Softline Venture Partners

Softline Venture Partners is a corporate venture fund established in 2008 as part of Softline Group, focusing on seed-to-early-stage investments in software technology companies within the Russian and CIS markets. The fund has invested approximately $20 million in 20 portfolio companies, with individual project investments ranging from $100,000 to $1 million. As a stage-agnostic investor, Softline Venture Partners engages with businesses across various technology sectors, including cybersecurity, cloud computing, Big Data, Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things, and Edge Computing. The extensive reach and capabilities of Softline Group, which operates in 50 countries and serves over 60,000 customers, provide unique opportunities for its portfolio companies to scale their business models and enhance sales through established sales channels worldwide.

Viktor Iordanskiy

General Counsel

Andrey Kosmach

Associate

Dmitry Polyakov

Deputy Head of Venture Partners

Elena Volotovskaya

Chief Investment Officer and Head of Venture Partners

Past deals in Ukraine

Magazinga

Seed Round in 2011
Magazinga offers a platform that aggregates products and allows to sell them on popular websites and social networks. The startup has started with launching marketplace on Russian social media sites (Vkontakte, Odnoklassniki) as well as on Facebook based on products of such online retailers as Ozon.ru and Colibri.ru and is taking steps to put this products aggregator on 100,000 other Russian sites by the end of 2012. The company is strongly supported by Softline Group, a Moscow-based IT software supplier with 0.5 billion yearly revenue. The company has global vision and has claimed launch of similar marketplaces in Ukraine, Vietnam, Thailand and several other countries in 2012.