Social Discovery Group
VC Fund
New York, United States
Social Discovery Group is a VC fund in New York focused on Apps and Internet. SDVentures is an international umbrella brand for Social Discovery group of technology and software engineering companies which provide platforms for social discovery, personal development, and online entertainment. It invests into, develop and support a range of B2C internet projects and brands under the framework of social discovery. Its brandscreate an environment where people from various parts of the globe can meet each other, help each other, communicate, share, and have fun. Those brands are designed to transcend distance. Its brands include services for online dating, the finding of travel companions, social games, language learning and practicing communities, etc.The company's offices are located in New York (United States), Hong Kong (China), Minsk (Belarus), Riga (Latvia) and Moscow (Russia).The headquarters is in Malta.
- Total investments:
- 41
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 22%
Last updated:
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Industries Social Discovery Group invests in
Stages Social Discovery Group invests in
Countries Social Discovery Group invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
| See all 6 contacts → | |||
Round size
- Seed
- $1.1M–$4M
- Series A
- $3.5M–$15M
- Venture - Series Unknown
- $500k–$3M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Apps 8 (20%)
- Internet 7 (17%)
- Mobile 6 (15%)
- Social Media 6 (15%)
- Dating 5 (12%)
Stage
- Series A 11 (27%)
- Seed 8 (20%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 8 (20%)
- Funding Round 4 (10%)
- Series C 3 (7%)
Country
- United States 15 (37%)
- United Kingdom 3 (7%)
- China 1 (2%)
- India 1 (2%)
- Malta 1 (2%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Dmitry Borisovich Volkov
Co-founder, Chief Executive Officer
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Co-founder, Chief Executive Officer | Total investments: 4 | Find email | |
Ivan Pakhorukov
Investment Director
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Investment Director | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Vlad Poshmorga
Chief Investment Officer
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Chief Investment Officer | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Alexander Lis
Investment Vice President
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Investment Vice President | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Alexey Pleshakov
Special Advisor to CEO
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Special Advisor to CEO | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
| See all 6 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| My NFT Wars is a Play-Create-Own-based massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG). It uses tokenomics and NFT character development to reward players and is built on a Play-Create-Own concept. | $2M / Series A / Feb 03, 2023 | ||
| Queer Spaces is building SPACES, a group chat platform for queer communities, and an app to serve the entirety of the LGBTQ+ spectrum. It’s a place for all queer people to connect over their favourite topics and interests, plan meetups and hang out. They can discover and join specific communities, fandoms, local teams and organizations, and closefriends, some public and others invite-only, all on a platform where they can safely be their true, authentic selves. | Seed / Jan 24, 2023 | ||
| Zhonghui Laser is an emerging technology company dedicated to the development and manufacture of advanced lasers. | Series A / May 08, 2022 | ||
| Woebot Health has created relational technologies that underpin a new generation of digital therapeutics and tools for mental health. The company’s proprietary relational agent, Woebot, is capable of quickly forming a bond with users and delivering human-like therapeutic encounters that are psychologically related, responsive to a person’s dynamicstate of health, and targeted using multidisciplinary tools. Woebot is at the heart of the company’s AI-powered platform and the foundation for digital therapeutics and tools that seamlessly integrate within health ecosystems and solve for gaps along the health care journey. The company is headquartered in San Francisco and is funded in part by venture capital firms New Enterprise Associates (NEA), Jazz Venture Partners L.P., Temasek, Owl Ventures, and BlackRock Private Equity Partners with participation from Andrew Ng’s AI Fund. | $1M / Venture - Series Unknown / Dec 29, 2020 | ||
| Fable Studio aims to create and nurture characters with style and approachability. Fable creator-driven teams remain nimble enough to take necessary risks and explore more than we could in a traditional pipeline. | Venture - Series Unknown / Mar 20, 2020 | ||
| S'More Date they provide daters with a totally interactive way to learn more about a person before evaluating them on appearance. | $1.1M / Seed / Nov 27, 2019 | ||
| Grabr is a global community marketplace that allows people to get unique or hard-to-find items from around the world by connecting them with travelers headed their way. Grabr is the safe, fast and friendly way to get anything from anywhere in the world and earn money on the road. | $1M / Jun 19, 2019 | ||
| Flo Health is a developer of Flo, a fast-growing AI-driven women’s health product that supports girls and women at every stage of their reproductive cycle (start of menstruation, cycle prediction, preparation for conception, pregnancy, early motherhood, and menopause).Flo prioritizes safety and keeps a sharp focus on being the most trusteddigital source for women's health information. It intensively uses Data Science and AI to deliver the most personalized content and services available. Flo is currently available in 20 languages on iOS and Android. 60% of users are located in the US and Europe.At the end of 2019, Flo became the most popular app in the Health&Fitness category on the AppStore. | $7.5M / Series A / May 08, 2019 | ||
| Flo Health develops a women’s health app that provides access to cycle tracking, health insights, and a private community. Flo supports women during their entire reproductive lives and provides curated cycle and ovulation tracking, personalized health insights, expert tips, and a fully closed community for women to share their questions andconcerns. Flo prioritizes safety and keeps a sharp focus on being the most trusted digital source for women's health information. The Flo Health app is available in more than 20 languages on iOS and Android. For more information, please visit https://flo.health. | $7.5M / Series A / May 08, 2019 | ||
| Flo Health is a developer of Flo, a fast-growing AI-driven women’s health product that supports girls and women at every stage of their reproductive cycle (start of menstruation, cycle prediction, preparation for conception, pregnancy, early motherhood, and menopause).Flo prioritizes safety and keeps a sharp focus on being the most trusteddigital source for women's health information. It intensively uses Data Science and AI to deliver the most personalized content and services available. Flo is currently available in 20 languages on iOS and Android. 60% of users are located in the US and Europe.At the end of 2019, Flo became the most popular app in the Health&Fitness category on the AppStore. | $12M / Series A / Oct 11, 2018 | ||
| See all 41 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Social Discovery Group invest in?
Social Discovery Group invests primarily in Apps, Internet and Mobile startups, most often at Series A and 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 round sizes does Social Discovery Group invest in?
Social Discovery Group typically joins rounds of $1.1M–$4M at Seed, $3.5M–$15M at Series A and $500k–$3M at Venture - Series Unknown. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Social Discovery Group's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Social Discovery Group took part in.
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Who are the partners at Social Discovery Group?
The team at Social Discovery Group includes Dmitry Borisovich Volkov (Co-founder, Chief Executive Officer), Ivan Pakhorukov (Investment Director) and Vlad Poshmorga (Chief Investment Officer), among 6 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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