# hi5 Ventures

> hi5 Ventures is a VC fund in Kyiv backing Software and FinTech. See 8 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Kyiv, Ukraine
- Total investments: 8
- Last investment: Feb 2026
- Lead investor: 13%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/hi5-ventures
- Website: https://hi5.ventures
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/hi5Ventures

hi5 Ventures is a Kyiv based Venture Capital firm investing in Early Stage Eastern European Tech companies, empowering them with a hands-on approach & access to Tier-1 EU/US investors. We invest in fast-growing tech companies on Pre Seed / Seed / Pre A rounds with a strong team, crystallized vision and proven business model.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Pre-Seed | $165k–$1.4M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 3 | 38% |
| FinTech | 2 | 25% |
| Analytics | 2 | 25% |
| Social Media | 2 | 25% |
| Information Technology | 2 | 25% |

32 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Pre-Seed | 7 | 88% |
| Series A | 1 | 13% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 6 | 75% |
| Finland | 1 | 13% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 13% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Andrew Kryvorchuk | General Partner | 3 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andrew-kryvorchuk |
| Leon Podobedov | General Partner | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/leon-podobedov-2 |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| The New Era® of Shopping | The New Era® of Shopping helps merchants make their catalogues discoverable and shoppable inside AI assistants. Key features of the platform include two-way catalog syncing with PIMs/ERPs, SKU-level intelligence to measure AI visibility and ranking of products inside LLM responses, user prompts analysis for trends and volume insights, andautomated content optimization to improve how products rank in conversational answers. The product is already integrated with all major eCommerce platforms like Shopify, WooCommerce, Magento, BigCommerce, Wix, etc, as well as main AI discovery platforms: ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Google AI Mode, and Perplexity. | $1.4M | Pre-Seed | Feb 24, 2026 |  |
| Saldo Apps | Saldo Apps helps micro and small businesses automate their sales and accounting. We create simple mobile-first all-in-one software solutions that allow SMEs to sell online, record financial transactions, and keep their books digitally. This, in turn, helps them focus on their business, not bookkeeping. We already have more than 20,000 users in theUSA and SEA who use Saldo Apps every second of the day.There are five applications in the Saldo Apps portfolio: - Invoice maker - an invoice generator and accounting system - Orty - an all-in-one restaurant management system with online ordering - Checkpie - in-app group restaurant bill splitting and settling - Mileage Tracker - a mileage tracker for tax deduction purposes - Receipt Scanner - receipt scanning and expense tracking |  | Pre-Seed | Sep 21, 2023 |  |
| Slise | Slise is a Web3-native programmatic ad platform using wallets and on-chain data to target users for Web3 projects, while providing sustainable revenue streams for dApps displaying ads. |  | Pre-Seed | Sep 01, 2022 |  |
| Yope | Yope app is the social "Google Photos" for Gen Z, designed for sharing and chatting, not just storage. | $1.3M | Pre-Seed | Jan 21, 2022 |  |
| Hands In | Hands In is a payments platform that enables businesses to accept various types of split payments, including splitting transactions across multiple cards, facilitating group payments, and offering installment plans. Their solutions aim to reduce payment declines due to insufficient funds and enhance customer flexibility during checkout. Hands Inserves industries such as travel and ticketing, providing tailored payment options to improve customer experience and increase successful transactions. The company also offers a merchant dashboard for managing payments and advanced payment routing to optimize transaction processes. | $164.9K | Pre-Seed | Jan 01, 2022 |  |
| Narrative BI | Narrative BI is a no-code augmented analytics platform for growth teams that automatically turns raw data into actionable narratives. Narrative BI seamlessly and effortlessly integrates with existing data sources, such as marketing, CRM, product analytics tools, and automatically detects anomalies and correlations in the company data. | $1.2M | Pre-Seed | Nov 12, 2021 |  |
| SOC Prime | SOC Prime operates the world's largest and most advanced platform for collaborative cyber defense following its mission to transform threat detection with the power of collective cybersecurity expertise. Relied upon by over 11,000 global organizations, SOC Prime supercharges cybersecurity operations enabling teams to hunt for threats anddefend against attacks easier, faster, and more efficiently than ever before. Founded in 2015 by security analysts and Detection Engineers, we have built the platform to help companies establish basic security practices, improve threat visibility, and advance automated incident response. Our technology helps enterprises, governments, MSSPs, and MDR providers overcome the challenges of the global talent shortage, threat complexity, alert fatigue, data quality, and cost-efficiency. SOC Prime Platform enables security teams to address the challenges of building advanced and threat-specific detections, organize and execute around strategic detection objectives, and manage the deployment of content at scale across a diverse range of security analytics tools. We serve Fortune-100 and Forbes Global 2000 enterprises, as well as government organizations by providing a platform for global collaboration, open-source technologies, and the highest level of support.SOC Prime helps customers centrally source and support detection content to maximize the value of their existing security investments. Powered by collaboration from a global cybersecurity community, our Detection as Code platform curates the most up-to-date Sigma rules and integrates with over 44 SIEM, EDR, and Data Lake platforms. Flexible subscriptions ensure that both organizations and individual operators can benefit from enhanced cyber defense capabilities. Threat Detection Marketplace, the world's leading and largest security analytics repository powered by SOC Prime Platform, delivers access to a constantly growing library of 500,000+ context-enriched detections aligned with the MITRE ATT&CK® framework and continuously updated. SOC Prime supports continuous content quality improvement backed by feedback from 11,000+ organizations, 55,000+ users, and 800 threat bounty members, who actively contribute their own detection content to the SOC Prime Platform while receiving recurring rewards for their input. Our team is diverse and distributed, comprising seasoned security experts with 20+ years of experience in the industry, creative designers, multilevel software developers, young and ambitious security researchers, analysts, and business leaders. We strongly believe that cybersecurity is one of the major challenges for humanity and can be improved by open source, knowledge sharing, and a performance-driven culture. | $11M | Series A | Oct 19, 2021 |  |
| Pibox | Pibox is the all-in-one platform for music producers which includes: • Time-stamped professional audio commenting • Cloud for studio files • Hi-res audio streaming for live collaboration • Internal messaging | $400K | Pre-Seed | Oct 18, 2021 |  |

8 of 8 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does hi5 Ventures invest in?

hi5 Ventures invests primarily in Software, FinTech and Analytics startups, most often at Pre-Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 8 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 hi5 Ventures's check size?

hi5 Ventures typically joins rounds of $165k–$1.4M 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 hi5 Ventures participates in.

### How do I contact hi5 Ventures?

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### Who are the partners at hi5 Ventures?

The team at hi5 Ventures includes Andrew Kryvorchuk (General Partner) and Leon Podobedov (General Partner). 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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