R136 Ventures
VC Fund
Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands
R136 Ventures is a multi-stage venture capital firm based in Woodside, California, primarily focused on enterprise SaaS, financial technology, data & analytics, cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, workflow automation and b2b marketplaces in the United States and Israel.
- Total investments:
- 25
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 24%
Last updated:
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Industries R136 Ventures invests in
SoftwareArtificial IntelligenceFinTechMachine LearningEnterprise Software
Stages R136 Ventures invests in
Series CSeedSeries DSeries BSeries E
Countries R136 Ventures invests in
United StatesIsraelUnited KingdomAustraliaRussian Federation
Contacts
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Ratan Manehani
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Rubinov Ivan
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Tom Dennedy
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 8 (32%)
- Artificial Intelligence 7 (28%)
- FinTech 5 (20%)
- Machine Learning 5 (20%)
- Enterprise Software 5 (20%)
Stage
- Series C 6 (24%)
- Seed 4 (16%)
- Series D 4 (16%)
- Series B 3 (12%)
- Series E 2 (8%)
Country
- United States 14 (56%)
- Israel 3 (12%)
- United Kingdom 2 (8%)
- Australia 1 (4%)
- Russian Federation 1 (4%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
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Denis Efremov
Principal
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Principal | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Ratan Manehani
Partner
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Partner | Total investments: 5 | Find email | |
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Rubinov Ivan
Senior Associate
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Senior Associate | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Tom Dennedy
Partner and COO
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Partner and COO | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
Victor Orlovski
Managing Partner
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Managing Partner | Total investments: 19 | Find email | |
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Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Digital Asset
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Digital Asset develops distributed ledger technology intended to build distributed, encrypted straight-through processing tools.The company builds platform, developer tools, and leverages modern infrastructure providers to change how businesses interact. Its service offering is Daml, an application platform unconstrained by organizationalboundaries where companies can create new multi-party solutions that transform disparate silos into synchronized networks, eradicating latency and errors by guaranteeing consistent data. The company works with organizations in financial services, healthcare, and insurance, including 5 of the top 10 stock exchanges.In 2014, the New York, New York-based company was established by Don Wilson, Eric Saraniecki, Sunil Hirani, and Yuval Rooz. Digital Asset is backed by strategic investors, including 7RIDGE, Eldridge, Salesforce, Samsung, VMware, Accenture, Citi, Goldman Sachs, IBM, and J.P. Morgan. | $355M / Series E / Jun 11, 2026 | |
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Digital Asset
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Digital Asset develops distributed ledger technology intended to build distributed, encrypted straight-through processing tools.The company builds platform, developer tools, and leverages modern infrastructure providers to change how businesses interact. Its service offering is Daml, an application platform unconstrained by organizationalboundaries where companies can create new multi-party solutions that transform disparate silos into synchronized networks, eradicating latency and errors by guaranteeing consistent data. The company works with organizations in financial services, healthcare, and insurance, including 5 of the top 10 stock exchanges.In 2014, the New York, New York-based company was established by Don Wilson, Eric Saraniecki, Sunil Hirani, and Yuval Rooz. Digital Asset is backed by strategic investors, including 7RIDGE, Eldridge, Salesforce, Samsung, VMware, Accenture, Citi, Goldman Sachs, IBM, and J.P. Morgan. | $355M / Series F / Jun 11, 2026 | |
Airwallex
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Established in Melbourne in 2015, Airwallex is a global payments fintech that enables businesses to operate anywhere, anytime.In today’s fast-changing digital era, Airwallex's purpose is to empower businesses of all sizes to grow without borders, and by doing so, contribute to the global economy. With technology at its core, Airwallex builta proprietary global financial infrastructure platform to help businesses transact, collect and pay in any foreign currency across 130+ countries and 50+ currencies, without the constraints of the traditional global financial system. | $150M / Series F / May 21, 2025 | |
inspace
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inspace is an AI-powered workplace platform redefining how offices function, driving a 30% boost in productivity and reducing operational costs by up to 80%. It leverages AI-driven automation, real-time data insights, and effortless workplace experiences.inspace makes workspaces smarter with a seamless experience designed for the modernworkforce. The platform prioritizes the employee experience from start to finish—whether it’s simplifying desk booking, room booking, visitor management, or space management. It provides visibility into who is in the office and when, improves collaboration, and enhances overall employee productivity. With AI predicting workplace needs, inspace has created the ultimate software solution for the evolving work landscape, enabling employees to choose their ideal work setting while providing employers with the necessary data to streamline workspaces, reduce costs, and improve the hybrid work experience for team members.Additionally, its data insights empower you to make smarter workplace decisions and optimize your entire office portfolio. With a cloud-based, hardware-free solution, your company can be up and running in just a week. Seamless integration with your favorite tools makes inspace the must-have solution for every modern office. | $3.5M / Seed / Mar 30, 2024 | |
Blockchain.com
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Blockchain.com is a developer of a digital assets platform that offers ways to buy, hold, and use cryptocurrency.It creates a financial system for the internet that empowers anyone in the world to control their money. Over 50+ million customers have signed up to use the Blockchain.com platform. It's a fast and easy way to buy Bitcoin, tradecrypto, send, receive, secure, and borrow digital currencies. The Blockchain.com explorer is one of the most trafficked websites in the world to find out what's happening in the crypto markets and the Blockchain.com exchange supports a fast trading experience. | $110M / Series E / Nov 14, 2023 | |
ThetaRay
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ThetaRay develops a transaction monitoring platform to identify signs of money laundering. Its AI-based anti-money-laundering (AML) platform automatically scans and identifies illicit transaction activity at banks and other financial institutions. It also utilizes algorithms for advanced cybersecurity and operational efficiency. Its platformanalyzes large volumes of cross-border payments and complex transaction patterns to uncover hidden risks, improving compliance and reducing false positives. | $57M / Series D / Sep 05, 2023 | |
Mynd
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Mynd is a customer-first, tech-enabled property management firm focused on the rental sector. The company focuses on managing single-family rental properties and offers a range of solutions to help clients efficiently handle their real estate investments.Mynd's services typically include property marketing, tenant screening, rent collection,property maintenance, and accounting. They aim to streamline the property management process, alleviate the burdens of day-to-day management for property owners, and maximize the potential returns on their investments. The company uses technology and data analytics to enhance property performance, guarantee timely client communication, and offer insightful information that helps property owners make wise decisions. Landlords can receive financial reports, real-time information about their properties, and contact Mynd's property management team via their digital platforms and tools. | $30M / Jul 20, 2023 | |
Rookout
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Code doesn’t always behave as you expect it to and your team is wasting too much time to understand why. Rookout provides secure, fast, and simple data access, no matter what architecture or where the code is running. By providing the developer with instant, laser-focused data, developer teams can understand their code and see an increase inproductivity, velocity, and efficiency. | $16.2M / Series B / Aug 23, 2022 | |
Deci AI
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Deci enables deep learning to live up to its true potential by using AI to build better AI. With the company’s end-to-end deep learning acceleration platform, AI developers can build, optimize, and deploy faster and more accurate models for any environment, including cloud, edge or mobile. With Deci’s platform, developers can increase deeplearning model inference performance by 3x-15x, on any hardware, while still preserving accuracy. This translates directly into new use cases on limited hardware, substantially shorter development cycles, and reduced compute costs by up to 80%. The platform is powered by Deci’s Automated Neural Architecture Construction (AutoNAC) technology, an algorithmic optimization engine that squeezes maximum utilization out of any hardware. The AutoNAC engine contains a Neural Architecture Search (NAS) component that redesigns a given trained model’s architecture to optimally improve its inference performance (throughput, latency, memory, etc.) for specific target hardware while preserving its baseline accuracy. Deci achieved a record-breaking 11.8x accelerated inference speedup on Intel CPUs at MLPerf Industry Benchmark and has been named to the CBInsights top 100 AI companies. Led by a team of world-class deep learning experts, Deci lets AI developers focus on what they do best - creating innovative AI-based solutions for our world’s most complex problems. | $25M / Series B / Jul 13, 2022 | |
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Blockchain.com
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Blockchain.com is a developer of a digital assets platform that offers ways to buy, hold, and use cryptocurrency.It creates a financial system for the internet that empowers anyone in the world to control their money. Over 50+ million customers have signed up to use the Blockchain.com platform. It's a fast and easy way to buy Bitcoin, tradecrypto, send, receive, secure, and borrow digital currencies. The Blockchain.com explorer is one of the most trafficked websites in the world to find out what's happening in the crypto markets and the Blockchain.com exchange supports a fast trading experience. | Series D / Mar 30, 2022 | |
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FAQ
What does R136 Ventures invest in?
R136 Ventures invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and FinTech startups, most often at Series C and Seed stage. Most of the 25 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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Who are the partners at R136 Ventures?
The team at R136 Ventures includes Denis Efremov (Principal), Ratan Manehani (Partner) and Rubinov Ivan (Senior Associate), among 6 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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