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We are thrilled to introduce our new portfolio company – IVM Markets, a Saas investment content generation portal, which empowers financial distributors and resellers of structured products. The company and the people behind it are disrupting the financial industry by providing an alternative route to design, price and risk manage customized investments.

IVM is a London-based firm that partnered with venture capital funds Geekdom fund (as lead investors) and Vibranium.VC on a $4M round.

IVM is a technology firm that is supporting clients all over the world by leveraging expertise and big data analytics to transform the way structured products are designed and priced

“Investor demands are changing, and there is an increasing need for more customized investments. Structured products, especially the more bespoke ones, could be the ultimate vehicle for personalized investing,” says Vlad Gubski, IVM Markets co-founder.

“Technology is rapidly changing the world of customized investments and we are happy to be among those who spearhead the industry,” adds Ildar Farkhshatov, IVM Markets co-founder. “The challenge with designing custom solutions is both the idea generation and the pricing, but most importantly in determining – whether an issuer’s price for a bespoke solution is accurate or inflated. IVM’s product design suite provides an end-to-end solution that is built to be the ultimate structured product design workspace. It allows users to find the optimal product to match their client’s need and to price it in such a way that the issuer’s markup can be quantified. IVM is designed by structured product specialists for structured product specialists.”

There are already 21 clients across 7 countries who use the IVM product, and the results are impressive. Client feedback ranges from “You have really understood the journey of the wealth manager, from idea generation to making a sale and managing the client portfolio” to “We tested your pricing and, as expected, it proved to be useful.… it’s designed for precision.”

Capital raised in the funding round will go toward enabling further automation functionality within the product selection journey and expanding IVM’s operations, including establishing US-based headquarters in the near future.

Welcome aboard, IVM team!

Today, we’re excited to announce our investment in Otis AI, an all-in-one digital marketing assistant for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) that helps clients launch data-driven campaigns across Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and Google in minutes. The startup is currently building a platform that serves businesses primarily in the US.

SMBs are essential to the global economy. They create jobs and they bring innovation to society. But how can they compete with more established businesses, especially when it comes to digital advertising?

US startup Otis AI knows the answer. The founders, Miguel Guerrero and Clarence Williams, designed an all-in-one digital marketing solution to help SMBs launch data-driven multi-channel campaigns across Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and Google in a matter of minutes. And if that wasn’t enough of a draw, Otis’s solution also enables its clients to overcome the challenges of mobile attribution and third-party cookies.

Vibranium.VC participated in this round alongside Unifier Ventures, Oak Drive Ventures, Studio VC, as well as some other VC funds and private investors. The company plans to use the money to drive product development, sales, marketing, and additional features to continue improving a robust platform that serves businesses throughout the US and worldwide markets.

Miguel Guerrero commented, “Our mission is to level the playing field for small businesses and allow them to compete with advertisers hundreds of times their size. Otis AI is the best simple end-to-end solution for SMBs.” And we believe him. The company grew 300% last year and cruised past $1.5M in annual revenue.

Miami Hack Week, a distributed hackathon, and many more are already among Otis’s clients, which see an average 10x return on ad spend. NY-based retailer Extra Butter is a particularly striking example, racking up an incredible 40x ROAS.

Otis’s mission is to level the playing field for SMBs by leveraging advertising across the web, social media platforms, and television to help them grow and engage with their customers. We look forward to seeing the company’s technologies helping SMBs grow and compete effectively, regardless of their size or ad budget. Welcome aboard, champions!

Global venture capital investment in 2021 reached a record $621 billion, and almost half of it – $311 billion – came from the U.S. venture capital market. According to CB INSIGHTS, a tech search company, 12,281 financing rounds were completed in the country during this period, and 55% of the deals were concluded at an early stage.

In the world of venture investments, it is important for a startup to be invested in by a fund that speaks the same language as it does to better understand the ideas of the startup founders and make Due Diligence (a comprehensive independent evaluation of the company – Ed. note) more effective, believes Dmitry Dolgov, CEO of the financial analytics service WhatToFarm.io.

Vibranium.VC Venture Fund opened its new office in the Spaces in Menlo Park exclusive coworking space, the “boiling point” of active Silicon Valley startup accelerators and venture capitalists.

By the number of investment rounds and the amount of funds raised in the U.S., the Valley retains the lead ($105 billion) along with New York ($55 billion).

Vibranium.VC announces its readiness to finance startups focused on the US market. Thus, startups from the CIS also have a chance to become a portfolio company of the fund. The fund will also consider seed-stage companies operating on B2B SaaS business models and pursuing the goal of entering global markets in the future.

Soft-landing processes contain manageable and unmanageable components and require an understanding of local rules and regulations, as well as careful preparation and clear implementation.

“It is important to do preliminary market research on what is happening with your niche and your type of product in the American market, to open bank accounts taking into account passport type and citizenship,” says Zamir Shukho, managing partner of Vibranium.VC. – Some things don’t directly depend on you, such as the decision by American immigration authorities on whether or not to give you a visa.

Vibranium.VC staff, partners, and experts are ready to support and guide their portfolio companies at every stage. The fund’s team has many years of experience in corporate innovation, acceleration programs, and early-stage investments. The accumulated experience will help startups “soft land” in the U.S.

“The U.S. has many different places in terms of unique ecosystems tied to one type of business or another,” the fund’s experts comment. – If you have a fintech startup, the place to land is New York; if you do B2B SaaS solutions or software, Silicon Valley; if you are a media or gaming startup, land in Los Angeles.”

Spaces in Menlo Park, where Vibranium.VC is headquartered, is a great place to discuss projects and close deals with companies that will create the economy of the future.

To apply for an investment, visit the company’s website.

By Forbes

The fund invested in MR-NET (MotionRay) – a platform for accessing the Internet anywhere in the world. This tech startup operates in the US, Europe, and China. Investments will be directed toward driving sales in the respective markets. In this round the company raised a total of $350K from Vibranium.VC and Roman Tyan’s NRGVentures funds.

MotionRay provides customers, wherever they are, with the most reliable connectivity for the best possible price by leveraging Internet bonding technology. The simple, plug-n-play solution guarantees the delivery of mission critical data, whether it is PoS transactions, a video production feed, or a Zoom call with your grandmother. The long-term vision is leveraging the network effects of ecosystem adoption to establish a decentralized marketplace for (wireless) broadband at scale.

Today, MotionRay’s roster of clients includes atVenu, Super League, AbelCine and many others.

MotionRay was founded in 2019 by Alexander Pestryaev and Yuri Bussel – radio communications experts with a cumulative 30 years of experience in the telecom industry, as well as Anton Shmakov – a UC Berkeley graduate with Silicon Valley expertise both in startups and in leading technology companies, such as Google and LinkedIn.

Zamir Shukho, Vibranium.VC founder and general partner: “We liked MotionRay’s unconventional approach to solving the problem that exists in the small and medium-sized business market – smooth and easy net access. This is especially relevant for areas where there is no broadband connection, and everything works via satellites. The startup has a breakthrough technology, and now their main task is to build a sustainable business model in the US market.”

Kirill Timofeev, Vibranium.VC co-founder and partner: “Together with Motion Ray, we are entering a competitive race, because several players are simultaneously working on solving the problem of unlimited Internet access. These large-scale projects include efforts to develop satellite Internet, as well as work on behalf of authorities and mobile operators to make uninterrupted WiFi available in large cities. However, this only emphasizes the demand for the product. If in the 2000s the Internet was important as such, in the 2010s speed and mobility came to the forefront. Following this logic I can assume that in the 2020-2030s these two parameters together will be absolutely critical. It will become crucial for users to get stable, consistently high-quality access to the network everywhere, and at an average price for cloud services.”

Anton Shmakov, MotionRay CEO: “The investment will allow us to satisfy existing demand, iterate on the product and establish a market foothold.”