Partner at Balnord
View Live Interactive Profile →Jarek Pilarczyk is a Partner at Balnord, where he leads Deep Tech sourcing and provides technical and operational guidance to portfolio founders on building scalable company processes. He was previously CEO and technical founder of multiple technology companies: he led TA Group to an exit to BT Signaal, Norway's largest tolling operator, and built Skyrise.tech, which was sold to NASDAQ-listed Etteplan and was recognised by Forbes and the Financial Times as one of the fastest-growing companies in the CEE region while scaling from 30 to over 120 employees in two years. His domain expertise spans B2B businesses, R&D projects, intelligent transportation, logistics and mobility, cybersecurity, healthtech and machine vision with deep learning. He has worked on more than 20 technology projects across Scandinavia, the DACH region and the United States. His Balnord investments include Astrolight and Skycore Semiconductors in 2025 and Sapient Perception in 2026.