🇵🇱Kodano Group

Sector: HealthTech • E-commerce • Optical Products  Type: Scale-up / Omnichannel Retailer  Location: Kraków, Poland Founded: 2016  Founders: Mateusz Matula, Jacek Młodawski  Website: kodano.pl

Overview: 

Kodano Group is one of Central Europe’s leading optical product retailers, combining a network of 100+ physical stores and franchises with the largest online optical platform in Poland. The company offers a wide range of eyewear, lenses, and contact lenses, and has also developed automated vending machines for lens distribution, integrated with a mobile app.

Funding: 

• €9.3M investment in 2024 from Vinci Da Gama Fund  • Backed by Bank Gospodarstwa Krajowegothrough Vinci S.A.  • Funds support European expansion, in-house lens lab, and e-commerce growth

Presence: 

• Operating in Poland, Romania, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Lithuania  • 100+ stores and franchises  • 100 vending machines across CEE

Growth Plans: 

• Further expansion across CEE  • Development of optical lab for better margins  • Scaling franchise network

Investment Status:  Fully funded scale-up; not seeking early-stage investment, but open to strategic partnerships