and parking systems. With over 10 years of expertise, PM3D S.A. supports municipalities and private sector clients in digital transformation processes. The company combines engineering excellence with technological innovation, providing scalable solutions for sustainable urban development. PM3D S.A. actively fosters innovation, offering startups access to real-world testing environments and expertise in integrating new technologies into municipal and mobility ecosystems.
Saint-Gobain
Worldwide leader in light and sustainable construction, Saint-Gobain designs, manufactures and distributes materials and services for the construction market. Its integrated solutions for the renovation of public and private buildings, light construction and the decarbonization of construction and industry are developed through a continuous innovation process and provide sustainability and performance. The Group’s commitment is guided by its purpose, “MAKING THE WORLD A BETTER HOME”.
PZU Group
PZU Group is the largest financial institution in CEE. We are trusted by over 22 million customers in five countries. Operating in the areas of insurance, banking, investments and healthcare, we manage nearly PLN 470 billion in assets.
Implementing innovations is a crucial aspect of the PZU Ready for Startups program. We would like to respond not only to what goes on in the insurtech area, but also to be ahead of those trends.
Saint-Gobain
Worldwide leader in light and sustainable construction, Saint-Gobain designs, manufactures and distributes materials and services for the construction market. Its integrated solutions for the renovation of public and private buildings, light construction and the decarbonization of construction and industry are developed through a continuous innovation process and provide sustainability and performance. The Group’s commitment is guided by its purpose, “MAKING THE WORLD A BETTER HOME”.
PZU Group
PZU Group is the largest financial institution in CEE. We are trusted by over 22 million customers in five countries. Operating in the areas of insurance, banking, investments and healthcare, we manage nearly PLN 470 billion in assets.
Implementing innovations is a crucial aspect of the PZU Ready for Startups program. We would like to respond not only to what goes on in the insurtech area, but also to be ahead of those trends.
BNP Paribas
BNP Paribas Bank Polska S.A., which has been listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange since 2011 is a member of the BNP Paribas banking group whose footprint spans 64 countries. In Poland, as a universal bank with a global reach, with a dedicated offer tailored for innovative companies, supporting them with pool of financial experts, new financing tools (credit supported with Invest EU Fund), and investment capacities. The bank also provides services to retail customers and other segments including Wealth Management, microbusinesses, SMEs and corporate banking.
ORLEN
ORLEN is an integrated, multi-utility corporation primarily active in Central Europe. We supply energy and fuel to over 100 million Europeans, and our advanced products are sold in over 100 countries across six continents.
We are involved in the upstream and downstream sectors of the oil and gas industry, as well as in power generation and distribution.
Central to ORLEN’s mission is the commitment to lead the regional energy transition. The company is dedicated to adopting innovative, clean, and sustainable technologies, focusing particularly on low- and zero-emission power generation. This forward-thinking approach is part of ORLEN’s strategic goal to achieve emission neutrality by the year 2050.
BNP Paribas
BNP Paribas Bank Polska S.A., which has been listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange since 2011 is a member of the BNP Paribas banking group whose footprint spans 64 countries. In Poland, as a universal bank with a global reach, with a dedicated offer tailored for innovative companies, supporting them with pool of financial experts, new financing tools (credit supported with Invest EU Fund), and investment capacities. The bank also provides services to retail customers and other segments including Wealth Management, microbusinesses, SMEs and corporate banking.
ORLEN
ORLEN is an integrated, multi-utility corporation primarily active in Central Europe. We supply energy and fuel to over 100 million Europeans, and our advanced products are sold in over 100 countries across six continents.
We are involved in the upstream and downstream sectors of the oil and gas industry, as well as in power generation and distribution.
Central to ORLEN’s mission is the commitment to lead the regional energy transition. The company is dedicated to adopting innovative, clean, and sustainable technologies, focusing particularly on low- and zero-emission power generation. This forward-thinking approach is part of ORLEN’s strategic goal to achieve emission neutrality by the year 2050.
Carlsberg Polska
Below is a list of partners and challenges from the second edition of the program.
Veolia
Veolia’s ambition is to become the benchmark company for ecological transformation. With nearly 218,000 employees on five continents, the Group designs and deploys useful, practical solutions for managing water, waste and energy that help to radically change the world. Through its three complementary activities, Veolia contributes to developing access to resources, preserving available resources and renewing them. In 2023, the Veolia group served 113 million people with drinking water and 103 million with wastewater services, produced 42 terawatt-hours of energy and recovered 63 million metric tons of waste.
Rossmann
Since 1993, Rossmann has proudly operated in Poland, establishing a formidable reputation as a leader in the industry. With an unwavering commitment to providing a diverse range of superior products and exceptional service, our 17,000 strong team operates across over 1,800 drugstores, 4 distribution centers, and an independent IT center, allowing us to confidently serve over 9.3 million customers with a selection of over 24,000 products. We welcome you to collaborate with our colleagues from the Innovation and R&D departments to co-create the Drugstore of the Future!
PZU Group
PZU Group is the largest financial institution in CEE. We are trusted by over 22 million customers in five countries. Operating in the areas of insurance, banking, investments and healthcare, we manage nearly PLN 470 billion in assets.
Implementing innovations is a crucial aspect of the PZU Ready for Startups program. We would like to respond not only to what goes on in the insurtech area, but also to be ahead of those trends.
Below is a list of partners and challenges from the previous editions of the program.
Veolia
Rossmann
Since 1993, Rossmann has proudly operated in Poland, establishing a formidable reputation as a leader in the industry. With an unwavering commitment to providing a diverse range of superior products and exceptional service, our 17,000 strong team operates across over 1,800 drugstores, 4 distribution centers, and an independent IT center, allowing us to confidently serve over 9.3 million customers with a selection of over 24,000 products. We welcome you to collaborate with our colleagues from the Innovation and R&D departments to co-create the Drugstore of the Future!
Saint-Gobain
Worldwide leader in light and sustainable construction, Saint-Gobain designs, manufactures and distributes materials and services for the construction market. Its integrated solutions for the renovation of public and private buildings, light construction and the decarbonization of construction and industry are developed through a continuous innovation process and provide sustainability and performance. The Group’s commitment is guided by its purpose, “MAKING THE WORLD A BETTER HOME”.
PZU Group
PZU Group is the largest financial institution in CEE. We are trusted by over 22 million customers in five countries. Operating in the areas of insurance, banking, investments and healthcare, we manage nearly PLN 470 billion in assets.
Implementing innovations is a crucial aspect of the PZU Ready for Startups program. We would like to respond not only to what goes on in the insurtech area, but also to be ahead of those trends.
CPI Property Group
PKO Bank Polski
Miasto Zduńska Wola
Legimi
Poznan CityLab
Alior Bank
Alior Bank launched its operations in 2008 and is now a medium-sized, fast-growing
universal bank serving both individual and business customers. Through innovative
offers and high standards of customer service, Alior Bank has gained a significant
market position and has built a robust, recognizable, and acknowledged brand in the
Polish banking market. Combining principles of traditional banking with innovative
solutions, the bank sets new standards and directions for development of the Polish
banking sector.
Żabka Group
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PM3D
Data aggregator
We are looking for solutions that allow aggregation of data from different municipal systems. Current municipal systems are fragmented and poorly integrated due to disparate technologies and vendor lock-in, hindering public service and data management. This lack of a universal platform prevents efficient data exchange between key services.
The business need is an open, secure, and scalable integration platform to unify systems, improve management, and enhance citizen service.
Saint-Gobain
1. AI Agent
We are looking for an AI tool that will function within the website and, based on the company’s data resources, answer customer questions and create personalized recommendations for the use of Saint-Gobain materials and services. The agent must understand project requirements, suggest optimal materials and ensure compliance with sustainability and construction standards. His main task will be to provide Investors, Contractors and Designers with reliable information on the company’s products and complete system solutions tailored to the client’s needs. The solution should be scalable to include data covering various brands and capable of being implemented across various websites.
2. Building analysis
We are looking for a sales tool that will allow an in-depth analysis of the client’s planned investment – construction or renovation of various types of buildings. The tool should take into account basic as well as advanced parameters, such as primary energy demand, CO2 emissions, the amount of renewable energy needed to balance CO2, energy demand for cooling, acoustic analysis, daylight comfort or fire safety.
The tool should analyze the various parameters of the building depending on the material used (from the company’s portfolio) and recommend materials whose use will improve the parameters of the building to comply with current legislation and meet the customer’s needs
PZU - challenges
1. Mass process optimisation
Optimisation and automation of mass processes (e.g. benefits processing, claims settlement, underwriting, automation of back office processes, customer relationship management), particularly through tools using GenAI.
2. Pricing excellence
The challenge can be solved by a tool to better estimate and price insurance risks, both for individual and corporate clients, or by increasing the dataset for estimation or adding new variables to assess the risk of an event.
3. Insurance prevention
We’re looking for startups providing technologies and tools such as digital customer service platforms, advanced risk analysis tools or artificial intelligence to help manage risk and improve safety. The area of interest includes solutions for both corporate and individual clients.
4. Emerging technologies supporting insurance customer experience management.
5. All insurtech startups
BNP Paribas
1. We are looking for an AI tool (agent) that will support BNP Paribas in a quick analysis of sme companies using available and up-to-date online sources for banking products.
2. Anti-fraud and KYC tool
We are looking for tools to support anti-fraud, anti-money laundering (AML) and know your customer (KYC) processes. These tools should demonstrate an innovative, proprietary approach to detecting fraud and money laundering patterns. We expect them to provide functionality to detect dormant accounts used for cybercrime, significantly speed up and simplify KYC activities, and effectively cross-check information between different data channels.
Carslberg Polska
Complaints and inquiries module in Hoppy application
We’re looking for a solution applicable in the Hoppy application which will support users in sending complaints. On the other hand the solution should support admin in effective management of reported complaints and inquiries.
Orlen
1. Tools for econometric analysis in the MarTech
We are looking for a solution that will enable econometric analyses in the context of planning marketing campaign activities. The system should have the capability to create econometric models (automatically, manually, inference systems based on distributed databases)
2. Electricity management in pilot energy community to to increase efficiency
We’re seeking a new energy billing model and compatible control system for a 50 kWp PV and 120 kWh energy storage project within an energy community. The solution must optimize electricity management based on dynamic pricing, enable monitoring, forecasting, and flow control for maximized self-consumption and adaptation to local energy needs. Scalability for future offerings is important.
3. Innovative technologies to improve the energy efficiency of process steam production
We are looking for a technology based on the cascade conversion of energy from hot air to improve the efficiency of steam production processes and generate additional electricity from previously unused thermal resources.
4. Tools to detect potential irregularities/frauds in the handling of transactions at petrol stations
We are looking for a solution to increase the level of detection and prevention of activities that may occur in transactions at service stations. The solution should use self-learning mechanisms.
5. Tools to optimise the management of the vehicle fleet (forklifts and tractors) on the production site
We are looking for a tool to coordinate the movement of vehicles (forklifts, tractors and semi-trailers up to 12 tonnes) within the company to enable the automation of company intralogistics.
6. Tools for measuring process steam flow using non-invasive techniques
We are looking for non-invasive tools to improve the accuracy of steam measurements on production facilities.
Veolia Poland - challenges
5. Customer experince improvement
Rossmann - challenges
The main challenge for this batch is to support Rossmann customers in the independent purchasing process, which can be delivered due to:
PZU
We are looking for:
Veolia Poland - challenges
Reporting tool for salespeople
We are looking for an extensive online tool in the area of reporting for salespeople, which will have the following functions: location, meeting opening, meeting closing, checklist of sales steps and good practices. Thanks to which the salesman will avoid time-consuming reporting after visits to customers, better supervision and control of the quality of the salesman’s work.
Offer configurator
We are looking for an offer configurator – a tool for salespeople that will be used during the meeting and guarantees ease of making offers of many products from the mix of energy efficiency, electricity, gas, total waste management, services, etc. The solution should also be able to be hosted on Veolia.pl to ensure customers self-service by unchecking data, selecting products and preparing a “preliminary” offer, which includes benefits and costs.
Management of distributed heat sources (off-grid heat) platform
We are looking for a solution to measure the exact parameters of the building and estimate how much heat energy should be supplied. We will obtain results on the balance of energy demand (in water- domestic hot water and central heating) from distributed heat sources, i.e.: cogeneration solutions in a hydronic hybrid system (PH (heat pumps), CHP (cogeneration of heat and electricity), photovoltaic panels, gas boilers, tanks (buffers, storage tanks) of domestic hot water and with the use of heat storage) and additional information on the possible benefits/savings that may result from the use of these heat sources.
Recycling of plastic waste
We are seeking management solutions for soft PVC waste, on a polyester matrix.
Rossmann - challenges
People & Culture Solution
We are looking for a tool that will help structure the onboarding process and allow us to easily design an employee’s career development, from monitoring competence development to planning a set of trainings. The solution should also include monitoring the fulfillment of formal obligations arising from labor law.
Building the Drugstore of the Future
We are looking for tools that will create a personalized omnichannel shopping experience. We are looking for solutions that work both online and offline, for use in drugstores addressing, for example, the possibility of purchasing or checking information about the full product range of Rossmann. We want to support decision-making, make it easier to move around the drugstore while relieving our staff. The solutions should support all customers, avoiding digital exclusion.
Improving e-commerce experiences
We are looking for solutions that will improve the quality of customer experiences in the Rossmann online store, from reaching customers, through the entire purchase process and the stage of receiving the order from the courier or in the drugstore. We are looking for both online and offline solutions with MarTech, Industry 4.0, Logistics and others supporting this process.
Saint Gobain - challenges
PZU
CPI Property Group - challenges
PKO BP - challenges
Zduńska Wola - challenges
Alior Bank - challenges
Żabka Group - challenges
1. PRODUCTS AND SERVICES (ONLINE AND OFFLINE)
New products & services to expand on our convenience ecosystem in areas of health, entertainment, betting, financial and insurance services.
Modern convenience foods such as: nutrition products (especially for school-aged children), nutritious snacks, dietary supplements, functional beverages & snacks.
2. FOODSERVICE & STREET-FOOD SOLUTIONS
Increase the attractiveness of our offer, improve the quality of service and increase operational efficiency in foodservice and our street-food offering. We are looking for innovations in: systems, processes, equipment, self-service facilities and food storage.
3. SALES AND MARKETING
Solutions aimed to: increase and optimise sales in-store, foster better business decision making and innovative in-store marketing. Mechanisms and products that support customer loyalty and influence positive daily habits and routines.
4. MOBILE APP/PHYGITAL
Engaging our customers in mobile app and physical stores. Creating & fostering community of dedicated customers through gamification and new technologies.
5. RETAIL TECHNOLOGIES
Disruptive solutions to transform the traditional retail with the help of new technologies i.e. AR/VR, IOT, blockchain, payment solutions, ESL.
6. NEW BUSINESS VERTICALS
Exploring and developing new business verticals that fit within our modern convenience strategy and further expand our ecosystem.