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1. Company overview
2. Markets, areas of investment and strategy
3. Imperious Group portfolio
4. Team
5. Contacts
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Company Pro<ile
Imperious Group Rapidly developing venture capital company based in USA, Israel and Eastern Europe
▪ Formed in late 2010 with 12-‐years term ▪ Active deal<low from 2013. ▪ Fund size – 25 mln USD (currently invested 33.4% of money)
▪ Investments in 6 countries ▪ 30+ successfully <inanced startups
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▪ Focused on startups at Pre-‐seed, Seed and Series A stages ▪ Investment range: $50k-‐400K (average) ▪ Target markets: Europe, USA and Asia ▪ Target locations of teams: CIS, Europe, Israel, USA and Asia ▪ We are Berkeley educated professionals with vast experience in the venture area
▪ “Smart money” + no intervention into operational process
Our focus and markets
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The focus of our work – investing in growth of strong, interesting startups in such areas:
Investment areas
▪ E-‐commerce ▪ Advertising (adtech) ▪ SaaS ▪ Mobile
▪ Education / MOOC ▪ Cloud services ▪ Healthcare ▪ Big Data ▪ Fintech
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Our strategy
▪ Focus on prospective and rapidly growing global markets ▪ Rapid scaling of portfolio projects (through synergy effect and cross-‐integrations with partners)
▪ Investing in startups in targeted areas and locations ▪ Co-‐investing with international similar-‐focused VC funds, angels and partners to maximize potential growth and quality of invested companies
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Chart 1. Portfolio structure by sectors
✓ Have invested in 30+ projects from Ukraine, CIS, USA and Israel
✓ The most active VC fund in Ukraine in 2013-‐2014
✓ 20 seed–stage investments ✓ 9 pre-‐seed investments ✓ 3 extended seed / Round A investments
✓ 2 projects operating in Asia
Chart 2. Portfolio structure by customers
Imperious Group portfolio
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Pre-‐seed portfolio 2014
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BethClip is instant cloud clipboard sync service
device between your other registered devices
Dental Cloud is an online service that helps to
organize the effective work of dental of<ices and clinics
Foodle is a your solution for eating out abroad,
multilingual restaurants' menu guide
Happy Tom is subscription food tailored
for your pet
2014
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Audaster allows to use Twitter hands and eyes free: listen the
Twitter feed in your headphones, tweet via
microphone
Mitten – mobile CRM and Data Platform for Beauty
Industry
EXCLUSIVIO brings together Social Mass Media and Social
Reporters
ARQuest is augmented reality quest technologies
for B2B and B2C
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Hashtago is a hashtag analytics tool, essential
for marketers of businesses of all sizes
2014
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2014
Cupli provides highly targeted, and cost effective
online surveys, for specialized market research
you can rely on
Publicfast is the easiest way for brand to start
working with in<luencers in social media
Polltopay is a platform for monetization non-‐paying audience via
surveys
✓ We have a strong pool of adtech projects in our portfolio ✓ High scalability, focus on speci<ic marketing channels and easy integration for marketers needs are main keys for their rapid growth
Advertising projects
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E-‐commerce and software projects
2013
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Bazzilla provides drop ship product sourcing solutions for online
retailers
Chooos is the <irst free app that lets users buy goods directly from the Facebook timeline
JetMe is a service to search, book and pay for
Private Jet <lights
TOPES offer amazing corporate of<ice solutions for effective businesses
✓ We target markets with maximum growth – e-‐commerce ones ✓ Most of our projects were born in Eastern Europe, but all of them target the global market and have clients all around the world
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Cardsup – application for banking cards statistics and
personal accounting
2013
Lending star is peer-‐to-‐peer lending and investment online platform with a focus on small
businesses and private entrepreneurs
2013
Settle – is a food pre-‐ordering and table booking
app
2013
Croice – is a soundcloud for live audio broadcasting, that allows you to record the instances when the photo simply isn’t simply enough
2014
Echo connects playbacks of each devices and plays
music in the same time, in sync
2012
SportAndMe – cloud platform for sport events
organizers and social betting tool
Fintech, sport and audio projects
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UbiqMobile is enterprise solution for easy cross-‐ platform development of
mobile apps
2014
Coursmos – micro-‐learning platform where micro-‐
courses are simple to create and easy to learn
2013
FreshOf]ice is a fully integrated cloud based SaaS IT-‐solution for SMB, with elements of social network
2013
MDMaps – is application for accessing and monitoring
personal medical histories for clinics, patients and insurance
companies
Healthcare, edtech and cloud projects
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Our team consists of highly motivated and experienced VC professionals
Pavel Aleshin Venture partner
Kirill Mazur Associate partner
Dmitriy Shvets Associate partner
Professional experience: Berkeley Venture Capital Executive Program graduate Focus responsibilities: new deals and integrations negotiations , projects search and origination, startups analysis, partnerships, startups portfolio management and coordination Interests: e-‐commerce, social, <intech, big data
Professional experience: IT-‐entrepreneur with 5+ years experience in outsourcing, programming and digital marketing with clients from USA, Canada, UK, Ukraine, Russia and Kazakhstan Focus responsibilities: projects technical expert evaluation, projects search, startups analysis, partnerships, startups portfolio management and coordination Interests: sport, digital health, mobile, advertising (AdTech), SaaS
Professional experience: A VC professional with expert experience in strategic and startups consulting, IB and government administration Focus responsibilities: projects <inancial expert evaluation, projects search, startups analysis, partnerships, startups portfolio management and coordination Interests: education (EdTech), mobile, healthcare
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Thank you!
Contact us for cooperation:
www.ig.vc