# Ilya Kondrashov

> Ilya Kondrashov is a seed investor at MarketFinance backing FinTech and Financial Services. See 8 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [MarketFinance](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/marketfinance)
- Location: London, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 8
- Last investment: Mar 2025
- Lead investor: 13%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ilya-kondrashov-b9257224
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/iskondrash
- Website: https://x.com/iskondrash

Ilya Kondrashov is a seed investor at MarketFinance in London focused on FinTech and Financial Services. CEO at QuantumLight, the World's first truly systematic venture capital and growth equity firm. Previously co-founder at Kriya Finance - a European B2B payments and pay-later company.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $3M–$6.9M |
| Series B | $27M–$88M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FinTech | 3 | 38% |
| Financial Services | 3 | 38% |
| Payments | 2 | 25% |
| Software | 2 | 25% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 2 | 25% |

23 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 3 | 38% |
| Series B | 3 | 38% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 13% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 1 | 13% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United Kingdom | 3 | 38% |
| United States | 2 | 25% |
| Denmark | 1 | 13% |
| The Netherlands | 1 | 13% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Mesh | Mesh Pay is a payment infrastructure platform that enables businesses to accept and send digital assets and cryptocurrency transactions through a single integration. It supports connectivity with hundreds of wallets and exchanges, and processes payments, deposits, verification,s and global payouts, settling funds in stablecoins or local currency toreduce volatility risk and increase completion rates. The platform includes SmartFunding™, which orchestrates funding from multiple sources to streamline checkout and payout processes, and offers real-time address validation and settlement features. Mesh Pay also provides programmable wallet capabilities for autonomous commerce and routes funds securely across wallets, banks and exchanges. | $82M | Series B | Mar 11, 2025 |  |
| Mesh | Mesh Pay is a payment infrastructure platform that enables businesses to accept and send digital assets and cryptocurrency transactions through a single integration. It supports connectivity with hundreds of wallets and exchanges, and processes payments, deposits, verification,s and global payouts, settling funds in stablecoins or local currency toreduce volatility risk and increase completion rates. The platform includes SmartFunding™, which orchestrates funding from multiple sources to streamline checkout and payout processes, and offers real-time address validation and settlement features. Mesh Pay also provides programmable wallet capabilities for autonomous commerce and routes funds securely across wallets, banks and exchanges. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Aug 15, 2024 |  |
| Monta | Share your charge point with friends, family, or neighbors on the street. We make sharing a no-brainer! Monta GreenCharge forecasts the availability of renewable energy and manages your charging to reduce CO2 emission. Monta - Driving Innovation | $86.9M | Series B | Jan 23, 2024 |  |
| Robin | Robin is the pioneering Legal Intelligence company, transforming how businesses understand and leverage their legal agreements. Founded in 2019, Robin serves Fortune 500 companies and growing enterprises with AI-powered contract analysis and legal workflow automation. The company is backed by leading investors including Paypal Ventures, Temasek andPlural.Through proprietary AI models, and partnerships with Anthropic and AWS, in-house legal teams can extract, synthesize and analyze data across contracts and legal documents at scale, integrating with CLMs, SharePoint, Box, Google Drive, and Dropbox. | $26.5M | Series B | Jan 02, 2024 |  |
| Soveren | With Soveren you can fulfill your mission-critical production data observability and security goals.Soveren helps identify and protect crown jewels in Kubernetes-based environments. It automatically discovers sensitive data and assets, mapping the flows between them and immediately alerting you before risks become full-blown incidents.Ourmission is to help leading organizations protect millions of consumer data records without slowing down their business. We have built our solution in partnership with the most innovative security leaders in Europe and the US.We enable security teams to:1. Enrich your data inventory and improve the quality of manual reviews2. Gain near real-time visibility into sensitive assets and data flows3. Protect sensitive data and assets in the cloud from common security risks4. Maintain ongoing compliance with data regulations (PCI DSS, GDPR, CPRA, etc.)5. Reduce supply-chain attack risks and control sensitive data sharing | $3.6M | Seed | Feb 20, 2023 |  |
| Maroo | Maroo is a payment platform tailored for the wedding and events industry, allowing businesses to manage payments with no processing fees. It supports payment acceptance, branded invoice creation, and payments to freelancers and suppliers. A notable feature is its zero fee model, where fees can be passed onto clients. Trusted by over 9,000businesses, Maroo has facilitated more than $180 million in revenue for its community of event professionals | $3M | Seed | Sep 10, 2021 |  |
| Finom | Finom combines digital business account benefits with multiple services to provide financial solutions for entrepreneurs, self-employed, and freelancers. It pulls together accounting, financial management, and banking functions for early-stage businesses and SMEs into one mobile-first product.Founded in 2019, Finom is headquartered in Amsterdam,The Netherlands. | $7.1M | Seed | Apr 30, 2020 |  |
| Alphagreen Group | Alphagreen Group is a global acquisition and incubation platform with a health & wellness focus. We help brands to scale via our own distribution channels and an extensive external omni-channel network. Build: We build brands using our marketplace and other sources to inform us on consumer demand. We automate the sales of products acrossvarious eCommerce channels, from DTC, on Alphagreen.io, Amazon, affiliates and other channelsAcquire: We acquire high calibre profitable health and wellness brands. We use our data and network to qualify existing products to forecast future growth and automate the management of assets once acquiredScale: We scale brands using our expertise in growth hacking, existing tech infrastructure and an experienced team. Distribution includes via DTC, alphagreen.io and external marketplaces such as Amazon. | $645.8K | Pre-Seed | Feb 10, 2020 |  |

8 of 8 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Plural Platform](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/plural-platform) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [VentureSouq](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/venturesouq) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [10x Founders](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/10x-founders) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [AdFirst.vc](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ad-ru) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [AENU](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aenu) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [AFG Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/afg-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About MarketFinance

VC Fund · London, United Kingdom

MarketFinance is a business finance company with offices in London and Manchester. The online platform enables businesses to access a range of flexible finance solutions — quickly and easily. This smart technology is backed by help from real people so business owners can save time and focus on growing their business.Since 2011, MarketFinance hasadvanced over £2.6 billion to companies across a range of sizes and sectors, providing working capital and finance for everything from paying staff and suppliers to launching new products or services and accelerating growth.MarketFinance is backed by Barclays, Santander InnoVentures, European venture capital fund Northzone (invested in Klarna, iZettle, and Trustpilot), private equity group MCI Capital (also invested in iZettle, Azimo, and Gett), and Viola Credit.

3 contacts available at MarketFinance.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Anil Stocker | CEO & Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anil-stocker |
| Ilya Kondrashov | Co-founder & Managing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ilya-kondrashov |
| Sabih Ali | Head of Strategic Partnerships Development | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sabih-ali |

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## FAQ

### What does Ilya Kondrashov invest in?

Ilya Kondrashov invests primarily in FinTech, Financial Services and Payments startups, most often at Seed and Series B stage. Most of the 8 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United Kingdom. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Ilya Kondrashov's check size?

Ilya Kondrashov typically joins rounds of $3M–$6.9M at Seed and $27M–$88M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Ilya Kondrashov participates in.

### When did Ilya Kondrashov last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Ilya Kondrashov closed in Mar 2025. Shizune tracks 8 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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