Led · Equity · Jul 2019

OCSiAl produces high-quality graphene nanotubes at industrial scale and sells TUBALL and TUBALL MATRIX additives that enable material augmentation with very small loadings. The company reduced nanotube pricing roughly 75-fold compared with prior technologies when it entered the market in 2014, making the material accessible to many industries. Revenues have been doubling annually, and OCSiAl says it expects to go public by 2025. Annual production capacity is sufficient to improve hundreds of thousands of tons of materials, and the company planned to launch the first train of the world’s largest graphene nanotube synthesis plant in Luxembourg in 2022. Customers include global car manufacturers, leading electronics companies, and major chemical producers. OCSiAl is headquartered in Luxembourg, has more than 400 employees, about 600 business partners, and its Americas business is headquartered in Columbus, Ohio.

Participated · Equity · Sep 2017

Blackmoon Crypto (BMC) is a blockchain-based platform for tokenized investment funds that aims to bridge the fiat and crypto worlds. The company provides technology, infrastructure, legal frameworks and corporate structuring so approved asset managers can create and manage tokenized funds. The platform and its tokens are based on Ethereum and the Waves blockchain. Blackmoon Financial Group’s lending marketplace operates in nine countries, exceeds $100M in deals volume and reaches $13M in monthly volumes. BMC closed a pre-sale after two weeks after passing a $10M pre-ICO threshold with more than 2,500 paid accounts and has attracted $3.5M in venture capital. The team is led by Oleg Seydak and Ilya Perekopsky and the project is supported by industry figures including Nicolas Tranter and John Hyman.

Participated · Seed · Jun 2017

Deliver automates the process of ordering freight transport, calculating shipping prices in seconds and matching loads with the closest available drivers. The platform handles several thousand orders a month, claims average monthly growth of 30% and has more than 59,000 confirmed drivers registered in Russia. It finished beta testing in January and has entered an active sales and regional development phase. Deliver aims to secure up to 15% of the Russian freight market while doubling down on its largest base and planning European expansion and more international transportation. Competitors cited in the article include Palletter, Convargo and Ontruck. Founder Danil Rudakov emphasizes improved efficiency, transparent pricing and safety of dispatch as company priorities.

Participated · Equity · Nov 2016

Blackmoon operates a platform that enables institutional investors to invest directly in loans issued by balance-sheet lenders. It currently works with lenders in the US, Russia, Finland and several other countries around Europe. The company charges investors for access to loans it says are not available on other services and positions itself as a competitor to Lending Club. Blackmoon intends to use the new funding to expand deeper into the US and to continue development of its platform, including applying for a broker/dealer license in 2017. CEO Oleg Seydak and Target Global partner Mikhail Lobanov commented on the company’s market opportunity and the platform’s ability to scale geographically and across product segments. The company raised $2.5 million in the reported financing round.