TA Ventures

TA Ventures is a global venture capital firm that backs early-stage technology startups and select growth-stage opportunities. It writes initial equity checks and provides follow-on investment capacity to help portfolio companies scale, focusing on sectors including digital health, mobility and logistics, fintech, consumer tech, and enterprise software, as well as AI-enabled applications. The firm emphasizes swift execution and active support, leveraging its international network to connect portfolio companies with high-quality co-investors and to access cost-efficient R&D talent. Headquartered in Kyiv, TA Ventures operates across Europe, North America and other regions with additional offices in Frankfurt, Boston, Zurich, Grand Cayman, Nicosia and elsewhere, reflecting a global footprint. The firm shows a preference for opportunities in Ukraine and Israel, and aims to help Western market entrants in local ecosystems through collaboration, while typically avoiding board seats in some investments.

Richard Armstrong

Venture Partner

Eveline Buchatskiy

Venture Partner

Roman Khomchuk

Investment Manager

Oleg Malenkov

Partner

Volodymyr Medin

Investment Associate

Stepan Naumov

Partner

Igor Semenov

Partner

Viktoriya Tigipko

Partner

Past deals in Switzerland

Equippo.com

Seed Round in 2015
Equippo is a commercial equipment company that specializes in buying and selling used construction equipment through its online marketplace. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Zug, Switzerland, the company connects manufacturers, dealers, leasing companies, and other trusted sellers with buyers worldwide, including regions such as South America, Russia, and Poland. Equippo's platform simplifies the process by offering services such as machine inspection, payment management, shipping, trucking, and customs clearance. A notable feature of its service is the Equippo final price calculation engine, which incorporates tariffs, transport, and logistics specific to the buyer's region, making international transactions more straightforward. With a team that can communicate in over nine languages, Equippo aims to facilitate transparent trading in the heavy equipment sector.

Auctionata

Series C in 2015
Auctionata, established in 2012, was an online auction platform specializing in art and luxury collectibles. It operated globally, with offices in Berlin, New York, London, Los Angeles, Rome, Zurich, and Madrid. The company offered live-stream auctions, enabling worldwide bidding for art and luxury items. However, it ceased operations in February 2017 following insolvency proceedings.

Tripscan

Seed Round in 2014
Tripscan is an online travel portal. The company was founded by Marco Valta and Alex Vuilleumier in 2012; and is headquartered in Zürich, Switzerland.

Auctionata

Series A in 2013
Auctionata, established in 2012, was an online auction platform specializing in art and luxury collectibles. It operated globally, with offices in Berlin, New York, London, Los Angeles, Rome, Zurich, and Madrid. The company offered live-stream auctions, enabling worldwide bidding for art and luxury items. However, it ceased operations in February 2017 following insolvency proceedings.

Bravofly

Venture Round in 2012
Bravofly (Bravofly.com) is part of Bravofly Rumbo Group, a Swiss-based online travel agency, or OTA, with a strong presence in Europe. Through desktop and mobile platforms consumers can easily search for, compare and book flights with both traditional airlines and low cost carriers, as well as hotel accommodations, package holidays, cruises, car rentals and other travel-related products and services. In addition, across the Group they provide customer support services in 12 languages both during the search and booking phase as well as in the post-purchase.They complement their technological platforms with skilled travel agents, customer service operators and call centres. The Group was founded in 2006, but traces its roots to 2004, when Fabio Cannavale and Marco Corradino launched Volagratis, a search engine for low cost flights, in the Italian market. Today Bravofly Rumbo Group operates websites in more than 35 countries and 14 languages; its core markets are Italy, Spain and France and is rapidly expanding into other European markets such as Germany, Eastern Europe and Scandinavia.
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