# Funders

> Funders is a VC fund in Limassol backing FinTech and Financial Services. See 10 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Limassol, Cyprus
- Total investments: 10
- Last investment: Feb 2026
- Lead investor: 20%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/fundersvc
- Website: https://funders.vc

Funders is a venture capital firm focused on seed-stage investments, with a primary focus on Fintech, AI and SaaS across Americas & Europe

## Contacts

5 contacts available for Funders. Shizune tracks 4 team members at Funders. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/funders?utm_source=investor_profile

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $354k–$3.5M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FinTech | 3 | 30% |
| Financial Services | 2 | 20% |
| Apps | 1 | 10% |
| Legal | 1 | 10% |
| EdTech | 1 | 10% |

28 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 8 | 80% |
| Series F | 1 | 10% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 2 | 20% |
| United Arab Emirates | 2 | 20% |
| Serbia | 1 | 10% |
| Colombia | 1 | 10% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 10% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Aleksandr Nechaev | Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aleksandr-nechaev |
| Alexander Alemaskin | Partner & CFO | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alexander-alemaskin |
| Marfa Shishkina | General Partner & Founder | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/marfa-shishkina |
| Pavel Miasnikov | Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pavel-miasnikov |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Signa | Signa is a global platform that uses artificial intelligence to identify and remove counterfeit products and false claims on social networks, marketplaces, and search engines. It serves businesses, especially in the pharmaceutical and beauty sectors, helping them recover lost revenue and protect their brands.The platform operates on a B2B SaaSmodel, providing tools for law firms, national authorities, and companies to work together in eliminating both digital and physical counterfeit goods.Launched in 2023, Signa reached a $1M USD ARR by the end of 2024, with clients in the U.S., Colombia, and Mexico. | $1M | Seed | Feb 05, 2026 |  |
| AlgoX2 | AlgoX2, backed by Bessemer Venture Partners, is a clean-sheet data-streaming platform designed by the team behind the New York Stock Exchange’s trading technology. It is Kafka API compatible with native support for Redis, NATS, and MQTT. AlgoX2 unifies stream processing, connectors, and lakehouse gateways in a single fault-tolerant cluster,delivering up to 10X higher throughput and up to 90% lower TCO than legacy stacks, with ultra-low latency. | $3.5M | Seed | Oct 08, 2025 |  |
| Rapyd | Rapyd is a payments platform that inserts fintech services into any app and simplifies the complex offering of local payment methods.It enables e-commerce merchants, gig platforms, challenger wallets, remittance platforms, online lenders, and traditional banks to break free of their old infrastructure and limitations and create newmobile-friendly solutions. By utilizing Rapyd's payments network and Fintech-as-a-Service platform, businesses and consumers can engage in local and cross-border transactions in any market. The Rapyd platform unifies the fragmented payment systems by bringing together 900-plus payment methods in over 100 countries. Investors such as Stripe, General Catalyst, Oak FT, Coatue, Tiger Global, Durable Capital, Target Global, and TaL Capital backs the company.In 2016, Arik Shtilman, Arkady Karpman, and Omer Priel established the company in London, England. |  | Series F | Sep 29, 2025 |  |
| Evolve Platform | Evolve simplifies training for businesses, allowing them to launch comprehensive courses & trainings in just 24 hours. By turning various materials such as documents, presentations and videos into engaging content, Evolve speeds up onboarding by 40%, cuts turnover by 15%, and enhances engagement. With AI features it saves companies up to 90% ontime creating courses and up to 50% on training costs while improving overall learning results. | $1M | Seed | Sep 18, 2025 |  |
| Chainspot | cross-chain platform, blockchain bridges aggregator |  | Seed | Nov 02, 2024 |  |
| Metropolis World Ltd | The capital city of the Metaverse |  | Seed | Nov 01, 2024 |  |
| Kamel Pay | Kamel Pay is a fintech and digital financial solutions provider. Kamel Pay offers end-to-end digital payment services to the 20 million underbanked expat population in GCC and to their families abroad through a fully integrated platform. |  | Seed | Oct 20, 2024 |  |
| Nodepay | Nodepay is a network infrastructure that offers decentralized bandwidth for AI training. |  | Seed | Oct 02, 2024 |  |
| Hapday | Hapday is a digital wellness platform designed to help individuals improve their mental well-being, personal growth, and daily productivity through structured self-development tools. The platform combines artificial intelligence with behavioral science to provide personalized guidance, habit tracking, and wellness programs. |  | Seed | Sep 15, 2024 |  |
| web2wave | AI web and web2web funnels builder for mobile apps for user acquisition in the era of privacy | $354.5K | Seed |  |  |

10 of 10 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Funders invest in?

Funders invests primarily in FinTech, Financial Services and Apps startups, most often at Seed and Series F 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.

### What is Funders's check size?

Funders typically joins rounds of $354k–$3.5M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Funders participates in.

### How do I contact Funders?

Public channels for Funders include LinkedIn and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at Funders?

The team at Funders includes Aleksandr Nechaev (Partner), Alexander Alemaskin (Partner & CFO) and Marfa Shishkina (General Partner & Founder). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### 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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