Marek Chalupnik

Marek Chalupnik is a Principal at IQ Capital, a deep technology venture capital firm based in Cambridge, United Kingdom. He joined the investment team during a recent leadership expansion, coinciding with the firm securing over $300 million in new capital across a $175 million Fund III and a $125 million Growth Opportunities Fund. In his current capacity, he evaluates seed and Series A stage startups for a broader fund portfolio that maintains an estimated paper value of $1.2 billion. This active portfolio includes notable technology investments such as the cloud banking platform Thought Machine. Additionally, the firm has historically achieved over 20 successful exits to major global corporate acquirers including Google, Apple, and Facebook. Chalupnik remains focused on identifying, evaluating, and funding early-stage deep technology enterprises with significant long-term commercialization potential across the European market.