Detonate Ventures

Detonate Ventures is an investment and management company acting as a seed and early-stage investor and managing in-house projects. Being funded by private Israeli investors, since 2011 they operate in Kiev, Ukraine. The company is managed by partners with a broad expertise in technologies, media, telecommunications, marketing and strategic consulting. Usually they take an active part in their projects and a partner approach to all of them. Their vision is to live every business they are in.

Natalia Berezovskaya

CEO and Managing Partner

Igor Shraibman

Managing Partner

10 past transactions

Influ2

Seed Round in 2020
Influ2, Inc. operates a person-based marketing platform specifically designed for B2B companies. Established in 2017 and based in Sunnyvale, California, the platform enables marketers to target relevant decision-makers by utilizing data from their internal CRM systems. By employing proprietary machine learning technology, Influ2 provides a unique approach to digital advertising, enhancing ad performance significantly compared to traditional methods. The platform allows users to track individual engagement and interest levels, aiming to preserve the advertising ecosystem by delivering tailored advertisements to the right audience.

Influ2

Seed Round in 2020
Influ2, Inc. operates a person-based marketing platform specifically designed for B2B companies. Established in 2017 and based in Sunnyvale, California, the platform enables marketers to target relevant decision-makers by utilizing data from their internal CRM systems. By employing proprietary machine learning technology, Influ2 provides a unique approach to digital advertising, enhancing ad performance significantly compared to traditional methods. The platform allows users to track individual engagement and interest levels, aiming to preserve the advertising ecosystem by delivering tailored advertisements to the right audience.

Be.Live

Convertible Note in 2017
Be.Live Studios LTD, based in Haifa, Israel, offers a web-based live streaming platform designed to help small business owners, entrepreneurs, and marketers create high-quality Facebook Live shows. The platform supports various formats, including Solo, Interview, and Talk Show, allowing users to engage effectively with their audience. It features tools for real-time interaction, such as displaying viewer comments on screen, and provides customization options for branding, including logos, frames, and text colors. The solution is accessible on both desktop and mobile devices, facilitating easy planning and execution of live broadcasts.

ResumeYard

Seed Round in 2017
ResumeYard Inc. offers professional resume writing services, specializing in creating tailored resumes, CVs, cover letters, follow-up letters, and LinkedIn profiles. Users can upload their existing resumes and additional information, which ResumeYard utilizes to craft enhanced versions. The company employs augmented writing technologies and machine learning algorithms to analyze and predict the performance of resumes among recruiters. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in New York, ResumeYard serves job seekers across various countries, including the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia.

Coureon

Seed Round in 2015
Coureon offers a great software solution to online merchants, allowing them to manage incoming orders and organise distribution with ease. Our platform supports the integration of the two global e-commerce marketplaces Amazon and eBay. Our cooperations with logistics providers from all over the world enable sellers to find the best price for their respective shipment. We make shipping as simple as shopping.

Adtena

Angel Round in 2015
Adtena – online advertising system for public Wi-Fi networks. System can manage different types of Wi-Fi networks and provide targeting of advertising by location, device types and unique users. For Advertisers – it’s a simple panel for launching, managing and obtaining statistics of advertising campaigns with accurate targeting. They can choose locations on map and upload or construct online different types of advertising. For owners of Wi-Fi networks – its automatic and global service for selling advertising on their networks. Anyone can add his own Wi-Fi hotspot and take advertising on it.

ShareRoot

Seed Round in 2014
The Social Marketing landscape becomes more and more complicated for brands on a daily basis, and at the core of the challenge, is the MASSIVE need for good content. Brands now need 20X+ the amount of content that they did five years ago, and finding and publishing that content is a daunting task. At its core, ShareRoot has developed a SaaS platform that allows for brands to instantly search for and source User Generated Content for their own marketing purposes. This three-step, legally secure process provides brands with the ability to not only connect with users who are talking about them, but also to gain access to relevant content that is real and trustworthy. Outside of the initial offering, ShareRoot has developed an easy to use system to organize your content which allows for brands to display their newly owned content in a variety of ways. These include showcasing your content on a social wall, utilizing them in hashtag campaigns, having your images appear on a television or jumbotron, through a Facebook integration that allows for a custom gallery to appear, and many more. You can even stream images from a live event directly onto a screen at that event! At ShareRoot we believe in building out a product that our clients will want to use. It is this basic belief that drives our team and molds what direction and path our product takes. We also believe that brands should harness the visual power of their consumers and grow authentic, unparalleled connections through visual content marketing.

Eduson

Seed Round in 2014
Eduson is a large corporate eLearning platform. Over 100,000 employees in 20+ countries and 4 languages study with Eduson (Coca-Cola, Efes, Heineken, etc.). The courses are delivered by outstanding lecturers: academics (Harvard, Wharton, LBS, INSEAD) and businessmen (KPMG, Merrill Lynch). Eduson is a 5-in-1 solution: - Online learning management system (LMS) for companies - Comprehensive library of online courses - Built-in course editor - Tool of personnel assessment - System of analytics for HR

Lotobar

Seed Round in 2014
Lotobar is a developer and digital distributor of casual lottery games trying to transform traditional regulated lottery industry into a new funny experience called Lototainment.

NovaSignal

Seed Round in 2013
NovaSignal is a medical technology company commercializing a robotic cerebral ultrasound system. Its Robotic System combines non-invasive ultrasound, robotics, and artificial intelligence to assess real-time cerebral blood flow. Through the use of cloud computing and data analytics, NovaSignal supports physicians in their clinical decision making to help improve patient outcomes. It was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.