# AdFirst.vc

> AdFirst.vc is a VC fund in Limassol backing FinTech and Financial Services. See 13 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Limassol, Cyprus
- Total investments: 13
- Last investment: Mar 2023
- Lead investor: 15%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/14555245
- Website: http://adfirst.vc
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/adfirstvc/

AdFirst.vc is a venture capital firm designed to co-invest with other VCs in early and expansion stage start-ups. They perform Marketing Due Diligence ads tests for start-ups and help the investor evaluate the reachable audience, check the marketing competencies of the team, and reduce the cost of attracting customers. Testing allows to confirm thecompany's capitalization and eliminate marketing risks. In the future, they oversee the marketing strategy of the project in order to control KPI.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $100k–$11M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FinTech | 3 | 23% |
| Financial Services | 3 | 23% |
| Internet | 2 | 15% |
| Software | 2 | 15% |
| Education | 2 | 15% |

32 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 6 | 46% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 15% |
| Series A | 1 | 8% |
| Series B | 1 | 8% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 1 | 8% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 3 | 23% |
| Russian Federation | 3 | 23% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 15% |
| Latvia | 1 | 8% |
| Singapore | 1 | 8% |

6 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Anton Gorshkov | CEO | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anton-gorshkov |
| Alexander Pustovit | CBDO | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alexander-pustovit |
| Oleg Dronov | COO | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/oleg-dronov |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Fideum Group | Fideum is on a mission to empower the world’s most ambitious financial institutions, banks, and SMEs by accelerating their capacity to integrate smart, reliable and regulated digital asset banking products & services for their customers. | $1.1M | Seed | Mar 01, 2023 |  |
| Synchronization | Synchronization is an online course for music, philosophy, fashion and design, architecture, art, psychology, special projects, master classes, and cinema. They provide biology and a healthy lifestyle, film history, and film language. | $2.3M | Venture - Series Unknown | Dec 23, 2021 |  |
| Academy of Changes | Akademiya Peremen is an educational platform that focuses on the life style segment of health, beauty, style, and psychology. | $810K | Series A | Mar 18, 2021 |  |
| Adapty | Adapty is a service to grow mobile in-app subscriptions: * Analytics for the subscription economy * A/B tests for paywalls | $500K | Pre-Seed | Dec 22, 2020 |  |
| F3 | F3 develops a social app for asking questions and creating answers, with all content disappearing in 72 hours. Anonymous or not, this app lets users express themselves and discover new exciting people. | $3.9M | Seed | Nov 25, 2020 |  |
| Finom | Finom combines digital business account benefits with multiple services to provide financial solutions for entrepreneurs, self-employed, and freelancers. It pulls together accounting, financial management, and banking functions for early-stage businesses and SMEs into one mobile-first product.Founded in 2019, Finom is headquartered in Amsterdam,The Netherlands. | $10.9M | Seed | Sep 24, 2020 |  |
| Finom | Finom combines digital business account benefits with multiple services to provide financial solutions for entrepreneurs, self-employed, and freelancers. It pulls together accounting, financial management, and banking functions for early-stage businesses and SMEs into one mobile-first product.Founded in 2019, Finom is headquartered in Amsterdam,The Netherlands. | $7.1M | Seed | Apr 30, 2020 |  |
| Osome | OSOME is a digital business assistant that offers online accounting services for small and medium businesses. It provides company incorporation, corporate secretary, accounting, and immigration services in Singapore, Hong Kong, UK. The company combines experience and personal care with the efficiency of artificial intelligence. Through automation,the company’s business model drives a step-change in both efficiency and customer satisfaction that leads to a high potential for growth and profitability.OSOME was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Singapore, also has a presence in the United Kingdom, as well as Hong Kong. |  | Seed | Nov 25, 2019 |  |
| Wheely | Wheely is a luxury ride-hailing service, allowing customers to book chauffeur-driven journeys both on-demand and pre-booked through an app in London, Moscow and Paris. Wheely was founded in 2010 by Swiss/Russian CEO and entrepreneur Anton Chirkunov and is headquartered in London, UK. | $15M | Series B | Apr 26, 2019 |  |
| Osome | OSOME is a digital business assistant that offers online accounting services for small and medium businesses. It provides company incorporation, corporate secretary, accounting, and immigration services in Singapore, Hong Kong, UK. The company combines experience and personal care with the efficiency of artificial intelligence. Through automation,the company’s business model drives a step-change in both efficiency and customer satisfaction that leads to a high potential for growth and profitability.OSOME was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Singapore, also has a presence in the United Kingdom, as well as Hong Kong. |  | Seed | Dec 11, 2018 |  |

10 of 13 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Target Global](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/target-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [FJ Labs](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fj-labs) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [LVL1 Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lvl1-group) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Phystech Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/phystech-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [500 Global](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/500-startups) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Avala Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/avala-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does AdFirst.vc invest in?

AdFirst.vc invests primarily in FinTech, Financial Services and Internet startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 13 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is AdFirst.vc's check size?

AdFirst.vc typically joins rounds of $100k–$11M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds AdFirst.vc participates in.

### How do I contact AdFirst.vc?

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### Who are the partners at AdFirst.vc?

The team at AdFirst.vc includes Anton Gorshkov (CEO), Alexander Pustovit (CBDO) and Oleg Dronov (COO). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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