Overkill Ventures
Venture capitalPre-Seed–Seed · 3 people tracked
Investment thesis
Government-backed accelerator investing pre-seed to seed in work‑environment and business-efficiency software, requiring Latvian registration to access staged regional fund network and Riga-based gateway to Eastern Europe.
Team · 3 people
from the firm's website
David Ventzel co-runs two VC funds as GP, writes a concept-driven blog with frameworks like The Startup Adoption Lifecycle, co-hosts The VC Trenches podcast, and urges founders to interview investors.
Dmitry Saikovsky blends Big 4 M&A and family‑office experience, has 40+ investments including 100%+ IRR exits, mentoring Eastern European and New Nordic enterprise software startups to scale into Western Europe.
Riga-based pre-seed and seed B2B tech investor connecting Baltic/Nordic founders to European capital, writing unusually small $40K–$250K pre-traction checks and applying lessons from mentoring 1,000+ founders and structured Beta/Alpha frameworks.
What they invest in
from 2 of 25 portfolio companiesAI & Machine Learning ×1Cleantech ×1Climate Tech ×1Enterprise Software ×1LegalTech ×1SaaS ×1
HQs:Ukraine×1United States×1
Investments · 25 tracked
founders shown can be your intro pathAXDRAFT is a document drafting platform that uses pattern analysis to automate legal document creation for corporations, typically completing documents in under 4 minutes and integrating data from external and internal sources to reduce manual entry and errors.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareLegalTechSaaSKyiv, UA
Frequently asked questions
- What stage does Overkill Ventures invest at?
- Overkill Ventures invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed stages.
- What is Overkill Ventures's typical check size?
- Overkill Ventures typically writes checks of $40K – $250K.
- What sectors does Overkill Ventures focus on?
- Overkill Ventures focuses on AI & Machine Learning, Deep Tech, Enterprise Software, Hardware, Healthtech, SaaS.
- Does Overkill Ventures lead rounds?
- Overkill Ventures typically participates in rounds rather than leading them.
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