Top 40 Media (entertainment) Startup Investors in Ukraine in November 2024

Investor	Media (entertainment) Ukraine investments
Amazon Web Services	1
QPDigital	1
Marcel 'Otto' YON	1
Nadiia Vasylieva	1
Semyon Dukach	1
Mixpanel	1
Nataliya Sambir	1
Oleksandr Zhukov	1
Sasha Reminnyi	1
Eugene Gusarov	1
Netsolid Investments	1
Sasha Reminnyi	1
Eugene Gusarov	1
Ivan Dmytrasevych	1
Marcel 'Otto' YON	1
Nadiia Vasylieva	1
Nataliya Sambir	1
Oleg Rogynskyy	1
Oleksandr Zhukov	1
Oleksii Fomichov	1
Alexander Soroka	1
QPDigital	1
EastOne Group	1
Vladislav Len	1
Amazon Web Services	1
Segment	1
Mixpanel	1
Zendesk	1
Semyon Dukach	1
Admitad	1
Vladislav Len	1
Zendesk	1
Oleg Rogynskyy	1
Segment	1
EastOne Group	1
Admitad	1
Oleksii Fomichov	1
Alexander Soroka	1
Ivan Dmytrasevych	1
Netsolid Investments	1

Amazon Web Services provides information technology infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services. Its products and solutions include cloud computing, compute, networking, storage and content delivery, databases, analytics, application services, deployment and management, mobile services, applications, AWS marketplace software,startups, enterprises, partners, government and education, websites and web applications, big data and HPC, gaming, and digital media as well as backup, storage, and archive. The company also provides AWS management console, documentation, SDKs and tools, downloads, platforms, Java, JavaScript, mobile, PHP, Ruby, Python, Windows, .NET, resources, forums, tutorials and articles, whitepapers, training and certification, and AWS user groups for developers. In addition, it offers compute, storage, database, analytics, application, and deployment services; and mobile services, websites, and backup and recovery services. Amazon Web Services serves the government, education, and non-profit sectors in North America, South America, Europe, Africa, Asia Pacific, and internationally. Amazon Web Services was founded in 2006 and is based in Seattle, Washington. It has data center locations in the United States, Europe, Brazil, Singapore, Japan, and Australia. It operates as a subsidiary of Amazon.com Inc.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Grant, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
United States, Lebanon, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

VeraNet — VeraNet builds AI platforms that automate decision-making, providing businesses with data-driven recommendations.
EvolutionaryScale — ESM3. Enabling scientists to understand, imagine, and create proteins.
Bonumbit — Bonumbitt aims to enhance security, transparency, and efficiency in online transactions. The company offers advanced features such as smart contracts, a decentralized review system, and AI-driven analytics to provide personalized shopping experiences. The company's commitment to cutting-edge technology and strategic partnerships positions itas a leader in the evolving e-commerce landscape. With its upcoming token launch on major cryptocurrency exchanges, BBT is set to drive significant growth and redefine the future of online commerce.

Venture Capital Firm 2.0 focused on Deep Tech, It-logistics and Digital Healthcare industries.

Investment focus

Software, Machine Learning, SaaS
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
Ukraine, United States, Russian Federation

Portfolio highlights

Promin Aerospace — Democratizing space and making it available to every country, organization and person.
Onlizer — Onlizer allows connecting services and automates processes fast and efficient without coding.
Drope.me — We connect gaming companies, micro streamers and their communities in performance marketing campaigns.

Marcel 'Otto' YON is Driving innovation@scale and disrupting the defence innovation cycle; CEO and board member, AI pioneer and startup entrepreneur, public entrepreneur in security and defence.

Investment focus

Internet Radio
Angel
Ukraine

Portfolio highlights

Himera — Himera is a defense technology startup, manufactures communication radio stations.

Nadiia Vasylieva is the senior advisor to strategic consulting, independent board director, GP of the VC fund, chairwoman of the board committees, digital transformation VP for top corporations, and digital economy scientist.

Investment focus

Internet Radio
Angel
Ukraine

Portfolio highlights

Himera — Himera is a defense technology startup, manufactures communication radio stations.

Semyon Dukach is the Founding Partner of One Way Ventures. He previously worked at SharpSpring as a Board Chairman. Semyon Dukach attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Investment focus

Software, Education, SaaS
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
United States, Ukraine, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Meograph — Meograph develops an augmented reality application that makes 3D people from 2D video. It brings users into AR or VR games with their micro-expressions using devices they already have. With just an average smartphone or webcam it literally converts video into 3D locally on the device. The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in SanFrancisco, California.
OffGridBox — An all-in-one system using solar energy to purify water and distribute clean energy. off grid container, offgrid water, off-grid electric products, solar water box, building off grid, power in a box, off grid technology, shipping container solar system
WorkAround — WorkAround is the accurate, scalable solution for adding human input to your data using an untapped workforce of domain experts.WorkAround's platform enables simple, quick annotation of data. Anything from classifying expenses into tax codes, annotating breast tissue to identify regions of interest, to identifying drug combinations fromclinical trial reports. We have the domain experts and a platform to facilitate a simple, secure processing of customer data and annotations.Companies that using WorkAround services not only save time and get quality service, but are also contributing to a more socially just and productive world where talent knows no boundaries, opportunity doesn’t ask for status, and work is rewarded with fair pay.

Unlock valuable customer insights to better convert, engage, and retain users with Mixpanel's powerful, self-serve product analytics. Try it free.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Marketing, Consulting
Seed, Pre-Seed
Egypt, United States, Ukraine

Portfolio highlights

U22 — U22 is a media streaming platform.
EMARKETING SOLUTIONS, LLC — Home - UNLEASH THE POWER OF INNOVATIVE SOFTWARE TO TRANSFORM YOUR DIGITAL MARKETING. STAND OUT FROM COMPETITORS WITH GROUNDBREAKING SOLUTIONS.
Dream Business System — we help coaches, course creators, and trainers to build an online coaching business

Nataliya Sambir is the СDO & Сo-founder at Linkup Studio.

Investment focus

Internet Radio
Angel
Ukraine

Portfolio highlights

Himera — Himera is a defense technology startup, manufactures communication radio stations.

Oleksandr Zhukov is VP Delivery Ukraine at Avenga.

Investment focus

Internet Radio
Angel
Ukraine

Portfolio highlights

Himera — Himera is a defense technology startup, manufactures communication radio stations.

Sasha Reminnyi - General Manager - UiPath Marketplace @ UiPath

Investment focus

Internet Radio
Angel
Ukraine

Portfolio highlights

Himera — Himera is a defense technology startup, manufactures communication radio stations.

Eugene Gusarov is the network VC and founder of Gusarov Startup Studio.

Investment focus

Internet Radio
Angel
Ukraine

Portfolio highlights

Himera — Himera is a defense technology startup, manufactures communication radio stations.

With capital infusion, we help entrepreneurs find new revenue streams, achieve operational efficiency, and get the best partners from around the world

Investment focus

Digital Marketing, Affiliate Marketing, Sales
Seed, Pre-Seed
Ukraine, Spain, United States

Portfolio highlights

Apme — Mobile app development company which builds products for health tracking.
BetCare — A company that specializes in multilingual customer care where we put a heavy focus on sales, conversion, and customer reactivation strategies
Tips.GG — This is an esports related website: schedule of world tournaments and matches with live streams, free tips from users, odds comparison from legal betting and teams stats with matches scores.

Sasha Reminnyi - General Manager - UiPath Marketplace @ UiPath

Investment focus

Internet Radio
Angel
Ukraine

Portfolio highlights

Himera — Himera is a defense technology startup, manufactures communication radio stations.

Eugene Gusarov is the network VC and founder of Gusarov Startup Studio.

Investment focus

Internet Radio
Angel
Ukraine

Portfolio highlights

Himera — Himera is a defense technology startup, manufactures communication radio stations.

Ivan Dmytrasevych - Co-Founder and CEO @ UnameIT

Investment focus

Internet Radio
Angel
Ukraine

Portfolio highlights

Himera — Himera is a defense technology startup, manufactures communication radio stations.

Marcel 'Otto' YON is Driving innovation@scale and disrupting the defence innovation cycle; CEO and board member, AI pioneer and startup entrepreneur, public entrepreneur in security and defence.

Investment focus

Internet Radio
Angel
Ukraine

Portfolio highlights

Himera — Himera is a defense technology startup, manufactures communication radio stations.

Nadiia Vasylieva is the senior advisor to strategic consulting, independent board director, GP of the VC fund, chairwoman of the board committees, digital transformation VP for top corporations, and digital economy scientist.

Investment focus

Internet Radio
Angel
Ukraine

Portfolio highlights

Himera — Himera is a defense technology startup, manufactures communication radio stations.

Nataliya Sambir is the СDO & Сo-founder at Linkup Studio.

Investment focus

Internet Radio
Angel
Ukraine

Portfolio highlights

Himera — Himera is a defense technology startup, manufactures communication radio stations.

Prior to People.ai Oleg helped start and scale three big data companies, two of which, including Oleg's own Semantria, were subsequently acquired. He has had an interest in data science, machine-learning and text analytics. At People.ai Oleg is leveraging these technologies to solve the age-old problem of measuring and optimizing humanproductivity.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Canada, Ukraine

Portfolio highlights

Himera — Himera is a defense technology startup, manufactures communication radio stations.
Pomerium — Pomerium enables clientless, secure connections to your applications without a VPN
Resquared — Resquared has everything you need and more to reach local businesses. Contact data on every local business, optimized email and social outreach tools, and step-by-step built-in playbooks.

Oleksandr Zhukov is VP Delivery Ukraine at Avenga.

Investment focus

Internet Radio
Angel
Ukraine

Portfolio highlights

Himera — Himera is a defense technology startup, manufactures communication radio stations.

Oleksii Fomichov is the CEO at HolyAff.

Investment focus

Internet Radio
Angel
Ukraine

Portfolio highlights

Himera — Himera is a defense technology startup, manufactures communication radio stations.

Alexander Soroka is the CEO at Startup.Network.

Investment focus

Local, Events, Mobile
Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
Ukraine

Portfolio highlights

2Event.com — 2EVENT - SAAS for online events. 1. Ticketing 2. Networking 3. Travelmates 4. Customizable APP for events 1 mln tickets sold all over Europe 24k - events served + 100% annual growth of GMV (16х for 4 years): Supported languages: En, Fr, Pt, Pl, Ru, Ua
Zibra AI — Zibra Liquids is a real-time and cross-platform physically correct fluid simulation plugin for game developers

Venture Capital Firm 2.0 focused on Deep Tech, It-logistics and Digital Healthcare industries.

Investment focus

Software, Machine Learning, SaaS
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
Ukraine, United States, Russian Federation

Portfolio highlights

Promin Aerospace — Democratizing space and making it available to every country, organization and person.
Onlizer — Onlizer allows connecting services and automates processes fast and efficient without coding.
Drope.me — We connect gaming companies, micro streamers and their communities in performance marketing campaigns.

EastOne Group is an international investment advisory group that provides strategic and investment management services to a diversified portfolio of assets across multiple geographies and industry sectors.The group was established in 2007 by Victor Pinchuk. EastOne provides a broad range of services to assets under its mandate: portfoliostrategy development and implementation, sector expertise, long-term business planning, support for M&A and capital market transactions, risk and performance management. In addition, the Group also advises on corporate social responsibility, broader social innovations and not-for-profit activities.

Investment focus

Video, Mobile, Android
Seed
Ukraine

Portfolio highlights

Runfaces — Runfaces is an innovative company that develops video services for websites and mobile platforms. Vtalkie, a video messaging platform on iOS, Android and Windows Phone, is the new core product of the company.

Vladislav Len - Creator @ U22

Investment focus

Video, Military, Government
Pre-Seed
Ukraine

Portfolio highlights

U22 — U22 is a media streaming platform.

Amazon Web Services provides information technology infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services. Its products and solutions include cloud computing, compute, networking, storage and content delivery, databases, analytics, application services, deployment and management, mobile services, applications, AWS marketplace software,startups, enterprises, partners, government and education, websites and web applications, big data and HPC, gaming, and digital media as well as backup, storage, and archive. The company also provides AWS management console, documentation, SDKs and tools, downloads, platforms, Java, JavaScript, mobile, PHP, Ruby, Python, Windows, .NET, resources, forums, tutorials and articles, whitepapers, training and certification, and AWS user groups for developers. In addition, it offers compute, storage, database, analytics, application, and deployment services; and mobile services, websites, and backup and recovery services. Amazon Web Services serves the government, education, and non-profit sectors in North America, South America, Europe, Africa, Asia Pacific, and internationally. Amazon Web Services was founded in 2006 and is based in Seattle, Washington. It has data center locations in the United States, Europe, Brazil, Singapore, Japan, and Australia. It operates as a subsidiary of Amazon.com Inc.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Grant, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
United States, Lebanon, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

VeraNet — VeraNet builds AI platforms that automate decision-making, providing businesses with data-driven recommendations.
EvolutionaryScale — ESM3. Enabling scientists to understand, imagine, and create proteins.
Bonumbit — Bonumbitt aims to enhance security, transparency, and efficiency in online transactions. The company offers advanced features such as smart contracts, a decentralized review system, and AI-driven analytics to provide personalized shopping experiences. The company's commitment to cutting-edge technology and strategic partnerships positions itas a leader in the evolving e-commerce landscape. With its upcoming token launch on major cryptocurrency exchanges, BBT is set to drive significant growth and redefine the future of online commerce.

Twilio Segment is a customer data platform (CDP) that helps you collect, clean, and activate your customer data.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Marketing, Consulting
Seed, Pre-Seed
Egypt, United States, Ukraine

Portfolio highlights

U22 — U22 is a media streaming platform.
EMARKETING SOLUTIONS, LLC — Home - UNLEASH THE POWER OF INNOVATIVE SOFTWARE TO TRANSFORM YOUR DIGITAL MARKETING. STAND OUT FROM COMPETITORS WITH GROUNDBREAKING SOLUTIONS.
Dream Business System — we help coaches, course creators, and trainers to build an online coaching business

Unlock valuable customer insights to better convert, engage, and retain users with Mixpanel's powerful, self-serve product analytics. Try it free.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Marketing, Consulting
Seed, Pre-Seed
Egypt, United States, Ukraine

Portfolio highlights

U22 — U22 is a media streaming platform.
EMARKETING SOLUTIONS, LLC — Home - UNLEASH THE POWER OF INNOVATIVE SOFTWARE TO TRANSFORM YOUR DIGITAL MARKETING. STAND OUT FROM COMPETITORS WITH GROUNDBREAKING SOLUTIONS.
Dream Business System — we help coaches, course creators, and trainers to build an online coaching business

Zendesk is a customer service platform that develops a software to empower organization and customer relationships. It empowers organizations to improve customer engagement and better understand their customers. Zendesk products are easy to use and implement. They give organizations the flexibility to move quickly, focus on innovation, and scalewith their growth.Zendesk serves more than 150,000 customers across hundreds of industries in over 30 languages. Zendesk was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Customer Service
Seed, Funding Round, Corporate Round
United States, Israel, Ukraine

Portfolio highlights

TAPPI — TAPPI is the leading association for the worldwide pulp, paper, packaging, and converting industries and publisher of Paper360º.
PolyAI — The world's only customer-led conversational platform for enterprise.
Spera — Spera's Identity Security Posture Management platform provides comprehensive visibility and contextualization to prevent, identify, and remediate identity-driven attacks.

Semyon Dukach is the Founding Partner of One Way Ventures. He previously worked at SharpSpring as a Board Chairman. Semyon Dukach attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Investment focus

Software, Education, SaaS
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
United States, Ukraine, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Meograph — Meograph develops an augmented reality application that makes 3D people from 2D video. It brings users into AR or VR games with their micro-expressions using devices they already have. With just an average smartphone or webcam it literally converts video into 3D locally on the device. The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in SanFrancisco, California.
OffGridBox — An all-in-one system using solar energy to purify water and distribute clean energy. off grid container, offgrid water, off-grid electric products, solar water box, building off grid, power in a box, off grid technology, shipping container solar system
WorkAround — WorkAround is the accurate, scalable solution for adding human input to your data using an untapped workforce of domain experts.WorkAround's platform enables simple, quick annotation of data. Anything from classifying expenses into tax codes, annotating breast tissue to identify regions of interest, to identifying drug combinations fromclinical trial reports. We have the domain experts and a platform to facilitate a simple, secure processing of customer data and annotations.Companies that using WorkAround services not only save time and get quality service, but are also contributing to a more socially just and productive world where talent knows no boundaries, opportunity doesn’t ask for status, and work is rewarded with fair pay.

Admitad provides opportunities for long-term partnershipand the development of your business.

Investment focus

Marketing, E-Commerce, Software
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Russian Federation, United States, Cyprus

Portfolio highlights

Pampadu — Pampadu is an IT startup on online insurance.
RevGlue — Become a successful affiliate with RevGlue monetisation tools designed for content creators, influencers and affiliates to create instant affiliate websites and monetise existing web, mobile and social followers.
White Label — White Label is a coupon window service for online publications. White Label provides promo-code displays that the platform offers gives media resources an additional channel for monetizing the audience, and partner brands open up access to native sales attraction from the sites of leading media.

Vladislav Len - Creator @ U22

Investment focus

Video, Military, Government
Pre-Seed
Ukraine

Portfolio highlights

U22 — U22 is a media streaming platform.

Zendesk is a customer service platform that develops a software to empower organization and customer relationships. It empowers organizations to improve customer engagement and better understand their customers. Zendesk products are easy to use and implement. They give organizations the flexibility to move quickly, focus on innovation, and scalewith their growth.Zendesk serves more than 150,000 customers across hundreds of industries in over 30 languages. Zendesk was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Customer Service
Seed, Funding Round, Corporate Round
United States, Israel, Ukraine

Portfolio highlights

TAPPI — TAPPI is the leading association for the worldwide pulp, paper, packaging, and converting industries and publisher of Paper360º.
PolyAI — The world's only customer-led conversational platform for enterprise.
Spera — Spera's Identity Security Posture Management platform provides comprehensive visibility and contextualization to prevent, identify, and remediate identity-driven attacks.

Prior to People.ai Oleg helped start and scale three big data companies, two of which, including Oleg's own Semantria, were subsequently acquired. He has had an interest in data science, machine-learning and text analytics. At People.ai Oleg is leveraging these technologies to solve the age-old problem of measuring and optimizing humanproductivity.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Canada, Ukraine

Portfolio highlights

Himera — Himera is a defense technology startup, manufactures communication radio stations.
Pomerium — Pomerium enables clientless, secure connections to your applications without a VPN
Resquared — Resquared has everything you need and more to reach local businesses. Contact data on every local business, optimized email and social outreach tools, and step-by-step built-in playbooks.

Twilio Segment is a customer data platform (CDP) that helps you collect, clean, and activate your customer data.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Marketing, Consulting
Seed, Pre-Seed
Egypt, United States, Ukraine

Portfolio highlights

U22 — U22 is a media streaming platform.
EMARKETING SOLUTIONS, LLC — Home - UNLEASH THE POWER OF INNOVATIVE SOFTWARE TO TRANSFORM YOUR DIGITAL MARKETING. STAND OUT FROM COMPETITORS WITH GROUNDBREAKING SOLUTIONS.
Dream Business System — we help coaches, course creators, and trainers to build an online coaching business

EastOne Group is an international investment advisory group that provides strategic and investment management services to a diversified portfolio of assets across multiple geographies and industry sectors.The group was established in 2007 by Victor Pinchuk. EastOne provides a broad range of services to assets under its mandate: portfoliostrategy development and implementation, sector expertise, long-term business planning, support for M&A and capital market transactions, risk and performance management. In addition, the Group also advises on corporate social responsibility, broader social innovations and not-for-profit activities.

Investment focus

Video, Mobile, Android
Seed
Ukraine

Portfolio highlights

Runfaces — Runfaces is an innovative company that develops video services for websites and mobile platforms. Vtalkie, a video messaging platform on iOS, Android and Windows Phone, is the new core product of the company.

Admitad provides opportunities for long-term partnershipand the development of your business.

Investment focus

Marketing, E-Commerce, Software
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Russian Federation, United States, Cyprus

Portfolio highlights

Pampadu — Pampadu is an IT startup on online insurance.
RevGlue — Become a successful affiliate with RevGlue monetisation tools designed for content creators, influencers and affiliates to create instant affiliate websites and monetise existing web, mobile and social followers.
White Label — White Label is a coupon window service for online publications. White Label provides promo-code displays that the platform offers gives media resources an additional channel for monetizing the audience, and partner brands open up access to native sales attraction from the sites of leading media.

Oleksii Fomichov is the CEO at HolyAff.

Investment focus

Internet Radio
Angel
Ukraine

Portfolio highlights

Himera — Himera is a defense technology startup, manufactures communication radio stations.

Alexander Soroka is the CEO at Startup.Network.

Investment focus

Local, Events, Mobile
Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
Ukraine

Portfolio highlights

2Event.com — 2EVENT - SAAS for online events. 1. Ticketing 2. Networking 3. Travelmates 4. Customizable APP for events 1 mln tickets sold all over Europe 24k - events served + 100% annual growth of GMV (16х for 4 years): Supported languages: En, Fr, Pt, Pl, Ru, Ua
Zibra AI — Zibra Liquids is a real-time and cross-platform physically correct fluid simulation plugin for game developers

Ivan Dmytrasevych - Co-Founder and CEO @ UnameIT

Investment focus

Internet Radio
Angel
Ukraine

Portfolio highlights

Himera — Himera is a defense technology startup, manufactures communication radio stations.

With capital infusion, we help entrepreneurs find new revenue streams, achieve operational efficiency, and get the best partners from around the world

Investment focus

Digital Marketing, Affiliate Marketing, Sales
Seed, Pre-Seed
Ukraine, Spain, United States

Portfolio highlights

Apme — Mobile app development company which builds products for health tracking.
BetCare — A company that specializes in multilingual customer care where we put a heavy focus on sales, conversion, and customer reactivation strategies
Tips.GG — This is an esports related website: schedule of world tournaments and matches with live streams, free tips from users, odds comparison from legal betting and teams stats with matches scores.