Raison
VC Fund
Tallinn, Estonia
Raison is a VC fund in Tallinn focused on Software and Music. RAISON app solves the issue of unmet demand for next-generation financial products. Our platform aims to democratize the investment process by offering lower barriers to entry for clients with deferent capital levels. Our team has developed a fully compliant legal structure for tokenisation of large-cap private companies shares. Currently, ourusers can purchase a token tied to economic interest in Robinhood with entry ticket as low as 100 EUR. The portfolio of offered companies is going to expand in the foreseeable future with Udemy, Revolut, Coursera, Klenty, Kraken and more.
- Total investments:
- 16
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 0%
Last updated:
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Industries Raison invests in
Stages Raison invests in
Countries Raison invests in
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 2 (13%)
- Music 1 (6%)
- Video 1 (6%)
- Sports 1 (6%)
- Fitness 1 (6%)
Stage
- Secondary Market 3 (19%)
- Series G 1 (6%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Alexander Zaytsev
CEO, Board Member, Global Head of Corporate Strategy
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CEO, Board Member, Global Head of Corporate Strategy | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Andrey Berezin
Board Member, Global Head of Investment Strategies
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Board Member, Global Head of Investment Strategies | Total investments: 0 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
PickMyBrain
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PickMyBrain.com is an AI-powered Library of People's Knowledge that functions like a search engine. All the answers are sourced from the videos recorded by real people directly on the PickMyBrain platform or their external materials, like YouTube interviews, articles or books. Every member can build personal AI, personalize communicationstyle, monetize access to AI or to 1:1 personal questions to real people behind these AI's. | $2.1M / Pre-Seed / Apr 01, 2026 | |
WHOOP
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WHOOP is the performance optimization system that tracks recovery, training, and sleeping hours thus helping elite athletes and teams win.The company provides athletes, coaches, and trainers with a continuous understanding of strain and recovery to balance training, reduce injuries, and predict performance. It creates a product that makesindividuals and teams perform at a higher level through a deeper understanding of their bodies and daily lives. The WHOOP Strap 3.0 collects physiological data 24/7 to provide an accurate and granular understanding of the body. Aurelian Nicolae, John Capodilupo, and Will Ahmed established WHOOP in 2012 and in Boston, Massachusetts. | $575M / Series G / Mar 31, 2026 | |
Cohesity
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Cohesity is a data management technology company that provides hyper-converged secondary storage solutions for backups, file services, and analytics. With the Cohesity Data Cloud, organizations can secure, manage, and recover data at an enterprise scale while gaining insights through AI capabilities. | $5M / Venture - Series Unknown / Apr 29, 2025 | |
Lambda
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Lambda provides GPU-powered hardware, cloud, and software solutions tailored for AI model development, training, fine-tuning, inference, and deployment. Its offerings include on-demand GPU cloud instances and multi-node clusters, desktop and server workstations equipped with NVIDIA GPUs, a curated software stack for seamless integration of MLtools, and consulting services that help build scalable ML infrastructure and workflows. | $480M / Series D / Feb 19, 2025 | |
Cohere
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Cohere develops artificial intelligence solutions for enterprises, focusing on natural language processing and large language model deployments. The company offers API-based access to models that support tasks such as summarization, search, classification, and content generation. It enables organizations to integrate these models into internalsystems across regulated industries, including finance and healthcare. Cohere provides infrastructure that is cloud-agnostic and can be deployed on-premise or across public clouds. It also supports retrieval-augmented generation and offers tooling designed to align models with enterprise data and compliance needs. In addition to its core technology, | $1.2M / Venture - Series Unknown / Nov 22, 2024 | |
Groq
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Groq is a technology company that designs and provides specialized artificial intelligence compute solutions focused on accelerating AI inference workloads using its custom-built Language Processing Unit (LPU) hardware and associated software stack. The company’s core products include purpose-designed silicon and cloud-accessible platforms thatsupport real-time execution of large language models and other AI tasks with low latency and high throughput, enabling developers and enterprises to integrate AI services into production environments efficiently. Groq also delivers cloud-based services that allow customers to access inference capabilities via APIs compatible with popular development tools, supporting seamless integration into existing AI workflows. Its engineering efforts emphasise deterministic performance and streamlined deployment, targeting use cases where speed and cost predictability are critical. Groq engages with partners and customers across sectors that require rapid AI inferencing, and the company’s technology has attracted significant strategic interest and investment within the broader AI infrastructure ecosystem. | $640M / Series D / Aug 05, 2024 | |
Bolt
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Bolt is a transportation platform providing ride-hailing, micromobility, and food delivery services. It is one of the fastest-growing startups in the world with over 75M happy customers in 45+ countries, from Europe to Latam to Africa. It is building the future of logistics – one platform that connects with cars, motorcycles, scooter sharing, orfood delivery from restaurants.It believes in a future with less car ownership and flexible urban mobility. By bringing reliable on-demand transport to the masses, it helps cities evolve towards decreased traffic congestion and pollution.Bolt was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Tallinn, Estonia. | Venture - Series Unknown / Oct 18, 2023 | |
Scale
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Scale accelerates the development of AI applications by helping machine learning teams generate high-quality ground truth data. Our advanced LiDAR, video, and image annotation APIs allow self-driving, drone, and robotics teams at companies like Lyft, OpenAI, Zoox, Pinterest, and Airbnb focus on building differentiated models vs. labeling data. | Secondary Market / Sep 11, 2023 | |
Mercury
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Mercury Technologies is a technology-enabled company that provides banking services to small and medium-sized businesses. The company services provide bank accounts designed specifically for startups, combining FDIC-insured checking and savings accounts with tech tools. Immad Akhund, Max Tagher, and Jason Zhang founded the company. | Venture - Series Unknown / Aug 08, 2022 | |
Patreon
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Patreon is a membership platform that makes it easy for artists and creators to get paid. It operates a platform that enables content creators, as well as artists, to be able to fund their work. It's Patreon.com, a communications platform, enables connection between users and makes various accessible content, including videos, photographs,images, artwork, graphics, audio clips, comments, data, text, software, scripts, projects, other material and information, and associated trademarks and copyrightable works.Patrons pledge to support artists and creators on a recurring basis for each work created, empowering a new generation of creators the ability to make a living off of their passions. | Secondary Market / Jan 25, 2022 | |
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What does Raison invest in?
Raison invests primarily in Software, Music and Video startups, most often at Secondary Market and Series G stage. Most of the 16 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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