# Alex Zhuravlev

> Alex Zhuravlev is a seed investor at Mento VC backing Artificial Intelligence and Software. See 14 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Mento VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mento-vc)
- Location: Cascais, Portugal
- Total investments: 14
- Last investment: Dec 2025
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexander-zhuravlev-064b2469/
- Website: https://mento.vc/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/alexander.zhuravlev.75

Alex Zhuravlev is a seed investor at Mento VC in Cascais focused on Artificial Intelligence and Software. Alex is a former Portfolio Director of AltaIR Capital, backing Miro, Deel, OpenWeb, and other successfully growing companies with $600M AUM and 300+ companies. TVPI 17.7x. Alex has 14 years of experience in IT and tech and over six years in the VC industry. He went through an entire VC fund cycle from scratch to exit.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Artificial Intelligence | 8 | 57% |
| Software | 5 | 36% |
| Machine Learning | 3 | 21% |
| B2B | 2 | 14% |
| SMS | 2 | 14% |

25 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 5 | 36% |
| Pre-Seed | 5 | 36% |
| Angel | 1 | 7% |
| Series A | 1 | 7% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 1 | 7% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 8 | 57% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 14% |
| The Netherlands | 1 | 7% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Phia | Phia is a company that provides a tool for online shoppers to compare prices and discover better deals across thousands of retailers and resale platforms. It offers a browser extension and a mobile app that include features such as price-comparison, alerts for price changes, and suggestions of similar or used items when an item seems overpriced.Phia draws on data to help users assess whether a listed price is fair, high, or typical. It also curates personalized shopping feeds and editorial picks based on shoppers’ behavior and preferences. The goal is to simplify decision-making for consumers by consolidating options and insights into one interface. | $35M | Series A | Dec 04, 2025 |  |
| Tella | Tella is a video presentations for remote teams. Record, edit, and share video presentations from your browser. | $2.1M | Seed | Apr 22, 2025 |  |
| Platus | Platus offers no-code legal tools and APIs, helping SMBs streamline notarization, drafting, and compliance tasks. | $500K | Pre-Seed | Dec 04, 2024 |  |
| Workflow | Workflow as a company that specializes in creating client portals for creative agencies. It's aim is to highlight your services and provide value to potential clients while showcasing how your solution enhances their operations. | $3M | Pre-Seed | Nov 14, 2024 |  |
| VideoGen | VideoGen is revolutionizing video creation. By harnessing the power of AI, VideoGen reduces the traditionally time-consuming process of creating professional videos to just a few seconds. With a robust library of copyright-free assets, multiple unique voice options, and support for numerous languages, VideoGen is helping content creators,marketers, and businesses worldwide create engaging videos effortlessly. | $500K | Pre-Seed | Jul 01, 2024 |  |
| Tely AI | Run B2B content marketing with Autonomous AI agent that drives revenue |  | Pre-Seed | Jun 24, 2024 |  |
| Artisan AI | Artisan AI creates digital workers, called Artisans. The company's first Artisan, Ava, automates the entire outbound sales process and can be set up with a 10-minute conversation. Ava creates TCPs, and prospects with her database of over 270,000,000 contacts, crafts & sends highly bespoke email sequences, and books meetings into yourcalendar. And, you can manage all features & settings by talking to Ava via Slack. | $7.3M | Seed | May 13, 2024 |  |
| Kodezi | Improve your coding skills instantaneously using AI. Kodezi is Grammarly for programmers. | $800K | Seed | May 01, 2024 |  |
| Clerk Chat | Clerk Chat helps in keeping track of customer support, operations, and sales messages. | $7M | Seed | Jan 03, 2024 |  |
| Clerk AI | Clerk AI helps in keeping track of customer support, operations, and sales messages. | $7M | Seed | Jan 03, 2024 |  |

10 of 14 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Y Combinator](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/y-combinator) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [AltaIR Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/altair) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Soma Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/soma-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Altair Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/altair-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Davidovs Venture Collective](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/davidovs-vc) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [HFO](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hfo-a7c0) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Mento VC

VC Fund · Wilmington, United States

Mento VC is a venture investment company. The company invests in global startups with teams from the USA, Israel, Europe & UK. Mento VC's investment focuses on Productivity Tools, Future of work, B2B SaaS Enterprise, Fintech, HRTech, and Consumer.Mento VC was founded by three best friends with a great deal of different investment andbusiness experience who decided that it’s time to share it with others.

1 contacts available at Mento VC.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Alex Zhuravlev | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alex-zhuravlev |

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## FAQ

### What does Alex Zhuravlev invest in?

Alex Zhuravlev invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, Software and Machine Learning startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 14 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Alex Zhuravlev last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Alex Zhuravlev closed in Dec 2025. Shizune tracks 14 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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