# Top 45 Enterprise Startup Investors in Ukraine in October 2023

## Ukrainian Startup Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Kyiv, Kyyiv, Ukraine
- Relevant deals: 10
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Grant
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS

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).

## Flyer One Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Education, Artificial Intelligence

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.

## TA Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Frankfurt, Hessen, Germany
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Internet

TA Ventures is globally-minded and network-driven VC firm investing in early-stage tech startups in Europe and North America shaping the industries of tomorrow. Our ticket size starts from $100k up to $1M.
We offer speed of execution, proactive support, and access to a broad international network. Drawing upon our network, we support our portfoliocompanies by proactively soliciting large, growth-minded co-investors in subsequent rounds. We utilize our industry knowledge and network to give portfolio companies and partner VCs access to the highly skilled and cost-effective R&D outsourcing teams in Central and Eastern Europe.

## Netsolid Investments
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Digital Marketing, Affiliate Marketing, Sales

With capital infusion, we help entrepreneurs find new revenue streams, achieve operational efficiency, and get the best partners from around the world

## Acrobator Ventures | Acrobator.vc
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Enterprise Software

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

## QPDigital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Kyiv, Kyyiv, Ukraine
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Machine Learning, SaaS

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

## SMRK VC Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Kiev, Kyyivs'ka Oblast', Ukraine
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence

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.

## AVentures Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Kyiv, Kyyiv, Ukraine
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Enterprise Software

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.

## Murat Abdrakhmanov
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Focus: SaaS, Information Technology, Advertising

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

## BRISE Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Advertising, SEO

BRISE Capital is a family office specialized in MarTech and E-commerce verticals, SaaS and Marketplace business models. We help teams according to their current needs starting from business idea clarification and strategy planning till raising Round A. Also, we practice a hands-on approach in most cases when one of the partners can be deep insideof a chosen project. BRISE operates in Ukraine and scouts local teams with regional and global ambitions. Our typical ticket is in the range of 50k-75k USD. And our goal is to add 5-7 new companies annually.
Currently, we have 10 portfolio companies among which are Finmap, VOCHI, Getpin, Workee, Disqover, and others.

## Horizon Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Kyiv, Kyyiv, Ukraine
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Private Equity, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Financial Services, Software

Horizon Capital is a private equity firm in Ukraine backed by over 40 institutional investors, managing funds with assets under management of over $1.1 billion and a tenure of 25 years in the region. The firm is an active, value-added growth equity investor, investing alongside visionary entrepreneurs leading transformational businesses in Ukraineand the near region. Our investment strategy focuses on export champions in technology, e-commerce and other innovative industries. We are known for our strong team, high integrity and governance, value creation and track record of successful investments.

## Michael Puzrakov
- Type: Angel
- Location: Lviv, L'vivs'ka Oblast', Ukraine
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
- Focus: B2B, Brand Marketing, Artificial Intelligence

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.

## WannaBiz
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Odessa, Odes'ka Oblast', Ukraine
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel, Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, B2B, Social Media

WannaBiz is a startup incubator and angel seed fund focused on seed stage global projects in the ad and SaaS-based technology sectors. It also invests in web and mobile development projects.The company’s investment criteria include the market size, business model, early traction, and team. Its goal is to build and develop global projects in linewith the competitive market.WannaBiz was founded in 2012 and is based in Odessa, Ukraine.

## Zorea Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: SaaS, Internet, Shipping

Zorea ventures is a seed and early stage venture investment fund that was founded in 2013.

## Detonate Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Kiev, Kyyivs'ka Oblast', Ukraine
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Post-IPO Equity
- Focus: SaaS, Advertising, Enterprise Software

Detonate Ventures is an investment and management company acting as a seed and early-stage investor and managing in-house projects. Being funded by private Israeli investors, since 2011 they operate in Kiev, Ukraine. The company is managed by partners with a broad expertise in technologies, media, telecommunications, marketing and strategicconsulting. Usually they take an active part in their projects and a partner approach to all of them. Their vision is to live every business they are in.

## Ryszard Szopa
- Type: Angel
- Location: Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Hardware, Software, Machine Learning

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

## Right Side Capital Management
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Health Care

Right Side Capital Management is a venture capital firm that helps startups build their company. It invests exclusively in the pre-seed round of technology startups and makes 75-100 investment per year. The firms prefers to invest in diversified technology sectors such as the internet and cloud companies.RSCM was established in 2010 and is basedin San Francisco, California.

## Xevin Investments
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Warszawa, Mazowieckie, Poland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Internet, E-Commerce, Software

Xevin Investments offer include investment and advisory services. The fund is interested both in companies and projects in the initial phase of development, unable to achieve further business goals due to insufficient capital, and in thriving companies in need of additional investment to achieve their milestones in the pursuit of competitiveadvantage.

## Inventure Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Moscow, Moscow City, Russian Federation
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Mobile, Apps

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.

## Geek Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology

NYC venture fund investing in immigrant founders building exciting scalable tech

## SID Venture Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain

First Ukrainian high-technology venture capital firm established by IT experts for IT geeks, investing in early-stage tech companies

## Martin Tajur
- Type: Angel
- Location: Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Recruiting

Martin Tajur is the co-founder of Pipedrive.

## Ragnar Sass
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS

Ragnar Sass has strongest skill is to find the best people and keep them rocking in speed of 200 km/h. He has organized 20+ Hack-a-thons Garage48 in Eastern Europe + West & East-Africa. He advise other founders and share experience where it could help.

## Bas Godska
- Type: Angel
- Location: Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Machine Learning

General Partner & Founder Acrobator Ventures, Tech Investment Fund.
Founder Acrobator.com, growth hack and marketing advisory firm.
Digital Dutchman, entrepreneur-turned-investor. eCommerce expert, growth hacker and marketeer since 2000.
Assisted 100+ companies worldwide as CMO, MD, board advisor, consultant.
Personal angel investmentportfolio, overall company value nearing $3BN, follow-ons raised (>$150 MN) from Accel, Iconiq, Insight Ventures, EBRD, Techstars, Acrobator Ventures. Ranked #1 Foreign Angel Investor in Russia (EWDN); Top 10 Angel Investor (Firrma.ru/SLON), Crunchbase: #1 Dutch (2019) & Top 50 EU angel investor. Techcrunch / Crunchbase: "Bas Godska is one of the most prolific Western investors in Eastern Europe."Roles Europe/Russia/CIS (2003-2019):
CMO lastminute.com ; Country Manager Sportingbet ; CMO Europe Ebookers.com / Orbitz.com ; MD Gogol Media.
CMO / dep. CEO Ozon.ru ; VP Marketing Gloria Jeans ; CMO Lamoda.ru (Rocket Internet) ; CMO Digital KupiVIP.ru ; eCommerce Director a.i. Enter | Svyaznoi ; MD myThings.com ; Guest Lecturer Digital Marketing at Moscow School of Management MBA (3 years).Portfolio:
miro.com; harver.com; travelata.ru (co-founder); Chocofamily Holding: chocotravel.kz, chocolife.me, aviata.kz, chocomart.kz (exit), lensmark.kz, rahmet.kz, chocofood.kz, iDoctor.kz, HRbot;
Newzmate.com (partial exit to Piano.io); storyterrace.com, getobjectiv.com; Crossss (sold to Leadhit); clockster.com; linkpizza.com; zakaz.ua; urbandine.nl; 6nomads.com, instreamatic.ai., omdena.com, aura-aware.com, awesomic.com, memoryOS.com,
VC investments: leapfunder.com; respeecher.com; letsenhance.io; studyfree.org.

## ff Venture Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence

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.

## Amazon Web Services
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Seattle, Washington, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Grant, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence

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.

## Semyon Dukach
- Type: Angel
- Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, Education, SaaS

Semyon Dukach is the Managing Partner at One Way Ventures.

## Intel Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Santa Clara, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series B, Series A, Series C
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Enterprise Software

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.

## Igor Fostenko
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: B2B, Information Technology

Igor Fostenko is the Founder of EnjoyTheWood.

## Chris Adelsbach
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Software

Chris Adelsbach - Founding Partner @ Outrun Ventures

## Jooble
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Kyiv, Kyyiv, Ukraine
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Sales and Marketing, Professional Services

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## Vladislav Len
- Type: Angel
- Location: Kharkov, Kharkivs'ka Oblast', Ukraine
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Video, Military, Government

Vladislav Len - Creator @ U22

## Segment
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Information Technology, Marketing, Consulting

Twilio Segment is a customer data platform (CDP) that helps you collect, clean, and activate your customer data.

## Martin Henk
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology

Martin Henk is the Co-founder of Pipedrive.

## Zendesk
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Corporate Round
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Customer Service

Zendesk is a customer service platform that develops a software to empower organization and customer relationships. It empowers organizations to improve customer engagement and better understand their customers. Zendesk products are easy to use and implement. They give organizations the flexibility to move quickly, focus on innovation, and scalewith their growth.Zendesk serves more than 150,000 customers across hundreds of industries in over 30 languages. Zendesk was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

## Mixpanel
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Information Technology, Marketing, Consulting

Unlock valuable customer insights to better convert, engage, and retain users with Mixpanel's powerful, self-serve product analytics. Try it free.

## MetLife Foundation
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Grant, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance

MetLife Foundation is committed to expanding opportunities for low- and moderate-income people around the world.MetLife Foundation partner with nonprofit organizations and social enterprises to create financial health solutions and build stronger communities, while engaging MetLife employee volunteers to help drive impact.

## Digital Future
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Kyiv, Kyyiv, Ukraine
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
- Focus: SaaS, Software, Advertising

Digital Future is a leading Ukraine-born VC firm. We provide late seed and early stage funding to revenue-enabled companies with initial traction, scalable business model, indefatigable team and global ambition. Our portfolio includes companies from Ukraine, Europe, Israel, and United States.

## Vlad Ionescu
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: B2B, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence

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

## ICU Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Kyiv, Kyyiv, Ukraine
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Convertible Note
- Focus: Software, Computer Vision, Information Technology

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.

## Vadim Rogovskiy
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: Software, Marketing, Advertising

3X founder (AdCenter - sold to VertaMedia, Clickky - partially exited, 3DLOOK - raised $11M+), 12X angel investor (1 exit). Forbes contributor, mentor at 500 Startups, LVMH Innovation Award winner.
Investing into early-stage B2B startups with AI-based products, targeting global vertical or horizontal markets.

## Eugene M. Lang Entrepreneurial Initiative Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Education, Medical, Food and Beverage

Eugene M. Lang Entrepreneurship Center catalyzes best-in-class startups and investors that are shaping the future.

## Jevgeni Kabanov
- Type: Angel
- Location: Tartu, Tartumaa, Estonia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Apps, FinTech

Jevgeni 'JK' Kabanov is the CPO & Head of New Verticals at Bọlt.

## Vostok Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Kyiv, Kyyiv, Ukraine
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series B, Seed, Series A
- Focus: Transportation, Bakery, Mobile Apps

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.

## Maksym Demianiuk
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Health Care, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence

Maksym Demianiuk is a former adviser to the head of the Ministry of Digital Affairs

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