Top 5 Fashion Startup Investors in Ukraine (June 2026)

SMRK VC Fund is an investment firm that funds seed and early stage companies. Their projects are Allset, Preply, Competera and AJAX Systems. SMRK is a Ukraine-based company that was founded in 2013 by Oleksandr Kosovan and Andriy Dovzhenko.

Investment focus

Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce
Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
Geography: United States, Ukraine, Finland

Investor stats

Total investments: 32
Round size: Seed $300k–$2.4M; Pre-Seed $680k–$2M
Lead/follow: 63% lead, 37% follow
Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $10M in 2013

Portfolio highlights

Osavul — Osavul is a software company focused on developing AI-powered solutions for information security. Protect states, businesses and society from disinformation, influence operations and foreign interference.
Principle — Test your strategic decisions before you commit. Principle simulates competitors, regulators, and market forces to stress-test your bets against adversarial reality.
Turnkey Lender — Turnkey Lender is a Commercial lending software that can improve efficiency and reduce costs for financial services companies.

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Sina Afra is the CEO and Founder of Tiko. He previously worked at Markafoni as a CEO and Founder. Sina Afra attended the University of Münster.

Investment focus

Industry: E-Commerce, Fashion, Internet
Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
Geography: Turkey, United States, Germany

Investor stats

Total investments: 42
Round size: Seed $100k–$4.2M; Angel $15k–$1.5M; Series A $2M–$11M
Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow

Portfolio highlights

Vagon — Vagon is your personal high-performance computer on the cloud. Start Vagon instantly and run all challenging software from any device, anywhere.
MARS — MARS provides digital financial services with unique card options and rewards programs.
Firefly — Firefly is the next-gen car advertising solution, featuring taxi and rideshare top advertising, in-car advertising, holograms, car wraps and more.

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Over 15 years experience in the Internet industry back Heissam Hartmann's solid knowledge about the online business.Prior to joining Rebate Networks as the Vice President of Eastern Europe, Heissam was Head of International Business Development at the largest German online fashion shopping club brands4friends. Before that, Heissam was CEOof the online postcard service AhaOho, which sent real postcards, and was soon successfully sold to Greetz.As the former Marketing & Business Development Director from the biggest German online video community MyVideo, Heissam, worked on new concepts for new media and video advertising within the online and media industry.He started his career as one of the first staff members at the German auction platform Alando.de, which was acquired by eBay in 1999. He grew with the company as Head of Entertainment on to the position of Senior Manager, helping to build up eBay Switzerland and Austria from the scratch.On an entrepreneurial level he co-founded various companies and, as a Business Angel, advises start-ups in building and growing their businesses. Following his passion he also co-founded fashion brands and personally supported motion pictures and music projects.As the founder of Passiontainment, he advises influential people from the entertainment & sports industries and celebrities on their internet strategies and by that, bridges the worlds between influential investors and up-and-coming startups.

Investment focus

Industry: Retail, E-Commerce, Shopping
Stage:Angel, Seed
Geography: Germany, Austria, Ukraine

Investor stats

Total investments: 6
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

meinKauf — meinKauf/miKunu offers an innovative web & mobile platform for mobile retail marketing & brand promotions. Our services are available in Austria, Hungary and Turkey as we are about to enter another new market this year. We are proud to work with the top high street and brick and mortar as well as top FMCG companies in our activemarkets.
Inventorum — Inventorum’s software enables small retailers to manage their offline and online businesses by supporting daily processes such as point of sale and inventory management. Inventorum combines cash management, inventory management, customer support and e-commerce capability in one system.
Rubina Real Estate — A full service real estate agency based in Berlin with offices in Hong Kong, Vietnam, China, Washington and Singapore.

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USF originally set up to promote the development of the local startup ecosystem and today is the largest local angel investor with already 130 funded startups and the most extensive startups database and stakeholders (over 3,000 applications).

Investment focus

Industry: Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Stage:Pre-Seed, Grant, Seed
Geography: Ukraine, United States, Estonia

Investor stats

Total investments: 89
Round size: Seed $50k–$50k; Grant $16k–$50k; Pre-Seed $25k–$50k
Lead/follow: 85% lead, 15% follow

Portfolio highlights

SYLA — SYLA is a bionic knee prosthesis that combines modern technology, machine learning, and artificial intelligence to adapt to different walking ways and ensure natural movements.
Dots Platform — Dots Platform - is the all-in-one ordering and delivery SaaS for hyperlocal commerce
LeadForceTalent — First AI Top and Middle Management Recruitment Platform delivering candidates 10X fasterIt take 100 hours to find, check and interview a top management candidate. It’s 10X comparing to average specialist. No top-manager - the business is not growing and losing owner’s money.LeaForceTalent gives access to 25M database of C-level candidates,automatically interviews, checks skills with AI based on Blockchain and get hundreds of replies from candidates with one click.

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