Serhiy Tokarev’s Roosh Ventures Is the Only Ukrainian Fund Featured in Sifted’s Investor Ranking
We Invest in People Who Are Transforming Markets: Serhiy Tokarev’s Venture Capital Fund Roosh Ventures Has Been Included in the Sifted Ranking
The Ukrainian venture capital fund Roosh Ventures has been included in the ranking compiled by the European media outlet Sifted, which is published with the support of the Financial Times. The fund took 43rd place among the top fifty and became the first and only Ukrainian player to make it onto this list. Three of its portfolio companies were also included in the selection of the region’s 100 fastest-growing start-ups. This was announced by Serhiy Tokarev, an IT businessman and co-founder of Roosh Ventures.
A Ukrainian Investment Fund Featured in Sifted: What Does This Mean?
Roosh Ventures provides venture capital funding to tech start-ups in Europe and beyond. This fund has made it into the list of top fifty proprietary funds of a media outlet specializing in analytics of the European start-up and venture capital markets.
The Sifted ranking is compiled based on a number of criteria:
the quality of the portfolio;
the volume of deals closed;
the player’s impact on the development of the local ecosystem.
The fact that a Ukrainian fund is among Western Europe’s leading investors shows that a fund’s country of registration is no longer a determining factor for competitiveness and scale in venture capital.
In addition, Sifted highlighted Gladia, Alma and Folk — portfolio companies that have been named among Europe’s 100 most dynamic start-ups. They operate in various technology niches:
Gladia is developing AI infrastructure for speech transcription and analysis, which is already used in thousands of products.
Alma is developing a Buy Now Pay Later payment solution.
Folk offers a CRM programme that puts people, rather than algorithms, back in charge of managing business relationships with customers.
This portfolio of companies — ranging from AI-based solutions to business and fintech tools — demonstrates the investment fund’s overarching priorities.
“The inclusion of Roosh Ventures in the ranking of one of the leading European media outlets is not accidental, but rather the result of our approach to project selection. We invest in people who transform markets, and that is why the fund has ranked among the top investors in France, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg. Ukrainian companies are already top-tier and are not playing catch-up, but competing,” notes IT investor and entrepreneur Serhiy Tokarev.
Ukrainian technology and investment teams are increasingly competing with Western companies. The results of the ranking, in which the venture capital fund Roosh Ventures was featured, only confirm this trend.
