Top 50 Software Startup Investors in Ukraine in December 2024

Investor	Software Ukraine investments
Ukrainian Startup Fund	9
StratMinds	4
SMRK VC Fund	4
Murat Abdrakhmanov	2
BADideas.fund	2
John S. Kim	2
QPDigital	2
Flyer One Ventures	2
Markus Villig	2
Network VC Syndicate Fund	2
Sergey Tokarev	2
Flyer One Ventures	2
TA Ventures	2
Acrobator Ventures \| Acrobator.vc	2
Murat Abdrakhmanov	2
AVentures Capital	2
iLogos Game Studios	1
Nika Tech Family	1
Augie K Fabela II	1
European Bank for Reconstruction and Development	1
Jooble	1
Inventure Partners	1
ff Venture Capital	1
Andreessen Horowitz	1
Michael Puzrakov	1
ZAS Ventures	1
Life.SREDA	1
Sebastien Borget	1
OKX Ventures	1
Scott Hartsman	1
u.ventures	1
YZR Capital	1
Horizon Capital	1
Amazon Web Services	1
TQ Ventures	1
Blockchain Cuties Universe	1
Hesham Zreik	1
Social Discovery Group	1
Andriy Dovzhenko	1
MongoDB for Startups	1
ICU Ventures	1
Vlad Ionescu	1
Oleksii Yashchenko	1
Basecamp Fund	1
Alex Potapenko	1
Josh Elman	1
Ryszard Szopa	1
Vinor Zukhubaia	1
Intel Capital	1
Vostok Ventures	1

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).

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Pre-Seed, Seed, Grant
Ukraine, United States, Estonia

Portfolio highlights

Natulang — Natulang is a language learning app that uses speech recognition and synthesis technologies.
Banani AI — AI-powered UI design tool. Free text to UI design generation. Create stunning wireframes and high-fidelity designs fast. Edit designs with text prompts.
Crosscheck Sustainability Suite — The Sustainability Suite is a platform that simplifies external audits and accelerates compliance

StratMinds helps startups with early-stage venture capital investment and advisory support. We help innovative entrepreneurs turn their vision into reality.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Secondary Market
United States, Spain, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

ShapesXR — Design in 3D for VR, AR, or MR apps together in real-time. Build interactive prototypes and present to stakeholders. Import from Figma and export to Unity.
Portal AI — Portal AI provides customized AI applications for small and medium-sized enterprises, designed to help manage operational activities, marketing, finances, logistics, and more.
ControlRooms.ai — Controlrooms.ai develops a monitor system designed for industrial mission control rooms. It provides immediate time to benefit and exhibit intuitive functionality to help advance the quality of life on Earth, enabling companies by providing earth's monitoring services. The company was founded in 2021 and is based in Austin, Texas.

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

Prengi — Prengi builds an extensive facility management platform with thorough reporting that keeps track of all maintenance procedures for shopping malls and retail chains.
Aspichi — Aspichi is developing platform to provide audio/visual teleportation services based on 360 video and VR technologies.
Ability.ai — Artificial Marketing Intelligence at Your Fingertips.

Murat Abdrakhmanov is a co-investor at 2C2P. Attended Fuqua Executive school of bussines.

Investment focus

SaaS, Information Technology, Advertising
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
United States, Kazakhstan, Finland

Portfolio highlights

Zeely — Zeely is a website development platform designed to assist businesses in marketing their web pages. The company's platform allows businesses to create and promote websites without using codes or UI/UX designs, and these codes can be linked with Google Ads or other social media platforms to increase reach, allowing businesses to create awebpage based on AI and expand their audience network.
Kwaaka — Kwaaka is a subscription-based service that integrates Food Delivery services like Glovo, Wolt, Bolt Food, Deliveroo direct into restaurants’ point-of-sale systems, streamlining order taking processes and menu management through a single interface and eliminating the requirement for restaurant staff to monitor multiple devices and manually repunchorders into their existing system.
Yope — Salo is a discussion platform that erases the borders for people with diverse opinions to let anyone speak up and be heard.

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Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, FinTech
Pre-Seed, Seed
Estonia, Latvia, Ukraine

Portfolio highlights

Tingit — Tiings is a zero-effort fashion repairs marketplace for busy people & brands.
AM Craft — AM Craft designs, manufactures, and delivers 3D-printed, small-batch airplane interior components.
Miros — Revolutionizing ecommerce with AI-powered visual search and semantic search. Seamless, tagless, and intuitive product discovery for all shoppers.

John founded two startups. SendBird is the chat API for mobile apps and websites, a Y Combinator and Techstars company. His first startup, Paprika Lab - a social gaming company, was acquired by GREE.His focus is on problem solving, building teams, and business development. A car enthusiast and Korea's all-time no.1 and world's no.3Unreal Tournament player in 2000.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Seed, Angel, Series A
United States, Ukraine, Australia

Portfolio highlights

Openlayer — Openlayer helps you test and monitor high-quality AI systems.
Syncly — Transform feedback into actionable insights with Syncly. Our platform specializes in automated feedback categorization and analysis. Get in touch now!
Hubble Network — a Satellite network connecting billions of bluetooth devices. GLOBALLY.

Venture Capital Firm 2.0 focused on Deep Tech, It-logistics and Digital Healthcare industries.

Investment focus

Software, Machine Learning, SaaS
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
Ukraine, United States, Russian Federation

Portfolio highlights

Promin Aerospace — Democratizing space and making it available to every country, organization and person.
Onlizer — Onlizer allows connecting services and automates processes fast and efficient without coding.
Drope.me — We connect gaming companies, micro streamers and their communities in performance marketing campaigns.

Flyer One Ventures is an international early-stage venture capital firm focused on early-stage startups from CEE region. The fund invests in future-proof startups, founded by exceptional teams, and operating on global markets worth more than $10 billion. Flyer One Ventures funds startups in Mobile, Health Tech, EdTech, Fitness & Wellness, B2BSaaS, Gaming, FoodTech, and AI/ML industries and helps them scale on international markets. Founded by the co-founder of BetterMe and supported by Genesis Tech, Flyer One Ventures has deep expertise in Digital Marketing, Product, PR, Branding, and Recruiting. Along with the financial investment, Flyer One Ventures actively supports its portfolio companies, helping them optimize Digital Marketing campaigns, hire R&D staff, build user-friendly products, and fundraise Series A and Series B rounds. Flyer One Ventures' ultimate goal is to support early-stage startups in the geographies with low access to early financing and help them become global leaders by mentorship and daily support.

Investment focus

Software, Education, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Cyprus, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

99math — 99math is e-sports in school math! Global online tournaments for kids. They get excited and start achieving in math.
Peech — text to speech
Cooper Pet Care — Cooper Pet Care - Compare and buy the best pet insurance at lowest price. Give your pet the protection they need.

Markus Villig is founder and CEO of Taxify. He attended University of Tartu.

Investment focus

FinTech, E-Commerce, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Estonia, Poland, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

GScan — Cosmic-ray based solutions for 3D imaging. GScan redefines the boundaries of 3D scanning with Muon Flux Technology (MFT) detectors. Unparalleled quality, safety, ease-of-use. Scan anything. Detect everything.
Sera — Sera's AI streamlines prospecting with tailored lists and enriched profiles, including accurate emails and metrics.
Tab — Tab is the API-first company that enables smart receipts to arrive straight to your mobile bank app, all linked to your payment card. We help merchants deliver a seamless checkout experience and to unlock new avenues for post-sale engagement, banks to offer better user experiences & reducing customer support costs and consumers can wave goodbyeto lost receipts, tedious expense reporting processes and a more engaging banking experience.

Seed Investments for Startups that are going to relocate to the USA or are already based here

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Israel, Ukraine

Portfolio highlights

Zibra AI — Zibra Liquids is a real-time and cross-platform physically correct fluid simulation plugin for game developers
NameCoach — NameCoach is a platform for cultural and gender inclusion, which empowers organizations to easily collect audio name recordings, gender identity, and other identity-related info via customized links or widgets - and embed this critical info in online systems through a web application, API, and 3rd party integrations.It was founded in 2014 and isbased in Stanford, California.
Mesh — Mesh enables safer, easier crypto transfers and payments from 300+ leading exchanges and wallets, all without leaving your platform

Tech entrepreneur | Reface investor | Сo-founder at Pawa ML venture studio | Founding Partner at tech company Roosh and Roosh Ventures.Sergey has founded over 30 IT companies, and as a founder, he still gives strategic oversight to many of them. He gradually changes the local IT landscape by creating opportunities for the younger generation oftech students. Sergey has initiated the "STEM is FEM" educational project. Its goal is to help people pursue an education and career in STEM and catalyze gender equality and diversity in this field.

Investment focus

Software, Mobile Apps, Machine Learning
Angel, Pre-Seed
Ukraine

Portfolio highlights

Reface — Reface offers state-of-the-art technology for high-quality face-swapping. Based on GAN (generative adversarial networks) methodology, it works fast and you need only one photo to make a high-quality face-swap.Reface strives to build the first social platform of dynamically personalized media content empowered with machine learning technology.Launched in January 2020, it was ranked as a number one in the US AppStore. The app was downloaded over 70 million times in seven months after it launched. Reface was founded by Roman Mogylnyi, Oles Petriv, Yaroslav Boyko, Denys Dmytrenko, Kyrylo Syhyda, Dima Shvets and Ivan Altsybeiev.Data protection is a social responsibility for Reface. We do not use data for any other purposes except for face-swapping.Work with the B2B segment includes ready-to-use technology and tools for businesses.Reface provides tools for creators to produce great content while keeping the costs down. It’s aimed at advertising and marketing, media, streaming, game development, video production industries, and more.

Flyer One Ventures is an international early-stage venture capital firm focused on early-stage startups from CEE region. The fund invests in future-proof startups, founded by exceptional teams, and operating on global markets worth more than $10 billion. Flyer One Ventures funds startups in Mobile, Health Tech, EdTech, Fitness & Wellness, B2BSaaS, Gaming, FoodTech, and AI/ML industries and helps them scale on international markets. Founded by the co-founder of BetterMe and supported by Genesis Tech, Flyer One Ventures has deep expertise in Digital Marketing, Product, PR, Branding, and Recruiting. Along with the financial investment, Flyer One Ventures actively supports its portfolio companies, helping them optimize Digital Marketing campaigns, hire R&D staff, build user-friendly products, and fundraise Series A and Series B rounds. Flyer One Ventures' ultimate goal is to support early-stage startups in the geographies with low access to early financing and help them become global leaders by mentorship and daily support.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, United Kingdom, Cyprus

Portfolio highlights

Higgsfield — We're building a personalized AI video platform that unlocks the next generation of entertainment
RemotePass — RemotePass makes it easy to hire, onboard & pay your global team in full compliance, giving you everything you need to support them
Field Materials, Inc. — Increase Margins and Cut Costs with Digital Procurement

TA Ventures is a global, network-driven VC firm investing in early-stage tech startups that redefine the industries of tomorrow. We typically write initial checks of $100-250K for Pre-Seed and Seed companies and actively provide follow-on investments. We pride ourselves on swift execution, hands-on support, and leveraging our extensiveinternational network. By connecting our portfolio companies with growth-oriented co-investors, we help them scale effectively through subsequent funding rounds. Additionally, we draw on our deep industry expertise to offer portfolio companies and partner VCs access to top-tier, cost-efficient R&D talent.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Germany, India

Portfolio highlights

Gameto — Gameto is a new breed of biotechnology company in female reproductive longevity
Dynamiq — Build, deploy and monitor on-premise GenAI applications to solve specific business needs, reducing costs, driving revenue and boosting competitiveness - all in one platform
Impress — Impress – is European leading digital orthodontic DSO of new generationWe have a defensible model with the personal touch of an in-house orthodontist, true clinical expertise, and engaging directly with consumersImpress was founded in 2019 in Barcelona with the idea of combining the best of orthodontic tradition with the most innovativetechnology in the sector. From the very beginning the vision of the Impress founders was to introduce a different business model with a strong focus on medical experience and digitalization. The company is transforming the oral healthcare industry by developing its own chain of orthodontic clinics, which are characterized by their disruptive design and modern patient experience. The founders decided to build a medical company with the personal touch of in-house orthodontists, face-to-face care, and unique clinical expertise, where the proper implementation of business processes and digitalization are at the core.In less than 2 years, Impress has managed to position itself as the European leader in the orthodontic sector, has treated more than 22.000 smiles and already has a presence in more than 80 European cities. Its innovation and quality have earned it recognition from Sifted as one of the fastest growing HealthTech companies in Europe in 2020.

Pre/seed VC bridging East and West investing in data-heavy B2B(2C) solutions

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, United Kingdom, The Netherlands

Portfolio highlights

Monda — Monda is the easy-to-use, all-in-one data monetization platform. Build a safe, fast-growing, and sustainable data business with Monda. Trusted by data-as-a-service (DaaS) companies across the globe.
Taskbase — Taskbase supports publishers and educational departments with the creation of advanced digital learning solutions by combining their technical expertise with a modular, one-of-a-kind SaaS toolbox.
MiLaboratories — Top-notch solutions for adaptive immunity studies

Murat Abdrakhmanov is a co-investor at 2C2P. Attended Fuqua Executive school of bussines.

Investment focus

Software, Mobile Apps, Artificial Intelligence
Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
United States, Kazakhstan, Ukraine

Portfolio highlights

Beksar — Beksar offers A flexible reporting system for business of the company from its initial days.
GoDays — AI-driven Continuous passive and active analytical tool, preventing burnout of employees. Continuous well-being based on passive collaboration data, sentiment analytics.
PLATMA — PLATMA is a workspace for developing low/no-code solutions with ready-made constructors that reduce the need for large resources and decrease time to market

AVentures Capital invests at early stage and looks to team up with amazing entrepreneurs from Eastern Europe, particularly Ukraine, who build global businesses. The Fund's investment focus will be across software tech space, including cloud, storage, enterprise solutions, web, mobile, IoT and other software tech related.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Enterprise Software
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, Ukraine, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Dexalot — A revolutionary decentralized exchange aiming at bringing the traditional centralized exchange look and feel through a decentralized on-chain application
Fintech Farm — Creating successful neobanks in emerging markets
Ledger Works — Blockchain consumers face significant and increasing cyber-crime. And Web3 security efforts focus on DeFi providers, not retail users. A crypto account holder should be able to receive the same fraud alerts and protection they have come to expect from their bank or credit card accounts. Our service provides account notification and cyber-crimeprotection to Crypto account holders.

Logos is a game development studio that creates engaging, thoughtful, addictive stories. Since 2007, we've finished 458 projects, worked with indies and giants like Sony, EA, Wargaming and Warner Br

Investment focus

Gaming, MMO Games, Blockchain
Series A
Ukraine

Portfolio highlights

My NFT Wars — My NFT Wars is an innovative open-market collectible game with a strong emphasis on RPG and strategy elements. Collect heroes and build your strategy for victory in PVP and PVE battles. Join the world, full of the never-ending struggle for resources, territorial conquest, and political domination.

Nika Tech Family is an investment firm that focuses on tech companies.

Investment focus

Gaming, MMO Games, Blockchain
Series A
Ukraine

Portfolio highlights

My NFT Wars — My NFT Wars is an innovative open-market collectible game with a strong emphasis on RPG and strategy elements. Collect heroes and build your strategy for victory in PVP and PVE battles. Join the world, full of the never-ending struggle for resources, territorial conquest, and political domination.

Augie K Fabela II is the Co-Founder and CEO at Fastforward.ai.

Investment focus

Apps, Software, Video Chat
Series A, Convertible Note
Ukraine, United States

Portfolio highlights

mmhmm — The best way to present and record yourself. Virtual backgrounds, screen recorder, present with a friend. Works with Zoom, Meet, Teams, and Webex.
Zibra AI — Zibra Liquids is a real-time and cross-platform physically correct fluid simulation plugin for game developers

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) invests in changing lives. Through our financial investments, business services and work on policy reform, we're doing more than ever before to build open, market economies across 3 continents.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Banking, Finance
Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Funding Round
Turkey, United States, Poland

Portfolio highlights

Kormotech — High-quality pet food from the Ukrainian pet food manufacturer - Kormotech. Taking care of your pets is a part of every Kormotech food. Join us!
Ronesans Holding — Ronesans Holding offers construction, real estate development, energy, industrial facilities and health infrastructure development services.
R.Power Renewables — R.Power Renewables develops renewable energy sources, which contribute to protecting the environment and supporting economic recovery.

Explore all the current vacancies from all the top employers and the leading job boards in USA and abroad. 600.000+ new current vacancies. Competitive salary. Full-time, temporary, and part-time jobs. Job email alerts. Free, fast and easy way find a job.

Investment focus

Software, Employment, Recruiting
Pre-Seed, Corporate Round
Poland, Ukraine

Portfolio highlights

Adsee — Adsee is an online recruiting solution that assists with the management of social media recruiting campaigns.
Teraz work — Teraz Work is a highly adaptable staffing platform that assists in the hiring and management of approved personnel. They assist businesses in finding labor for single shifts for many months.

Inventure Partners is an innovative investment fund focused on funding disruptive technology startups. The fund looks for teams with a novel approach to business models, and companies that are able to solve real problems and remove inefficiencies in the market. Inventure Partners backs a wide range of ventures across the technology industry, andthe fund’s portfolio currently includes on-demand service Gett (GetTaxi), leader in US telehealth American Well, long-distance bus tickets platform Busfor, and others.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Mobile, Apps
Series A, Series B, Seed
Russian Federation, United States, France

Portfolio highlights

Refurbed — Refurbed operates as an online marketplace for refurbished products in the german-speaking world. It sells renewed phones, laptops and tablets which are up to 40% cheaper and 100% more environmentally friendly than their brand-new, store-bought counterparts. Refurbed devices are renewed through a 40-step process, making them look like new andfunction like new. On top of that, each device comes with at least a 12-month guarantee.The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Vienna, Austria.
Amwell — Telehealth services for health systems, health plans, employers, and physicians. Improving patient experiences with virtual doctor video visits.
Squirrel Province — Squirrel is a full-scenario living service platform that combines "clothing, food, housing, transportation, travel, shopping, and entertainment. It creates a shared value network and a closed loop between customers, platforms, and merchants by deeply integrating digital twin technology with the Internet of Things (IoT). system to continuouslycreate societal value.

ff Venture Capital (ffVC) is a technology venture capital firm investing in some of the strongest growth areas to date, including cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, machine learning, drones, enterprise cloud software, and crowdfunding. The firm identifies and invests in technology and technology-enabled companies at its inception acrossgeographies and emerging industries. With three partners and an acceleration team of 20+ investment and operations professionals, ffVC actively participates with founders to develop products, target markets, and accelerate growth. Since 2008, ffVC has invested in over 100 companies and has helped to create companies with an aggregate market value exceeding $6 billion.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Canada, Poland

Portfolio highlights

kennek — Connected infrastructure for loans & credits
PrivacyHawk — Privacyhawk is a mobile app that empowers everyone to take back control of their privacy.
ReadyCode.io — ReadyCode.io is software development company.

Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) is a venture capital firm in Silicon Valley, California, investing in bold founders, innovators, and entrepreneurs building the future through technology.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Internet
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

xAI — XAI is an AI company that develops a platform to accelerate human scientific discovery. The company primarily focuses on developing advanced AI systems that are truthful, competent, and maximally beneficial for all of humanity. Its mission is to understand the true nature of the universe.
HappyRobot — Happyrobot is the AI that extracts quantitative data from geospatial imagery with English queries
Sinatra — Sinatra's AI copilot for e-commerce assists medium and big firms in streamlining operations. through process automation, real-time anomaly detection and analysis, auditing of sales pipelines to increase profitability and cut expenses, and platform integration.

A degree holder in Applied Mathematics and Informatics, Michael brought to Intellias his administrative and operational experience of a Technical Director from a German-Ukrainian software development enterprise as well as his previous background in software engineering.Once at Intellias, Michael started with revving up the companyorganizational and business development, then eventually focused on operational management and corporate governance, holding the positions of COO and Board Chairman. As COO, Michael transforms business processes and optimizes management practices, which play a significant role for Intellias’ growth strategy. As Board Chairman, he ensures the fulfillment of business integration strategies, guiding the company forward with the core beliefs in balanced decision making, innovation, and fair partnership.

Investment focus

B2B, Brand Marketing, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
United States, Ukraine

Portfolio highlights

3DLOOK — 3DLOOK is the global leader in AI-first mobile body scanning solutions enabling brands to virtually replace the entire in-store fitting room experience.
Influ2 — Influ2 is the first person-based marketing platform, pioneering a new approach to account-based marketing. The solution empowers B2B marketers to target chosen decision-makers, capture their intent, and track engagement at the individual level. The company has 75+ enterprise and medium-sized clients globally, including Fortune 500 B2B enterprisessuch as NVIDIA, Capgemini, and Episerver. Influ2 runs offices in NY and CA, with 50+ employees on board. With Influ2, every user’s engagement is identified. Having this information helps B2B marketers develop more thoughtful and engaging campaigns that result in a 4-7x increase in leads. Influ2 platform allows users to build an audience, upload personalized messages & visuals, and monitor all the interactions on both account and individual levels The behavioral scoring model identifies leads before they submit a lead form. Influ2 includes a person tracker, so marketers can see everyone who has interacted with their campaign by name, company, and other related data. The solution is compatible with Salesforce, HubSpot, Marketo, Creatio, Outreach, ActiveCampaign, and many other CRM and marketing automation platforms.
Liki24 — Liki24 is a logistics company that features a software platform that utilizes deep integration with partner pharmacies, clinics, and insurance companies. Its software is designed for logistics team coordination, task management, and data management.

ZAS Ventures is a venture capital firm that boosts outstanding entrepreneurs from Central and Eastern Europe by building SaaS and cloud infrastructure startups.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Mobile, Software
Pre-Seed, Seed
United States, Ukraine

Portfolio highlights

CloudAvocado — CloudAvocado: the tool to solve cloud cost management and optimization challenges (cost allocation, scheduling, right-sizing) for a company of any scale
InCharge One — InCharge One, focused on e-bike charging systems, now offers solutions for all electronic devices, including smartphones and laptops.
Mantis Analytics — Mantis Analytics is an AI-driven platform that conducts real-time info-space listening. It provides organizations with reliable and actionable data for both physical and informational risk management, enriched with deep intelligence.

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.

Sebastien Borget is the Co-founder and COO of Pixowl. Passionate for blockchain technology, gaming and education, he is a very active speaker and evangelist who spent the past 8 years focused exclusively on mobile gaming, creating successful games that were downloaded millions of times.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, France, Estonia

Portfolio highlights

Party Icons — Party Icons is a web3 mobile gaming platform. Its mission is to blend the social glue of party games with the intensity of extraction shooters.
Alliance Games — Next level Web3 Gaming Infrastructure, Now Fully Decentralized
OpenLedger — OpenLedger is the sovereign data blockchain for AI.

OKX Ventures focus on the discoveries and investments in various aspects, including blockchain basic infrastructures, Layer2, DeFi, WEB3.0, NFT and Metaverse.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Singapore, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

0G Labs — The First Decentralized AI Operating System
Corn — Corn is a new Ethereum Layer 2 network that aims to be the best platform for utilizing Bitcoin.
Mocaverse — Mocaverse is the Animoca Brands membership NFT collection of 8,888 unique beings: The Mocas. Join the Mocas in the realms to Learn, Play, Do Good, and Build together as we champion our Web3 values!

Leader with years of experience building, developing, and motivating teams to consistently produce high quality products on time. Passionate about products, customers, culture, and results. • Expert at massive online game launches and live operations • Specialist in leading studio and project turnarounds with repeated success • Extensive backgroundin massive online games, platforms, and consumer-facing tech as an executive and entrepreneur • Operational and strategic experience from inception through live operation at global scale • Partnership builder who successfully forges relationships with developers, publishers, and platforms across NA, EU, and Asia • Fluent in the technologies that drive interactive entertainment companies • Operator with significant Board, VC, and institutional investor experience. Equity capital, bank and venture debt • Frequent spokesperson with extensive press and media experience • Advisor to consumer facing startups across a variety of topics

Investment focus

Video Games, PC Games, Online Games
Seed, Convertible Note
Ukraine, United States

Portfolio highlights

Zibra AI — Zibra Liquids is a real-time and cross-platform physically correct fluid simulation plugin for game developers
Brain Jar Games — Brain Jar Games is a....

u.ventures invests in early stage technology startups with world-class teams and potential for global growth. Our goal is to support local entrepreneurs

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Carmoola — Ready to hit the road? Find the car of your dreams and make your money move. Spread the cost with flexible payment plans to get new wheels, on your terms.
Dynamiq — Build, deploy and monitor on-premise GenAI applications to solve specific business needs, reducing costs, driving revenue and boosting competitiveness - all in one platform
Esper Bionics — Solutions to transform the prosthetic industry and augment humanity

YZR Venture Capital is a vertical Venture Capital Fund backing Health Tech Entrepreneurs.

Investment focus

Health Care, Software, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Germany, Poland, Finland

Portfolio highlights

Biorce — Biorce is an innovating HealthAI startup committed to transforming drug development through the use of artificial intelligence.
Clare&me — Clare is your virtual coach which calls you whenever you want and wherever you are. Stigma free phone calls and messaging based on cognitive- behavioral therapy. clare&me supports you on your self-help journey to better sleep, less worry and more self-confidence.
Univa Health — Univa's objective is to provide evidence-based clinical tools that address the detrimental impact of eating disorder diseases on both the individual and their families.

They invest in high-growth technology and business services companies. Working together with management teams, They’ve developed a consistent and proven approach to driving sustainable growth and creating market leading businesses.They stay ahead of the trends in their markets and the evolving business models, enabling them to work with theirmanagement teams to build a focused acquisition strategy and an optimal approach to organic growth.Their team has built a deep understanding of the dynamics of growth in technology and business services companies. They undertake market mapping to identify strategic platform investments and transformational add-ons for their portfolio.They stay ahead of the trends in their markets and the evolving business models, enabling them to work with their management teams to build a focused acquisition strategy and an optimal approach to organic growth. Their sector expertise also helps them guide their management teams in achieving the maximum valuation for the business and the best partner for the next stage in their journey.

Investment focus

Consulting, Information Technology, Software
Private Equity, Funding Round, Seed
United Kingdom, Canada, Ukraine

Portfolio highlights

Preply — Looking for a tutor? Preply is the best platform for private online lessons with a flexible payment system and affordable prices. Book your first lesson.
Mate academy — Mate Academy is an edtech startup that helps people get their first job in tech, free until placement (ISA). 1000+ students places with 90% success rate
Ridge and Partners — Ridge and Partners is a company which provides Cost Management, Project Management, Civil Engineering & Structural Engineering services.

Amazon Web Services provides information technology infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services. Its products and solutions include cloud computing, compute, networking, storage and content delivery, databases, analytics, application services, deployment and management, mobile services, applications, AWS marketplace software,startups, enterprises, partners, government and education, websites and web applications, big data and HPC, gaming, and digital media as well as backup, storage, and archive. The company also provides AWS management console, documentation, SDKs and tools, downloads, platforms, Java, JavaScript, mobile, PHP, Ruby, Python, Windows, .NET, resources, forums, tutorials and articles, whitepapers, training and certification, and AWS user groups for developers. In addition, it offers compute, storage, database, analytics, application, and deployment services; and mobile services, websites, and backup and recovery services. Amazon Web Services serves the government, education, and non-profit sectors in North America, South America, Europe, Africa, Asia Pacific, and internationally. Amazon Web Services was founded in 2006 and is based in Seattle, Washington. It has data center locations in the United States, Europe, Brazil, Singapore, Japan, and Australia. It operates as a subsidiary of Amazon.com Inc.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Grant, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
United States, Lebanon, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

VeraNet — VeraNet builds AI platforms that automate decision-making, providing businesses with data-driven recommendations.
EvolutionaryScale — ESM3. Enabling scientists to understand, imagine, and create proteins.
Bonumbit — Bonumbitt aims to enhance security, transparency, and efficiency in online transactions. The company offers advanced features such as smart contracts, a decentralized review system, and AI-driven analytics to provide personalized shopping experiences. The company's commitment to cutting-edge technology and strategic partnerships positions itas a leader in the evolving e-commerce landscape. With its upcoming token launch on major cryptocurrency exchanges, BBT is set to drive significant growth and redefine the future of online commerce.

Led by Schuster Tanger, Andrew Marks, and Scooter Braun, TQ Ventures is a leading venture capital firm based in New York City and Los Angeles.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Oxla — Meet Oxla, the world's fastest-distributed database, designed to handle large amounts of data with ease.
Verax AI — Seeks to be the leading provider of enterprise-grade trust solutions for Generative AI, enabling companies worldwide to build or adopt any Generative AI agent with confidence
ApertureData — ApertureData manages images and videos with a database purpose-built for data science and machine learning.

Blockchain Cuties Universe is the new collectible crypto game with adventures where you get to play with puppies, lizards, bear cubs, hedgehogs, pigs, rabbits, dragons, cats and other real and fantasy creatures alike.

Investment focus

Gaming, MMO Games, Blockchain
Series A
Ukraine

Portfolio highlights

My NFT Wars — My NFT Wars is an innovative open-market collectible game with a strong emphasis on RPG and strategy elements. Collect heroes and build your strategy for victory in PVP and PVE battles. Join the world, full of the never-ending struggle for resources, territorial conquest, and political domination.

Hesham Zreik is the Founder and CEO of FasterCapital, an online accelerator and incubator. He has co-founded over 100 startups as a technical co-founder and invested in them as an angel investor. Under his leadership, FasterCapital has expanded its network to include over 1,000 regional partners, 1,000 mentors, and 200 partnerships with incubators,accelerators, and venture funds. The organization has helped over 300 startups raise more than $1 billion.Zreik began programming in 1989 with Basic, transitioning to QBasic in 1992. He ranked 7th in the Baccalaureate exams and earned an engineering degree at HIAST, followed by a DBA at Edinburgh Business School and a Master’s in Computer Information Science from AABFS.In 2018, Forbes ranked him #39 among the top 50 investors based on his investment activity and successful exits. He has invested in over 100 startups, co-founded more than 40, and has served as a mentor and board member for various companies. Zreik's investment interests include AI, fintech, blockchain, e-commerce, IoT, HR, and B2B startups.His portfolio includes companies such as Twitter, Zomato, and SpaceX. In 2002, he founded ZGroup Mobile, growing it to a valuation of $2.5–$3.25 million by 2005. The company was a candidate for acquisition by Incagold plc.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, India, Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

Tikkno — Tikkno is a dynamic and innovative company offering an extensive portfolio of 100 high-quality services across key sectors such as technology, marketing, education, training, management, and design. Our mission is to empower businesses and individuals by providing cutting-edge solutions tailored to their unique needs.In technology, Tikknodelivers comprehensive IT services that streamline operations, boost efficiency, and enhance digital transformation. From software development to cybersecurity, our solutions are built to keep businesses ahead in the rapidly evolving tech landscape.In marketing, we craft data-driven strategies designed to maximize brand visibility, engagement, and growth. Our team excels in digital marketing, SEO, social media management, and advertising, helping businesses connect with their target audiences effectively.Our education and training services focus on upskilling teams and individuals through tailored programs that combine industry-leading knowledge with practical application. We offer specialized training to ensure that clients stay competitive in today’s fast-paced environment.Management and design services from Tikkno ensure that businesses operate efficiently while presenting a strong visual identity. Our management consulting aids in optimizing workflows and strategic planning, while our design services deliver creative, visually compelling solutions that resonate with audiences.Investing in Tikkno means investing in a forward-thinking company that is dedicated to delivering measurable value, innovative solutions, and long-term growth. With a commitment to excellence and a proven track record of success, Tikkno is positioned to become a key player in driving business success across various industries.
Accel Growth — Accel Growth has created an amazing super oxygenation machine that uses a radical technique to supersaturate water with oxygen by forming new chemical interactions with the minerals in the water.
Intech Research Group — Welcome to the world of TROT FTRs. Empowering the world like never before. Opens up many new business opportunities. And opportunities for the businesses. The opportunities you can’t afford to miss. An ideal for investors. TROT FTRs enjoy huge potential to become a trillion-dollar business. Once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Robust, sustained revenuestreams. Saves on future inflation for the global households. Year after year, Plan your budget without worrying. Hedge your costs or sell the rights for a good profit. Save big on your vacation, buying a home, children's education, healthcare. And many more. Why not earn while hedging? Good returns. Anytime liquidity, High Safety. Buy, sell, redeem, gift – all from your home comfort. No brokers. FTRs sold by vetted, reputed businesses. Blockchain registered. Legally compliant. Many Govt. corporations may soon offer their FTRs. Tourism, healthcare, agriculture, real estate, education, lifestyle, and many others. Freely tradable on TROT Exchange. ideal investment for households and businesses alike. FTRs for HNIs as the Market Makers. Multiply your returns. Minimal risk. One platform to weave the world's largest and the best network of all the participants – from businesses to households to the service providers An ideal solution for businesses. Meet all your finance needs. No ownership sharing. Think big. Plus, a huge marketing boost. Market Maker support as the up-front buyers.

Social Discovery Group is the world's largest group of social discovery companies. It unites more than 40 brands, an investment fund and a venture studio.

Investment focus

Apps, Internet, Mobile
Funding Round, Series A, Seed
United States, United Kingdom, China

Portfolio highlights

My NFT Wars — My NFT Wars is an innovative open-market collectible game with a strong emphasis on RPG and strategy elements. Collect heroes and build your strategy for victory in PVP and PVE battles. Join the world, full of the never-ending struggle for resources, territorial conquest, and political domination.
Woebot Health — With Woebot Health, you can deliver instantly accessible, chat-based mental health support to patients and members, and get the tools and insights to enhance their care experience, improve population health and increase provider efficiency. Clinically-tested, AI powered.
Zhonghui Laser — Zhonghui Laser is an emerging technology company dedicated to the development and manufacture of advanced lasers.

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) — 100% satisfaction guaranteed on every domain we sell. 30-day, no questions asked, money-back guarantee. Easy, fast and convenient shopping.
Esper Bionics — Solutions to transform the prosthetic industry and augment humanity

To help startups build faster and scale further, MongoDB for Startups offers free MongoDB Atlas credits,.

Investment focus

B2B, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States

Portfolio highlights

VeraNet — VeraNet builds AI platforms that automate decision-making, providing businesses with data-driven recommendations.
NovaBleep — NovaBleep is an innovative communications infrastructure layer specifically designed for hospitals. Various modular components are included to replace communication streams such as pagers, referral systems, fault reporting systems, concern escalation systems, ward chats etc. By streamlining and digitalising these essential communication processes,NovaBleep revolutionises the way hospitals operate. The flow of a patient from entering an ED to discharge/death represents the flow of data. Not all of this data is yet digitalised. Data will be aggregated using NovaBleep for use in Machine Learning to predict the trajectory of patients, and to potentially predict mortality.
NotJustEvent — NotJustEvent stands at the forefront of innovation as a comprehensive event platform transforming the event planning and management landscape, utilizing advanced technologies and offering a versatile suite of services. We seamlessly link event organizers, vendors, performers, and attendees within our dynamic ecosystem. Our platform elevates theevent planning process by providing an array of high-quality event-related services, such as venue rentals, catering, ticketing, decorations, and more.

ICU Ventures is a venture investment branch of ICU, an independent asset management, private equity and investment advisory firm specialising in the emerging markets of CEE. Our main focus are early stage technology companies with Eastern European roots. This means it's preferable for us that either Founders or Engineering & Softwaredevelopment are from/located in Eastern Europe. We provide companies not only with a necessary capital but also with strategic support and a network of contacts in order to expand them internationally. Apart from gaming and gambling ICU is interested in investing across all the sectors.

Investment focus

Software, Hardware, Internet of Things
Series A, Seed, Convertible Note
United States, Brazil, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Jenfi — Drive growth with Jenfi's revenue-based financing. Tailored funding for marketing & expansion. Flexible repayments. Apply now.
Gringo — Gringo is a car app that helps in monitoring vehicle and driver's licenses, licensing vehicles and dividing fines into installments.
Adwisely — Adwisely is a perfect online ad solution for eCommerce stores with $1.5k+ monthly ad budget

Vlad Ionescu is Chief Marketing Officer at Tokinomo - Robotic Shelf Advertising. Attended at University of Bucharest.

Investment focus

B2B, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A
United States, Serbia, Romania

Portfolio highlights

Metadata — Metadata eliminates manual and repetitive work for B2B marketers so you can focus on strategy and creativity.
Trickest | Offensive Security Automation — Add SEO description here.
Respeecher — Voice cloning: create speech that's indistinguishable from the original speaker. Perfect for filmmakers, game developers, and other content creators.

Oleksii Yashchenko is the Software Engineer at Grammarly. Oleksii Yashchenko attended Kharkiv National University of Radioelectronics.

Investment focus

EdTech, FinTech
Pre-Seed
Ukraine

Portfolio highlights

PipelinerOnline — A financial tool for the gradual business development that provides its users with access to an internal ecosystem where they can find growth partners

Alumni Ventures offers diversified venture portfolios to accredited investors into highly competitive deals that individuals typically do not have access to on their own.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, Canada, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Alephee — Aleph enables brands to be involved in e-commerce, giving visibility into their online sales across multiple marketplaces such as Amazon, eBay, Mercado Libre. In one centralized platform brands connect resellers to share catalog and inventory to increase sales, grow market share and optimize logistics costs.
Niche — Niche is a social application that reinvents the way people connect and build community. It is a members-only club for the user's communities, groups, and hobbies.
Banana — Inference hosting for AI teams who ship fast and scale faster.

Alex Potapenko is a singer,influencer, producer, star and coach of many TV shows.

Investment focus

Gaming, MMO Games, Blockchain
Series A
Ukraine

Portfolio highlights

My NFT Wars — My NFT Wars is an innovative open-market collectible game with a strong emphasis on RPG and strategy elements. Collect heroes and build your strategy for victory in PVP and PVE battles. Join the world, full of the never-ending struggle for resources, territorial conquest, and political domination.

Josh Elman is a Product Builder at Apple. He attended stanford University.

Investment focus

Software, Mobile, Internet
Seed, Series A, Series C
United States, Ukraine

Portfolio highlights

Kinema — A social cinema platform for filmmakers and community builders
Nova — The professional community platform for the next generation. Join communities of thousands of college students & new grads and to access to exclusive opportunities, resources, and advice from mentors.
Ladder — The professional community platform for the next generation. Join communities of thousands of college students & new grads and to access to exclusive opportunities, resources, and advice from mentors.

Ric Szopa is the Director of Engineering, Site Lead for Poland at Affirm. He attended University of Warsaw.

Investment focus

Hardware, Software, Machine Learning
Seed
Ukraine

Portfolio highlights

Respeecher — Voice cloning: create speech that's indistinguishable from the original speaker. Perfect for filmmakers, game developers, and other content creators.

Vinor Zukhubaia

Investment focus

Gaming, MMO Games, Blockchain
Series A
Ukraine

Portfolio highlights

My NFT Wars — My NFT Wars is an innovative open-market collectible game with a strong emphasis on RPG and strategy elements. Collect heroes and build your strategy for victory in PVP and PVE battles. Join the world, full of the never-ending struggle for resources, territorial conquest, and political domination.

Intel Capital is uniquely positioned to help build the companies of tomorrow. Our investment team is backed with deep domain knowledge and the resources of Intel to assist companies in their paths to success.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Enterprise Software
Series B, Series A, Series C
United States, China, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Axoni — Axoni is a New York-based capital markets technology firm that specializes in distributed ledger infrastructure. Product offerings include blockchain deployments, large-scale data management, bespoke smart contract development, analytics services, and connectivity tools.
Impact Nano — Impact Nano aims to solve global challenges in computing, the energy transition, and health collaboratively by employing green chemistry and circular manufacturing approaches. The future of the these industries depends on critical innovations in advanced materials. Our experience and manufacturing capabilities enable us to scale up leadingtechnologies and bring them to market. In pursuing our mission we are guided by our values of respect for one another, our community, and the environment; integrity in our decisions; innovation in our approach; and excellence in our actions.
3d Glass Solutions — 3D Glass Solutions provides customers complete glass-enabled systems integration services using their patented APEX® Glass. Their mission is to provide our customers with an integrative solution in electronics and IC packaging that allows them to integrate more components onto a single platform while decreasing overall manufacturing costs.

Vostok Ventures makes seed and early stage venture investments in IT projects from Eastern Europe. It focuses on mobile applications, e-commerce, cloud services, and the gaming industry. Vostok Ventures was co-founded by Michael Kharenko and Svyatoslav Pogrebnoy, and is based in Kyiv, Ukraine.

Investment focus

Transportation, Bakery, Mobile Apps
Series B, Seed, Series A
Egypt, Iraq, Ukraine

Portfolio highlights

Baly — Baly is the cheapest and fastest taxi application in Baghdad.
Swvl — Swvl | Book Your Daily Ride or Make Money Driving Now
Breadfast — Fast & smooth shopping experience for the household.