Lyuben Belov
Managing Partner & Founding Partner @ LAUNCHub Ventures
Sofia, Bulgaria
Lyuben Belov is a seed investor at LAUNCHub Ventures in Sofia focused on FinTech and Blockchain. Lyuben co- founded LAUNCHub in 2012 and is its Managing Partner. He is one of the pioneers of Bulgarian internet business and the local startup ecosystem. In 1998 he co-founded Net Info and served as CEO through 2007 when the company was sold to Sanoma. Net Info was the fastest growing digital group in Bulgaria (abv.bg, vesti.bg, vbox7.com, gbg.bg,sinoptik.bg, others). Its products reached 80% of the target market. Net Info was also market leader in terms of revenue with app. 50% market share. Since then Lyuben has been an active angel investor in several companies in the digital sector.
- Total investments:
- 14
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 0%
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Industries Lyuben Belov invests in
Stages Lyuben Belov invests in
Countries Lyuben Belov invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
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Round size
- Seed
- $384k–$5.5M
- Series A
- $8.2M–$15M
- Venture - Series Unknown
- $1.4M–$4M
Investment Focus
Industry
- FinTech 4 (29%)
- Blockchain 4 (29%)
- Finance 3 (21%)
- Software 3 (21%)
- Financial Services 3 (21%)
Stage
- Seed 4 (29%)
- Series A 3 (21%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 2 (14%)
- Angel 1 (7%)
- Pre-Seed 1 (7%)
Country
- United States 4 (29%)
- Cyprus 1 (7%)
- Germany 1 (7%)
- Gibraltar 1 (7%)
- United Kingdom 1 (7%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Centrifuge is a decentralized operating system that provides the infrastructure and ecosystem to manage and invest in tokenized assets. Its system is used to power the financial supply chain and foster economic opportunity. It is also used by third-party service providers to create, consume, and interact with the data within the financial supplychain permitting easy creation of apps and functionality, helping businesses to transact on a global network while maintaining ownership of their data. | $15M / Series A / Apr 17, 2024 | ||
| Finery Markets is a leading over-the-counter, multi-dealer electronic marketplace for institutional participants and a trading solutions provider for crypto markets. Serving clients since 2019, Finery Markets provides solutions throughout the whole trade lifecycle: - High-performance execution venue with deep institutional liquidity and firmquotes. - Price intelligence and pre-trade risk management tools. - Position management, risk controls, reporting tools and cost analysis, as well as flexible settlement based on a noncustodial model. - Single entry point to global liquidity providers via API and GUI. - Robust infrastructure: 99.99+% uptime and full automation.The Finery Markets platform is available as a white-label solution for prime brokers, OTC desks and exchanges that are willing to develop and expand a low-touch client business. | $5.5M / Seed / Nov 30, 2022 | ||
| Altitude is a Decentralized Finance (DeFi) protocol offering a first-of-its-kind actively managed collateralized loan, which uses the volatility of the value of the collateral to repay itself over time. | $2.1M / Seed / Jul 01, 2022 | ||
| Zerion is an investing app that enables anyone, anywhere in the world, to access a suite of new financial products and services built on the backbone of decentralized finance (DeFi). Simple, user-centered design is combined with a powerful tech stack that aggregates across every major decentralized exchange, offering users a single point of entryfor managing their digital assets with ease. Zerion is non-custodial, which means users never delegate their funds to the platform. This agile approach mitigates centralization risk and has allowed Zerion to operate globally since inception. | $8.2M / Series A / Jul 07, 2021 | ||
| Dala is an intelligent, real-time source of truth that eliminates the cultural, financial, and operational struggles of splintered tools. They provide assistance to operators and progressive funds in order to fuel growth. These experts specialize in knowledge management, networked knowledge, context, AI, semantic search, search engines, SaaS,software, knowledge graphs, and knowledge discovery. | $1.4M / Pre-Seed / Mar 24, 2021 | ||
| Charlie Finance is a financial services company that develops a text message application that simplifies personal finance. It was founded in 2016, with its headquarters in San Francisco in California. | $9M / Series A / Nov 26, 2018 | ||
| Charlie Finance is a financial services company that develops a text message application that simplifies personal finance. It was founded in 2016, with its headquarters in San Francisco in California. | $1.6M / Venture - Series Unknown / Jun 12, 2018 | ||
| FITE is a direct-to-consumer digital live streaming service for combat sports. The platform is specializing in broadcasting professional wrestling, mixed martial arts and boxing events. FITE streams a rich array of live pay-per-view events, subscription packages and thousands of hours of live and on-demand free programs to millions of fans aroundthe world.FITE's mission is to help fans discover and watch premium live events, and help programmers to distribute and monetize them. While FITE's beachhead market is combat sports, the product is designed to serve over time a much wider range of premium live programming.It was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Uniondale, New York, United States. | $2.5M / Venture - Series Unknown / Dec 07, 2016 | ||
| Charlie Finance is a financial services company that develops a text message application that simplifies personal finance. It was founded in 2016, with its headquarters in San Francisco in California. | $2.4M / Seed / Sep 30, 2016 | ||
| FITE is a direct-to-consumer digital live streaming service for combat sports. The platform is specializing in broadcasting professional wrestling, mixed martial arts and boxing events. FITE streams a rich array of live pay-per-view events, subscription packages and thousands of hours of live and on-demand free programs to millions of fans aroundthe world.FITE's mission is to help fans discover and watch premium live events, and help programmers to distribute and monetize them. While FITE's beachhead market is combat sports, the product is designed to serve over time a much wider range of premium live programming.It was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Uniondale, New York, United States. | $212K / May 26, 2015 | ||
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Co-Investors
About LAUNCHub Ventures
LAUNCHub Ventures is a leading early-stage VC actively investing in SEE&CEE tech startups in Seed and Series A stages.
LAUNCHub Ventures Contacts
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Lyuben Belov
Managing Partner & Founding Partner
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Rumen Iliev
Partner
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Stephane Gantchev
Partner
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Irina Dimitrova
CFO
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Mirela Yordanova
Associate
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FAQ
What does Lyuben Belov invest in?
Lyuben Belov invests primarily in FinTech, Blockchain and Finance startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 14 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Lyuben Belov invest in?
Lyuben Belov typically joins rounds of $384k–$5.5M at Seed, $8.2M–$15M at Series A and $1.4M–$4M at Venture - Series Unknown. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Lyuben Belov's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Lyuben Belov took part in.
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When did Lyuben Belov last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Lyuben Belov closed in Apr 2024. Shizune tracks 14 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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