Top 10 Finance Startup Investors in Ukraine in January 2026
A list of 10 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Finance startups based in Ukraine. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Finance companies from Ukraine. We update this investor list every month.Top 10 Finance Startup Investors in Ukraine in January 2026
| Investor | Finance Ukraine investments |
|---|---|
| Oleg Parashchak | 3 |
| SMRK VC Fund | 2 |
| Finance Media | 1 |
| Ukrainian Startup Fund | 1 |
| SID Venture Partners | 1 |
| Geek Ventures | 1 |
| Andriy Dovzhenko | 1 |
| MetLife Foundation | 1 |
| Vladislav Solodkiy | 1 |
| Life.SREDA | 1 |
Enterpreneur, Private Investor, Insurance Media, InsurTech & Crypto Enthusiast
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Finance, InsurTech
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Ukraine, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Beinsure — Beinsure.com — digital media platform with 2M+ annual readers — focused on insurance, InsurTech, cybersecurity, investments, and blockchain technologies. It aims to simplify these industries by providing the latest news, ratings, reviews, and insights.Beinsure serves a global audience interested in finance, insurance, and technology, offering anintegrated platform for both industry professionals and the general public. The content is curated to inform and educate readers about market trends, investment opportunities, and technological advancements in the insurance and InsurTech sectors. It’s a great resource for re/insurers and investors looking to stay informed on market news, and it also offers helpful tools and resources.
- Forinsurer — Online Digital Media #1 about insurance, reinsurance, fintech and insurtech in Ukraine and the world, B2B and B2C insurance platform. Exclusive ratings of insurance companies and banks
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.
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Ukraine, United States, Finland
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.
- Prengi — Prengi builds an extensive facility management platform with thorough reporting that keeps track of all maintenance procedures for shopping malls and retail chains.
- Ability.ai — Automate your marketing, sales, and operations with Ability AI's intelligent agents and workflows. Save time, reduce costs, and scale your business.
Finance Media is a media holding, which owns Forinsurer and Beinsure — the digital media about InsurTech, insurance & reinsurance technologies with audience more than 2+ mn readers. Beinsure is a comprehensive online resource for insurance information, helping individuals and businesses make informed decisions about their insurance needs. In acomplex and ever-evolving insurance landscape, having access to reliable and up-to-date information is crucial. ForInsurer is designed to simplify the insurance journey, offering a wealth of knowledge on various insurance types, coverage options, and industry trends.
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Investment focus
- Digital Media, FinTech, Finance
- Pre-Seed, Seed
- Ukraine, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Beinsure — Beinsure.com — digital media platform with 2M+ annual readers — focused on insurance, InsurTech, cybersecurity, investments, and blockchain technologies. It aims to simplify these industries by providing the latest news, ratings, reviews, and insights.Beinsure serves a global audience interested in finance, insurance, and technology, offering anintegrated platform for both industry professionals and the general public. The content is curated to inform and educate readers about market trends, investment opportunities, and technological advancements in the insurance and InsurTech sectors. It’s a great resource for re/insurers and investors looking to stay informed on market news, and it also offers helpful tools and resources.
- Forinsurer — Online Digital Media #1 about insurance, reinsurance, fintech and insurtech in Ukraine and the world, B2B and B2C insurance platform. Exclusive ratings of insurance companies and banks
- United Citizenship — United Citizenship is a B2C startup that focuses on creating law informational solutions. United Citizenship seeks to eliminate visa restrictions and make it as easy as possible to get new citizenship. The company was founded in 2023 and is based in New York, New York, United States.
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).
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Grant
- Ukraine, United States, Estonia
Portfolio highlights
- Sitniks — Sitniks is a business process automation solution for retail on Instagram.
- Banani AI — AI-powered UI design tool. Free text to UI design generation. Create stunning wireframes and high-fidelity designs fast. Edit designs with text prompts.
- Crosscheck Sustainability Suite — The Sustainability Suite is a platform that simplifies external audits and accelerates compliance
First Ukrainian high-technology venture capital firm established by IT experts for IT geeks, investing in early-stage tech companies
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- United States, Ukraine, Bahamas
Portfolio highlights
- Jome — On our platform, you can search for and tour thousands of new construction homes and communities near you. Our new home experts are ready to guide you through the entire home-buying process and will help you turn your dream home into a reality
- AiSDR — Launch AI-powered outreach in 3 clicks. From finding prospects ready to buy to value-driven omnichannel conversations with multimedia. Get your demo
- Iris Finance — Discover Iris Finance, the most innovative AI-powered finance platform for your consumer brand. Maximize profits effortlessly with real-time financial intelligence, data science insights, and strategic planning.
NYC venture fund investing in immigrant founders building exciting scalable tech
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- United States, Ukraine, China
Portfolio highlights
- Jome — On our platform, you can search for and tour thousands of new construction homes and communities near you. Our new home experts are ready to guide you through the entire home-buying process and will help you turn your dream home into a reality
- Wokelo AI — Wokelo AI transforms research for PE, VC, Consulting, and Corporates. Save time, uncover insights, and make data-driven decisions. Book your demo now.
- Scalestack — Scalestack AI brings all of your GTM data together, suggests prioritized actions and helps your reps to execute your sales plays. Unlock a new level of sales productivity and generate more pipeline.
Andriy Dovzhenko co-founded SMRK VC Fund in 2013. His previous focus has been corporate finance and entrepreneurship. His current investments include:- AmazingHiring (http://amazinghiring.com)- Allset (https://allsetnow.com/)- Ajax.Systems (http://www.ajax.systems/)Andriy is a seed and early stageinvestor, who assists young companies from Ukraine and Eastern Europe and their founders in solving strategic issues and developing their projects.When not at work, Andriy enjoys swimming, snorkelling and diving. He studied for MBA at University of Warwick, UK. Speaks Russian and Ukrainian, studying Spanish and Chinese.
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Investment focus
- Software, Mobile, Human Resources
- Seed
- Ukraine, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Prengi — Prengi builds an extensive facility management platform with thorough reporting that keeps track of all maintenance procedures for shopping malls and retail chains.
- Settle (Merged with Allset) — With Settle, you can pre-order lunch at restaurants, so that your food is ready when you arrive. You dine 60% faster, as you skip waiting for your table, food and check. Settle makes lunch your best time of the day by giving you delicious meals and more time for a real break.For restaurants: 100% prepaid orders and tables, 60% fasterturnarounds, new sales online, more effective upselling and more targeted marketing.We focus on popular restaurants in busy areas with breakfast and lunch menu. We offer companies and teams group lunch pre-ordering at restaurants near their offices.In addition to mobile pre-ordering, restaurants can offer specials and happy hours during off-peak time.In Ukraine, we currently take 15-20% commission from restaurants. In the USA, the service will be launched free for restaurants and users. Then we'll try out this model: a small commission on every pre-order for restaurants during off-peak hours and a small fee for users during peak hours.
- Esper Bionics — Solutions to transform the prosthetic industry and augment humanity
MetLife Foundation is committed to expanding opportunities for low- and moderate-income people around the world.MetLife Foundation partner with nonprofit organizations and social enterprises to create financial health solutions and build stronger communities, while engaging MetLife employee volunteers to help drive impact.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
- Seed, Grant, Pre-Seed
- United Arab Emirates, Mexico, Turkey
Portfolio highlights
- Chari — Chari is an e-commerce and fintech app for traditional retailers in French-Speaking Africa allowing them to order any consumer goods they sell and get delivered for free in less than 24 hours. Chari is also a financial services provider for these retailers, offering them microloans
- Ecomm-App — Ecomm-App is an online platform that helps online merchants to manage their inventory in real-time and invoice in seconds.
- Fellow Pay — The faster, easier and fairer way to get your invoices paid and speed up your payment cycle. For B2B SMEs with long payment cycles across all industries.
Vladislav started his career in marketing and advertising. Over the years he held executive positions in top Russian companies: MTS, Alfa-Bank, Russian Standard Bank. Vladisalv’s projects were awarded Brand of the year, EFFIE three times and participated in Cannes Lions. He received a PhD in State Administration at Moscow State University, and anE-MBA in Strategic Marketing at Stockholm School of Economics. He also holds a master Degree in Political Science from St. Petersburg State University. Vladislav was awarded a grant from MGIMO and British Petroleum (2008) for his studies. In 2012, being a VP of Marketing at Life Financial Group, Vladislav launched a Venture Capital Firm Life.SREDA, specializing in investments in FinTech.
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Investment focus
- Mobile, Finance, Restaurants
- Seed
- Ukraine
Portfolio highlights
- Settle (Merged with Allset) — With Settle, you can pre-order lunch at restaurants, so that your food is ready when you arrive. You dine 60% faster, as you skip waiting for your table, food and check. Settle makes lunch your best time of the day by giving you delicious meals and more time for a real break.For restaurants: 100% prepaid orders and tables, 60% fasterturnarounds, new sales online, more effective upselling and more targeted marketing.We focus on popular restaurants in busy areas with breakfast and lunch menu. We offer companies and teams group lunch pre-ordering at restaurants near their offices.In addition to mobile pre-ordering, restaurants can offer specials and happy hours during off-peak time.In Ukraine, we currently take 15-20% commission from restaurants. In the USA, the service will be launched free for restaurants and users. Then we'll try out this model: a small commission on every pre-order for restaurants during off-peak hours and a small fee for users during peak hours.
Life.SREDA is one of the first and leading Fintech-focused VC funds with the vision of building and connecting fintech-ecosystems across the World
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Mobile, Financial Services
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- Russian Federation, Singapore, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Lenddo — Lenddo is the world's first online community that empowers the emerging middle class to use online social connections to demonstrate their creditworthiness and access affordable, life-improving financial services.
- Ayannah — Ayannah is a leading provider of affordable and accessible digital financial services to the world's emerging middle class, many of whom are migrants and/or unbanked.
- SoftPay Mobile — SoftPay Mobile International is a leading Mobile Point of Sale (mPOS) solution and Payment Facilitator company in Southeast Asia. SoftPay's mPOS solution enables businesses and individuals to accept credit cards (Visa, MasterCard, JCB, Amex, China UnionPay), debit cards, bank cards, loyalty cards and all other kinds of card payments anywhereat anytime. Our mPOS solution is highly secure and has achieved numerous certifications to give merchants and customers peace of mind when processing payments.
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