Top 5 Restaurants Startup Investors in Ukraine in July 2025

Last updated: Jul 2025 A list of 5 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Restaurants startups based in Ukraine. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Restaurants companies from Ukraine. We update this investor list every month.

Top 5 Restaurants Startup Investors in Ukraine in July 2025

Investor	Restaurants Ukraine investments
SMRK VC Fund	2
Andriy Dovzhenko	1
Vladislav Solodkiy	1
Life.SREDA	1
United Angels Network	1

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SMRK VC Fund is an investment firm that funds seed and early stage companies. Their projects are Allset, Preply, Competera and AJAX Systems. SMRK is a Ukraine-based company that was founded in 2013 by Oleksandr Kosovan and Andriy Dovzhenko.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Ukraine, United States, Finland

Portfolio highlights

Osavul — Osavul is a software company focused on developing AI-powered solutions for information security. Protect states, businesses and society from disinformation, influence operations and foreign interference.
Prengi — Prengi builds an extensive facility management platform with thorough reporting that keeps track of all maintenance procedures for shopping malls and retail chains.
Ability.ai — AI Agents for e-commerce business automation.

Andriy Dovzhenko co-founded SMRK VC Fund in 2013. His previous focus has been corporate finance and entrepreneurship. His current investments include:- AmazingHiring (http://amazinghiring.com)- Allset (https://allsetnow.com/)- Ajax.Systems (http://www.ajax.systems/)Andriy is a seed and early stageinvestor, who assists young companies from Ukraine and Eastern Europe and their founders in solving strategic issues and developing their projects.When not at work, Andriy enjoys swimming, snorkelling and diving. He studied for MBA at University of Warwick, UK. Speaks Russian and Ukrainian, studying Spanish and Chinese.

Investment focus

Software, Mobile, Human Resources
Seed
Ukraine, United States

Portfolio highlights

Prengi — Prengi builds an extensive facility management platform with thorough reporting that keeps track of all maintenance procedures for shopping malls and retail chains.
Settle (Merged with Allset) — With Settle, you can pre-order lunch at restaurants, so that your food is ready when you arrive. You dine 60% faster, as you skip waiting for your table, food and check. Settle makes lunch your best time of the day by giving you delicious meals and more time for a real break.For restaurants: 100% prepaid orders and tables, 60% fasterturnarounds, new sales online, more effective upselling and more targeted marketing.We focus on popular restaurants in busy areas with breakfast and lunch menu. We offer companies and teams group lunch pre-ordering at restaurants near their offices.In addition to mobile pre-ordering, restaurants can offer specials and happy hours during off-peak time.In Ukraine, we currently take 15-20% commission from restaurants. In the USA, the service will be launched free for restaurants and users. Then we'll try out this model: a small commission on every pre-order for restaurants during off-peak hours and a small fee for users during peak hours.
Esper Bionics — Solutions to transform the prosthetic industry and augment humanity

Vladislav started his career in marketing and advertising. Over the years he held executive positions in top Russian companies: MTS, Alfa-Bank, Russian Standard Bank. Vladisalv’s projects were awarded Brand of the year, EFFIE three times and participated in Cannes Lions. He received a PhD in State Administration at Moscow State University, and anE-MBA in Strategic Marketing at Stockholm School of Economics. He also holds a master Degree in Political Science from St. Petersburg State University. Vladislav was awarded a grant from MGIMO and British Petroleum (2008) for his studies. In 2012, being a VP of Marketing at Life Financial Group, Vladislav launched a Venture Capital Firm Life.SREDA, specializing in investments in FinTech.

Investment focus

Mobile, Finance, Restaurants
Seed
Ukraine

Portfolio highlights

Settle (Merged with Allset) — With Settle, you can pre-order lunch at restaurants, so that your food is ready when you arrive. You dine 60% faster, as you skip waiting for your table, food and check. Settle makes lunch your best time of the day by giving you delicious meals and more time for a real break.For restaurants: 100% prepaid orders and tables, 60% fasterturnarounds, new sales online, more effective upselling and more targeted marketing.We focus on popular restaurants in busy areas with breakfast and lunch menu. We offer companies and teams group lunch pre-ordering at restaurants near their offices.In addition to mobile pre-ordering, restaurants can offer specials and happy hours during off-peak time.In Ukraine, we currently take 15-20% commission from restaurants. In the USA, the service will be launched free for restaurants and users. Then we'll try out this model: a small commission on every pre-order for restaurants during off-peak hours and a small fee for users during peak hours.

Life.SREDA is one of the first and leading Fintech-focused VC funds with the vision of building and connecting fintech-ecosystems across the World

Investment focus

FinTech, Mobile, Financial Services
Series A, Seed, Series B
Russian Federation, Singapore, United States

Portfolio highlights

Lenddo — Lenddo is the world's first online community that empowers the emerging middle class to use online social connections to demonstrate their creditworthiness and access affordable, life-improving financial services.
Ayannah — Ayannah is a leading provider of affordable and accessible digital financial services to the world's emerging middle class, many of whom are migrants and/or unbanked.
SoftPay Mobile — SoftPay Mobile International is a leading Mobile Point of Sale (mPOS) solution and Payment Facilitator company in Southeast Asia. SoftPay's mPOS solution enables businesses and individuals to accept credit cards (Visa, MasterCard, JCB, Amex, China UnionPay), debit cards, bank cards, loyalty cards and all other kinds of card payments anywhereat anytime. Our mPOS solution is highly secure and has achieved numerous certifications to give merchants and customers peace of mind when processing payments.

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