# Alex Vassiliev

> Alex Vassiliev is a pre-seed investor at Elixir Fine Foods (Moscow) backing Apps and Baby. See 4 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Elixir Fine Foods](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/elixir-fine-foods)
- Location: Moscow, Russian Federation
- Total investments: 4
- Last investment: Sep 2021
- Lead investor: 50%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://ru.linkedin.com/in/alexandervassiliev

Alex Vassiliev is a Founder and CEO at Elixir Fine Foods.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Pre-Seed | $1M–$1.5M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Apps | 1 | 25% |
| Baby | 1 | 25% |
| EdTech | 1 | 25% |
| Grocery | 1 | 25% |
| Software | 1 | 25% |

18 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 50% |
| Seed | 1 | 25% |
| Angel | 1 | 25% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Portugal | 2 | 50% |
| United States | 1 | 25% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Bairro Direct | Bairro developed a mobile application that allows fast delivery of supermarket products, food, and essential goods in the heart of the Portuguese capital, available between 10 am to 12 pm, ensuring that the user experience is always of high quality, regardless of the type of product desired or delivery time. | $1.3M | Seed | Sep 01, 2021 |  |
| Bairro Direct | Bairro developed a mobile application that allows fast delivery of supermarket products, food, and essential goods in the heart of the Portuguese capital, available between 10 am to 12 pm, ensuring that the user experience is always of high quality, regardless of the type of product desired or delivery time. | $1.5M | Pre-Seed | Sep 01, 2021 |  |
| Elixir Fine Foods | Elixir Fine Foods is an innovative startup company bringing the highest quality European products to China, using the power of social commerce.Flagship brand in Elixir's portfolio is Healthy Eva - baby food brand with products in different categories including fruit, vegetable, meat and fish purees, baby biscuits, baby porridges etcdistributed through e-commerce and social commerce in China, including e-commerce platforms like Tmall Global or live-streaming serices such as Taobao Live, Kuaishou etc. | $1M | Pre-Seed | Mar 08, 2020 |  |
| Buddy.ai | Buddy.ai teaches over a million children worldwide to speak English with our voice-based virtual tutor. With proprietary speech and virtual human technologies, the company is solving conversational AI for language learning. Buddy provides a month of learning for the cost of one live tutoring session. That means 500 million children worldwide willsoon have access to affordable 1:1 English speaking practice. Buddy works for native Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Turkish, and Polish speakers, with more languages coming soon. The company raised $3M of venture capital, generated over $4.5M in sales, and is entering the scaling stage. Our mobile holds the Top 10 positions on the App Store’s Kids and Education charts in several major countries throughout Latin America and Europe.Buddy.ai holds multiple international awards and nominations, including GESA (Global Edtech Startup Awards) in London, EnlightEd in Madrid, and Voice Summit Awards in New York, among others. Headquartered in Mountain View, California we are a growing international team combining expertise in voice and virtual human technologies, education, and game design. | $425K | Angel | Apr 01, 2019 |  |

4 of 4 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [YellowRockets](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/yellowrockets-vc) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Elixir Fine Foods

VC Fund · Funchal, Portugal

Elixir Fine Foods is an innovative startup company bringing the highest quality European products to China, using the power of social commerce.Flagship brand in Elixir's portfolio is Healthy Eva - baby food brand with products in different categories including fruit, vegetable, meat and fish purees, baby biscuits, baby porridges etcdistributed through e-commerce and social commerce in China, including e-commerce platforms like Tmall Global or live-streaming serices such as Taobao Live, Kuaishou etc.

1 contacts available at Elixir Fine Foods.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Alex Vassiliev | Founder and CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alex-vasilyev |

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## FAQ

### What does Alex Vassiliev invest in?

Alex Vassiliev invests primarily in Apps, Baby and EdTech startups, most often at Pre-Seed and Seed stage. Most of the 4 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Portugal. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Alex Vassiliev's check size?

Alex Vassiliev typically joins rounds of $1M–$1.5M at Pre-Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Alex Vassiliev participates in.

### When did Alex Vassiliev last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Alex Vassiliev closed in Sep 2021. Shizune tracks 4 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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