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Industry | Venture Capital |
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Founded | November 1, 2018 |
Founder | Vital Laptenok |
Headquarters | , |
Number of locations | 3 offices |
Website | www |
Flyer One Ventures (also known as F1V) is an international venture capital firm, founded in 2018 by its General Partner Vital Laptenok..[1][2][3] The company is headquartered in London, UK, and has offices in Kyiv and Warsaw.[4] Flyer One Ventures focuses on startups from the CEE region and invests in B2B & Enterprise SaaS, EdTech, mobile apps, games, FoodTech, and other startups at Seed and Series A stages.[5][6][7]
History
editIn November 2018, the venture capital firm was founded and invested under the name Genesis Investments[8][9], as a Corporate Venture Capital of international IT-holding Genesis.[10] Genesis is known for founding and developing global tech startups, some of which became corporate spin-offs, such as Jiji, BetterMe, Appflame, Headway, and Solidgate.[11][12][13] Co-founder and CEO of Genesis Vladimir Mnogoletniy is also a Partner at Flyer One Ventures.[3]
In September 2021, the firm made the rebranding, changed its name, website, and logo, and became known as Flyer One Ventures, named after Wright brother's first airplane Flyer 1.[1] In the first 3 years since inception, Flyer One Ventures invested $20 million in 24 startups, participating in rounds with Andreessen Horowitz, EBRD, Y Combinator, and 500 Global.[14][15][16]
In December 2021, the Flyer One Venture's portfolio startup VOCHI was acquired by the US image sharing and social media service Pinterest[11][17][18], marking the VOCHI startup as the first Flyer One Venture's exit.[19]
Investment
editThe firm invests in startups founded by CEE founders, including Ukrainian, Estonian, Lithuanian, Finish, Portugal-based, and UK-based teams.[20][3][21][22][23]
2019-2020
editIn 2019, Flyer One Ventures was a lead investor in IntellectoKids and Mate academy rounds.[24][25] In July 2019, the firm backed a tech startup in the pharma retail industry Liki24.com, leading the round together with TA Ventures, founded by Viktoriya Tigipko.[26] In 2020, Flyer One Ventures backed PromoRepublic, RedTrack, and Allright.[27][28][29][30] In October 2020, the firm invested in tech media Hacker Noon, the first American startup in its portfolio.[31]
2021
editIn 2021, Flyer One Ventures portfolio company Accel Club, Amazon businesses aggregator, raised $170 million round.[32][33][34] In November 2021, the firm's portfolio startup Chipper Cash became a unicorn after raising $150M in C round from FTX with over $2B valuation[35], becoming the first unicorn in the F1V portfolio.[36] In August 2021, Flyer One Ventures led the round of Estonian math platform 99math.[37] Also, the firm participated in Prodly round led by Leta Capital[38][39], and joined 3DLOOK, Awesomic, and Allset funding.[40][41][1][42][43]
2022
editIn 2022, Flyer One Ventures and Solid led $7.4 million round of Fintech Farm startup, co-founded by Dmytro Dubilet.[3] In January 2022, Flyer One Ventures backed digital skills school Kodland in $9 million Series A round.[5] In February 2022, the firm supported Greenscreens.AI round led by Tiger Global[44], joined the $2 million funding of Ukrainian freight broker Cargofy, and participated in pre-seed round of AI-powered writing tool Linguix.[7][45][46]
Programs and partnerships
editIn March 2021, Flyer One Ventures launched a program of support for Ukrainian and Belarusian startups claiming the promise to invest $100,000 in each of the startups from Ukraine and Belarus that will enter Y Combinator[47][32]
In April 2022, Flyer One Ventures launched a 20 Startups with Ukrainian Founders to Invest In initiative to support 20 selected Ukrainian startups suffered from the consequences of the Russian invasion of Ukraine[33][35].
References
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- ^ a b c d Kene-Okafor, Tage. "Fintech Farm nabs $7.4M to launch neobanks in Nigeria and other emerging markets". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2022-05-24.[permanent dead link]
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- ^ a b Lomas, Natasha. "London's Kodland grabs $9M to teach more kids coding". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2022-05-24.
- ^ Takahashi, Dean (2021-08-02). "99math raises $1M to boost edtech gaming platform". VentureBeat. Retrieved 2022-05-24.
- ^ a b Taylor, Dan (2022-02-02). "Ukrainian freight tech startup Cargofy hauls home $2 million in seed round". Tech.eu. Retrieved 2022-05-24.
- ^ Butcher, Mike. "Edtech boom continues as IntellectoKids raises $3M from Allrise Capital and others". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2022-05-24.
- ^ Butcher, Mike. "AllRight, an English language learning app for children, raises $5M from Genesis Investments". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2022-05-24.
- ^ Kolb, Aleksandr (2021-06-11). ""At the venture stage, you need to talk to potential users. This is what you need to do before starting a business ", - Vitaliy Laptenok, Managing Partner of Genesis Investments Investment Fund". Huxleў. Retrieved 2022-05-24.
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- ^ Rogers, Stewart (2020-12-21). "Adapty lands $500,000 to help mobile developers deal with the death of Apple's IDFA". Grit Daily News. Retrieved 2022-05-24.
- ^ Kachur, Artur (2021-01-02). "Ukrainian-founded startup Adapty raises $500,000 from Genesis Investments and 500 Startups |". Retrieved 2022-05-24.
- ^ Perez, Sarah. "Pinterest invests in creator tools with acquisition of video creation and editing app Vochi". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2022-05-24.
- ^ Freer, Anne (2021-12-08). "Pinterest acquires video app Vochi". Business of Apps. Retrieved 2022-05-24.
- ^ Shkil, Liubomyr (7 December 2021). "Pinterest acquires Vochi. TA Ventures and Flyer One Ventures exits the startup". AIN.Capital. Retrieved 2022-05-24.
- ^ Pathak, Shalini. "Estonia-based EdTech 99math Raises $1M to Enhance its Math Gaming Platform". EdTechReview. Retrieved 2022-05-24.
- ^ Đorđević, Nikola (2020-08-05). "Vilnius adtech start-up RedTrack raises 425,000 euros to improve ad tracking and automation". Emerging Europe. Retrieved 2022-05-24.
- ^ Novac, Dragos. "Promo republic announced completing a funding round of $1.5 million". Nordic 9. Retrieved 2022-05-24.
- ^ Koncerewicz, Konrad. "TOP European Startups That Closed Investment Rounds In January 2022". vestbee.com. Retrieved 2022-05-24.
- ^ "Genesis Investments puts $1 million in Edtech startup IntellectoKids". Ukraine Digital News. 2019-12-05. Retrieved 2022-05-24.
- ^ "Ukrainian programming learning online platform Mate academy raises $580,000". AIN.Capital. Retrieved 2022-05-24.
- ^ "Ukrainian Startup Liki24 Raises $1 Million". IT Arena. 2019-07-05. Retrieved 2022-05-24.
- ^ Novac, Dragos. "Promo republic announced completing a funding round of $1.5 million". Nordic 9. Retrieved 2022-05-24.
- ^ Tucker, Charlotte (2020-08-03). "Vilnius-based adtech RedTrack raises €425K to make advertising more efficient". EU-Startups. Retrieved 2022-05-24.
- ^ Butcher, Mike. "AllRight, an English language learning app for children, raises $5M from Genesis Investments". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2022-05-24.
- ^ Virki, Tarmo (2020-12-15). "PromoRepublic raises $1.5 million for distributed marketing platform - ArcticStartup". Arctic Startup. Retrieved 2022-05-24.
- ^ Ivzhenko, Danylo. "Genesis Investments invests $150k in American tech media, Hacker Noon". AIN.Capital. Retrieved 2022-05-24.
- ^ a b Kachur, Artur (2021-03-26). "Genesis Investments to co-invest $100,000 in Y Combinator startups from Ukraine and Belarus |". Retrieved 2022-05-24.
- ^ a b ""20 Startups with Ukrainian Founders to Invest in!" initiative by Flyer One Ventures · Techukraine". Techukraine. 2022-04-30. Retrieved 2022-05-24.
- ^ Singh, Vishal (2021-11-25). "Amsterdam-based Accel Club raises €151.45M in equity and debt funding | Silicon Canals". Retrieved 2022-05-24.
- ^ a b Supruniuk, Iryna (2022-05-05). "12 VCs That Support Ukrainian Startups In Wartime · Techukraine". Techukraine. Retrieved 2022-05-24.
- ^ Karpenko, Olha. "African company Chipper Cash becomes unicorn. Among the investors is Ukrainian fund Flyer One Ventures". AIN.Capital. Retrieved 2022-05-24.
- ^ Pathak, Shalini. "Estonia-based EdTech 99math Raises $1M to Enhance its Math Gaming Platform". EdTechReview. Retrieved 2022-05-24.
- ^ Lockwood, Tasmin. "Check out the 13-slide pitch deck Prodly used to raise a $10 million Series A to help automate low-code Salesforce deployments". Business Insider. Retrieved 2022-05-24.
- ^ "Prodly raises $10M to expand its next-generation DevOps solutions for low-code apps". Help Net Security. 2021-10-23. Retrieved 2022-05-24.
- ^ "Ukraine's 3DLOOK secures additional $3.5M in Series A". AIN.Capital. Retrieved 2022-05-24.
- ^ "Ukraine's Awesomic secures a $2M round". AIN.Capital. Retrieved 2022-05-24.
- ^ Villamor, Kay Aloha. "3DLOOK Raises an additional $3.5 Million in Series A | The SaaS News". www.thesaasnews.com. Retrieved 2022-05-24.
- ^ "3DLOOK wraps $10 million Series A funding round". Retail Technology Innovation Hub. Retrieved 2022-05-24.
- ^ "Greenscreens.AI Announces Investment Round Led by Tiger Global". MarTech Series. 2022-02-22. Retrieved 2022-05-24.
- ^ "Cargofy raises $2M to build an ecosystem for truck drivers". AIN.Capital. Retrieved 2022-05-24.
- ^ Kaminer, Riley (8 February 2022). "Linguix lands $1M pre-seed round to help us improve our writing using AI". Refresh Miami.
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