Draft:Flyer One Ventures

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Flyer One Ventures
IndustryVenture Capital
FoundedNovember 1, 2018; 5 years ago (2018-11-01)
FounderVital Laptenok
Headquarters
London
,
United Kingdom
Number of locations
3 offices
Websitewww.flyerone.vc

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[edit]

In 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[edit]

The 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[edit]

In 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[edit]

In 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[edit]

In 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[edit]

In 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[edit]

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  3. ^ 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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  8. ^ Butcher, Mike. "Edtech boom continues as IntellectoKids raises $3M from Allrise Capital and others". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2022-05-24.
  9. ^ Butcher, Mike. "AllRight, an English language learning app for children, raises $5M from Genesis Investments". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2022-05-24.
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  18. ^ Freer, Anne (2021-12-08). "Pinterest acquires video app Vochi". Business of Apps. Retrieved 2022-05-24.
  19. ^ Shkil, Liubomyr (7 December 2021). "Pinterest acquires Vochi. TA Ventures and Flyer One Ventures exits the startup". AIN.Capital. Retrieved 2022-05-24.
  20. ^ Pathak, Shalini. "Estonia-based EdTech 99math Raises $1M to Enhance its Math Gaming Platform". EdTechReview. Retrieved 2022-05-24.
  21. ^ 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.
  22. ^ Novac, Dragos. "Promo republic announced completing a funding round of $1.5 million". Nordic 9. Retrieved 2022-05-24.
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  24. ^ "Genesis Investments puts $1 million in Edtech startup IntellectoKids". Ukraine Digital News. 2019-12-05. Retrieved 2022-05-24.
  25. ^ "Ukrainian programming learning online platform Mate academy raises $580,000". AIN.Capital. Retrieved 2022-05-24.
  26. ^ "Ukrainian Startup Liki24 Raises $1 Million". IT Arena. 2019-07-05. Retrieved 2022-05-24.
  27. ^ Novac, Dragos. "Promo republic announced completing a funding round of $1.5 million". Nordic 9. Retrieved 2022-05-24.
  28. ^ Tucker, Charlotte (2020-08-03). "Vilnius-based adtech RedTrack raises €425K to make advertising more efficient". EU-Startups. Retrieved 2022-05-24.
  29. ^ Butcher, Mike. "AllRight, an English language learning app for children, raises $5M from Genesis Investments". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2022-05-24.
  30. ^ Virki, Tarmo (2020-12-15). "PromoRepublic raises $1.5 million for distributed marketing platform - ArcticStartup". Arctic Startup. Retrieved 2022-05-24.
  31. ^ Ivzhenko, Danylo. "Genesis Investments invests $150k in American tech media, Hacker Noon". AIN.Capital. Retrieved 2022-05-24.
  32. ^ 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.
  33. ^ a b ""20 Startups with Ukrainian Founders to Invest in!" initiative by Flyer One Ventures · Techukraine". Techukraine. 2022-04-30. Retrieved 2022-05-24.
  34. ^ Singh, Vishal (2021-11-25). "Amsterdam-based Accel Club raises €151.45M in equity and debt funding | Silicon Canals". Retrieved 2022-05-24.
  35. ^ a b Supruniuk, Iryna (2022-05-05). "12 VCs That Support Ukrainian Startups In Wartime · Techukraine". Techukraine. Retrieved 2022-05-24.
  36. ^ Karpenko, Olha. "African company Chipper Cash becomes unicorn. Among the investors is Ukrainian fund Flyer One Ventures". AIN.Capital. Retrieved 2022-05-24.
  37. ^ Pathak, Shalini. "Estonia-based EdTech 99math Raises $1M to Enhance its Math Gaming Platform". EdTechReview. Retrieved 2022-05-24.
  38. ^ 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.
  39. ^ "Prodly raises $10M to expand its next-generation DevOps solutions for low-code apps". Help Net Security. 2021-10-23. Retrieved 2022-05-24.
  40. ^ "Ukraine's 3DLOOK secures additional $3.5M in Series A". AIN.Capital. Retrieved 2022-05-24.
  41. ^ "Ukraine's Awesomic secures a $2M round". AIN.Capital. Retrieved 2022-05-24.
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  45. ^ "Cargofy raises $2M to build an ecosystem for truck drivers". AIN.Capital. Retrieved 2022-05-24.
  46. ^ Kaminer, Riley (8 February 2022). "Linguix lands $1M pre-seed round to help us improve our writing using AI". Refresh Miami.
  47. ^ Yarova, Maia. "Genesis Investments to invest $100k in startups from Ukraine and Belarus entering Y Combinator". AIN.Capital. Retrieved 2022-05-24.
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