Top 10 Mobile Startup Investors in Ukraine
A list of 10 angel investors and VC funds that invest in Mobile startups based in Ukraine. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Mobile companies from Ukraine. We update this investor list every month.Top 10 Mobile Startup Investors in Ukraine
Investor | Mobile Ukraine investments |
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Sergey Tokarev | 2 |
SMRK VC Fund | 2 |
TQ Ventures | 1 |
Oleksandr Kosovan | 1 |
Life.SREDA | 1 |
Andriy Dovzhenko | 1 |
hypra.fund | 1 |
Adventures Lab | 1 |
Vladislav Solodkiy | 1 |
EastOne Group | 1 |
Tech entrepreneur | Reface investor | Сo-founder at Pawa ML venture studio | Founding Partner at tech company Roosh and Roosh Ventures.Sergey has founded over 30 IT companies, and as a founder, he still gives strategic oversight to many of them. He gradually changes the local IT landscape by creating opportunities for the younger generation oftech students. Sergey has initiated the "STEM is FEM" educational project. Its goal is to help people pursue an education and career in STEM and catalyze gender equality and diversity in this field.
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Investment focus
- Software, Mobile Apps, Machine Learning
- Angel, Pre-Seed
- Ukraine
Portfolio highlights
- Reface — Reface offers state-of-the-art technology for high-quality face-swapping. Based on GAN (generative adversarial networks) methodology, it works fast and you need only one photo to make a high-quality face-swap.Reface strives to build the first social platform of dynamically personalized media content empowered with machine learning technology.Launched in January 2020, it was ranked as a number one in the US AppStore. The app was downloaded over 70 million times in seven months after it launched. Reface was founded by Roman Mogylnyi, Oles Petriv, Yaroslav Boyko, Denys Dmytrenko, Kyrylo Syhyda, Dima Shvets and Ivan Altsybeiev.Data protection is a social responsibility for Reface. We do not use data for any other purposes except for face-swapping.Work with the B2B segment includes ready-to-use technology and tools for businesses.Reface provides tools for creators to produce great content while keeping the costs down. It’s aimed at advertising and marketing, media, streaming, game development, video production industries, and more.
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.
- Aspichi — Aspichi is developing platform to provide audio/visual teleportation services based on 360 video and VR technologies.
Led by Schuster Tanger, Andrew Marks, and Scooter Braun, TQ Ventures is a leading venture capital firm based in New York City and Los Angeles.
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Investment focus
- Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, United Kingdom, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- nsave — nsave provides offshore saving accounts for the middle-class in distressed economies. Think countries with high inflation, banks that cap withdrawals, no trust in banks, or no financial services like insurance and investments. By leveraging emerging technologies, Swiss financial infrastructure, and its recent regulatory changes, Masref provides themiddle class in these countries with what they never had – a safe place to store their savings. Masref will first provide simple saving accounts, before offering other financial services.
- Ava — Modern Care Providers run on Ava - Improve Retention by 45%, Billable Hours by 20%, and Time to Compliance by 2x. Ava provides a no-code policy engine, and uses your disparate data source to create Personalized Employee Policies.
- Saleor Commerce — A headless, GraphQL-first e-commerce platform delivering ultra-fast, dynamic, personalized shopping experiences. Find out why developers love it.
CEO and Founder of MacPaw Inc.
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Investment focus
- Apps, B2B, iOS
- Seed, Series B
- Ukraine, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Paddle — Paddle develops a Revenue Delivery Platform for B2B SaaS companies that powers growth across acquisition, renewals, and expansion. With Paddle, companies are finally able to transform their revenue delivery infrastructure into a strategic growth lever to respond faster and more precisely to every opportunity. Paddle has 140 talented employeesserving over 2,000 software sellers in 245 countries and territories globally. Backed by investors including FTV Capital, Kindred, Notion, and 83North, Paddle aims to define the next wave of B2B SaaS leaders.It was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in London, England.
- Flawless App — We believe, that everybody should become a better professional and achieve the very best we can. Every day, at every project, with every mobile app. We made Flawless for those, who like us, are obsessed with quality of mobile apps. Flawless App helps teams easily spot visual differences between design and implementation right inside iOSsimulator. With Flawless App mobile teams can make polished and nice looking apps.Try free trial and make users happy with your mobile apps→https://flawlessapp.io/
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.
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
We create the conditions for rapid company growth so the founder can focus entirely on product development.
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Investment focus
- Software, Blockchain, FinTech
- Seed, Funding Round
- Estonia, Ukraine, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Utorg — Utorg is a fintech company that offers а modern on/off-ramp and web3 consumer infrastructure to deliver а top-notch user experience. The company is EU-based and holds a license for providing a virtual currency service, in particular exchanging a virtual currency against fiat currency, virtual currency wallet service, and exchanging virtualcurrency against a virtual currency.Utorg was founded in 2020 and is based in Tallinn, Estonia.
- EvaCodes — We take every project personally. We treat each business idea as our own. We invest the expertise, the know-how, the entrepreneurial spirit to impart the innovative interpretation and digital embodiment to our clients’ ideas. We aim to present only solutions to clients while hiring the top IT talent to deal with unavoidable issues.Evacodesrecognizes the competitive edge of the blockchain development services market. This is just one of the multiple reasons why we go that extra mile. Every time. With every project. This is also why we keep winning tenders for mobile app and software development services. This is why we manage to keep our clients coming back with bigger projects & still live up to their high expectations. App after app again.Our major expertise in custom software development lies in the below fields:Blockchain solutions Mobile Apps development Custom Software development E-commerce Software QA & testing IoT solutions Digital transformation We are focusing on assisting to integrate digital transformation to mid-sized and growing businesses from these industries:FinTech Real estate Communication Healthcare Media Business Retail & Commerce Games & Entertainment Education
- Trinetix inc — Trinetix is a globally trusted digital partner. We help Fortune 500 companies and fast-growing brands create a better digital future by setting impactful ideas in motion.
Investment in Early, Growth and Late stage projects
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Investment focus
- Legal, Real Estate, Document Preparation
- Pre-Seed, Seed
- United States, Ukraine
Portfolio highlights
- OneNotary — Looking for a reliable and convenient online notary service? OneNotary platform offers fully legal and secure notarization services in all 50 states.
- Yope — Salo is a discussion platform that erases the borders for people with diverse opinions to let anyone speak up and be heard.
- Narrative BI — Narrative BI is an augmented analytics platform for growth teams that automatically generates data insights in natural language.
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.
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.
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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.
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