# Top 50 Software Startup Investors in Ukraine in May 2026

## Ukrainian Startup Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Kyiv, Kyyiv, Ukraine
- Relevant deals: 8
- 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).

## SMRK VC Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Kiev, Kyyivs'ka Oblast', Ukraine
- Relevant deals: 4
- 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.

## StratMinds
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Secondary Market
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Software

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

## 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.

## 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

## Flyer One Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Kiev, Kyyivs'ka Oblast', Ukraine
- Relevant deals: 2
- 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.

## Sergey Tokarev
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Mobile Apps, Machine Learning

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.

## TA Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Frankfurt, Hessen, Germany
- Relevant deals: 2
- 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.

## 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.

## 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.

## Guillaume Fournier
- Type: Angel
- Location: Prague, Hlavni mesto Praha, Czech Republic
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Convertible Note
- Focus: EdTech, Wellness, Health Care

Guillaume Fournier is the Partner at Credo Ventures.

## All Turtles
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: Software, B2B, 3D Technology

We make products that matter

## John S. Kim
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Information Technology

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.

## SMOK Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology

Bridging Silicon Valley to CEE

## EastOne Group
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Kiev, Kyyivs'ka Oblast', Ukraine
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Video, Mobile, Android

EastOne Group is an international investment advisory group that provides strategic and investment management services to a diversified portfolio of assets across multiple geographies and industry sectors.The group was established in 2007 by Victor Pinchuk. EastOne provides a broad range of services to assets under its mandate: portfoliostrategy development and implementation, sector expertise, long-term business planning, support for M&A and capital market transactions, risk and performance management. In addition, the Group also advises on corporate social responsibility, broader social innovations and not-for-profit activities.

## Andriy Dovzhenko
- Type: Angel
- Location: Kiev, Kyyivs'ka Oblast', Ukraine
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Software, Mobile, Human Resources

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.

## Oleksandr Kosovan
- Type: Angel
- Location: Kiev, Kyyivs'ka Oblast', Ukraine
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series B
- Focus: Apps, B2B, iOS

CEO and Founder of MacPaw Inc.

## Andreessen Horowitz
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Internet

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

## Sebastien Borget
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming

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.

## 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.

## Pantera Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services

Pantera Capital is an investment firm focused exclusively on Bitcoin, other digital currencies, and companies in the space. The company believes that Bitcoin has the potential to transform the way people use money and that it will do for payments what the Internet has done for communications and commerce.Until 2014, Pantera focused on globalmacro hedge fund investments. The firm was founded in 2003 by Dan Morehead, who was a chief financial officer and head of Macro Trading at Tiger Management. The firm has since shifted its investment advisory services to focus exclusively on Bitcoin, other digital currencies, and companies in the space.Shareholders include Benchmark, Fortress Investment Group, and Ribbit Capital.

## Life.SREDA
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: FinTech, Mobile, Financial Services

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

## 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.

## 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.

## Oleksii Yashchenko
- Type: Angel
- Location: Kyiv, Kyyiv, Ukraine
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: EdTech, FinTech

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

## 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.

## Nika Tech Family
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Kyiv, Kyyiv, Ukraine
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Gaming, MMO Games, Blockchain

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

## 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.

## Horizon Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Private Equity, Seed
- Focus: Consulting, Information Technology, Software

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.

## Michael Puzrakov
- Type: Angel
- Location: Lviv, L'vivs'ka Oblast', Ukraine
- Relevant deals: 1
- 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.

## BADideas.fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: SaaS, FinTech, Software

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## Social Discovery Group
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Apps, Internet, Mobile

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.

## Renaldas Zioma
- Type: Angel
- Location: Vilnius, Vilniaus Apskritis, Lithuania
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Manufacturing, Information Technology

Renaldas Zioma

## 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.

## 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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## TQ Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Health Care, Software, Internet

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.

## Augie K Fabela II
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Convertible Note
- Focus: Apps, Software, Video Chat

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

## 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.

## Raiffeisen Bank International
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Vienna, Wien, Austria
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Apps, FinTech, Financial Services

Raiffeisen Bank International caters to private individuals, small and medium businesses, corporate and institutional clients and provides services in the areas of corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, mezzanine, investment strategy, trade and export finance, investment banking, cash management, electronic banking, payment services, debitcards, credit cards, fund brokerage and fund administration. It began operation on March 18, 2017, with its headquarters in Vienna in Austria.

## 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

## GEO Pay
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Health Care, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence

GEO Pay is a service that integrates peer-to-peer payments with operations for depositing and withdrawing fiat dollars and exchanging them for crypto assets.

## iLogos Game Studios
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Gaming, MMO Games, Blockchain

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

## Zero Knowledge Validation
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Software, Computer, Blockchain

Earn staking rewards in the main PoS networks while supporting the advance of privacy in the blockchain space.

## Alex Potapenko
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Gaming, MMO Games, Blockchain

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

## Vinor Zukhubaia
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Gaming, MMO Games, Blockchain

Vinor Zukhubaia

## Blackshield Capital Management
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Miami, Florida, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Gaming, MMO Games, Blockchain

Blackshield Capital Management provides wealth management, banking, and transactional services to organizations and individuals.

## 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.

## Delta Blockchain Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech

Delta Blockchain Fund

## Fedor Drozdovski
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Gaming, MMO Games, Blockchain

Fedor Drozdovski

## 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

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