# SMRK VC Fund

> SMRK VC Fund is a VC fund backing Software and Artificial Intelligence. See 41 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Kiev, Ukraine
- Total investments: 41
- Last investment: Feb 2026
- Lead investor: 63%
- Fund size: $10M
- Last fund: Nov 2013
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- Website: http://www.smrk.vc

SMRK VC Fund is an investment firm that funds seed and early stage companies. Their projects are Allset, Preply, Competera and AJAX Systems. SMRK is a Ukraine-based company that was founded in 2013 by Oleksandr Kosovan and Andriy Dovzhenko.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $200k–$2.4M |
| Pre-Seed | $500k–$2M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 8 | 20% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 6 | 15% |
| E-Commerce | 5 | 12% |
| Information Technology | 5 | 12% |
| B2B | 3 | 7% |

69 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 18 | 44% |
| Pre-Seed | 4 | 10% |
| Funding Round | 3 | 7% |
| Series A | 1 | 2% |
| Series B | 1 | 2% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 11 | 27% |
| Ukraine | 7 | 17% |
| Finland | 1 | 2% |
| Germany | 1 | 2% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Andriy Dovzhenko | Managing Partner | 8 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andriy-dovzhenko-2 |
| Oleksandr Kosovan | Partner | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/oleksandr-kosovan |
| Vlad Tislenko | Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/vlad-tislenko |
| Vlad Tislenko | Partner | 4 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/vlad-tislenko-be1c |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Principle | Principle is built by OpenBabylon, an AI research lab focused on making strategic foresight accessible to every organization | $2M | Pre-Seed | Feb 02, 2026 |  |
| Turnkey Lender | Turnkey Lender provides a cloud-based, AI-powered lending automation platform that enables lenders to digitize the loan lifecycle. The company offers AI-powered end-to-end lending automation for digital and embedded lenders. Its solution delivers decisioning, origination, servicing, collections, and compliance in one unified system, helpingfinancial institutions and fintechs scale efficiently while staying compliant. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Aug 28, 2025 |  |
| Osavul | AI-based software to protect from information threats | $3M | Seed | Sep 12, 2024 |  |
| Ability.ai | Ability.ai creates autonomous AI Agents to automate digital marketing activities | $1.1M | Pre-Seed | Jun 24, 2024 |  |
| Mobility Partners | Neo Revenue Engine providing plug-and-play API solutions for cross-industry marketplaces. Merging MaaS + BaaS | $500K | Pre-Seed | Jan 29, 2024 |  |
| Competera | Competera transforms how retailers approach pricing. By replacing linear, complex, and overengineered pricing processes and making customer behavior insights available for the pricing process, we enable businesses to understand purchasing behavior at a granular level, identifying preferences and trends; optimize pricing strategies for each productcategory, channel, and region; make data-driven decisions that drive sales, improve customer satisfaction, and increase profitability.Our solutions deliver tailored pricing recommendations that account for customer preferences, competitive dynamics, and market trends. This empowers retailers to increase sales and revenue by offering the right products at the right prices; enhance customer loyalty by enabling retailers to offer the most competitive prices across all their products while maintaining strong bottom-line metrics; optimize inventory management through precise demand forecasting and dynamic repricing; reduce operational costs through efficient pricing processes. | $3M |  | Jan 29, 2024 |  |
| Osavul | AI-based software to protect from information threats | $1M | Seed | May 03, 2023 |  |
| Prengi | Prengi builds an extensive facility management platform with thorough reporting that keeps track of all maintenance procedures for shopping malls and retail chains. | $500K | Seed | Apr 11, 2023 |  |
| Aspichi | Aspichi is developing platform to provide audio/visual teleportation services based on 360 video and VR technologies. | $500K | Seed | Mar 16, 2023 |  |
| Aspichi | Aspichi is developing platform to provide audio/visual teleportation services based on 360 video and VR technologies. | $680K | Pre-Seed | Mar 16, 2023 |  |

10 of 41 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Andreessen Horowitz](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andreessen-horowitz) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [AltaIR Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/altair) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [FJ Labs](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fj-labs) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Greycroft](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/greycroft) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Compound](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/metamorphic-ventures-llc) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [u.ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/u-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does SMRK VC Fund invest in?

SMRK VC Fund invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and E-Commerce startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 41 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is SMRK VC Fund's check size?

SMRK VC Fund typically joins rounds of $200k–$2.4M at Seed and $500k–$2M at Pre-Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds SMRK VC Fund participates in.

### How do I contact SMRK VC Fund?

Public channels for SMRK VC Fund include the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at SMRK VC Fund?

The team at SMRK VC Fund includes Andriy Dovzhenko (Managing Partner), Oleksandr Kosovan (Partner) and Vlad Tislenko (Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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