Top 10 Food and Beverage Startup Investors in Ukraine in January 2026
A list of 10 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Food and beverage startups based in Ukraine. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Food and beverage companies from Ukraine. We update this investor list every month.Top 10 Food and Beverage Startup Investors in Ukraine in January 2026
| Investor | Food and Beverage Ukraine investments |
|---|---|
| SMRK VC Fund | 2 |
| BRISE Capital | 1 |
| IFC Venture Capital Group | 1 |
| Ukrainian Startup Fund | 1 |
| Fedoriv Group | 1 |
| Horizon Capital | 1 |
| Andriy Dovzhenko | 1 |
| TA Ventures | 1 |
| European Bank for Reconstruction and Development | 1 |
| Bas Godska | 1 |
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.
BRISE Capital is a family office specialized in MarTech and E-commerce verticals, SaaS and Marketplace business models. We help teams according to their current needs starting from business idea clarification and strategy planning till raising Round A. Also, we practice a hands-on approach in most cases when one of the partners can be deep insideof a chosen project. BRISE operates in Ukraine and scouts local teams with regional and global ambitions. Our typical ticket is in the range of 50k-75k USD. And our goal is to add 5-7 new companies annually.
Currently, we have 10 portfolio companies among which are Finmap, VOCHI, Getpin, Workee, Disqover, and others.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Advertising, SEO
- Pre-Seed, Seed
- Ukraine, Belarus, Estonia
Portfolio highlights
- VOCHI — Made for creative video editing
- Finmap — Finmap is financial management tool that allows business owners to see the state of their company without special knowledge of finance and studying of complex systems. By using 3 simple buttons - income, outcome and transfer - all analytics appears in a few clicks at a glance: how much the company earned, which projects more profitable, astatement of cash flows, accounts receivable and payable of the company. Finmap makes it possible to see the business situation on one sheet, removes chaos in financial management and gives the business owner the opportunity to make the right decisions
- Workee — Workee is a back-office for freelancers. We are helping appointment led professionals (such as coaches, health experts, tutors, lawyers) to manage their accounting, invoices, client and work management in one place out of the box. We save at least 4 hours per week and at least $200-$400 per month.
IFC supports technology ventures that are creating new opportunities in emerging markets, transforming industries, and driving inclusive growth while realizing strong returns.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Financial Services, Internet
- Funding Round, Series B, Series C
- United States, India, Brazil
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- Scanntech — Scanntech provides point-of-sale software to retail stores. The company offers tech solutions and connectivity in sales points to enables independent supermarkets to process transactions, run inventory management, and provide financial services to consumers through intelligence point of sale software.Scanntech was founded in 1992 and is based inMontevideo, Uruguay.
- TradeDepot — TradeDepot is an end-to-end distribution platform that connects the world's top consumer goods companies directly to retailers on the streets of Africa's cities. With its headquarters in Lagos, Nigeria, TradeDepot’s aim is to build the largest retail distribution network in Africa. The company was founded in 2016, with a mission toimprove milk distribution to smaller retailers on the continent, using technology. Today, the company is scaling the same technology to improve the distribution of food, beverages and personal care products to retailers, and to improve livelihoods for these retail store owners.
- Ingenix — Our solution leverages proprietary multimodal AI essential for tackling the complexities of multimodal biological systems.
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
Welcome to Fedoriv Group, where innovation meets strategy. Discover our comprehensive services and unique approach to business growth.
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Investment focus
- Fruit, Grocery, Food Delivery
- Angel
- Ukraine
Horizon Capital is a private equity firm in Ukraine backed by over 40 institutional investors, managing funds with assets under management of over $1.1 billion and a tenure of 25 years in the region. The firm is an active, value-added growth equity investor, investing alongside visionary entrepreneurs leading transformational businesses in Ukraineand the near region. Our investment strategy focuses on export champions in technology, e-commerce and other innovative industries. We are known for our strong team, high integrity and governance, value creation and track record of successful investments.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services
- Private Equity, Funding Round, Series A
- Ukraine, Moldova, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Maib — Moldova Agroindbank is a universal bank.
- Viseven — Discover the future of pharma marketing with Viseven martech solutions. Elevate strategies, bridge gaps, and unlock growth!
- GoIT — GoIT is an EdTech company that offers instructor-led in IT courses, coding boot camp, programming, and web design courses.
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
TA Ventures is a global, network-driven VC firm investing in early-stage tech startups that redefine the industries of tomorrow. We typically write initial checks of $100-250K for Pre-Seed and Seed companies and actively provide follow-on investments.
We pride ourselves on swift execution, hands-on support, and leveraging our extensiveinternational network. By connecting our portfolio companies with growth-oriented co-investors, we help them scale effectively through subsequent funding rounds. Additionally, we draw on our deep industry expertise to offer portfolio companies and partner VCs access to top-tier, cost-efficient R&D talent.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Software, Health Care
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Germany, India
Portfolio highlights
- Bipi — Bipi is a car subscription startup offering consumers a hassle-free alternative to car ownership with fully-flexible, all-inclusive monthly subscriptions to quality new and used cars for a single, all-inclusive monthly payment and a digital-first, 100% online transaction process. Its platform lets users book cars, subscribe, swap, and cancel it atany point in time that enables customers to revolutionize the way they access cars.Bipi was co-founded by Hans Christ and Alejandro Vigaray in 2017 and it is headquartered in Madrid, Spain.
- AccessOwl — AccessOwl is an Access Governance and SaaS management tool. Allowing customers to automate user account provisioning, access requests, approvals and reviews as well as Shadow IT detection.
- Tortoise — Tortoise is an automated delivery platform for the retail and logistics industries. It was founded by David Graham and Dmitry Shevelenko. Companies like Lyft, Microsoft, and Samsung have brought David in when developing novel technologies and concepts. Meanwhile, Dmitry oversaw the new modality partnership strategy at Uber and led Uber’s firstdeals with JUMP, Getaround, and the public transit ticketing system Masabi. Together, the two have identified some of the biggest pain points in logistics and shared micromobility and are setting out to tackle them together.
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) invests in changing lives. Through our financial investments, business services and work on policy reform, we're doing more than ever before to build open, market economies across 3 continents.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, Banking, Finance
- Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Funding Round
- Turkey, United States, Poland
Portfolio highlights
- Maib — Moldova Agroindbank is a universal bank.
- Banque du Caire — Banque du Caire is a banking company that specializes in providing BDC online banking, phone banking, and mobile banking app. The company was founded in 1952 and headquartered in Al Qahirah, Egypt.
- Yapı ve Kredi Bankası — Yapi Kredi Bankasi, established in 1944, is one of the first nationwide private banks in Turkey. It is engaged in credit cards, assets management, non-cash loans, leasing, factoring, private pension funds and non-life insurance. It is 80% owned by Koc Finansal Hizmetler (KFH), whose combined financial services network consists of over 13 millioncustomers and 835 branches in Turkey.Yapi Kredi was acquired by Mehmet Emin Karamehmet's Çukurova Holding in 1984. In 2003, Çukurova Holding reached an agreement with the Turkish bank regulator to sell the majority of its shares in Yapi Kredi within two years. In 2005, the majority of shares in Yapi Kredi was acquired by the owners of Koçbank. Koç Finansal Hizmetler (KFH) was an equal partnership between Koç Holding and Italian banking giant, Unicredit. In 2006, Koçbank was merged into Yapı Kredi, leaving 80% of Yapi Kredi owned by KFS.
Founder Acrobator Ventures, Tech Investment Fund.
Founder Acrobator.com, growth hack and marketing advisory firm.
Co-Founder Netherlands for Ukraine Foundation (NL4UA.org) supporting Ukrainians affected by the war since 2022.
Digital Dutchman, entrepreneur-turned-investor. eCommerce expert, growth hacker and marketeer since 2000.
Assisted 100+companies worldwide as CMO, MD, board advisor, consultant. Ranked #1 Foreign Angel Investor in Russia (EWDN); Top 10 Angel Investor (Firrma.ru/SLON), Crunchbase: #1 Dutch (2019) & Top 50 EU angel investor. Techcrunch / Crunchbase: "Bas Godska is one of the most prolific Western investors in Eastern Europe." Bas' Angel Fund (>EUR 100mn AUM) ranked by PitchBook as #2 in success by IRR (2021). Top 50 SuperAngel worldwide (Arete Index, 2024-25)Roles Europe/Russia/CIS (2003-2019):
CMO lastminute.com ; Country Manager Sportingbet ; CMO Europe Ebookers.com / Orbitz.com ; MD Gogol Media.
CMO / dep. CEO Ozon.ru ; VP Marketing Gloria Jeans ; CMO Lamoda.ru (Rocket Internet) ; CMO Digital KupiVIP.ru ; eCommerce Director a.i. Enter | Svyaznoi ; MD myThings.com ; Guest Lecturer Digital Marketing at Skolkovo MSM MBA (2013), Guest lecturer Stanford IGC Exec MBAAngel investor in decacorn Miro, Harver (exit to Rubicon PE), Chocofamily, Piano.
Bas' angel investments (~50) have helped founders raise over $1 billion from investors like Iconiq, Accel, Insight, Salesforce, Google, YC, and Techstars. The combined market cap of these companies, based on their latest funding rounds, is ~$20 billion.
As a VC/LP Bas invested in 400+ companies including 20+ unicorns.
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- United States, The Netherlands, Kazakhstan
Portfolio highlights
- D2X Group — Trade digital asset options and futures on the EU-regulated market infrastructure for institutions.
- SuperWorld — The Virtual World mapped on top of the real world to create, discover and monetize content.
- Knowledge Gate Group — Connect with global experts in life sciences and accelerate your innovation pipeline with AI-assisted insights.
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