Venture capital fund for IT-startups

About us

SMRK is a Ukrainian fund specialized in venture capital investment. We help startups on various stages of maturity. The company was founded in Autumn, 2013 and its main focus is on IT-products on seed and Round A. We work with those ideas which are oriented to the global market and are useful for the consumer. We’re seeking ideas that can run the world.

SMRK team knows everything about IT-startups because we were on your side and went through a tough way: once we were beginners but now we’re major experts in investing. We’ve already helped a lot of projects to grow and expand by investing $0,5 - $1,5M at one check.

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Tech entrepreneur, made iblazr brand that was sold worldwide at Apple Stores, experienced startup mentor.

Vlad Tislenko

Partner

Experienced TOP-manager specializing on due-diligence analysis and IT-products efficiency.

Andriy Dovzhenko

Co-founder, Managing Partner

CEO of MacPaw Inc, CleanMyMac best-selling author, and globally renowned software specialist.

Oleksandr Kosovan

Co-founder, Partner

Our team

SMRK is a team of highly skilled professionals which prefers cooperating with the equal. We won’t work in your place but we certainly can help you to bring alive a new promising IT-idea.

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Our
projects:

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Booking app for trencher-men.

Online platform for marketing campaigns’ optimization

Wireless security systems, smart house and IoT

Outsource client service system for software developers

Smart app for content translation

Online platform for personal remote education

SaaS solution for effective professionals’ sourcing

SaaS solution for nonbank crediting

Superorder.io is a crypto trading
platform

Competera is a next-gen AI-driven price optimization software

Apostera has developed and implemented Augmented Navigation product for HUD used in cars

Love&Live Fashion Group is a group of Ukrainian fashion brands

Zero waste concept of fish-booking to connect fishermen and consumers

Carbominer is a hardware startup that develops technology for capturing carbon dioxide directly from the open air

Esper Bionics - an engineering company aims to transform prosthetic industry and make it data-collective

Deus Robotics is a company that focuses on creating, manufacturing, and selling warehouse robotics equipment for the field of logistics.

Prengi – a comprehensive system for clear and effective facility management.

Spatial video streaming platform

AI software for information secutity

Ideas that may spark our interest

We choose IT startups using strict criterions, because our primary goal is helping those projects we resonate with. We won’t reply to an application if your idea doesn’t fit our requirements, no offense meant.

Your startup definitely has potential and we don’t say no to your idea, we just know that we have different paths to follow.

Who we work with

We choose ideas with clear direction and obvious value for the customer
Teams of professionals who know everything about their startup
Apps / online tools for business and everyday use
B2B, B2C businesses online
People who want to make the world a better place

We don’t work with

We don’t choose projects we don’t understand
We don’t choose projects we don’t understand
We don’t invest in startups outside our competence
We don’t invest in business with unobvious values for the customer
We avoid startups without clearly stated goal (the more global the better)

How to get
support

At first, read about the projects we’re interested in

Make a clear description of your startup including its goal, evolution stage, customers’ value, monetizability

Send your application by email and wait for our response [we can’t answer immediately so be prepared]

If your idea resonate with our viewpoint and values we’ll support it

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