Stanislav Ivanov
Founding Partner @ Tera Ventures
Tallinn, Estonia
Stanislav Ivanov is a founding partner at Tera Ventures and currently sits on the board of Cleveron, Monese, Jobbatical, Thinnect, Scoro and Brainbase. Stanislav has been investing in technology startups for more than 8 years and his track record includes some of the most remarkable high-tech companies that came out of Estonia. He is also a mentorat various incubators and accelerators. Prior to founding Tera Ventures, he was with IBM for 7 years and has a background from telecom and information technology industries, having led teams involved in innovative projects such as bringing early mobile services to the market in late 1990s.
- Total investments:
- 9
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 78%
Last updated:
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Industries Stanislav Ivanov invests in
Stages Stanislav Ivanov invests in
Countries Stanislav Ivanov invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 3 (33%)
- FinTech 2 (22%)
- Finance 2 (22%)
- Cyber Security 2 (22%)
- Artificial Intelligence 2 (22%)
Stage
- Seed 5 (56%)
- Pre-Seed 1 (11%)
- Series A 1 (11%)
- Series B 1 (11%)
- Funding Round 1 (11%)
Country
- Czech Republic 2 (22%)
- Poland 1 (11%)
- Estonia 1 (11%)
- Lithuania 1 (11%)
- United States 1 (11%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Blackwall is an AI-enabled security and web infrastructure company focused on protecting web ecosystems from automated threats. Specializing in bot mitigation and web security, Blackwall provides solutions for hosting service providers (HSPs), managed service providers (MSPs), and eCommerce platforms. By securing these providers, Blackwallsafeguards thousands to hundreds of thousands of websites, indirectly protecting the small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) that rely on these services for their online presence. | $48.8M / Series B / Mar 13, 2025 | ||
| Blackwall is an AI-enabled security and web infrastructure company focused on protecting web ecosystems from automated threats. Specializing in bot mitigation and web security, Blackwall provides solutions for hosting service providers (HSPs), managed service providers (MSPs), and eCommerce platforms. By securing these providers, Blackwallsafeguards thousands to hundreds of thousands of websites, indirectly protecting the small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) that rely on these services for their online presence. | $13.1M / Series A / Mar 13, 2024 | ||
| DeRISK brings sophisticated data, risk modeling, and hedging practices to corporations and enterprises of any size. It integrates company data, and financial and business analytics to create state-of-the-art hedging solutions that increase transparency, and accountability, and save time and money. They offer an unmatched combination of skillsetessential for modern finance and treasury functions. | $1.1M / Pre-Seed / Dec 19, 2023 | ||
| 4Trans provides the fastest financing solution in the market to underserved businesses in logistics. As the leader in inclusive SME finance in CEE, 4Trans empowers the potential of small businesses and allows their owners to focus on leading a growing business. | $3.1M / Seed / Jun 29, 2022 | ||
| Secfense User Access Security Broker is a network traffic broker that learns the traffic patterns related to authentication and builds an additional security layer between users and their applications.Secfense broker is not a 2FA method. Secfense broker is a tool that enables a quick & easy setup of any 2FA method or authentication standardavailable on the market and introduces it without interfering with applications existing code or database.Without Secfense broker, the 2FA integration often requires changes in the apps' code and then manual check, which can take forever when there are hundreds of apps to protect.Secfense broker streamlines the process by taking over the traffic. The broker knows to which app the user wants to log in, and it asks the user to apply the 2FA method that was chosen for this specific app. Thanks to the Secfense broker the 2FA implementation process is quick & painless across the entire organization. Our customers can also easily switch to any other 2FA method available on the market connecting it with any application or device they need. | $2M / Seed / Mar 24, 2022 | ||
| The future of APIs is true machine-to-machine communication. Autonomous APIs, decoupled components and self-driving clients are the foundation for voice interfaces and artificial intelligence. Superface uses super interface components that enable plug-and-play usage of data and services provided by companies using their API. | $3M / Seed / Jan 01, 2022 | ||
| Blackwall is an AI-enabled security and web infrastructure company focused on protecting web ecosystems from automated threats. Specializing in bot mitigation and web security, Blackwall provides solutions for hosting service providers (HSPs), managed service providers (MSPs), and eCommerce platforms. By securing these providers, Blackwallsafeguards thousands to hundreds of thousands of websites, indirectly protecting the small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) that rely on these services for their online presence. | $587.2K / Seed / Oct 13, 2020 | ||
| Brainbase helps teams optimize their partnerships from contract to revenue. | $1M / Seed / Feb 19, 2019 | ||
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Co-Investors
About Tera Ventures
Tera Ventures is an Estonian venture capital firm investing in early stage born-global digital startups. Our goal is to discover world class founders tackling big problems and support them on the way to become the industry leaders. Estonia is our home market, we also invest in Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and Czech Republic. AI powered innovations, an area we have been actively investing in for over 15 years, is at the core of investment focus across both pure Enterprise SaaS as well as Robotics/Deeptech applications. With a cross industry remit, FinTech and Security remain priority sectors for Tera, even more so today than in case of our first fund. We are hands-on and founder-friendly, we lead rounds, our goal is also to support portfolio companies across the early rounds with our follow-on investments. Over the years, Tera team has had considerable success in assisting portfolio companies’ entry, facilitating collaboration with international corporations, and raising additional capital from top-tier VCs in the US, the UK and Japan. We are supported by a global advisory network also providing portfolio companies with access to expertise. We are industry agnostic, we do have preferences based on what we have learned from our portfolio companies – eg we like Fintech, automation. We also develop themes – eg we have invested in AI/ML for more than ten years. We are hands-on and founder-friendly, our goal is also to support portfolio companies across the early rounds with our follow-on investments. Over more than a decade, Tera team has had considerable success in assisting portfolio companies’ entry to the US, the UK and Japan, facilitating collaboration with international corporations, and raising additional capital from top-tier VCs. We are supported by a global advisory network also providing portfolio companies with access to expertise.
Tera Ventures Contacts
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Stanislav Ivanov
Founding Partner
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Andrus Oks
Founding Partner
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David Clark
Platform Partner
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Eamonn Carey
General Partner
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Helis Lipping
Operations and Communications
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What does Stanislav Ivanov invest in?
Stanislav Ivanov invests primarily in Software, FinTech and Finance startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 9 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Czech Republic. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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The most recent investment recorded for Stanislav Ivanov closed in Mar 2025. Shizune tracks 9 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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