# Alexey Menn

> Alexey Menn is a pre-seed investor at Mercaux (Moscow) backing SaaS and Software. See 7 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Mercaux](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mercaux)
- Location: Moscow, Russian Federation
- Total investments: 7
- Last investment: Mar 2026
- Lead investor: 43%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alex-menn-bb72a310/?originalSubdomain=uk
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/AlexMennVC
- Website: http://www.begincl.com/

Alexey Menn is a pre-seed investor at Mercaux in Moscow focused on SaaS and Software. Partner at Begin Capital (early stage VC in UK)

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Pre-Seed | $1.1M–$4M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| SaaS | 2 | 29% |
| Software | 2 | 29% |
| E-Commerce | 2 | 29% |
| Software Engineering | 2 | 29% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 2 | 29% |

33 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Pre-Seed | 3 | 43% |
| Seed | 1 | 14% |
| Angel | 1 | 14% |
| Series A | 1 | 14% |
| Convertible Note | 1 | 14% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 2 | 29% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 29% |
| The Netherlands | 1 | 14% |
| Russian Federation | 1 | 14% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| xmemory | xmemory is an AI‑focused startup working on advanced, structured memory architectures for AI agents and large‑language‑model (LLM) systems. It provides a specialized AI infrastructure layer that enables AI agents to transition from stateless to stateful by implementing a structured, hierarchical memory architecture. | $4M | Pre-Seed | Mar 18, 2026 |  |
| Codesphere | Codesphere is your Zeroconfig Cloud. No config - just code and run web apps from your browser. Team work on distributed full stack Typescript, and benefit from our automatic deployments, scaling, tests, and security / privacy audits. We optimize each and every detail to keep things simple for you. Codesphere is next level programming. | $2.5M | Seed | Feb 15, 2023 |  |
| Actable AI | Actable AI empowers its users with advanced analytics to extract highly accurate, unbiased, and actionable insights from data. Our Machine Learning technologies leverage the best and latest AutoML, Explainable AI and Causal AI to extract the most of your data. Our Data Science toolbox can be used as both a Google Sheets add-on and web application. | $1.1M | Pre-Seed | Feb 07, 2022 |  |
| Naduvi | Naduvi is an online platform that offers a wide range of interior design products of various brands to decor residential projects. | $10M | Series A | May 20, 2021 |  |
| lifeArk | For parents who want to share their life experience with their kids, lifeArk captures, organises and shares your life's most important insights privately with the ones you love. Unlike social networks that increase rates of anxiety, depression, insecurity and fear of missing out in children, Lina helps parents share meaningful content thatinstills confidence, emotional stability, and strengthens family bonds. |  | Pre-Seed | Feb 01, 2018 |  |
| lifeArk | For parents who want to share their life experience with their kids, lifeArk captures, organises and shares your life's most important insights privately with the ones you love. Unlike social networks that increase rates of anxiety, depression, insecurity and fear of missing out in children, Lina helps parents share meaningful content thatinstills confidence, emotional stability, and strengthens family bonds. | $130K | Convertible Note | Jun 01, 2017 |  |
| Elementaree | Elementaree makes food personal every day and delivers it on a subscription basis to the doorstep. We create personal food programs catered to particular needs and goals whether it’s about losing weight, creating tasty meals for your family or increasing your body muscles. Unique personalized programs at cost of a standard grocery check. We adoptour expertise in building value chains which allows us to customize at scale. A never-repeating variety of everyday menus and personalized add-ons catered to customers' specific needs. | $300K | Angel | Nov 15, 2015 |  |

7 of 7 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [33East](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/33east) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [AAL VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aal-vc) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Fly Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fly-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [42CAP](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/42cap) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Acurio Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/acurio-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Acurio Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/all-iron-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Mercaux

VC Fund · London, United Kingdom

Mercaux was listed in Retail Week's Discovery 50 list 2020, which shines a light on the world's top tech companies whose innovative solutions are supporting the retail sector both during the pandemic and in the future.Mercaux is the ‘backbone’ for your in-store digital transformation journey. We help retailers deliver superioromnichannel customer experiences by bringing the best of digital and physical retail together.We equip Sales Associates and stores with the digital tools they need to serve and sell smarter, across the entire customer journey. The solutions are operated by Sales Associates using a tablet-based app or self-served by customers using touch screen kiosks or their own phones via a web-based App. All the solutions are all managed by a HQ Platform.Our core solutions Sales Assist, Omnichannel and Clienteling equip staff with instant access to product information, company-wide inventory, digital content, customers’ profiles and wish lists, through to mobile checkout capabilities. Additional add-ons such as AI-driven Styling Suggestions, Store and Customer Communications and Advanced Analytics elevate stores towards a fully integrated digital ecosystem.The use of this technology also opens the black box of in-store data so retailers can understand what actions contribute to a sale (or lost basket) in a customer’s path-to-purchase by revealing customer behaviours, staff performance and product funnels.When clients like Nike, French Connection and Benetton adopt digital tools in their stores, they see an increase in conversion, loyalty and units per transaction (UPT). On average they experience a sales uplift of 8% and 5x ROI.

5 contacts available at Mercaux.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Alexey Menn | Investor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alexey-menn |
| Alexey Petrov | Co-Founder & CTO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alexey-petrov |
| David Miller | CMO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/david-miller-22 |
| Denis Mukha | Lead iOS Developer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/denis-mukha |
| Inna Lyubashevskaya | Client Account & Client Operaitons | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/inna-lyubashevskaya |

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## FAQ

### What does Alexey Menn invest in?

Alexey Menn invests primarily in SaaS, Software and E-Commerce startups, most often at Pre-Seed and Seed stage. Most of the 7 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 Alexey Menn's check size?

Alexey Menn typically joins rounds of $1.1M–$4M 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 Alexey Menn participates in.

### When did Alexey Menn last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Alexey Menn closed in Mar 2026. Shizune tracks 7 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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