Ivan Bercovich
General Partner; Investor in Cliq; Partner @ ScOp Venture Capital
Santa Barbara, United States
Ivan Bercovich is a seed investor at ScOp Venture Capital in Santa Barbara focused on SaaS and Software. Ivan's technical expertise centers on structured data, knowledge graphs, and natural language processing. He focuses on companies building vertical AI and data-intensive applications. Ivan has spent many years refining the human-in-the-loop model, pushing humans up the stack as ML techniques improve. He loves thinking and experimenting withmanagement and organizational approaches to optimize product and software development and foster innovation.Prior to his current role, Ivan spent ten years at Graphiq, where he built one of the largest general knowledge graphs and developed natural language understanding and generation technology. Graphiq became a leading research engine, attracting 40+ million monthly visits and generating 400 million monthly impressions of their knowledge graph across the internet.Following Amazon's acquisition of Graphiq in 2017, Ivan led a team of 150, including software developers and knowledge engineers. The system his team developed powered Alexa's open domain question understanding and answering. The team developed solutions for natural language processing, knowledge retrieval, and language generation, while also building internal tools that enabled knowledge engineers to define complex knowledge representations and ingest billions of facts.
- Total investments:
- 7
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 43%
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Industries Ivan Bercovich invests in
Stages Ivan Bercovich invests in
Countries Ivan Bercovich invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- SaaS 2 (29%)
- Software 2 (29%)
- Artificial Intelligence 2 (29%)
- EdTech 1 (14%)
- FinTech 1 (14%)
Stage
- Seed 4 (57%)
- Series A 3 (43%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| The first dev platform for prompt engineering. Based in NYC. | $4.8M / Seed / Feb 07, 2025 | ||
| Rogodevelops an artificial intelligence platform designed specifically for financial institutions such as investment banks, private equity firms, and asset managers. The platform integrates with internal systems and external financial data sources to analyze large volumes of information, including filings, market data, and proprietary datasets, anddeliver structured outputs like financial models, reports, and presentations. It uses AI models and agent-based systems to automate workflows such as research, due diligence, and market analysis, enabling users to complete multi-step financial tasks within a single system. The company’s technology is built with input from professionals with backgrounds in finance and is tailored to reflect the workflows and requirements of high-finance environments. Its tools are used by financial professionals to reduce manual work, support decision-making, and streamline processes across transactions and portfolio management. | $18.5M / Series A / Oct 01, 2024 | ||
| Rogodevelops an artificial intelligence platform designed specifically for financial institutions such as investment banks, private equity firms, and asset managers. The platform integrates with internal systems and external financial data sources to analyze large volumes of information, including filings, market data, and proprietary datasets, anddeliver structured outputs like financial models, reports, and presentations. It uses AI models and agent-based systems to automate workflows such as research, due diligence, and market analysis, enabling users to complete multi-step financial tasks within a single system. The company’s technology is built with input from professionals with backgrounds in finance and is tailored to reflect the workflows and requirements of high-finance environments. Its tools are used by financial professionals to reduce manual work, support decision-making, and streamline processes across transactions and portfolio management. | $7M / Seed / Feb 16, 2024 | ||
| Userpilot offers product experience software that helps product teams improve user activation and boost feature engagement. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Middletown, Delaware. | $4.6M / Seed / Sep 05, 2022 | ||
| Voyager Portal is a provider of a SaaS multi-party collaboration and workflow management solution for the maritime value chain. | $8.4M / Series A / Dec 01, 2021 | ||
| Yogi is the creator of a customer feedback analytics platform that enables organizations to acquire actionable insights from customer reviews and sentiment analysis, thereby boosting brand reputation and product experiences. The platform of the company sifts through customer reviews and ratings data to provide actionable insights from productsentiment research, allowing clients to improve brand reputation and product experiences in a streamlined and effective manner. | $4.8M / Seed / Oct 21, 2021 | ||
| HeyTutor is an online platform that allows students, tutors, and agencies to connect in real-time.The platform allows tutors to set up online accounts and set their own hourly rates based on experience and credentials in their field of expertise. It enables tutors to transfer reviews and testimonials from previous students to their platformprofiles. Students are able to connect with a tutor with the assistance of Heytutors "smart match" technology. HeyTutor facilitates payments to their registered tutors on a weekly basis with direct deposits to their bank accounts. HeyTutor was launched by Skyler Lucci in 2016 and is based in Beverly Hills, California. | $1M / Series A / Jan 29, 2019 |
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About ScOp Venture Capital
Our approach to investing is simple. We look for scalable opportunities (ScOps). We want companies that fill a fundamental consumer or business need in the most efficient and effective way. We look to partner with people who love what they do and need to make a profound impact. As former founders ourselves, we take a long-term perspective to theinvestments we make, and see every investment opportunity as a long-term partnership. We primarily focus on SaaS companies who have some proof of market validation which typically means $500k+ in ARR or marketplaces with $500k+ in annualized net revenue.If you have a technology company with both product and revenue, please drop us an email and let's talk.
ScOp Venture Capital Contacts
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Cormac O'Connor
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Heike Schirmer
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Ivan Bercovich
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Kevin O'Connor
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What does Ivan Bercovich invest in?
Ivan Bercovich invests primarily in SaaS, Software and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 7 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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