Imperious Group

Imperious Group is a venture capital firm specializing in pre-seed, seed stage and Series A stage investments. The firm seeks to invest in areas such as advertising (AdTech), fintech, e-commerce, SaaS, mobile-products, online education, big data, and financial services. It also invest in the products aimed at the corporate sector (B2B), as well as a mass market (B2C). The firm prefers to invest in Ukraine, Russia and neighboring countries as well as Eastern Europe, Asia, Israel, Canada and the USA. It typically invests between $50,000 and $1 million in its portfolio companies having enterprise value between $0.5 million and 5 million. The firm prefers to take 10 percent to 15 percent stake. The firm takes its owner's personal capital. Imperious Group was founded in 2012 and is based in the Russian Federation.

Pavel Aleshin

Managing Partner

Kirill Mazur

Managing Partner

DS

Dmitriy Shvets

Managing Partner

Past deals in Ukraine

Mitten

Seed Round in 2014
Mitten is an all-in-one business managing platform that replaces a cash register, terminal, POS system, CRM and inventory software

Crowdnet

Seed Round in 2015
Crowdnet is a turnkey solution for p2p lending marketplace. provides deploy, implement and maintain technology infrustructure for p2p markeplaces

BethClip, Inc.

Seed Round in 2014
BethClip, Inc. provides a cloud-based lightweight multi-platform clipboard, and data sync and manage service. The company’s BethClip is an app to manage or sync clipboards, as well as enables the users to monitor clipboards and switch to any of the running apps. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Wilmington, Delaware.

Whitney's Academy

Seed Round in 2014
Coursmos is an open online education platform and was ranked #1 in the world for course offerings. It offers approximately 140,000 lessons within approximately 30,000 courses. Launched in 2014, it has been attributed as the world's first platform that supports micro learning. Coursmos combines the power of hundreds of tools in one simple and convenient platform. It`s easy-to-create personal online education platform to distribute and sell your knowledge.

Chooos

Seed Round in 2013
Chooos is the first free app that enables purchasing goods directly from Facebook posts. With Chooos, sellers can publish product posts with buy-buttons to their timelines. It releases buyers from the need to go to a separate brand’s website to purchase the item or visit the app to learn more about the product. What you do as a user is just click ‘Shop Now’ and you automatically proceed to the checkout. Another feature we deliver is a “store”. Sellers can create stores on their public Facebook pages for free. Clients choose our solution as the easiest way for beginners to start selling on Facebook.

Whitney's Academy

Seed Round in 2015
Coursmos is an open online education platform and was ranked #1 in the world for course offerings. It offers approximately 140,000 lessons within approximately 30,000 courses. Launched in 2014, it has been attributed as the world's first platform that supports micro learning. Coursmos combines the power of hundreds of tools in one simple and convenient platform. It`s easy-to-create personal online education platform to distribute and sell your knowledge.

Bazzilla

Seed Round in 2013
Bazzilla provides direct delivery services.

Croice

Venture Round in 2014
Croice Voice Communications develops a social tool that helps people to communicate their experiences. Its social tool allows users to combine sounds around them and their thoughts along with their photos to share the important moments and life experiences with their friends. The company is based in Saint Petersburg, Russia.

Hashtago.com OÜ

Pre Seed Round in 2013
Hashtago is your reliable provider of Digital Marketing solutions combining data-driven technology with personalized service. Our mission is to give you best in class online tools to maximize marketing activities ROI. With over 5 years of experience, our team of result-driven account managers and qualified engineers is considered to find the right fit for our partners. For online advertising inquiries please visit http://adtago.hashtago.com/ or mail us adtago@hashtago.com

ARQuest

Seed Round in 2014
ARQuest provides a platform for quest creation, as well as an augmented reality technology. Its platform enables users to choose available quest for cities, including local attractions or unknown areas; get a task and solution to a place in the city; and find and collect the secret augmented reality codes. The company is based in Ukraine.

Foodle Group Inc.

Seed Round in 2014
Foodle is a your solution for eating out abroad. It is an app (iOS, Android & Web-site), that helps people at a language barrier to make sense of food horizon, find most suitable dishes, understand menus and make orders in the best local restaurants, even if their waiters don’t speak your language.

Settle (Merged with Allset)

Seed Round in 2015
With Settle, you can pre-order lunch at restaurants, so that your food is ready when you arrive. You dine 60% faster, as you skip waiting for your table, food and check. Settle makes lunch your best time of the day by giving you delicious meals and more time for a real break. For restaurants: 100% prepaid orders and tables, 60% faster turnarounds, new sales online, more effective upselling and more targeted marketing. We focus on popular restaurants in busy areas with breakfast and lunch menu. We offer companies and teams group lunch pre-ordering at restaurants near their offices. In addition to mobile pre-ordering, restaurants can offer specials and happy hours during off-peak time. In Ukraine, we currently take 15-20% commission from restaurants. In the USA, the service will be launched free for restaurants and users. Then we'll try out this model: a small commission on every pre-order for restaurants during off-peak hours and a small fee for users during peak hours.

FreshOffice

Series A in 2013
FreshOffice offers cloud-based business management software for small and medium enterprises.

Instant API Inc.

Seed Round in 2015
Instant API, Inc. creates, hosts, manages enterprise grade APIs. Instant API, Inc. was incorporated in 2012 and is headquartered in Lewes, Delaware.

Dental Cloud, Inc.

Seed Round in 2014
In December 2014, after selling allDoc company, HealthTech Document Management, we started noticing that not only big hospitals, but also many small dental clinics looking for ways to streamline their workflow even if they are continuing using just paper. We believe that dental market is a most promising market and have many opportunities to disrupt. Because being small teams, dentists are more adopted and willing to try new technologies. We are always open for cooperation and are constantly looking for people to improve the quality of services we provided, build together the next big things in HealthTech industry.

Top Enterprise Solutions

Seed Round in 2014
Top Enterprise Solutions provides corporate office management solutions for businesses. The company offers water delivery, coffee machine rental, office booking, food order, aquarium renting, office furniture, cleaning, and many other services. Top Enterprise Solutions was founded in September 2013 and is based in Kyiv, Ukraine.

Exclusivio

Seed Round in 2014
The First Media Exchange Platform with Live Broadcast Support! exclusiv.io is the social news exchange for mass media and social reporters. - create stories in form of live broadcasts, video and photo - sell stories using defined price or auctions - propose and sell with exclusiveness option - track breaking news by geo region, tag or search word - define assignments for social reporters.

KWAMBIO

Angel Round in 2015
KWAMBIO partners with established and emerging designers to produce a highly curated collection of homewares, accessories, and art, manufactured on-demand in ceramics and metals. KWAMBIO.COM is not only an e-commerce website, but an interactive platform through which the anyone can customize a designer product using our proprietary software of KWAMBIO Filters that — much like Instagram — can be applied to a designer object to create beautiful variations in form, size, material and finish. The result is a unique one-of-a-kind commission between the designer and customer — 3D printed on-demand by the best manufacturers in the US or Europe. We invite design enthusiasts to engage in the design process through customization — because we believe in offering an object that is not just a product, but a one-of-a-kind commission between the designer and the customer. The company is headquartered in New York, NY. It was founded in 2014 by Vlad Usov and Dmitriy Krivoshey. KWAMBIO was presented to public for the very first time at the London 3D Printshow in September 2014, then at the IDCEE in October 2014 (where the company won the startup competition), and most recently at the New York 3D Printshow in April 2015. We joined the Techstars 2015 Summer class and has raised $1.2 million funding thus far.

Audaster

Seed Round in 2014
Audaster

Sportamba

Seed Round in 2014
Sportamba - Mobile app which let fans to have exciting participation in contests and rewards for their activity. Stadiums – will receive valuable analytics and increasing sales due to engagement fans to activities. Bars – mobilizing fans to spend more money due to loyalty program and gamification. How it works - gather friends in 1 click from different social nets for watching the game in certain bar - Competing - predicting, betting/ answering and so on. Getting points and Exchange for the sports prizes on the stadiums and cafes. Win-win for Business! Stadiums and Bars will be our partners - place our advertising at their web sites, prepare the pool rewards and will get new visitors and analytics about fans as a result. The main revenue streams are - Bars subscription to be present in list of recommended bars for watching the game and selling analytics for the sports teams about fans.

football4you.net

Seed Round in 2013
football4you.net operates a social network for football fans. The company is based in Ukraine.

Advice Wallet

Seed Round in 2013
Advice Wallet is a mobile loyalty program to attract, keep and understand customers. It empowers any local business to create a customized acquisition and loyalty program online in minutes. The value of the service to businesses extends far beyond simple driving sales; it offers tools to build a lifetime relationship with customers and reach their social connections. Advice Wallet provides analytics for businesses to keep track of their campaigns. Customers are engaged with their friends in a game of earning points and exchanging them for valuable rewards wherever they go.

Publicfast

Pre Seed Round in 2013
Publicfast is the only self-serve marketplace for finding, hiring and analyzing perfect influencers that will reach brands’ target results. Publicfast AI solution proposes the right creators for each brand, depending on its needs and provide clear analytics and track ROI, so brands know how this channel performed.

Multitest.me

Seed Round in 2014
Multitest.me - ISP search service. With its help, every user can quickly choose the best rates and book a connection to one’s address. As of November 2014, the project involves over 90 national and local providers of all types. In addition the online service allows users determine the actual speed of the connection and recharge the provider. TOP 3 achievements of the 2014 are: Multitest attracted UAH 480 thousand of an Angel investment, USD 250 thousand of Imperious Group and was listed among top seven startups of Ukraine of the 2013 on iForum 2014. The main monetization of the project is to obtain commissions for attracting subscribers for Internet service providers.

LendingStar

Seed Round in 2014
LendingStar, Inc. develops and markets an online crowd funding platform. Its products provides peer-to-peer online lending and investment platform that allows users to lend money to small and medium sized business directly. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Kyiv, Ukraine.

JETME

Seed Round in 2014
JetMe is the first company in private aviation who is offering transparent pay-2-play model for travellers worldwide. They make our bet on technology, while our competitors are betting on sales teams or fleet ownership on popular routes. On the back-end, JetMe is pulling an aircraft inventory from brokers, private jet owners and aircraft management companies into a single database. Then our OSP algorithm sorts out the data and feeds the information on the jet location/destination, availability, and price range to web interface. On the front-end JetMe provides seamless user experience for ordering private jet charters. JetMe is tackling $28bln private charter industry globally. The growth in this long established industry is also impressive. Global business travel spending is expected to reach record $1.18 trillion in 2015, 7% up from 2014. Business Aviation industry booking game is the same as 40 years ago! Private Jet Brokers are still using the phone calls and emails to contact their Clients to make a sale. Brokers are hiding the prices from public access to ensure highest commissions of up to 50%. Our technology allows us to provide great service worldwide, avoiding pitfalls that hold the competition from growth. Some of the biggest costs and risks that they avoid are costs associated with inventory ownership (i.e. maintenance costs, liability, etc.). Fly privately, fly like a rockstar! JetMe.aero

Endorphin.me

Seed Round in 2015
Endorphin is a cloud-based platform with Open API for digital footprints evaluation. The platform specializes in big social data scoring. Endorphin provides its users with B2B services such as smart social customer segmentation service for e-commerce. It also offers B2C services, including mobile applications for smart social search among first and second degree connections. The platform was launched in 2012 by Artem Zavyalov and Victor Strelbitsky and is based in San Francisco, California.

Happy Tom

Seed Round in 2014
Founded by Victor Nikonets and Sergey Shukaylo in September 2014, HappyTom.co is provider of personalized diets for dogs and cats. Subscription based on natural and organic food tailored for each pet(home delivery), customers get free vet advice and vet-alliance based pet appointment system - Happy Tom`s "Secret Sauce". Pet owners shouldn't worry about Pain-Pionts like: spending own time for a healthy choice, spending money for a vet consultations, crazy high sick pet vet costs. Happy Tom already do it.

Delfast

Seed Round in 2015
Delfast is an Electric Bikes manufacturing company with app integration and security. It produces electric bikes with a range of up to 370 km on a single charge of battery. Its bikes – Current Guinness World Record Holder for distance traveled on a single charge. It was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Kyyiv, Ukraine.

Dental Cloud, Inc.

Seed Round in 2015
In December 2014, after selling allDoc company, HealthTech Document Management, we started noticing that not only big hospitals, but also many small dental clinics looking for ways to streamline their workflow even if they are continuing using just paper. We believe that dental market is a most promising market and have many opportunities to disrupt. Because being small teams, dentists are more adopted and willing to try new technologies. We are always open for cooperation and are constantly looking for people to improve the quality of services we provided, build together the next big things in HealthTech industry.

PulsSoft

Seed Round in 2014
PulsSoft provides Universal software for managing advertising and information campaigns on different digital signage devices and creating content for it by business users.

Blabroom

Seed Round in 2013
Blabroom operates as an online portal for dating purposes. The portal offers Blab chat, which is a private chat between two users when they alternately ask each other questions proposed by the system; Safe declarations - a feature that allows you to declare your relation to a man, but he or she will not know about it without expressing his or her feelings in return; Chat roulette - an online video chat; and Virtual wall - a shared virtual wall of the service for public confessions, as well as for sharing your news and feelings. The company is based in Russia.

Pet-register

Seed Round in 2014
Pet-register is CRM for veterinarians with access to the international animal registration database.