Roosh Ventures
Corporate VCKiev · Pre-Seed–Series A · 13 people tracked
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Investment thesis
Roosh Ventures supports founders by combining venture capital with operational expertise from its parent group. The fund provides access to experienced advisors from portfolio companies, connects founders with its global network of investors and talent, and offers guidance on user acquisition, monetization, legal matters, and investor relations. The firm focuses on sectors where it has established domain expertise.
Source: firm website, verified Aug 6, 2026.
Team · 13 people
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What they invest in
from 40 of 47 portfolio companiesAI & Machine Learning ×21SaaS ×18Fintech ×14Enterprise Software ×12Developer Tools ×8Data & Infrastructure ×7Future of Work ×4Gaming ×4
HQs:United States×13France×4United Kingdom×3Canada×2Israel×2Colombia×1
Who they back
founder profiles across 30 portfolio companiesFounding team size:solo founder×102 founders×113 founders×44+ founders×5
Where their founders studiedfrom 46 founders with education data
Stanford University ×5Massachusetts Institute of Technology ×3Tsinghua University ×3CentraleSupélec ×2Ivan Franko National University of Lviv ×2King's College London ×2Stanford University Graduate School of Business ×2Universidad Autónoma de Madrid ×2
Where their founders worked beforefrom 53 founders with career history
Stanford University ×5Dapper Labs ×3AgilOne ×2Convoy Inc ×2HSBC ×2
Accelerator rootsportfolio companies that came through a program
7 founders hold a PhD · 4 hold an MBA (of 48 with degree data)
Investments · 47 tracked
founders shown can be your intro pathBy year:2026 · 42024 · 32023 · 12021 · 19 dated
Permit.io provides a full-stack authorization framework that lets developers add access control and Identity Access Management to their products, with low-code tools for the rest of the organization.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSaaSTel Aviv, IL
Or Weis(Founder)inAsaf Cohen(Founder)in
Co-investors97212 VenturesNFXCalm VenturesMana VenturesRainfall VenturesFirestreak Ventures
Alma provides buy-now-pay-later instalment payment solutions for e-commerce and physical retailers, letting shoppers split purchases into instalments online, in-store, or via payment links while merchants receive guaranteed upfront payouts.
E-commerceFintechRetail TechNeuilly-sur-Seine, FR
Louis Chatriot(Founder)inFintech Retail Tech Louis Chatriot(Founder)Guillaume Desloges(Co-Founder & COO)in
Co-investorsInsight PartnersIsaiISAI GestionKima VenturesPICUS CAPITALBoxGroup+6 more
Arkis provides portfolio-level margin services for cryptocurrency trading firms, unifying margin, collateral, and risk management across centralized and decentralized finance venues.
Crypto & Web3Fintech
Co-investorsMount VCgumi Cryptos Capital (gCC)
Leading consumer digital bank in Spain.
Guillermo Vicandi(Founder)inJuan Antonio Rullan de la Mata(Founder)in
Co-investorsDigital HorizonDigital Horizon VCDN CapitalKAYAStratMindsVARIV+2 more
Claap automatically captures and structures sales conversation data from calls, filling CRM fields with AI-generated insights on objections, pain points, and deal progression for revenue teams.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSaaSSales Tech
Co-investorsEmblemKima Ventures
Cresta provides a unified platform combining human and AI agents to automate and augment customer service interactions for enterprise contact centers.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSaaSSales TechSunnyvale, US
Sebastian Thrun(Co-founder)inTim Shi(Co-Founder)inZayd Enam(Co-founder)inAndre Esteva(Co-Founder)inShan Huang(Co-Founder)inPing Wu(Chief Executive Officer)in
Co-investorsTiger Global ManagementAndreessen HorowitzBallistic VenturesBrilliant Phoenix CapitalComcast VenturesGreylock Partners+10 more
Dapper Labs is a venture studio building products and communities at the intersection of culture and emerging technology, focused on digital ownership, data control, and decentralized platforms for creators and collectors.
ConsumerCreator EconomyCrypto & Web3Sector AgnosticVancouver
Roham Gharegozlou(Founder)inDieter Shirley(Founder)inMikhael Naayem(Executive Officer)inJody Rebak(Executive Officer)in
BoardDavid Pakman(Director)inAlex Shih(Director)
Co-investorsA.Capital Venturesa16z cryptoAndreessen HorowitzAppWorks VenturesChaos VenturesChapter One+37 more
Deel is a global HR platform that enables businesses to hire, onboard, and manage employees and contractors across borders.
Enterprise SoftwareFintechFuture of WorkHR TechSaaSSan Francisco, US
Alex Bouaziz(Founder/CEO)inShuo Wang(Founder/CRO)inAlexandre Bouaziz(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)Ofer Simon(Former Co-Founder)Philippe Bouaziz(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)in
BoardAnish Acharya(Director)
Co-investorsAlpha Square GroupAltaIR CapitalAmplo VenturesAndreessen HorowitzCoatue ManagementElad Gil+34 more
Co-investorsAccelFrontier Venture CapitalOcean Azul PartnersSeraph GroupSocial Starts
Evenflow Brands acquires and builds consumer brands end-to-end, offering services from sourcing and packaging to logistics, marketing, and platform relations.
ConsumerDirect to ConsumerE-commerce
Utsav Agarwal(Founder & CEO)inShashank Ranjan(Co-Founder)in
Co-investorsSprint Vc
folk is a CRM that captures relationship context and uses AI assistants to automate sales busywork like follow-ups, relationship recaps, company research, and email outreach workflows.
AI & Machine LearningSaaSSales TechParis, FR
Thibaud Elziere(Founder)in
Co-investors7BC Venture CapitalAccelKima VenturesNew Leaf Invest
Gable builds a data collaboration platform centered on data contracts, integration and unit testing, diffs, and monitoring to catch data quality issues at upstream sources before they reach analytical environments.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsSaaS
Daniel Dicker(Founding Engineer)inChad Sanderson(Co-founder & CEO)inJames Frost(Co-founder & CPO)inAdrian(Co-founder & CTO)
Co-investorsAngel Collective Opportunity FundB Capital GroupB4 CapitalCrane Venture Partnersx15ventures (Commonwealth Bank)Databricks Ventures+1 more
Gladia provides a speech-to-text (STT) API supporting 100+ languages, with features such as native code-switching mid-sentence, accent resilience, and inline translation returned alongside transcripts.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsSaaS
Jean-Louis Quéguiner(Founder)in
Co-investorsEmblemKima VenturesIlluminate FinancialXTX Markets
GlassFlow is an ingestion tool that sits between data sources and ClickHouse, handling historical backfills, change data capture from PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MongoDB, schema evolution, deduplication, and data normalization.
Data & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsSaaS
Armend Avdijaj(Founder)in
Co-investors3cubed VenturesUpfront Ventures
Develops software solutions that enhance quantum processor performance to extract value from current quantum hardware.
AI & Machine LearningDeep TechDeveloper ToolsQuantum ComputingSan Francisco, US
Mykola Maksymenko(Executive Officer, Director)inRichard Givhan(Executive Officer, Director)in
Co-investorsPrimaryAngel OneCollaborative FundMaC Venture CapitalPrimary Venture PartnersSID Venture Partners+3 more
Handle builds a construction data platform that unifies fragmented invoices, projects, payments, and documents into a single data graph.
AI & Machine LearningConstruction TechData & InfrastructurePropTechSan Francisco, US
Blake Robertson(Founder)inChris Woodard(Founder)inPatrick Hogan(Founder)in
Co-investorsEnergize CapitalOyster VenturesSuffolk TechnologiesY CombinatorZigg CapitalAmex Ventures+1 more
Israeli-American AI company that turned real people into synthetic "virtual twin" video presenters; acquired by Wix in 2025.
Co-investorsDigital HorizonDigital Horizon VCInsight PartnersKindred Ventures
Jome is a platform that helps homebuyers find, compare, and purchase new construction homes across multiple communities and builders.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureMarketplacesPropTechRetail TechBrooklyn, US
Dan Hnatkovskyy(Founder)in
Co-investorsFlyer One VenturesForefront VentureGeek VenturesPragmatechSID Venture PartnersTechstars+1 more
Jump provides an "portage salarial" (umbrella employment) platform for freelancers and independent professionals in France, automating invoicing, expense management, social charges, and tax declarations while giving them employee-style social benefits.
FintechFuture of WorkSaaS
Nicolas Fayon(Founder)in
Co-investorsBattery VenturesIndex VenturesKima VenturesAllianz Life VenturesCiti VenturesInsight Partners+2 more
Klang is a game studio that builds large-scale virtual worlds and online game services, including back-end infrastructure and clients used to access those services.
Gaming
Ívar Emilsson(Founder)inOddur Snær Magnússon(CTO / Co-Founder)
Co-investorsBitkraft Esports VenturesMakers FundMosaic VenturesNew Life VenturesNorthzoneAngelHub+3 more
Kobalt Labs provides software that analyzes third-party contracts and documentation against internal policies and external regulations to identify and track compliance risks for banks and fintech companies.
Enterprise SoftwareFintechSaaSNew York City, US
Kalyani Ramadurgam(Founder)inAshi Agrawal(Founder)inAshi A(Founder)
Co-investorsOrange CollectiveY Combinator
Leadbay is an AI-native sales intelligence platform that qualifies and discovers leads for sales teams by integrating into Claude, ChatGPT, and Copilot.
AdTechAI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSales TechSan Francisco, US
Ludovic Granger(Founder)inMilan Stankovic(Founder)in
Co-investorsY Combinator
Libeo automates supplier payments and team expense management, connecting to over 5,000 banks and around 250 accounting tools to synchronize payments, documents, and accounting entries.
FintechSaaS
Morado provides fully digital credit and financing products—such as inventory/equipment loans and invoice factoring for working capital—aimed at women entrepreneurs and small businesses in Colombia.
FintechBogotá, CO
Angela Acosta(Founder)in
Co-investorsFEMSA VenturesLatin LeapLatitud VenturesNido VenturesNorte VenturesHTwenty+3 more
Omnea offers Guided Buying, a procurement tool that routes employees to approved catalogs and suppliers, runs purchases through approval chains, and captures tail spend at the point of purchase.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareFintechSaaSLondon, GB
Ben Freeman(CEO)inBen Allen(CTO)in
Co-investorsAccelEntrepreneur FirstPoint NineFirst Round CapitalInsight PartnersKhosla Ventures
OptAxe operates an FCA-authorised multilateral trading facility (MTF) that digitises and centralises the distribution of FX options axes, letting participants post and trade FX derivatives bilaterally with chosen counterparties.
FintechSaaSLondon, GB
Oura Ring is a wearable smart ring that collects and analyzes 50+ personal health metrics to provide insights on sleep, fitness, and wellness for individual users.
HardwareHealthtechWellness & FitnessSan Francisco, US
Ashley Colley(Founder)Virpi Tuomivaara(Founder)inTom Hale(CEO)in
Co-investors125 VenturesA-Rod CorpAble PartnersAlumni VenturesBasecamp FundBold Capital Partners+25 more
PandaScore provides esports betting odds and statistics powered by AI and expert trading teams.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureSports Tech
Flavien Guillocheau(Founder)in
Co-investors50 PartnersFf Venture CapitalSerena
Pipe provides working capital and financial tools to small and medium-sized businesses through integrations with software platforms they use daily.
Enterprise SoftwareFintechSaaSSan Francisco, US
Claurelle Rakipovic(Chief Executive Officer)inVijay Vachani(Chief Operating Officer)inJin Han(Chief Administrative Officer)inNate Wiger(Chief Product & Technology Officer)inAnna Moghaddam(VP, Head of People)in
Co-investors1/1 CapitalAltra VentureAngel Collective Opportunity FundBeyond CapitalBlue Lion GlobalChapter One+21 more
Playco is an instant gaming company that develops web-based games playable across platforms without app downloads, designed for people to play together with friends and family.
Gaming
Michael Carter(Co-founder)Justin Waldron(Co-founder)inTakeshi Otsuka(Co-founder)inCross(Co-founder)
Co-investorsDreamers VCFirestreak VenturesGood AI CapitalMaven VenturesSGH CapitalSisu Game Ventures+4 more
Promethean AI is an AI platform that serves as customizable infrastructure for digital asset management and workflow automation in creative and enterprise environments.
AI & Machine LearningCreator EconomyDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareGaming
Co-investorsDisney Accelerator
Prosper is a UK financial app that brings savings, investments, pensions, tax and inheritance planning into one platform, offering 200+ funds and ETFs with no platform fees, a marketplace of 50+ cash savings products from UK banks, and pay-as-you-go financial guidance.
ConsumerFintech
Nick Perrett(Founder)in
Co-investorsFuel Ventures
Regression Games is building products at the intersection of gaming and technology, drawing on expertise in machine learning, infrastructure, frontend design, and game development.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsGaming
Co-investorsNew Enterprise Associates (NEA)
David Amor(Founder)in
Co-investorsIOSG VenturesRockawayXPlay Ventures
Rollstack automates financial reporting cycles for finance teams, eliminating manual reporting work to free capacity for higher-value analysis and business activities.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareFintechMarketing TechSaaSNew York City, US
Nabil Jallouli(CEO & Co-Founder)inYounes Jallouli(Co-founder & CPO)inKamran Pirasteh(Director)Bahir Saad(Director)in
Co-investorsY CombinatorInsight Partners
New York City, US
Julie Rogers(Founder)
Co-investors2048 VenturesKindred VenturesNextView VenturesThe Fund
TheGuarantors offers lease guarantee and security deposit alternative products for the single-family rental market, covering missed rent and certain property damages, utilities, and fees for landlords.
FintechInsurTechPropTechNew York City, US
Julien Bonneville(Founder)in
Co-investors50 PartnersK20 FundKensington Capital Partners LimitedWarburg PincusWhite Star CapitalYolo Investments+1 more
Toothio is an on-demand staffing marketplace matching dental hygienists, assistants and receptionists with dental practices and DSOs.
Ian Prendergast(Founder)inDevon Cox(Founder)inTroy Amelotte(Founder)in
Co-investorsRho VenturesBurst CapitalConnexa CapitalCraft VenturesKarman VenturesNVP Capital
Toothio operates an AI-powered staffing marketplace that connects dental practices and DSOs with vetted dental hygienists, assistants, and office staff to fill temporary and permanent shifts on demand.
Future of WorkHealthtechHR TechMarketplacesScottsdale, US
Troy Amelotte(Founder)in
Co-investorsAZ Crown InvestmentsConnexa CapitalMarketplaceNVP CapitalTrust FundNewark Venture Partners
Tower provides AI-powered due diligence infrastructure that collects, structures, and analyzes unstructured data from multiple sources to support financial and legal decision-making.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareFintechLegalTechToronto, CA
Adam Dorfman(Founder)inAndy Zhang(Co-Founder)in
Co-investorsY CombinatorAngel InvestFlyer One VenturesSpeedinvest
Tower is a fully-managed data flow orchestration platform that lets teams build Pythonic control flows and agentic workflows, with observability, logging, alerting, and metrics.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsBerlin, DE
Brad Heller(Founder)inSerhii Sokolenko(Founder)in
Co-investorsDig Ventures Management Limited
Upstream is a team communication and collaboration platform designed to help professionals manage messages, tasks, and decision-making workflows across their organization.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareFuture of WorkSaaSParis, FR
Louis Lecat(Founder)inJonathan Tiret(Founder)in
Co-investorsY CombinatorConnect VenturesConnect Ventures
Upstream develops Ocean AI, an artificial intelligence tool for automotive and IoT cybersecurity that helps security analysts investigate threats in connected vehicles through a conversational interface for querying and analyzing security data.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityMobility & TransportationHerzliya, IL
Yoav Levy(Co-founder, CEO)inYonatan Appel(Co-founder, CTO)inRoy Bachar(Chief Business Officer)inKeren Cohen(Chief Financial Officer)inBoaz Hartal(Chief Data & Platform Officer)inOren Fridman(SVP Customer Success & Operations)in
Co-investorsBMW i VenturesGlilot Capital PartnersManiv MobilityAlliance VenturesCisco InvestmentsCRV (Charles River Ventures)+3 more
Portfolio news
latest coverage across their companiesHaiqu · defence-blog.com · Aug 30, 2026
Deel · calcalistech.com · Aug 3, 2026
Jump · bizjournals.com · Jul 29, 2026
Oura · pulse2.com · Jul 17, 2026
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Tower list view · barchart.com · Jul 16, 2026
Tower · barchart.com · Jul 16, 2026
Pipe list view · thesaasnews.com · Jul 16, 2026
Frequently asked questions
- How many investments has Roosh Ventures made?
- Roosh Ventures has 43 tracked investments, 1 of which have exited via acquisition or IPO, including 3 dated in the last 24 months.
- What stage does Roosh Ventures invest at?
- Roosh Ventures invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A stages.
- What sectors does Roosh Ventures focus on?
- Roosh Ventures focuses on AdTech, AI & Machine Learning, Consumer, Fintech, Gaming, Marketing Tech.
- Where is Roosh Ventures located?
- Roosh Ventures is headquartered in Kiev, UA.
- Who does Roosh Ventures co-invest with?
- Roosh Ventures most often shares deals with Y Combinator, Kima Ventures, Accel, among 207 tracked co-investors.
Co-investors · 25
Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) is a venture capital firm founded in 2009 by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, known for pioneering the platform model with a large team of operators supporting founders across stages.
Accel is a venture capital firm that partners with exceptional teams, positioning itself as a first partner to founders globally.
Dreamers VC is an early-stage venture firm that leverages a global network to connect founders with companies and provide support in high-growth markets.
GV (Google Ventures) is a venture capital firm that has invested in artificial intelligence and machine learning since its early days, building a global portfolio of more than 100 AI companies across infrastructure, life sciences, and applications.
Greylock Partners is an early-stage venture capital firm that partners with founders building companies from inception. Its partners make only one or two new investments per year to focus deeply on each partnership.
New Enterprise Associates (NEA) is a venture capital firm that invests in and provides long-term support to founders building new companies.
Spark Capital is a venture capital firm that partners with founders, known for early investments including leading Twitter's Series B in 2008.
Sound Ventures is a venture capital firm that seeks to invest in the technology sector.
DN Capital is a global early-stage venture firm founded in 2000, investing in Seed, Series A and select Series B companies across Europe and North America.
CoinFund is a crypto-focused investment firm that backs and partners with companies building open, decentralized technology across finance, infrastructure, and AI.
Tusk Ventures provides regulatory, communications, and strategic advisory services to startups, helping them navigate compliance, expand into new markets, and reduce regulatory risk.
Green Bay Ventures invests in a small number of exceptional founders each year, backed by families behind iconic businesses, and focuses on connecting innovative companies with flagship customers in its investor ecosystem.
▶13 more co-investors
Optum Ventures125 VenturesThoma BravoOffline VenturesStellar CapitalTq Ventures LlcFreigeist CapitalAthletico VenturesCurious CapitalBow CapitalPitchdriveHonest GameThirdbase
Firms observed investing alongside Roosh Ventures, from public investor directories. Shared companies are the overlap with Roosh Ventures's recorded portfolio.
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