# Alex Orap

> Alex Orap is a pre-seed investor at YouScan backing Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. See 6 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [YouScan](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/youscan)
- Location: Kyiv, Ukraine
- Total investments: 6
- Last investment: May 2024
- Lead investor: 33%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/aorap
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/audac10us
- Website: https://x.com/audac10us

Alex Orap is a pre-seed investor at YouScan in Kyiv focused on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. Alex Orap - Founder @ YouScan

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Pre-Seed | $125k–$600k |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Artificial Intelligence | 3 | 50% |
| Machine Learning | 2 | 33% |
| SaaS | 1 | 17% |
| Energy | 1 | 17% |
| Software | 1 | 17% |

16 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Pre-Seed | 3 | 50% |
| Seed | 2 | 33% |
| Angel | 1 | 17% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 3 | 50% |
| Cyprus | 1 | 17% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Bluedot | Bluedot is a modern LMS that helps distributed teams across the company stay organized and connected. Baked by On Deck, Google Startup fund, and a fantastic team of angels. | $600K | Pre-Seed | May 28, 2024 |  |
| outloud.ai | Outloud.ai enables businesses to automate voice conversations with their customers. | $125K | Pre-Seed | Aug 27, 2021 |  |
| outloud.ai | Outloud.ai enables businesses to automate voice conversations with their customers. |  | Seed | Apr 01, 2021 |  |
| VAR.energy | VAR.energy builds technology and a market platform for the procurement of real-time reactive power services locally from renewable DERs in a reliable and verifiable way while respecting local distribution grid constraints. |  | Angel | Nov 02, 2020 |  |
| Let's Enhance | Let's Enhance is a deep-tech company that builds next-gen AI photo management solution for marketplaces |  | Seed | Jun 01, 2020 |  |
| YouScan | YouScan is an AI-powered social media listening platform with industry-leading image recognition capabilities.We serve 500+ customers worldwide, including well-known consumer brands and agencies, such as Nestle, L'Oreal, Chanel, PepsiCo, Google, Coca-Cola, Michelin, Samsung, McDonald's, Mediacom, Kantar TNS, Ipsos, among others.Industry experts recognize YouScan as a leading player in the social media intelligence space: Gartner named YouScan a "Cool AI Vendor for Marketing" and MarkTech Breakthrough Awards 2020 recognized us as "Best Social Media Monitoring Software." We also lead the G2 Social Media Analytics Software category.Besides powerful analytics that you would expect from an enterprise-class SML platform, YouScan also features Aina. This virtual AI-powered data analyst automatically delivers vital insights and alerts about customer's brand discussions on social media.YouScan platform also provides market-leading image recognition capabilities, called Visual Insights. They include brand logo detection, scenes, objects, activities, persons, and other photo contents analysis and reporting.YouScan Visual Insights provide marketers with unprecedented opportunities to uncover consumer insights, measure sponsorship ROI, find user-generative creative content and brand ambassadors, and much more.YouScan has started as a regional player in EE before expanding to other markets, so we also offer the best regional-specific data, such as VK.com.With sales offices in New York, London, Mexico City, and Moscow, we develop our advanced AI technology in Kyiv, Ukraine, often called "a secret weapon of Silicon Valley." Due to the unique tech talent abundance, more and more leading tech companies establish their R&D offices there. It is a great place to develop deep tech AI-powered products like YouScan. | $200K | Pre-Seed | Jan 01, 2010 |  |

6 of 6 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Acrobator Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/acrobator-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [PROTOCOL — by GETTYLAB](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/prtcl) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Bossa Invest](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bossanova-investimentos) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [FAST — by GETTYLAB](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/f-st) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Google for Startups](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/google-for-entrepreneurs) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [OnDeck Venture](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ondeck-venture) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About YouScan

VC Fund · Limassol, Cyprus

YouScan is an AI-powered social media listening platform with industry-leading image recognition capabilities.We serve 500+ customers worldwide, including well-known consumer brands and agencies, such as Nestle, L'Oreal, Chanel, PepsiCo, Google, Coca-Cola, Michelin, Samsung, McDonald's, Mediacom, Kantar TNS, Ipsos, among others.Industry experts recognize YouScan as a leading player in the social media intelligence space: Gartner named YouScan a "Cool AI Vendor for Marketing" and MarkTech Breakthrough Awards 2020 recognized us as "Best Social Media Monitoring Software." We also lead the G2 Social Media Analytics Software category.Besides powerful analytics that you would expect from an enterprise-class SML platform, YouScan also features Aina. This virtual AI-powered data analyst automatically delivers vital insights and alerts about customer's brand discussions on social media.YouScan platform also provides market-leading image recognition capabilities, called Visual Insights. They include brand logo detection, scenes, objects, activities, persons, and other photo contents analysis and reporting.YouScan Visual Insights provide marketers with unprecedented opportunities to uncover consumer insights, measure sponsorship ROI, find user-generative creative content and brand ambassadors, and much more.YouScan has started as a regional player in EE before expanding to other markets, so we also offer the best regional-specific data, such as VK.com.With sales offices in New York, London, Mexico City, and Moscow, we develop our advanced AI technology in Kyiv, Ukraine, often called "a secret weapon of Silicon Valley." Due to the unique tech talent abundance, more and more leading tech companies establish their R&D offices there. It is a great place to develop deep tech AI-powered products like YouScan.

4 contacts available at YouScan.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Alex Orap | Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alexey-orap |
| Alexander Sirach | COO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alexander-sirach |
| Denis Igin | Product Manager | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/denis-igin |
| Leonid Lytvynenko | CTO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/leonid-lytvynenko |

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## FAQ

### What does Alex Orap invest in?

Alex Orap invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and SaaS startups, most often at Pre-Seed and Seed stage. Most of the 6 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 Alex Orap's check size?

Alex Orap typically joins rounds of $125k–$600k 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 Orap participates in.

### When did Alex Orap last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Alex Orap closed in May 2024. Shizune tracks 6 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?

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