Foreign Entrepreneurs Launch One in Seven New Firms in Poland

From January to April 2025, foreign nationals founded 13,700 sole proprietorships (JDG) in Poland – about 14 percent of all new businesses – slightly down from last year. Ukrainians and Belarusians dominate this wave, making up 80 percent and 7 percent of foreign-owned startups, respectively, with Germans, Russians, Romanians, Italians, Brits, Americans, Bulgarians, and French also represented.

This surge isn't solely survivalist: many Ukrainian entrepreneurs are…