Participated · Equity · Nov 2023

Founded in 2021 by Alexander Matveenko, Rainbow Weather is a Warsaw-based climate-tech startup that delivers ultra-accurate precipitation, hurricane, and wildfire forecasts. Its mobile application refreshes every 10 minutes and offers minute-level forecasts over four-hour windows, leveraging radar, satellite imagery, weather stations, and smartphone barometers to minimise error. The company claims one-square-kilometre spatial resolution and has surpassed 1 million app installs. In addition to its consumer app, Rainbow Weather has launched APIs serving logistics, agriculture, aviation, navigation, drone operations, and outdoor activity platforms. The team also maintains weatherindex.ai, an open-source tool comparing short-term forecasts from major providers against real-time airport reports. With fresh capital, Rainbow Weather plans to extend its forecast horizon from 4 to 24 hours, add additional weather parameters, and deepen its push into B2B markets. The firm positions itself as a faster, more precise alternative to large incumbents such as The Weather Company, AccuWeather, and Apple Weather.

Participated · Seed · Jul 2021

Vochi develops a mobile app for creative video editing that uses a unique computer-vision–based technology. The startup leverages neural networks to add effects to individual objects in video on a mobile device in real time and without quality loss. Its app is aimed at social media influencers and content creators who produce frequent social content, as well as casual creative smartphone users. The company emphasizes standout, shareable video effects for short-form social content. Recent financing activity indicates continued investor interest in the product and team. The company is described in the reporting as Belarusian. Vochi builds a computer vision–based mobile video editing and effects app that uses object segmentation algorithms to let users apply effects, stickers, and filters to single objects in video. The app can apply high-quality effects on single objects in 1080p videos in real-time, and lets users mix styles and preview the finished video before downloading a high-quality copy. Vochi targets content creators — including influencers, bloggers, and casual creative smartphone users — who want their videos to stand out on short-video platforms like TikTok. Founder and CEO Ilya Lesun frames the product as a way to meet growing demand for mobile content-creation tools and calls it a "content editing studio in a user's pocket." The company has completed a $1.5M seed raise led by Ukraine-based Genesis Investments and previously took pre-seed funding from Bulba Ventures in April 2019. Vochi operates out of Belarus; Lesun previously worked at Bulba Ventures as a product analyst.