Wright brothers did it right. Their Flyer I became the first plane that flew. We believe in similar doers. Pitch us what you did, we’ll help you do more 🚀
Warsaw, Poland
Joined February 2022
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Truly breaking news: Our portfolio startup @Greenscreens_ai is heading for a big exit 🔥
Triumph Financial, a public company, has agreed to acquire the startup.
The acquisition is expected to close in Q2 2025.
More here 👉 bit.ly/3EWs1FY
#F1V #exit
Great news from our portfolio company Liki24.com 🎉
It has raised $9M in a Series A round from u.ventures, TA Ventures, iClub, N1 Ventures, SID Venture Partners, MA7 Ventures, DniproVC, Anton Borzov, and other investors.
Big congrats to the team 🚀
Fundraising?
Check out this pitch competition by @vestbee_com. It’s for early-stage CEE startups looking for funding in the next few months.
Apply by June 29 👉 bit.ly/4k4RdbY. Definitely worth it 🔥
It’s the best growth program for CEE consumer tech startups we know.
Run by our partners — @TRMNL4 & @Meta.
Meet F1V GP Vital Laptenok, partner Elena Mazhuha, and head of ops Ksenia Novikova among the experts 🔥
Apply by July 17 👉 trmnl4.short.gy/JVIdFF.
Maybe it’s a sign. You’ve got a bold tech idea, and our partners @EIT_Digital can help you make it happen.
Apply for their program for European entrepreneurs 👉 bit.ly/4jI5ZFy
Founders, investors, join a side event by TRMNL4 and @Snapchat at @VivaTech 🔥
◾ 6-7:30 p.m. — Traction Builder Demo Day by TRMNL4 and Snap.
◾ 8-11 p.m. — Networking with a DJ set and cocktails.
This is your sign to join. Please register 👉 bit.ly/4mAItgg
#VivaTech
Super cozy networking in Budapest ❤️
Planned pretty spontaneously, but around 70 great people came. Cool!
Investors from CEE funds, startup founders. The place was just beautiful, right by the Danube.
Thanks to our partner @EIT_Digital 🫶 Took some unprofessional photos 😁
We invested in @memoryos_app 🦄
The startup develops an AI-powered gamified platform to improve memory.
F1V backed the company alongside @sidvpfund, @VesnaCapital, @angelonefund, and angel investor @vc_anthony_bren.
Our first co-hosted event with Endeavor Ukraine was truly great.
About 100 attendees, and we even ran out of extra seats. People who came “just for 10 minutes” ended up staying until the end 🔥
@vitalylaptenok, our fund’s leader, gave a welcome speech 💚
Let’s meet next week! We’re hosting a side event at 0100 Emerging Europe together with @EIT_Digital 🔥
Network with the brightest minds in CEE: investors, entrepreneurs, and builders.
Budapest.
May 14, 7:30 p.m.
Registration 👉 bit.ly/4jKxE9G.
Participation is free.
Our new investment — Heizma 🔥
The company provides full-cycle electrification for homeowners in Austria, offering sustainable and cost-effective tools.
It raised €2.5M from F1V, Angel Invest, Future Fund, and plenty of angel investors.
A few years in a row, we’ve taken part in Onstage (prev. Focal) Demo Day to meet promising founders.
The program is for startups from pre-seed to Series A, raising in the next six months.
Applications are now open again 👉 onstage.vc
It’s our first event organized with Endeavor Ukraine 💪
We’re gathering prominent Ukrainian and global founders, investors, and business leaders — to connect and strengthen ties between Ukraine’s and global tech.
London.
May 13, 6 p.m.
Register 👉 lu.ma/up4chky4
Only 10 places left for our side event at @vestbee_com Summit 🔥
We’re organizing this chill meetup with Sigma Squared, an invite-only community for ambitious founders under 26.
Register to join us next week 👉 ceeconnect.gridaly.com/
"People do their best work when they have freedom, responsibility and full context — not a boss breathing down their neck."
@vitalylaptenok shares in his new @Forbes story how micromanagement hurts business, and how to shift from doing to leading 👇
bit.ly/3RifDCQ
Our friends from TRMNL4 and @Snapchat are running an equity-free accelerator for consumer tech startups at the seed and Series A stages.
Apply by March 26 to scale a new traffic source in 6 weeks 👉 trmnl4.short.gy/6707w9
Our portfolio startup All Right recently won Product of the Year at the international @DigitalEdAwards 🎉
The company took the top spot in the Digital Language Learning category.
Hats off to Oleg Oksiuk and his amazing team! 👏
A year ago, the founders of Ukraine’s biggest tech companies launched Diia.City United.
We joined their event last week 💪
Our co-founder and partner Oleksii Yermolenko participated in the panel about what gets on the nerves of startups and investors 🔥
