UVF

Investment focus

Our multi-strategy approach enables us to identify key value drivers, strategies, and operations

We typically look to invest as early as possible so that we can make the best positive impact. All our investments are pre-seed, seed, or series A. The seed stage is the most important time for a start-up and often, where you need the most support.

This key stage is where we believe we can add the most value — whether it’s helping you with finding product market fit, building your company culture, or getting your next financing round.

Infrastructure B2B2C

Solutions that allow chains to scale the dev community, at the same time providing the end users with quality architect logic and UX. SaaS model is used as a mode for business monetization and can be applied in web3 without token issuance.

Focus on

SDKs

SaaS based APIs

Zero code solutions for content creators

Tools

The number of new projects in Web 3 is steadily growing, and all of them face growth challenges. They need support in creating and launching blockchain applications.

Focus on

APIs

Zero code solutions

Infrastructure Solutions

Cross-platform Solutions

Platforms for hiring Web 3 dev

Open source Solutions

Applications

Blockchain technology is designed to decentralize applications and change the way information is stored and transmitted. We see many opportunities for growth in this sector.

Focus on

Zero Validation

Web 3 domains

ENS

Web 3 social networking

Decentralized messaging apps

Protocols

Though blockchain technology opened global opportunity to add decentralization to social and economic processes, it still constantly improve scalability, security, transactions speed and cost. This leads to new generations of sustainable protocols to emerge on the market and create investment opportunities.

Focus on

L0s

L1s

Cross-chain interoperability protoco

WEB 3 content creation

Metaverse, social media and media platforms built with Web 3 technology will continue to grow due to the community demand for advanced projects in this areas. Ownership of digital art, music and other creative works will be represented by the NFT, including an emergence of new use cases.

Focus on

Entertainment industry

DeFi

Gaming industry

Virtual Events

Tokenized real assets

meet The team

WHO WE ARE

We are entrepreneurs who have built consumer and b2b products that are used by millions of people worldwide.

As ex-entrepreneurs ourselves, we know what it takes to get a start-up off the ground. We’ve gone through the journey too, from the scratch, and all the way through to raising funds to build sustainable business.

Anton Vasilev

Managing Partner

Anton Vasilev is a Managing Partner at Unicorn Factory Ventures. He has extensive experience across investment banking, finance, and business management. With more than 10 years of experience in finances.

David Shengart

General Partner and Head of Research

David is an accomplished business developer, meta-connector, and serial entrepreneur. As a web 3.0 thought leader and angel investor himself, David is actively involved in the deal creation process of the fund and is a constant participant and speaker at numerous conferences across the globe.

Michael Romanenko

Co-Founder Board Member

Mykhaylo is the Co-Founder & CVO of Kyrrex. He has over 10 years of experience in financial markets as an expert in investment activities, financial regulation, and corporate structuring. He has been successfully applying his skills to Kyrrex management since 2018.

Viktor Kochetov

Co-Founder and Board Member

Viktor Kochetov is the Kyrrex’s Founder. He is strongly technology-focused and deeply understands eCommerce, finance, mobile, and affiliate-based models. With prior experience as CEO of Mavuk LTD, MVK Resources, and Mega-Invest MSK, he now applies his financial industry expertise to manage Kyrrex.

Gleb Sanzharevsky

Co-Founder and Board Member

Co-founder of Unicorn Factory Ventures. Combining his background in digital marketing and blockchain industry, Gleb is a dynamic and forward-thinking entrepreneur, immersed in the world of Web 3 and decentralized technologies.

Viktor Yelizarov

Lead Analyst

Viktor coordinates analytics process in the Fund. He possesses more than 9 years experience in high-risk private investments, 6 of which - on the web3 market, which allowed him to master numerous analysis approaches and develop deep understanding of this market nature and cause-effect mechanisms.

Partners

Co-investing partners

Accelerators

Exchanges

Marketmakers

Portfolio

Projects

Spark

Fully on-chain central limit order book developed on the Fuel Network. It provides exceptional control over liquidity providers, is asset-independent, consolidates liquidity and offers a top-notch trading infrastructure

Lemonade

Lemonade serves as the automation engine for numerous segregated dApps and tools, enabling clients to effortlessly merge integrated features for creating online and offline events, communities, blogs, e-commerce ventures, proprietary dApps, and various other forms of interactions.

CV PAD

CV Pad is a launchpad that democratizes early-stage venture capital investments, by leveraging CV VC, CV Labs, and DuckDao's VC and acceleration/incubation frameworks

Magic Square

DAO marketplace for crypto apps that relies on a community of users and developers for app quality control in order to filter out inappropriate apps and scams.

Created by market leaders with extensive experience and knowledge in crypto market and backed by Binance Labs, Republic Capital and Crypto.com among other top tier Web3 investors.

Stroom

Decentralized DeFi protocol, that allows its users to utilize their BTC holding and generate yield from Lightning Network in addition to traditional DeFi.

Is built by boosty.labs leaders and backed by Decentral Park Capital and Partner of Bitfury Group among others.

Alliance

Alliance is the leading Web3 accelerator and founder community. Alliance finds the best founders, funds and accelerates them, and provides them a community for lifetime support.

Since early 2020, they helped the top 1% of Web3 founders start and grow their companies. It is done through an intense 3-month program led by leading Web3 experts. The community includes fellow founders, lawyers, auditors, liquidity providers, market makers and more.

Lurk Labs

Lurk is a Turing-complete programming language for recursive zk-SNARKs & Domain Specific Language, based on Nova proving system. Is built by Y-Combinator alumni and ex-Protocol Labs Seniors.

Chainstack

Leading provider of widest suite of services connecting developers with Web3 infrastructure, powering applications in DeFi, NFT, gaming, analytics, TradFi and everything in between.

deBridge

Leading cross-chain asset bridging and messaging protocol, built by PhD in Mathematics and physics and backed by ParaFi Capital, Animoca Brands and Crypto.com among other top tier investors.

RPS labs

RPS labs (prev. Metalistings) is building LLM & AI infrastructure to power tomorrow's autonomous agents, DApps, & next-gen blockchain analytics. This infrastructure allows anyone to build LLM based applications securely and at scale, with full context of the blockchain in real time.

Bubblemaps

Bubblemaps can be considered as Block Explorer 2.0. with innovated wallets and transactions visualization approach.

Intended for both B2B and B2C, has solid community, key strategic partners and public appreciation by tier-1 companies.

VALUE

UFV invests in outstanding founders in web3. Our all-round approach to identify such teams allows them to reach next level on the road to true technological decentralization and ownership.

UFV has built relationships with pioneers, such as Bitcoin and Etherium Foundations, top layer one protocols and Tier 1 exchanges.

Through our unique networks and communities, UFV backs the teams with direct access to global outstanding talent - helping projects reach their full potential