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Dawid Schaffranke

Dawid Schaffranke

Dawid Schaffranke founded pmf foundry and works with technical B2B teams on product validation and go-to-market.

Mentee Testimony

"Dawid doesn’t tell me what I want to hear, he tells me what I need to hear. His feedback helped me choose the right next steps in my career so I can fully commit to becoming the founder I want to be."

Jakob Schwarz

About

Dawid Schaffranke founded pmf foundry and works with technical B2B teams on product validation and go-to-market.

Current Work

Founder, pmf foundry

Dawid Schaffranke founded pmf foundry in 2026, focusing on product-market fit for technical B2B founders. His work covers customer discovery, product validation, positioning and the development of repeatable sales processes. He is also active as a business angel and product-market-fit advisor.

Schaffranke is a founding partner at DNA Digital Ventures and a co-founder of the INVESTOR KLAAF community. He previously served as a founding partner at Pioneers and later moved to its advisory board. Earlier in his career, he founded Branding Doctors and worked in product and sales at AI-personalisation company bd4.ai.

Experience Dawid brings to founders

  1. Product-market fit
  2. Customer discovery
  3. B2B go-to-market
  4. Product validation
  5. Angel investing

Operating and investing experience

A selection of companies and roles connected to Dawid Schaffranke.

Ventures

pmf foundry

Founder

DNA Digital Ventures

Founding partner

Pioneers

Advisory-board member; former founding partner

Branding Doctors

Founder and former managing director

Highlights

  1. Launched pmf foundry in 2026.
  2. Moved from a founding-partner role to Pioneers’ advisory board.
  3. Worked in product and sales at bd4.ai.

Questionsfounders ask aboutDawid Schaffranke

Who is Dawid Schaffranke?

Dawid Schaffranke founded pmf foundry and works with technical B2B teams on product validation and go-to-market.

What experience does Dawid Schaffranke bring to mentoring?

Their experience spans product-market fit, customer discovery, B2B go-to-market, product validation and angel investing.

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