# Ukrainian Startup Fund

> Ukrainian Startup Fund is a VC fund backing Software. See 233 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Kyiv, Ukraine
- Total investments: 233
- Last investment: Aug 2025
- Lead investor: 83%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/ukrainian-startup-fund/
- Website: https://usf.com.ua/en/#usf-sc-2
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ukrainianstartupfund/

Ukrainian Startup Fund is a VC fund in Kyiv focused on Software and Information Technology. USF originally set up to promote the development of the local startup ecosystem and today is the largest local angel investor with already 130 funded startups and the most extensive startups database and stakeholders (over 3,000 applications).

## Contacts

5 contacts available for Ukrainian Startup Fund. Shizune tracks 1 team members at Ukrainian Startup Fund. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/ukrainian-startup-fund?utm_source=investor_profile

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $50k–$50k |
| Grant | $25k–$50k |
| Pre-Seed | $25k–$50k |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 53 | 23% |
| Information Technology | 35 | 15% |
| Health Care | 30 | 13% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 29 | 12% |
| SaaS | 22 | 9% |

235 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Grant | 163 | 70% |
| Pre-Seed | 33 | 14% |
| Seed | 27 | 12% |
| Non-equity Assistance | 2 | 1% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Ukraine | 110 | 47% |
| United States | 44 | 19% |
| United Kingdom | 9 | 4% |
| Estonia | 5 | 2% |
| Finland | 3 | 1% |

16 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Pavlo Kartashov | Director | 12 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pavlo-kartashov |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Dots Platform | Dots Platform - is the all-in-one ordering and delivery SaaS for hyperlocal commerce | $50K | Grant | Aug 19, 2025 |  |
| SYLA | SYLA is a bionic knee prosthesis that combines modern technology, machine learning, and artificial intelligence to adapt to different walking ways and ensure natural movements. | $25K | Grant | Aug 19, 2025 |  |
| LeadForceTalent | First AI Top and Middle Management Recruitment Platform delivering candidates 10X fasterIt take 100 hours to find, check and interview a top management candidate. It’s 10X comparing to average specialist. No top-manager - the business is not growing and losing owner’s money.LeaForceTalent gives access to 25M database of C-level candidates,automatically interviews, checks skills with AI based on Blockchain and get hundreds of replies from candidates with one click. | $50K | Grant | Aug 19, 2025 |  |
| Josti | Josti is a proptech platform that allows users to rent homes for one to twelve months without paying real estate fees. | $50K | Grant | Aug 19, 2025 |  |
| Romtos | Romtos is a career path portal that connects IT firms, students, and freelancers. | $25K | Grant | Aug 19, 2025 |  |
| Cerco.AI | Cerco.AI analyzes millions of enterprise data points to provide real-time insights for effective decision-making. | $50K | Grant | Aug 19, 2025 |  |
| JobAtlas | Career planning platform that helps young people find their forever occupation | $25K | Grant | Aug 19, 2025 |  |
| Uspacy | Entrepreneurs who already understand the need to manage company processes can find many tools to help them with it. But the problem is that people don't really want to use many different products — they want to use all tools in one product.Uspacy is an online service, a single digital workspace for organizing the daily processes of small andmedium-sized companies, which are modern communication in a team, people operations, collaboration, tasks, business processes and CRM. | $198.1K | Grant | Aug 14, 2025 |  |
| Uwell | Uwell is a healthcare center that offers medical and online consulting services. | $25K | Grant | Apr 17, 2025 |  |
| CRAFTRUDER | CRAFTRUDER is a 3D concrete printing technology enterprise. | $50K | Grant | Apr 17, 2025 |  |

10 of 233 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Ukraine-Moldova American Enterprise Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ukraine-moldova-american-enterprise-fund) — VC Fund, 21 deals together
- [Uklon](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/uklon) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Campus](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/campus-a-google-space) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Glovo Ukraine Startup Lab](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/glovo-ukraine-startup-lab) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Google for Startups](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/google-for-entrepreneurs) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Amazon](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/amazon) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Ukrainian Startup Fund invest in?

Ukrainian Startup Fund invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and Health Care startups, most often at Grant and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 233 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Ukraine. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Ukrainian Startup Fund's check size?

Ukrainian Startup Fund typically joins rounds of $50k–$50k at Seed, $25k–$50k at Grant and $25k–$50k 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 Ukrainian Startup Fund participates in.

### How do I contact Ukrainian Startup Fund?

Public channels for Ukrainian Startup Fund include LinkedIn, the website linked on this profile and Facebook. 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 Ukrainian Startup Fund?

The team at Ukrainian Startup Fund includes Pavlo Kartashov (Director). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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 Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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