Participated · Equity · Mar 2026

Founded by former banker Zeynal Kerimzade and launching its MVP in June 2021, Epoint is a B2B fintech serving SME and micro clients with a unified payments and sales-management platform. The company processes about $300 million in transactions annually (TPV) and reported ARR of $2.6 million for 2025, with year-over-year revenue growth of 49% and TPV growth of 54%. Epoint operates in Azerbaijan and Georgia, is registered in the U.S. as its headquarters, and employs roughly 50 people with about 1,500 contracted clients on the platform. The business is cash-positive and has completed accelerator programs including 500 Global and Startup Wise Guys, and served as a payments partner for COP29 where it processed transactions for ~80,000 guests. Epoint has obtained a payments license in Georgia (early 2025) and is pursuing regional expansion into other CIS and Central Asian markets such as Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. The company has an option-pool-based equity plan for employees and says the new financing will be used primarily to accelerate market expansion, licensing, banking integrations, and client onboarding.

Participated · Equity · Mar 2026

Vivox AI is a London-based technology company building “atomic” AI agents that each handle a single, auditable compliance task such as corporate registry analysis, UBO identification, sanctions and PEP triage, or adverse-media reasoning. The agents are deployed on an enterprise platform that connects to multiple internal and external data sources, delivering real-time enrichment and decision support while remaining fully explainable and regulator-aligned with frameworks like the EU AI Act and recent FCA guidance. A self-learning layer, embodied by the lead agent Rachel, continuously improves performance through supervised human feedback without sacrificing governance controls. The system is already live with customers including TransferMate, Altery, Osome and Telf, operating across more than 100 countries. In production, customers have cut case processing times from about six hours to 30 minutes, lowered false-positive alerts by up to 86%, and achieved straight-through processing rates of up to 50% on selected workflows. Following its initial fundraise, the company is adding engineering and product talent and rolling out the next generation of its platform. Financially, Vivox AI has secured £1.3 million (€1.5 million) in its first round to support this expansion.

Participated · Series A · Oct 2025

Founded in Estonia in 2017, Yaga operates an online marketplace focused on second-hand fashion, combining social features with secure escrow payments and localised logistics. The company has become the leading resale platform in South Africa and now attracts more than 12 million monthly visits. Yaga’s value proposition centres on affordability—items are typically listed at 50–80 percent below new retail prices—while advancing sustainable consumption. Revenue is generated from transaction fees, though specific figures were not disclosed in the article. With its newly raised capital, the company plans to deepen its footprint across Africa and expand into the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. Management believes the global shift toward resale, projected to push the second-hand apparel market to $367 billion by 2029, provides a large, tail-wind market opportunity. The fresh funding will also be used to grow the team and enhance product capabilities in existing markets.

Participated · Equity · Oct 2025

Founded in 2020 by Marco Agostini and Marco Cerquozzi, Poleepo has built more than 80 native integrations that let online sellers manage suppliers, catalogs, marketplace and social commerce listings, orders, shipping and electronic invoicing from a single interface. During the past 12 months, over 350 e-commerce businesses used the software daily to handle 45 million products, 180 million listings and more than 4 million orders, collectively generating in excess of €280 million in sales while trimming average operating costs by about 30 percent. The company positions itself as the technological partner for multichannel sellers aiming to scale efficiently. With fresh capital, Poleepo will enlarge its team and speed development of “Agentic AI” features that autonomously update catalogs, optimize prices and manage logistics and invoicing. The startup also plans to expand internationally into Spain, Portugal, Germany and Poland. Its vision is to create a connected, intelligent ecosystem that makes e-commerce operations simpler, more sustainable and scalable.

Participated · Seed · Oct 2025

Theodosian is a UK cybersecurity startup building a “second-layer” defence that embeds encryption and granular, per-file permissions directly into documents. Its platform attaches a persistent data-protection layer that travels with each file, performing 20–30 compliance-aligned checks and continuously verifying access rights. The technology is designed to help organisations meet multiple regulatory frameworks, including upcoming UK Defence Cyber Certification (DCC) and US Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) standards. Founded by practitioners with more than a decade of experience in defence, intelligence, banking and healthcare, Theodosian aims to ensure sensitive data remains protected regardless of where it is stored or shared. Recent funding is earmarked to complete version 1 of the product and begin commercial scaling. No operating metrics such as revenue or user numbers were disclosed in the article.