Top 20 Payments Startup Investors in Ukraine in April 2025
A list of 20 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Payments startups based in Ukraine. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Payments companies from Ukraine. We update this investor list every month.Top 20 Payments Startup Investors in Ukraine in April 2025
Investor | Payments Ukraine investments |
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SMRK VC Fund | 3 |
Magnus Capital | 1 |
Andriy Dovzhenko | 1 |
Blackshield Capital Management | 1 |
7 O’Clock Capital | 1 |
Concorde Capital | 1 |
Avalon Wealth Club | 1 |
Delta Blockchain Fund | 1 |
Everstake Capital | 1 |
Jump Crypto | 1 |
Social Discovery Group | 1 |
Vinor Zukhubaia | 1 |
Vladislav Solodkiy | 1 |
Life.SREDA | 1 |
AU21 Capital | 1 |
WannaBiz | 1 |
Oriole Ventures | 1 |
Fedor Drozdovski | 1 |
Blockchain Cuties Universe | 1 |
iLogos Game Studios | 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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- Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Ukraine, United States, Finland
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- 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 — AI Agents for Meta Advertising: Get a custom intelligent AI Agentic System that semi-autonomously runs your Meta ad campaigns
Magnus Capital is a crypto investment firm.
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- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
- Seed, Funding Round, Initial Coin Offering
- Singapore, United States, United Kingdom
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- GenLayer — GenLayer is a platform that focuses on intelligent contracts.
- Spicenet — Spicenet is the permissionless shared liquidity layer for unstoppable trading applications, delivering high performance, capital-efficiency and deep liquidity
- YeagerAI — YeagerAI is a pioneering AI research lab focused on developing technology that promotes sovereignty, transparency, and decentralization.
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
Blackshield Capital Management provides wealth management, banking, and transactional services to organizations and individuals.
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Investment focus
- Gaming, MMO Games, Blockchain
- Series A
- Ukraine
Portfolio highlights
- My NFT Wars — My NFT Wars is an innovative open-market collectible game with a strong emphasis on RPG and strategy elements. Collect heroes and build your strategy for victory in PVP and PVE battles. Join the world, full of the never-ending struggle for resources, territorial conquest, and political domination.
7 O’Clock Capital is a crypto asset venture fund focused on DeFi.
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- Information Technology, Finance, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Singapore, Estonia, United Arab Emirates
Portfolio highlights
- DeFiato — Take your holdings to the next level with zero technical knowledge required.
- Weld Money — Weld Money is the first non-custodial Decentralised Visa and MC payment card connected to CEXes, DEXes, Metaverses and P2E that allows people to use different crypto assets to pay everywhere for online/offline purchases The unique legal and IT structure of the project allows it to launch crypto payments even in emerging markets with a poorlydeveloped banking system or no legal status for cryptocurrenciesThe first resounding victory of the company was the launch of the first and only weld crypto card in the Ukrainian market, where the crypto is still not recognized as a means of payment, which is why not a single major player can enter the marketThe team recently announced a new round of investments and entry into new markets
- IQ Labs — IQ Marketplace offers unique NFTs with exclusive utilities, boosting your in-game experience. With flexible renting parameters and multiple payment options, rent without collateral and unlock the full utility of NFTs. Say goodbye to gas fees with our gasless renting feature and multiply the value of NFT collections with our multi-utility renting. Explore now
Investment company providing investment banking, brokerage, securities trading and consulting services. Best Analyst in Ukraine, Top Trader on the Ukrainian market
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Investment focus
- Medical, Health Care, Health Diagnostics
- Funding Round
- France
Portfolio highlights
- Magnisense — Magnisense conçoit, développe et commercialise des tests de diagnostic d'urgence pour les maladies cardio-vasculaires à partir de sa technologie MIAtek® et de son instrument de diagnostic propriétaires
- Weld Money — Weld Money is the first non-custodial Decentralised Visa and MC payment card connected to CEXes, DEXes, Metaverses and P2E that allows people to use different crypto assets to pay everywhere for online/offline purchases The unique legal and IT structure of the project allows it to launch crypto payments even in emerging markets with a poorlydeveloped banking system or no legal status for cryptocurrenciesThe first resounding victory of the company was the launch of the first and only weld crypto card in the Ukrainian market, where the crypto is still not recognized as a means of payment, which is why not a single major player can enter the marketThe team recently announced a new round of investments and entry into new markets
Avalon Wealth is a group of marketing experts, blockchain veterans, real estate investors and event organizers.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United States, Singapore, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Solak — Solak is an AI browser and DeFi platform that is transforming the digital world.
- OpenPad AI — OpenPad - The 1st AI Decentralized Launchpad
- Stabble — stabble is a protocol revolutionizing liquidity pools by introducing protocol-managed and arbitrage pools. This allows stabble to tackle critical inefficiencies prevalent within Solana's decentralized exchanges.
Delta Blockchain Fund is an early-stage venture capital fund lighting the path of blockchain innovation by supporting developers and visionaries building the world of decentralization.
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- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United States, Switzerland, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Pell Network — Pell Network is a precisely constructed multi-layered restaking network with a great user experience, clear role segregation, and a closed-loop business logic chain.
- BLIFE Protocol — BLIFE Protocol's objective is to promote growth and development of Web3 on Bitcoin.
- Schuman Financial — Schuman Financial develops technologies, infrastructure, and products that bring financial services on-chain.
Money is cheap, expertise is priceless. We bridge the gap.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Ukraine, Singapore, Cayman Islands
Portfolio highlights
- Synnax — Synnax is an artificial intelligence-powered financial platform which helps to forecast financial performance
- Mitosis — Mitosis is an EOL L1 blockchain that redefines the DeFi LP experience. EOL implements economies of scale to asset management and empowers LPs with increased bargaining power.
- Cube Group — Cube is the world's fastest crypto exchange. Built by and for traders, Cube is the most liquid, secure and advanced cryptocurrency exchange.
Jump Crypto, a division of the Jump Trading Group, is a global leader in Web3 infrastructure development and investment.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Singapore, United Kingdom
Social Discovery Group is the world's largest group of social discovery companies. It unites more than 40 brands, an investment fund and a venture studio.
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- Apps, Internet, Mobile
- Funding Round, Series A, Seed
- United States, United Kingdom, China
Portfolio highlights
- My NFT Wars — My NFT Wars is an innovative open-market collectible game with a strong emphasis on RPG and strategy elements. Collect heroes and build your strategy for victory in PVP and PVE battles. Join the world, full of the never-ending struggle for resources, territorial conquest, and political domination.
- Woebot Health — Woebot Health has created relational technologies that underpin a new generation of digital therapeutics and tools for mental health. The company’s proprietary relational agent, Woebot, is capable of quickly forming a bond with users and delivering human-like therapeutic encounters that are psychologically related, responsive to a person’s dynamicstate of health, and targeted using multidisciplinary tools. Woebot is at the heart of the company’s AI-powered platform and the foundation for digital therapeutics and tools that seamlessly integrate within health ecosystems and solve for gaps along the health care journey. The company is headquartered in San Francisco and is funded in part by venture capital firms New Enterprise Associates (NEA), Jazz Venture Partners L.P., Temasek, Owl Ventures, and BlackRock Private Equity Partners with participation from Andrew Ng’s AI Fund.
- Zhonghui Laser — Zhonghui Laser is an emerging technology company dedicated to the development and manufacture of advanced lasers.
Vinor Zukhubaia
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Investment focus
- Gaming, MMO Games, Blockchain
- Series A
- Ukraine
Portfolio highlights
- My NFT Wars — My NFT Wars is an innovative open-market collectible game with a strong emphasis on RPG and strategy elements. Collect heroes and build your strategy for victory in PVP and PVE battles. Join the world, full of the never-ending struggle for resources, territorial conquest, and political domination.
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.
A fund dedicated to backing the most brilliant minds in the blockchain space
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Seed, Funding Round, Initial Coin Offering
- United States, Singapore, United Kingdom
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- A-World — A-world is a super metaverse card tower defense battle game based on BNB CHAIN.
- Nillion — The Secure Processing Layer of Web3
- Vue Protocol — Vue Protocol operates as a layer2 for Web3 Social.
WannaBiz is a startup incubator and angel seed fund focused on seed stage global projects in the ad and SaaS-based technology sectors. It also invests in web and mobile development projects.The company’s investment criteria include the market size, business model, early traction, and team. Its goal is to build and develop global projects in linewith the competitive market.WannaBiz was founded in 2012 and is based in Odessa, Ukraine.
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Investment focus
- Software, B2B, Social Media
- Angel, Seed, Series A
- United States, Ukraine, Canada
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- KWAMBIO — KWAMBIO partners with established and emerging designers to produce a highly curated collection of homewares, accessories, and art, manufactured on-demand in ceramics and metals. KWAMBIO.COM is not only an e-commerce website, but an interactive platform through which the anyone can customize a designer product using our proprietary software ofKWAMBIO Filters that — much like Instagram — can be applied to a designer object to create beautiful variations in form, size, material and finish. The result is a unique one-of-a-kind commission between the designer and customer — 3D printed on-demand by the best manufacturers in the US or Europe.We invite design enthusiasts to engage in the design process through customization — because we believe in offering an object that is not just a product, but a one-of-a-kind commission between the designer and the customer. The company is headquartered in New York, NY. It was founded in 2014 by Vlad Usov and Dmitriy Krivoshey. KWAMBIO was presented to public for the very first time at the London 3D Printshow in September 2014, then at the IDCEE in October 2014 (where the company won the startup competition), and most recently at the New York 3D Printshow in April 2015. We joined the Techstars 2015 Summer class and has raised $1.2 million funding thus far.
- My NFT Wars — My NFT Wars is an innovative open-market collectible game with a strong emphasis on RPG and strategy elements. Collect heroes and build your strategy for victory in PVP and PVE battles. Join the world, full of the never-ending struggle for resources, territorial conquest, and political domination.
- Reply.io — Reply is the leading AI-powered sales engagement platform that automates multichannel touchpoints with leads and customers throughout the sales process. From email search on LinkedIn to meetings booked right on the platform - Reply saves up to 40% of SDR and Sales teams time to focus on closing deals. Backed with a top-notch AI algorithm, Replyhelps SDRs and sales reps tailor and improve sales messages and focus on the hottest leads faster. Its robust reporting system tracks all activities for team members and automatically logs them to your CRM via native integrations, rich API with 40+ methods, or Zapier.The platform is recognized among the top 50 tools for sales in 2021 by G2 and trusted by over 2500 companies worldwide.Crush your sales quotas and book more meetings with Reply: 1. Reply automates bulk email search, LinkedIn outreach, personal emails, calls, SMS, and WhatsApp messages according to your sales playbook. 2. It offers out-of-the-box email and sequence templates with proven top performance to help you launch your outreach sequence in an hour. 3. Streamline the workflow with native CRM integrations, rich API with 40+ method, and the power of Zapier to automatically sync data and keep CRM records up to date. 4. Reply is backed with AI features: Email Sorting (check the ‘Interested’ folder for the hottest leads to focus on); Email Quality service and Email Assistant to create best-practice email copy which is likely to convert. 5. Collaborate in teams within sequences and prospects, manage workload between team members, and perform account-based selling. 6. Track your team progress with detailed in-depth reports and stats for sequences, calls, tasks, and team performance.Reply use cases: ✓ OUTBOUND SALES - automate outbound outreach to significantly scale sales and empower revenue growth. ✓ INBOUND SALES - engage in communication with potential customers and close more inbound deals. ✓ ACCOUNT MANAGEMENT - communicate with existing customers on a personal level. ✓ STAFFING & RECRUITING - reaching out to prospective job candidates. ✓ BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT - building relations with future partners. ✓ PR & LINK BUILDING - pitching journalists and bloggers with your idea.For more information visit https://reply.io
Oriole Ventures is an investment fund dedicated to supporting blockchain projects in the WEB 3.0 space. In addition to the capital injection, Oriole Ventures helps projects via its expertise & connections with local crypto-influencers, media channels, and marketing agencies from all over the world.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- United Kingdom, Hong Kong, Serbia
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- Corite — Here's where artists and fans join forces. Invest in music you love and get paid when it's streamed on Spotify and Apple Music.
- SYNTHR — SYNTHR's omnichain synthetic assets power a secure zero-slippage execution environment, allowing cross-chain transactions to function at their theoretical limits. It consists of a combination of pull and push oracles, a zero-slippage omnichain liquidity layer, and multiple independent consensus layers, giving you access to an innovative cross-chain liquidity solution.
- Zone — Zone is a community-driven GameFi ecosystem built on Algorand blockchain. The ZONE ecosystem is cross-compatible with other blockchains and offers a gamefi bot for Discord that enables on-chain gaming challenges and fantasy sports.
Fedor Drozdovski
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Investment focus
- Gaming, MMO Games, Blockchain
- Series A
- Ukraine
Portfolio highlights
- My NFT Wars — My NFT Wars is an innovative open-market collectible game with a strong emphasis on RPG and strategy elements. Collect heroes and build your strategy for victory in PVP and PVE battles. Join the world, full of the never-ending struggle for resources, territorial conquest, and political domination.
Blockchain Cuties Universe is the new collectible crypto game with adventures where you get to play with puppies, lizards, bear cubs, hedgehogs, pigs, rabbits, dragons, cats and other real and fantasy creatures alike.
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Investment focus
- Gaming, MMO Games, Blockchain
- Series A
- Ukraine
Portfolio highlights
- My NFT Wars — My NFT Wars is an innovative open-market collectible game with a strong emphasis on RPG and strategy elements. Collect heroes and build your strategy for victory in PVP and PVE battles. Join the world, full of the never-ending struggle for resources, territorial conquest, and political domination.
Logos is a game development studio that creates engaging, thoughtful, addictive stories. Since 2007, we've finished 458 projects, worked with indies and giants like Sony, EA, Wargaming and Warner Br
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Investment focus
- Gaming, MMO Games, Blockchain
- Series A
- Ukraine
Portfolio highlights
- My NFT Wars — My NFT Wars is an innovative open-market collectible game with a strong emphasis on RPG and strategy elements. Collect heroes and build your strategy for victory in PVP and PVE battles. Join the world, full of the never-ending struggle for resources, territorial conquest, and political domination.
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