TA Ventures

TA Ventures was founded in late 2010 by Ukrainian entrepreneur Viktoriya Tigipko. It is a “bootstrapped” venture capital firm that invests primarily its own capital, and it is also a limited partner in other venture capital funds.⁠[1][2][2]

In its early years the firm operated in Kyiv under the name TA Venture. In 2012, Viktoriya Tigipko, as a “Director at TA Venture,” was listed as a mentor at the Kyiv startup accelerator EastLabs alongside former KP MediaKP MediaKP Media is a media and internet company that American Jed Sunden built in Ukraine starting from the Kyiv Post (named KP Publications until March 2006); its holdings once included the Russian-language weekly Korrespondent, the news site korrespondent.net and the portal bigmir.net. In 2006 the company raised $11 million by selling a 20% stake with the help of Dragon Capital; it sold the Kyiv Post in 2009, took in Ukrainian Media Holding (UMH) and Petro Poroshenko as investors in 2011, and in 2013 UMH bought Poroshenko’s 50% to become its sole owner.Open the full entry owner Jed SundenJed SundenJed Sunden is an American publisher and media entrepreneur who founded the Ukrainian English-language newspaper Kyiv Post in Kyiv in 1995 and built on it to create KP Media, whose holdings included the weekly Korrespondent, korrespondent.net and bigmir.net; he sold the Kyiv Post in 2009 and his stake in KP Media in 2011. Since 2024 he has run the American Ukraine PAC in the United States, raising money for members of Congress who support Ukraine.Open the full entry, Horizon Capital investment director Vasile Tofan, and Napster founding chairman and CEO John Fanning, among others.⁠[3]

As of April 2018, TA Ventures had backed more than 110 companies and achieved 37 exits. It positioned itself as an international early-stage venture capital firm focused on SaaS, marketplaces, and deep tech in fintech, digital health, mobility, and other sectors, and had invested in companies including Azimo, Dreamlines, FinanzCheck, SumUp, and Wallapop.⁠[4][4][4]

In July 2018, Germany’s Scout24 AG agreed to acquire all shares of the German consumer loan comparison platform FINANZCHECK.de for €285 million on a cash-free and debt-free basis; the selling shareholders included Acton Capital Partners, btov Partners, Highland Europe, HarbourVest Partners, and TA Ventures, among others.⁠[5][5][5]

In 2019, TA Ventures focused primarily on mobility and digital health, often co-investing with leading investors; it had backed companies such as Wunder Mobility, Caroobi, Klara, and Sensely and helped portfolio companies set up R&D centers in Ukraine and Europe. It also founded iClub (later ICLUB), a private investment club for angel investors led by Tigipko.⁠[6][6][6]

In January 2025, TA Ventures published its review of 2024: over its 15 years it had invested in 242 businesses and exited 83, with 16 unicorns (one added in 2024) and 7 IPOs in its portfolio; ICLUB passed 2,000 members in 2024 and cut its minimum investment per company to $5,000. Tigipko said the 2024 exit from Coterie was among the fund’s top five deals by multiple and that portfolio companies raised a total of $3.24 billion that year.⁠[7][7][7][7]

As of March 2025, TA Ventures had 11 investment professionals across 8 countries; its geographic split was about 50% United States, 30% European Union, and 20% Southeast Asia and MENA, with a preference for healthcare, fintech, B2B software, and direct-to-consumer brands and tickets of $100,000 to $1 million. Partner Stepan Naumov said the firm had backed more than 250 companies and realized more than 80 positions since 2010, including 16 unicorns, among them very early rounds in European companies such as DeepL, SumUp, and Impress.⁠[2][2][2]

In April 2025, Ukrainian boxer Oleksandr Usyk joined ICLUB as a business angel and invested through it in two international startups with Ukrainian roots, for undisclosed amounts. ICLUB is an angel syndicate established by TA Ventures; at the time it had a roughly seven-year history and more than 2,000 members, who invested a total of $20 million in 2024.⁠[8][8][8][8][8]

In April 2025, TA Ventures led a $3 million funding round in the Jakarta-based coffee chain Flash Coffee, with participation from White Star Capital, to support its expansion across Indonesia.⁠[9]

As of October 2026, by its own account, TA Ventures had 15 years of experience and 280 investments, with a team spread across North America, Europe, Southeast Asia, and MENA; it invests mainly at pre-seed and seed stages and occasionally Series A, with typical tickets of $100,000 to $1 million and significant reserves for follow-ons. Eighty percent of its activity is in software and deep tech across health and bio, fintech, and enterprise software, and the other 20% in consumer companies; each year it reviews more than 3,000 opportunities and backs 20 to 30 new companies, with about half of its deal flow originating in North America.⁠[10][10][10][10][10]

The offices listed on its website are in Frankfurt, Germany; Zurich, Switzerland; Nicosia, Cyprus; and Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands. Besides founder and managing partner Tigipko, its team includes partners based in Los Angeles, the Netherlands, and Southeast Asia.⁠[11][12][12][12][12]

TA Ventures describes itself as a female-led venture capital firm and since 2010 has supported several non-profit initiatives in Ukraine, including Code Club Ukraine, which offers coding classes to children; WTECH, a community for women leaders in technology; and OneUkraine, a charitable platform founded after the full-scale invasion in 2022.⁠[10][10][10][10]

TA Ventures: Official website: https://taventures.vc/ (opens in a new window).⁠[13]

ICLUB: Official website: https://iclub.vc/ (opens in a new window).⁠[13]

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