# Victor Orlovski

> Victor Orlovski is a Series A investor at Fort Ross Ventures backing FinTech. See 19 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Fort Ross Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fortross-ventures)
- Location: Palo Alto, United States
- Total investments: 19
- Last investment: Mar 2022
- Lead investor: 21%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/victor-orlovski-45bb23a5/

Victor Orlovski is a Series A investor at Fort Ross Ventures in Palo Alto focused on FinTech and Financial Services. Victor Orlovski – has more then 20 years of experience in financial technology space. Started his career in ABN AMRO serving in different managerial positions in Uzbekistan, Russia and Head Quarters in Amsterdam. In 2001 Victor joined Alfa Bank (leading Russian financial institution) as the Chief Transformation Officer and was in charge of thelargest banking transformation project in Russia. It resulted in the state-of-the-art business model and technological solution and made Alfa Bank a leader in innovative banking and most efficient financial company in Russia and CIS.In 2007 Victor became a partner at IBM Global Business Services in charge of FI and Insurance practice in Russia and CIS. From 2008 to 2015 Victor continued his career in Sberbank. He started as Chief Technology Officer (2008-2013) and then as Chief Digital Officer (20014-15). Several times Victor was nominated as the best CIO of the year in Russia, Best CIO of the year in Europe (Oracle award), was selected among top 1000 most efficient managers in Russia (kommersant.ru). Victor was the member of supervisory boards of more than 10 Sberbank subsidiaries; he was a founder and chairman of Supervisory board of Sberbank Technology and Sberbank Services.Victor and his team accomplished one of the largest banking transformation projects in the world changing Sberbank from old-fashion inefficient traditional banking to the truly digital and mobile customer centric modern financial firm. Victor is a founder of number of startups in Fin Tech space, social networking, crowd funding and sharing economy. Starting august 2015 Victor is the general partner of the Venture fund (MT Ventures), he is an angel investor and entrepreneur.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FinTech | 5 | 26% |
| Financial Services | 5 | 26% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 5 | 26% |
| Software | 4 | 21% |
| SaaS | 3 | 16% |

57 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 4 | 21% |
| Series C | 4 | 21% |
| Series D | 4 | 21% |
| Series B | 3 | 16% |
| Seed | 1 | 5% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 10 | 53% |
| Israel | 2 | 11% |
| Canada | 1 | 5% |
| Finland | 1 | 5% |
| Hong Kong | 1 | 5% |

7 countries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Blockchain.com | Blockchain.com is a developer of a digital assets platform that offers ways to buy, hold, and use cryptocurrency.It creates a financial system for the internet that empowers anyone in the world to control their money. Over 50+ million customers have signed up to use the Blockchain.com platform. It's a fast and easy way to buy Bitcoin, tradecrypto, send, receive, secure, and borrow digital currencies. The Blockchain.com explorer is one of the most trafficked websites in the world to find out what's happening in the crypto markets and the Blockchain.com exchange supports a fast trading experience. |  | Series D | Mar 30, 2022 |  |
| Fura | Fura develops innovative solutions for the logistics market. | $5.5M | Seed | Dec 10, 2021 |  |
| Rescale | Rescale is a cloud simulation platform that enables research scientists and engineers to build, compute, analyze, and scale simulations.The high-performance computing cloud platform delivers intelligent computing for digital R&D and enables more than 300 customers from startups to Fortune 50 enterprises to accelerate design cycles and time tomarket. Rescale gives research scientists and engineers the ability to run their simulation and artificial intelligence workloads on the cloud provider of their choice, using specialized hardware architectures and software templates optimized for their use cases, without any set-up or maintenance. Investors such as Initialized Capital, Keen Venture Partners, SineWave Ventures, Data Collective, ITV Ventures, Jump Capital, and M12 (formerly Microsoft Ventures), as well as Mitsubishi UFJ Capital, Quiet Capital, Streamlined Ventures, Translink Capital, Two Roads Group, Y Combinator, Hitachi Ventures, Nautilus Venture Partners, NVIDIA, Republic Labs, and Samsung Catalyst Fund backs Rescale.In 2011, Joris Poort and Adam McKenzie headquartered the company in San Francisco, California. | $55M | Series C | Nov 23, 2021 |  |
| Blueshift | San Francisco based Blueshift helps brands deliver relevant, connected experiences across every customer interaction. It’s SmartHub CDP uses patented AI technology to unify, inform, and activate the fullness of customer data across all channels and applications. Through unified data, omnichannel orchestration, intelligent decisioning, and unmatchedscale, Blueshift gives brands all the tools to seamlessly deliver 1:1 experiences in real-time across the entire customer journey.Leading consumer brands such as LendingTree, Udacity, Discovery, PayPal, Groupon, and the BBC use Blueshift to drive continued revenue growth through elevated customer engagement. | $30M | Series C | Feb 24, 2021 |  |
| Standard Cognition | Standard Cognition is an artificial intelligence platform that allows buyers to grab what they want without having to go to a cashier. It empowers consumers to shop and pay without waiting in line, scanning or stopping to check out. Available to any retailer, the solution helps reduce labor costs, improve the customer experience, and improve profitmargins. It also helps small-size retailers to compete with larger chains and online offerings.Standard Cognition was founded in 2017 and is based in San Francisco, California. | $150M | Series C | Feb 17, 2021 |  |
| Rescale | Rescale is a cloud simulation platform that enables research scientists and engineers to build, compute, analyze, and scale simulations.The high-performance computing cloud platform delivers intelligent computing for digital R&D and enables more than 300 customers from startups to Fortune 50 enterprises to accelerate design cycles and time tomarket. Rescale gives research scientists and engineers the ability to run their simulation and artificial intelligence workloads on the cloud provider of their choice, using specialized hardware architectures and software templates optimized for their use cases, without any set-up or maintenance. Investors such as Initialized Capital, Keen Venture Partners, SineWave Ventures, Data Collective, ITV Ventures, Jump Capital, and M12 (formerly Microsoft Ventures), as well as Mitsubishi UFJ Capital, Quiet Capital, Streamlined Ventures, Translink Capital, Two Roads Group, Y Combinator, Hitachi Ventures, Nautilus Venture Partners, NVIDIA, Republic Labs, and Samsung Catalyst Fund backs Rescale.In 2011, Joris Poort and Adam McKenzie headquartered the company in San Francisco, California. | $50M | Series C | Feb 02, 2021 |  |
| Dynamic Yield | Dynamic Yield helps companies quickly deliver and test personalized, optimized, and synchronized digital customer interactions. Marketing, Product, Development, and eCommerce teams from more than 350 global brands are using Dynamic Yield’s Experience Optimization platform as the technology layer on top of existing CMS or Commerce solutions, toiterate faster and algorithmically match content, products, and offers to each individual for the acceleration of long-term business value. | $38M | Series D | Nov 02, 2018 |  |
| Spark Neuro | SPARK Neuro is a neuroscience company that revolutionizes the of audience engagement in advertising and entertainment. Instead of relying on traditional, biased research methods, SPARK Neuro goes right to the source, measuring brain and nervous system activity. SPARK Neuro quantifies attention and emotional levels with second-by-second precision.Founded in 2016, SPARK’s research is trusted by major brands including GM, Clorox, Toyota, Procter & Gamble, NBC, Universal Pictures, Telemundo, and Netflix. | $13.5M | Series A | Aug 08, 2018 |  |
| ThetaRay | ThetaRay develops a transaction monitoring platform to identify signs of money laundering. Its AI-based anti-money-laundering (AML) platform automatically scans and identifies illicit transaction activity at banks and other financial institutions. It also utilizes algorithms for advanced cybersecurity and operational efficiency. Its platformanalyzes large volumes of cross-border payments and complex transaction patterns to uncover hidden risks, improving compliance and reducing false positives. | $30M | Series B | Jul 02, 2018 |  |
| Peek | Peek is an AI-enabled platform that supports online booking, payment processing, dynamic pricing, and guest management, while automating scheduling, waivers, communication, and analytics. With a marketplace at Peek.com, it offers travelers access to tens of thousands of curated experiences—everything from immersive exhibits and city tours toclasses and adventures. Through recent acquisitions of ACME Ticketing and Connect&GO, Peek now extends its infrastructure to include membership, donations, RFID-based visitor tracking, and on-site operations. Its clients include major institutions like MoMA, the Whitney Museum, Seattle Aquarium, Bryant Park, Looping Group, and Museum of Ice Cream. | $23M | Series B | Jun 19, 2018 |  |

10 of 19 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [R136 Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/r136-ventures) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Davidovs Venture Collective](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/davidovs-vc) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Hitachi Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hitachi-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Initialized Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/initialized-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [M12 - Microsoft's Venture Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/m12) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [M12 - Microsoft's Venture Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/microsoftventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Fort Ross Ventures

VC Fund · Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands

FortRoss Ventures, formerly MoneyTime Ventures, invests in early stage startups with the proven product, technology and go-to-market in the beginning of their international expansion and exponential revenue growth. The firm provides not only capital but give an access to the largest financial institution in CEE (infrastructure, customer base,go-to-market) through establishing the long term partnership (commercial contracts, JVs, other instruments) between the startup and anchor LPs.

5 contacts available at Fort Ross Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Abramov Egor | Principal | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/abramov-egor |
| Denis Efremov | Principal | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/denis-efremov |
| Kasanyuk Yulia | General Counsel | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kasanyuk-yulia |
| Sharin Fisher | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sharin-fisher |
| Victor Orlovski | Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/victor-orlovski |

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## FAQ

### What does Victor Orlovski invest in?

Victor Orlovski invests primarily in FinTech, Financial Services and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Series A and Series C stage. Most of the 19 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Victor Orlovski last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Victor Orlovski closed in Mar 2022. Shizune tracks 19 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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