Headquartered in Poznań, Poland, it's a globally operating business, with local offices including Warsaw, Kraków, Wrocław, Gdańsk and Białystok.
[15][16] Since 2007, through their own foundation Fundacja Polak 2.0, they also organized first BarCamp community meetings for innovation enthusiasts in Poland,[17] along with further events: the International Startup Fair Democamp,[18] the ShopCamp workshops,[19] and the Hackfest.
[22] Netguru developed also their own microblogging social platform, a charity service,[23] and a recruitment support tool HumanWay, awarded at startup competitions Seedcamp Warsaw and Aulery.
[28][29] In July 2011, Filipowski, along with entrepreneurs Borys Musielak and Anna Walkowska, moved their businesses together into a mansion in Żoliborz, establishing the Reaktor, which evolved into the first networking hub in Poland, and the venue for the Warsaw startup scene.
[30][31][better source needed] Filipowski and Schmidt contributed the famed article on the internet website Antyweb, "There Will Be No More 'Polish Equivalents'", about web services Allegro, Gadu-Gadu, and Nasza Klasa, as local copycats of EBay, ICQ, and Classmates.com, respectively.
[34] Zygadlewicz exited Netguru, while Schmidt and Filipowski focused entirely on web applications for British, American, and German startups.
[36] In May 2018, during a Microsoft hackathon in Prague, Netguru (along with MicroscopeIT) launched a deep-learning image-recognition application that solved segmentation with neural networks.
[55] In 2010, Netguru developers created an online platform for the foundation Apps for Good, that allows cooperation of teachers, students and experts in schools in the United States, Spain, Portugal, and Poland.
[56] Since 2017, Netguru has conducted workshops based on design-thinking sprints developed by Google, which are aimed to answer critical business questions through design, prototyping, and testing ideas with customers, to reduce the risk of bringing a new product, service, or feature to the market.
[68] Between 2013–2015, Netguru have coached Ruby on Rails around Poland,[69][70] at free practical workshops aimed at PHP, Java, and .NET developers.
Since 2015, Netguru have hosted weekend hackathons in its Poznan headquarters,[71] and regular Ruby on Rails student workshops at the Katowice Institute of Information Technologies.
In 2014, the company filed an application to the European Union Intellectual Property Office to register EU trade mark "Netguru" in several classes related to computer services.
The company appealed to the General Court of the European Union, which dismissed the complaint, considering that the combination of the words "net" and "guru" appeared as advertising, nor it doesn't allow the target public to perceive the sign as an indication of the commercial origin of the goods and services in question.
[76] Netguru is a three-time winner of the Fast 50 Central Europe competition where the accounting network Deloitte recognizes and profiles the 50 most dynamic technology companies in the region, based on the revenue growth over past five years.
[82] In November 2017, Netguru, joined by the software house CashCape, received two awards in the Bankathon Berlin, for an application explaining the impact of the Payments Services Directive and other regulations.