Poland Sees Average of 34 New AI Companies a Day, Dun & Bradstreet Data Shows

In the first half of 2026, an average of 34 new AI-related companies were registered in Poland every day. Their total number rose by more than 6,000, or nearly half compared to six months earlier, and the country's AI market now counts over 19,000 entities, according to Dun & Bradstreet data prepared for the newspaper Rzeczpospolita.

The data comes from the business intelligence firm Dun & Bradstreet, which analyzed company registries for Rzeczpospolita based on a new PKD classification (Poland's official business activity classification). It was this refinement of activity codes that made it possible, for the first time, to precisely count how many companies in Poland declare that they work on artificial intelligence, rather than being hidden under the general label of IT services.

Scale of the growth

The data shows that Poland's IT sector as a whole numbers 232,200 companies, with 7,500 new ones added in the first half of 2026. Of that pool, more than 6,000 new entities declared AI-related activity, meaning the vast majority of newly registered technology companies in the country are now focused on AI as their main line of business.

Currently, one in every twelve companies operating in Poland's IT sector belongs to the AI industry's more than 19,000 firms. The report's authors note that a large share of the new entities are sole proprietorships rather than large companies employing teams of developers, showing that entering the AI market has become accessible even to freelancers and small teams.

Against the backdrop of Poland's fast-growing IT market, the group of entrepreneurs tied to artificial intelligence stands out sharply - Tomasz Starzyk, Dun & Bradstreet Poland

What the new companies do

Starzyk points out that the AI label covers a wide range of activities: building software, systems and applications, machine learning, robotics and process automation, and database management. The sector is therefore not limited to companies building language models or chatbots, but spans the entire infrastructure around business automation.

Labor market moves faster than companies

The growth in the number of companies is matched by an explosion in demand for specialists. According to data from the recruitment platform Justjoin.it, the number of IT job postings rose 86 percent year over year in the first half of 2026. The fastest-growing segment turned out to be positions related to artificial intelligence and machine learning, where the number of postings jumped by as much as 129 percent.

Demand for AI skills is no longer confined to Warsaw. Rzeczpospolita notes that strong growth is also visible in Krakow, the Tricity (Gdansk-Gdynia-Sopot), Wroclaw and Poznan, cities with strong academic bases and developed business services sectors that have attracted foreign tech investment for years.

What it means for the Polish market

The pace of new AI company formation contrasts with earlier reports showing that many Polish businesses are still adopting artificial intelligence slowly and cautiously. Dun & Bradstreet's data show, however, that on the supply side, meaning companies offering AI services and tools, the market is growing much faster than demand among traditional businesses, a gap that could narrow in coming quarters.

For people considering a career in the industry, the data sends a clear signal: skills in machine learning and AI deployment are becoming one of the fastest-growing segments of the Polish labor market, with the number of available job postings growing faster than in any other part of the IT sector.