Helping Brands Enter The Metaverse & NFT Space ❘ Web3 Advisor & Strategist ❘ 2x Exits ❘ Venture Building ❘ Startup Mentoring ❘ Purposeful Branding ❘ Crossfitter

Hi, I'm Karol.

I am building a global longevity tribe to help people find the most trusted wellness and longevity brands to extend their healthspan and lifespan: www.newzapiens.com

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Healthcare is broken.

Doctors and pharma companies profit from treating illness, not keeping us healthy. The wellness industry is full of bold claims with little to no evidence. Health gurus and influencers capitalize on our insecurities, offering questionable advice that often misleads rather than helps.

In a world where trust is everything, who can we rely on?

In July 2023, New Zapiens started as a private WhatsApp group. Karol and Simon, two fathers, shared reliable health and longevity tips, aiming to extend their health spans and maximize life’s potential.

This conversation quickly grew into a global community of thousands health enthusiasts. They uncovered a common issue: most people struggle to find the time and trustworthy information needed to make confident health decisions.

As a result, New Zapiens evolved into a trusted platform for wellness, health, and longevity. Here, people discover reliable brands and products, reviewed by real individuals who have tested them without bias.

Our mission: Building a trusted health hub that empowers everyone to make better decisions through reliable, authentic, and honest reviews.

For brands committed to transparency, New Zapiens offers genuine feedback and the opportunity to collaborate with a loyal, health-focused community to build top-quality products.

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Former Ventures

2013 → GrandArtClub: Art platform connecting local galleries with global art investors. (🏆 Acquired)
2015 → The Villas: Boutique beach resort. (Active)
2016 → Lundkvist: Premium linen home accessories. (Active)
2016 → Upfit: Daily nutrition planning & cooking made simple. (🏆 Acquired)

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Results

→ 4 ventures (bootstrapped) 
→ 2 exits
→ 2 active ventures
→ 95% revenue through non-paid activities (organic marketing, sales, business development)
→ 100% employee recommendation rate at Upfit (s. kununu)

Karol Domagalski

re-founder of zolar.

With local and regional installers responsible to install 80% of green energy products, I’m on a mission to help these businesses compete successfully with large national players on efficiency and profitability, accelerating to decarbonize energy, heat and mobility.

Building, enabling and leading teams to deliver high-performing software products that serve real user needs and generate revenues is what gets me out of bed in the morning.

I lead with clarity of direction, decisiveness & determination, with collaboration by default.

I believe in keeping what works and changing what doesn't. I value mutual respect, honesty, accountability and directness.

And I cannot stress enough how passionately I hate umbrellas.

Recruiters: I’m super happy to receive awesome candidate recommendations for any position we have open at zolar!  Please contact me via the careers page at https://zolar.de

Torben Schwellnus

I just got home from the first Agentic Conf Hamburg — sold out, full house, and honestly one of the most energizing days I've had in a while!

After sold-out meetups and more than 1000 members, the organizers have grown the Agentic Hamburg community from grassroots to a full-day conference. That's not an accident. That's a signal:

𝗛𝗮𝗺𝗯𝘂𝗿𝗴 𝗶𝘀 𝗯𝗮𝗰𝗸! 

And right now it feels bigger and more energized than even Berlin when it comes to agentic software engineering.  An energy I last felt in Hamburg in the 2010s. 

What struck me most:

The talent in the room was exceptional and humbling — seasoned engineers and architects from XING, AboutYou, MyTaxi, Otto, Moia, and beyond.
People who've spent years building real, production-grade software at scale — not throwaway prototypes, not weekend hacks.
They understand distributed systems, failure modes, product thinking — the hard stuff that actually matters when you're building something real.  That experience puts Hamburg's tech community in a uniquely powerful position to do agentic engineering right.
This isn't tinkering.
This is a city full of craftspeople who are ready to apply deep, battle-tested expertise to the next paradigm shift in software.  True to the Agentic Hamburg tagline: "Software engineering is being rewritten. No playbook exists yet. We're writing it together."

Huge thanks to the organizing team for making this happen, Stefan Munz, Sebastian Korfmann,  Sebastian Reimann. 🙌. And the many volunteers who made the day awesome!

Really grateful to be part of this moment.

#AgenticHamburg #AgenticAI #SoftwareEngineering #Hamburg #AIAgents #HamburgTech

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