Top 10 Startup Investors in Azerbaijan in May 2025
A list of 10 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in startups based in Azerbaijan. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in companies from Azerbaijan. We update this investor list every month.Top 10 Startup Investors in Azerbaijan in May 2025
Investor | Azerbaijan investments |
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Sup VC | 8 |
Caucasus Ventures | 2 |
SABAH INVESTMENTS LLC | 2 |
John Hawkins | 1 |
Marek Olszewski | 1 |
Advent Venture Partners | 1 |
Azeo Ventures | 1 |
Rene Reinsberg | 1 |
DAAL | 1 |
Flori Ventures | 1 |
Investment focus
- Internet, Social, Apps
- Seed, Funding Round
- Azerbaijan
Portfolio highlights
- D’arzi — D’arzi is a social platform for tailors and dress-makers to create appropriate model in few clicks measuring body sizes for clothing by using designer-constructor software. In addition, it allows customers to place an order for that tailored product.
- TaskPal — Taskpal is a task management tool
- Customar LLC — CustomAR is a professional team with a straight vision and innovative touch, deeply-rooted in the digital community. They go beyond the development process to ensure product success. They help their clients to market, scale and improve their product ideas. They are technological craftsmen.
Caucasus Ventures is a venture capital firm.
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Investment focus
- Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- United States, Georgia, Azerbaijan
Portfolio highlights
- Dosty — Complete Petcare Solution
- Nextool Ai — Product Hunt for Ai Tools
- Ayan — At Ayan, we make it easy for PHV drivers to access Halal car financing tailored to their needs. With Ayan Pay, you can benefit from 0% interest payment plans for car repairs, home improvements, and other services, spread over up to 12 months. Our mission is to provide fair, transparent, and ethical financial solutions for everyone.
SABAH.lab is a startup acceleration center focused on helping startups get through idea validation, MVP production, and fundraising. We aim to establish a flourishing startup ecosystem in Azerbaijan and the region.
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Investment focus
- Pre-Seed
- Azerbaijan
Portfolio highlights
- AzAstro Technologies — We program drones to gain the most accurate aerial data intelligence for both private and public sector organizations
- Perkskit — Perkskit believe now it is a great opportunity to transform the corporate perks system and to help employees feel more appreciated. We empower businesses to create a streamlined employee experience to maximize HR investments and drive core business results.
John Hawkins is a Managing Partner and co-founder of Generation Partners, a private equity firm that provides growth capital to technology-enabled services companies through buyout and minority equity investments. Through Generation and predecessor firms, John has 25 years of experience in private equity investing.Prior to founding Generation in1995, John was a General Partner of Burr, Egan, Deleage & Co., a venture capital firm which he joined in 1987. At Burr, Egan, Deleage, John invested mainly in telecommunications, data communications, software, and business services companies.Prior to this, John worked in the Corporate Finance Department of Alex Brown & Sons, Inc. in San Francisco, where he advised information technology companies in the areas of financial strategy, public offerings and mergers & acquisitions.Earlier, John was a publishing research analyst covering information technology companies for Woodman, Kirkpatrick & Gilbreath an investment bank which was subsequently purchased by Hambrecht & Quist.In addition to Captivate Network, John has served on the Board of Directors of over 20 companies including: HotJobs (NASDAQ: HOTJ) – a pioneer in online recruiting; P-Com (NASDAQ: PCOM) – a communications infrastructure equipment supplier; Demand Media (NYSE: DMD) – a leading online media company; thePlatform – a developer of digital content software solutions; Agility Recovery Solutions – a leading disaster recovery provider; High End Systems – a premier manufacturer of intelligent lighting; ShopWiki – an advanced comparison shopping search engine; Donuts – a domain registry where he is a board observer; and iCrossing – a large independent, global interactive advertising agency.John graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in English with honors from Harvard College in 1982, where he was a John Harvard Scholar. John received his MBA from the Harvard Graduate School of Business in 1986.John is a member of the World Presidents’ Organization.
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Investment focus
- SEO, Video, Shopping
- Pre-Seed, Series A, Series C
- Azerbaijan, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Remox — Treasury and Governance for Onchain Communities
- ShopWiki — Buying anything? ShopWiki has stores, products, and buying guides to help you find what and where to buy at the best price.
- iCrossing — iCrossing is a global Digital Marketing Agency with top talent and technologies. Learn more about our digital marketing services, work, and capabilities.
Marek Olszewski is the President at Valora.
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Investment focus
- Cryptocurrency, Software, Blockchain
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
- United States, Portugal, Azerbaijan
Portfolio highlights
- Remox — Treasury and Governance for Onchain Communities
- CyberBox — CyberBox is the first NFT Marketplace with ReFi integration on the Celo blockchain. Our vision is to build a marketplace to support every NFT collection and every ReFi project that looks to create impact with NFTs and build their communities around them and promote the value of sustainability and climate protection.
- Capsule Wallets — At Capsule, we thrive on challenging the design of products we use every day. In doing so, we hope to introduce you to a simpler way of living.
Advent Venture Partners is one of Europe's most successful growth and venture capital investors in market-leading tech and life sciences businesses. They have designed their strategy, teams and funds so they can focus on backing a select few companies. They pride their selves on establishing true partnerships with entrepreneurs in order tobuild valuable businesses together.
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
- Series B, Series A, Funding Round
- United Kingdom, United States, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- Wiz — Organizations of all sizes and industries use Wiz to rapidly identify and remove the most critical risks in AWS, Azure, GCP, and Kubernetes so they can build faster and more securely.
- WorldStores — Established in 2008, Worldstores is now the UK’s largest online home & garden retailer. Offering unparalleled choice, value for money, customer service and a range of convenient delivery options, Worldstores is renowned as one of the UK's most exciting e-commerce success stories.ACHICA, the luxury flash-sale business, and baby specialistKiddicare also form part of the Worldstores Group and play a key part in the ambitious plans for Worldstores Group in becoming a household name in the home and garden market.
- Acutus Medical — Acutus Medical develops medical technologies to treat complex cardiac arrhythmia. The company's platform displays the heart’s true activation pattern, turning the chaos of a complex arrhythmia into a clear vision for electrophysiologists.Acutus Medical is a privately funded company founded in 2011 and based in Carlsbad, California. Itsproducts are co-developed in the U.S. and Europe with an exceptional team of medical scientists, biomedical engineers, and other professionals.It was founded in 2011 and headquartered in Carlsbad, California.
As of October 2002, Azeo Ventures was acquired by Alven Capital Gestion. Azeo Ventures is a venture capital investment subsidiary of Eurazeo, a French investment company born of the merger between Eurafrance (Groupe Lazard) and Azeo (formerly known as Financiere & Industrielle Gaz et Eaux). The fund is dedicated to investing in the new economyfor the total amount of $55 million. Azeo Ventures invests in start-up and early venture companies in Internet services, technology and telecommunications. Their typical investment is between $1 million and $7 million per portfolio company (from the 1st round of financing until the introduction to the Stock Exchange). AZEO Ventures team generally requests a seat on the board of directors of the companies in which it invests. Founded in 2000, the company is headquartered in Paris, France. Azeo Ventures was formerly a subsidiary of Eurazeo.
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Investment focus
- Software, Marketing, 3D Technology
- Series A, Series C
- France, Azerbaijan
Portfolio highlights
- 404 Found! — 404 Found offered customer relationship management services and software, and online marketing. The company ended its operations in 2002 in the aftermath of the bubble burst. At its peak, 404 Found! operated in France, Italy, Spain, Germany and the UK.The company helped start ups to define their Internet strategy and operational deployment byconducting sectoral studies, competing positioning, schedule of conditions, etc. In 2001, the consulting division of 404 Found! was acquired by Deloitte & Touche.
- Realviz SA — REALVIZ develops and markets interactive 2D image processing and 3D modeling tools for computer graphics professionals in the television advertising and programming, feature films, and corporate presentation market. REALVIZ applications enable users to easily and cost-effectively process 2D photos, video and cinematic images into computer-generatedimages, sequences, 3D camera tracks and 3D models for use in the creation of 3D animation and special effects.
Rene Reinsberg is the Co-Founder and President of Celo.
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Investment focus
- Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Canada, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- ValuesCo — Socialstack is a community of creative leaders, creators, & developers co-creating community-driven economies that run on carbon negative blockchain infrastructure.
- Fountain — Fountain operates in the finance industry, providing a wallet platform specifically designed for teams. The platform allows users to create permission-controlled wallets in a matter of seconds, offering a centralized location for managing all transactions and treasury. In addition to its wallet services, Fountain also offers a unique way to enjoypodcasts, further diversifying its product offerings. With a team of six, Fountain continues to innovate in the realm of finance and entertainment.
- Capsule Wallets — At Capsule, we thrive on challenging the design of products we use every day. In doing so, we hope to introduce you to a simpler way of living.
The aim of Daal is to create excellent opportunities for investment by providing mentorship and business development insights to companies within the IT space.
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
- Tunisia, Egypt, United Arab Emirates
Portfolio highlights
- Pulppo — Pulppo is the first Tech Enabled broker for Latin America. We partner with the best brokers in the region and empower them with tools, technology and resources to create a simple and transparent buying process. Pulppo was founded by Agustin Iglesias, former GM of Inmuebles24 and founder of Tokko Broker (Acquired by Navent) and Matias Gath, formerGM of Glovo in Argentina and founder of Kadabra (acquired by Glovo).
- Kamioun — Kamioun is a mobile platform that connects FMCG manufacturers to local retail shops by fast free delivery of inventory.
- Paper.id — Atur tempo pembayaran bisnis serta kirim & terima pembayaran dengan kartu kredit, invoice juga langsung sah dengan e-Meterai. Coba Sekarang!
More than a seed-stage fund and a portfolio of startups: Our community of founders taps into the power of financial innovation to collaborate around global problems and unlock prosperity for all.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, FinTech, Cryptocurrency
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United States, United Kingdom, India
Portfolio highlights
- Mento Labs — Mento Labs is a decentralized EVM platform for launching and managing multi-currency stable assets.
- Learn.xyz — Learn.xyz’s is a mixture of Duolingo and Wikipedia, powered by AI, creating bite-sized “Curiosities” which feature slides and a quiz, in mere seconds just from taking in a user’s question. Find the app on iOS and Android.
- Thrive Protocol — Thrive Protocol's vision is to maximize value creation for all people and communities.
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