# Stanislav Ivanov

> Stanislav Ivanov is a seed investor at Tera Ventures (Tallinn) backing Software and FinTech. See 9 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Tera Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tera-ventures)
- Location: Tallinn, Estonia
- Total investments: 9
- Last investment: Mar 2025
- Lead investor: 78%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stasivanov

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.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 3 | 33% |
| FinTech | 2 | 22% |
| Finance | 2 | 22% |
| Information Technology | 2 | 22% |
| Analytics | 1 | 11% |

12 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 5 | 56% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 11% |
| Series A | 1 | 11% |
| Series B | 1 | 11% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 11% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Czech Republic | 2 | 22% |
| Poland | 1 | 11% |
| Estonia | 1 | 11% |
| Lithuania | 1 | 11% |
| United States | 1 | 11% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| BlackWall | BotGuard provides a service to protect your website against malicious bots, crawlers, scrapers, and hacker attacks. | $48.8M | Series B | Mar 13, 2025 |  |
| BlackWall | BotGuard provides a service to protect your website against malicious bots, crawlers, scrapers, and hacker attacks. | $13.1M | Series A | Mar 13, 2024 |  |
| DeRISK Business Solutions | 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 |  |
| Malcom Finance | 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 | 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 |  | Mar 24, 2022 |  |
| Secfense | 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 |  |
| Superface | 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 | BotGuard provides a service to protect your website against malicious bots, crawlers, scrapers, and hacker attacks. | $531K | Seed | Oct 13, 2020 |  |
| Brainbase | Brainbase helps teams optimize their partnerships from contract to revenue. |  | Seed |  |  |

9 of 9 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Expeditions](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/expeditions-fund) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [RKKVC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rkkvc) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Dawn Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dawn-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [MMC Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mmc-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Presto Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/presto-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [42CAP](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/42cap) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Tera Ventures

VC Fund · Tallinn, Estonia

Tera Ventures is an international investment firm based in Estonia.

5 contacts available at Tera Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Stanislav Ivanov | Founding Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/stanislav-ivanov |
| Andrus Oks | Founding Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andrus-oks |
| David Clark | Platform Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/david-clark-c88c |
| Eamonn Carey | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/eamonn-carey |
| Helis Lipping | Operations and Communications | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/helis-lipping |

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## FAQ

### 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.

### When did Stanislav Ivanov last invest?

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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