# Cascade Ventures

> Cascade Ventures is a VC fund in London backing Software and Gaming. See 10 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 10
- Last investment: Aug 2021
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/cascade-venturesu/
- Website: http://www.cascadevc.com

Cascade Ventures is a VC fund in London focused on Software and Gaming. Cascade Ventures is the venture capital arm of Cascade investment fund, focusing on the US and European startups. We strive to be the best partner for founders who are building transformation products and looking to expand their businesses.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 3 | 30% |
| Gaming | 2 | 20% |
| FinTech | 2 | 20% |
| Machine Learning | 2 | 20% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 2 | 20% |

32 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series C | 3 | 30% |
| Seed | 2 | 20% |
| Series A | 2 | 20% |
| Series D | 1 | 10% |
| Convertible Note | 1 | 10% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 4 | 40% |
| Germany | 2 | 20% |
| Japan | 1 | 10% |
| France | 1 | 10% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 10% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Art Melikyan | Founder and Managing Member | 0 | — |
| Oleksandr Shvaiun | Legal Officer | 0 | — |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Coco | Coco is a last-mile delivery service that deploys human-operated sidewalk robots to transport goods from merchants to their customers. Its robot fleet serves thousands of customers per week in Santa Monica, Los Angeles, Austin, and Houston, paving the way for a more optimistic future of delivery that benefits local communities.Launched inFebruary 2020, the company has partnered with national restaurant brands like SBE (Umami Burger) and is actively scaling across many locations. It serves a wide range of family-operated restaurants like Bangkok West Thai in Santa Monica and San Pedro Brewing Company in Los Angeles. | $36M | Series A | Aug 25, 2021 |  |
| wefox | wefox is a digital insurance company aiming to make people safe and prevent risk by reinventing insurance at scale through technology. Its focus is selling insurance via intermediaries and not via direct channels. Through analytics, wefox achieves better loss ratios than the market. Technology allows wefox to have >90%straight-through-processing and a central product factory that ships product innovations internationally much quicker and more cost-effective than the competition.Wefox has built up a network of thousands of digitally enabled advisors across Europe which increases customer satisfaction, reduces customer acquisition costs, increases cross-selling, and decreases churn.Wefox was founded in 2015 and is based in Berlin, Germany. | $650M | Series C | Jun 01, 2021 |  |
| McMakler | McMakler is the leading hybrid real estate agent in Germany. The company combines state-of-the-art marketing technology and central processes at its headquarters in Berlin with a local team of almost 400 permanent real estate agents across Germany in all major regions. With a supported brand awareness of 33%, McMakler is today the best-known realestate agent in Germany and is characterised by its far above-average service quality. | $44.6M | Series D | Nov 17, 2020 |  |
| Discord | Discord operates as a voice, video, and text communication service to talk and hang out with friends and communities. It was originally created for people who loved to play games, but these passionate people realized it could be enjoyed for more purposes. Discord is now used by everyone from local hiking clubs, to art communities, to study groups. |  | Secondary Market | Sep 29, 2020 |  |
| Petal | Petal  is a credit card company that is built to help people financially succeed. It aims to make credit honest, simple, and accessible. The company uses machine learning to analyze a customer’s full digital financial record—not just their credit score.Petal has pioneered cash flow underwriting, as an alternative to credit scores, to make creditmore accessible, and offers a simple, modern digital experience that encourages members to build credit, avoid debt, and spend responsibly. Petal is based in New York, New York, and Richmond, Virginia. The Petal credit card is issued by WebBank, Member FDIC. | $55M | Series C | Sep 24, 2020 |  |
| Playco | Playco is an instant-play gaming company that develops games that billions of people can play together. The company works closely with a vast network of partners from global tech and social media giants to new startups developing innovative technologies. | $100M | Series A | Sep 21, 2020 |  |
| Playco | Playco is an instant-play gaming company that develops games that billions of people can play together. The company works closely with a vast network of partners from global tech and social media giants to new startups developing innovative technologies. |  | Seed | Sep 21, 2020 |  |
| Cookdash | Cookdash develops a marketing platform intended for restraints and hotels. The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States. |  | Seed | Sep 17, 2020 |  |
| Diffusely | Founded in 2016, Meero aims to revolutionize the world of photography by allowing photographers to dedicate themselves to their passion. From providing revenues and market research to invoicing, post-production, and delivery, Meero takes care of all the laborious, time-consuming tasks which plague the industry. Above all, the company aims toprovide them with tools for file compatibility, CRM, marketing, and other daily needs. In addition to this, they'll have access to a series of educational masterclasses, inspiring documentaries, meetups with photographers in 35 different countries, a magazine in 2 different languages, and even a foundation supporting photography worldwide.Meero also solves a major problem in the world of photography: photo editing. Normally 60 minutes of actual shooting will take up to 4 hours of extra post-production work. The cutting-edge content enrichment technologies the company is currently developing can reduce this time to a few seconds, solving the problems of long delivery times, inconsistent photo rendering and unfair prices.Meero further gives artists the chance to work with major brands and take advantage of a whole range of solutions that simplify their work and make the production of beautiful images far easier.These innovations allow brands, and soon individual consumers, to access made-to-measure photo and video solutions around the world. Meero manages the photoshoot process from beginning to end, guaranteeing unbeatable prices, delivery times of less than 24 hours and professional photo quality.Today Meero is:- The world's leading on-demand photography platform- A suite of tools dedicated to photographers' activities; masterclasses, a magazine in four different languages, inspiring documentaries, a community of artists, and a foundation in support of photography- The leader in image-processing artificial intelligence- 60,000 photographers around the world- 800 team members of 49 different nationalities- 1 Photoshoot delivered every 25 seconds- 6 offices: Paris, New York, Los Angeles, Tokyo, Bangalore, Singapore | $230M | Series C | Jun 18, 2019 |  |
| SmartUp.io | SmartUp is the ultimate platform for peer-to-peer knowledge creation, sharing and exchange.Conceived and developed by a seasoned team of founders and investors behind Founders Forum, Spotify, Siri, lastminute.com and others, SmartUp now hosts more than 150,000 members and is used around the world by startup founders, companies, innovators,business schools and curious entrepreneurs.SmartUp’s intuitive learning system provides communities engaging and fun ways to contribute and consume bite-sized pieces of knowledge and insight. Its powerful platform unlocks your community’s real knowledge to help every member unleash their potential. |  | Convertible Note | Apr 09, 2019 |  |

10 of 10 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Cascade Ventures invest in?

Cascade Ventures invests primarily in Software, Gaming and FinTech startups, most often at Series C and Seed stage. Most of the 10 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Cascade Ventures?

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### Who are the partners at Cascade Ventures?

The team at Cascade Ventures includes Art Melikyan (Founder and Managing Member) and Oleksandr Shvaiun (Legal Officer). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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