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Aquiline, founded in 2005, is a private investment firm based in New York and London investing in companies across financial services and technology, business services, and healthcare industries. The firm has $7 billion in assets under management.

VirtusLab reached the level where we have multiple locations in Poland, UK and Germany. We are not stopping there and with the help of Aquiline as our investor, we are making another quantum jump into higher energy levels. The partnership will be used to further accelerate organic growth through the attraction and retention of top-tier talent, strengthen VirtusLab’s R&D department focused on software development efficiency, and acquisitions to expand the scale and reach.

Our existing management will roll a portion of their equity stake and maintain ownership in the company.

We are excited by our new partnership and look forward to working with Aquiline to leverage their unique expertise in helping companies like ours scale. VirtusLab’s ambition is to become the best, leading software technology company operating globally with development centers in Poland and other European countries. Our platforms and proprietary software represent leading innovations in our space and the investment from Aquiline leaves us well poised for growth amidst accelerating customer demand. Their support also comes at a crucial time when competition for talent has reached an all-time high.

Rafał Pokrywka, CEO of VirtusLab

Rafal and the VirtusLab team have built an excellent platform with exceptional development talent and a strong customer base. We look forward to working together to accelerate growth and build a global leader.

Vincenzo La Ruffa, president of Aquiline Capital Partners

We will maintain the highest level of our services. This partnership is to help our whole company grow and become the leading software company

We’re excited to call the Regent Office our new home, occupying the entire third floor of this exceptional building. Designed with flexibility in mind, our workspace adapts seamlessly to the changing demands of modern work. It features collaborative spaces for team synchronization, expanded hot desk options across Cracow locations for all employees, and permanent desks for those who prefer a regular office setup.

The Regent Office has an underground car park, bike parking with repair stations, and a unique rooftop relaxation zone with a green terrace and a mini vineyard. Strategically located near Nowy Kleparz, the Main Railway Station, and the Old Town, Regent is a hub for innovation, collaboration, and inspiration. We look forward to seeing our teams thrive in this exceptional space!

VirtusLab achieves ISO 27001 certification for information security management. The certification assures customers of adherence to best practices, clear procedures, and a commitment to information security. 

TÜV NORD Polska audited VirtusLab's management system, verifying compliance with the standard for the design and implementation of software systems and IT consulting.

Management system as per
PN-EN ISO/IEC 27001:2017-06 (ISO/IEC 27001:2013)
Scope:
Design and implementation of software systems and IT Consulting

Certificate registration number
AC090 121/2074/5189/2021

We are incredibly proud that, once again—after 2019 and 2020—VirtusLab have made it to the #FT1000. Additionally, we secured 6th place among technology companies in Poland featured in this ranking.

This ranking is prepared by the Financial Times, one of the world's leading business news organizations, internationally recognized for its authority, integrity, and accuracy, in collaboration with Statista, a company specializing in market and consumer data.

The list features the 1,000 fastest-growing companies in Europe across various industries, highlighting those experiencing rapid expansion based on the highest percentage increase in revenue.

More specifically, it ranks businesses that achieved the highest compound annual growth rate (CAGR) in revenue between 2016 and 2019, with a minimum growth rate of 35.5% required to make the list. This marks the fifth edition of the FT’s ranking, which, as the organizers state, "provides a snapshot of Europe's most promising growth businesses in the weeks before coronavirus took hold."

This recognition is especially meaningful given the challenging times we are facing. The COVID-19 pandemic has posed significant difficulties for businesses across all industries, including IT. Our position in this ranking reaffirms VirtusLab’s consistent and sustainable growth, a valuable asset in these uncertain times.

📢 The full ranking is available here.

Congratulations to all winners, and a huge thumbs up to the #VLteam!

VirtusLab has once again earned a spot in the prestigious Forbes Diamonds ranking, a testament to its rapid growth and success. This year, the company proudly claimed 1st place in the Podkarpackie Voivodeship for medium-sized enterprises, solidifying its position as a leader in its category. This achievement highlights VirtusLab’s dynamic development and the dedication of our engineers, whose hard work continues to drive the company forward. 

Forbes Diamonds is one of Poland’s most esteemed rankings for private companies, organized by Forbes Polska since 2015. It recognizes businesses with the fastest growth in value over the past three years, evaluated using a reliable Swiss valuation method. Companies from diverse industries are analyzed based on their financial performance and asset value.

VirtusLab receives the Business Gazelles award, joining the prestigious group of Poland's fastest-growing SMEs. This year, VirtusLab achieved the top position in the Podkarpackie voivodeship. 

Awarded by "Puls Biznesu," the ranking highlights financial growth and transparency, with criteria based on turnover and profit growth over three years. VirtusLab celebrates this recognition with pride.

The Polish Company - International Champion competition promotes the activity of Polish companies on global markets. The competition aims to select and reward Polish enterprises that, thanks to foreign investments and export activity, transform into global entities, effectively compete on foreign markets and build Poland's brand in the international arena. The aim of the program is to share knowledge and experience in the field of foreign expansion.

The competition is open to all Polish enterprises which:

• within the last three years have made foreign investments - built a production plant, service center, distribution network outside Poland or took over a foreign company and/or
• carry out extensive export activities and are successful in foreign markets.

This year, as many as 146 companies entered the competition but only a few are honored. VirtusLab was honored in the Investor - Small and Medium Enterprises category. 

See the whole ranking here.

The program is conducted in cooperation with PwC, the Polish Investment and Trade Agency, PKO Bank Polski, the editorial office of "Puls Biznesu" and local self-government partners and the business environment.

A special shout-out to the whole #VLteam & congratulations to all other winners!

VirtusLab was founded as a company that focused on application-level development more than a decade ago. This was 2010 - a full decade and roughly 250 team members ago. Both VirtusLab and the world have changed significantly since then. Most importantly it became apparent that you cannot build large-scale, resilient and elastic systems relying exclusively on the application level expertise. Deep cloud infrastructure expertise was the natural missing piece.

Since our inception, we helped customers - big and small - with holistic and effective software delivery. To do that we need to grow our expertise into other areas - like infrastructure, data engineering, data science or frontend to name a few. Specifically for many years, we were involved in initiatives of doing cloud transformations or building cloud-native systems for many customers, including the FTSE100 or Fortune 500 organizations. A significant part of these was based on the Azure cloud in recent years.

Today we announce VirtusLab becoming a Microsoft Gold Level Partner in the Azure ecosystem. We believe that Azure is the right option for many organizations that are on their way to cloud transformation. Our main competency is cloud platform engineering and data analytics. This signifies the beginning of our journey to formalize our experience and expertise in these functional areas. We work with big and small clients, helping them with all aspects of cloud transformation - technical, organizational and cultural. In other words - Cloud Engineering and Azure expertise are first-class citizens in VirtusLab. 

The partnership marks our long term commitment to help our customers with:

• planning and executing Azure cloud transformation
• building truly cloud-native service
• large scale data engineering and data science projects

• overcoming organizational & cultural challenges (training, mentoring, team incubation, designing policies and building communities within organizations).

  We have helped many customers with their Azure transformation journey - from small startups to FTSE100 or Fortune 500 organizations. Don’t hesitate to let us know if you think we could help you.

This course is a complete revision of the successful Advanced Type Mechanics course for Scala 2, with new material introduced for Scala 3, and existing material updated for Scala 3, giving insight into its relevance now and in the future, as the language evolves.

Advanced Type Mechanics is a two-day course for intermediate- to advanced-level Scala users to enhance their understanding of the language through its type system, the foundation upon which the entire language is built.

The course will develop participants’ grasp of concepts like path-dependent and singleton types; projection, wildcard and existential types; kinds, higher-kinded types and type lambdas; type parameters, members and variance; and much more. It then goes further to develop relations between these concepts, to establish an intuition for how the Scala compiler works with types.

Scala 3 provides, in its implementation of the DOT Calculus, a provably-sound foundation that Scala 2 never had, and builds upon this bedrock to provide a variety of new features such as union types, dependent function types and type matches, with additional constraints which help to guarantee typesafety. We will study these new type-level features, and explore the new opportunities they present for existing Scala 2 code.

This training should give you a good overview about different Data-related positions in the IT world like Data Scientist, Data Engineer or Data Analyst. After starting with an overview of different regions of Data space we will quickly cover mathematical and programming essentials. We will learn what the difference is between statistics and Machine Learning and why Python is lingua franca of Data Science. We will also go through typical Data developer’s work day. In the end we will go through an introduction to more advanced topics like Big Data, AI, neural networks as they are shaping the future of IT.

Introduction to Kafka and the tooling. The training is aimed at people who never used Kafka before, or have a very brief understanding of it. During the lectures, it will be explained where Kafka is most useful and how to use it to fit the case. Workshops will be focused on gaining practical knowledge on how to use Kafka tooling and how to solve typical problems.