Vershina Capital is an international venture organization. We invest in innovative business models that disrupt traditional industries. We provide our expertise and financing for the rapid development of early stage technology companies in growing markets.
Our investors are provided with the opportunity to multiply their capital by investing into innovative international projects. We help startups get investments to develop and scale their business. We provide strong industrial expertise from skillful experts and advisors to outperform competitors and take a leading position in the market.
The diversified portfolio of Vershina Capital consists of several dozen fast-growing private companies, access to which is possible only if you have authority and a name in the professional venture community, as well as industry expertise.
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We invest into Late seed / Round A startups with a motivated team of founders, a proven MVP, good unit economics, with the potential to scale the business model in the European and North American markets. We favour Online Education/EdTech, FoodTech (e-grocery) and E-Commerce sectors.
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We provide various support to our portfolio companies. This involves attracting professional experts and advisors from their industry, assistance with fundraising as well as providing operational knowledge to ensure dynamic business growth. Support from Vershina Capital allows our portfolio companies to gain a competitive edge in their product or service, overtake competitors, increase market share and the valuation of the company.
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The target level of return on investments is from 3 to 20x. Investment horizon ranges from 2 to 5 years.
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We invite investors who wish to maximize the return on their capital at a reasonable level of risk in order to always be on top of innovations and technologies.
Our investors receive:
• Access to a private club of venture investors with a pipeline of best innovative projects. Our investors have a possibility to choose which project to invest in.
• Beneficial deal terms, safe infrastructure for investments
• High return on invested capital
• Regular reviews on priority areas of investment, experience and expertise exchange
• Monthly updates on key indicators, metrics of portfolio companies
IntellectoKids - educational & entertainment app for 3-7 year old kids that prepares children for school
SF Education is a leader in online financial education in the Russian-speaking countries
All-right - global online English language school for kids
Ultimate Education is a new leader of the fast-growing online education market in Russia.
MAED is a marketing training center with certification programs from the Netherlands Institute of Marketing – NIMA.
Fashion Factory is a school of business education in the fashion industry aimed at development of practical skills.
XYZ is a school of game development from concept art and 3D graphics to game design and programming.
Bang Bang is an online school of design and illustration. It offers courses and intensives from leading experts in the design industry.
Psycodemia is an online school for training psychologists and coaches.
MetroSpeedy is a hyperlocal delivery service (15 minutes) operating in New York, the USA.
Bairro is a Portuguese hyperlocal delivery service that delivers food, groceries and essentials to consumers' homes in 15 minutes or less operating in Lisbon.
X-way - # 1 technological platform for managing sales on marketplaces
An innovative service for storage and moving at a fixed cost
Voluntary health insurance for businesses. BestDoctor is a technological platform for health management.
ByNext is a leader in the on-demand laundry & dry-cleaning segment in the USA.
MasterClass is an online education subscription platform on which students can access tutorials and lectures pre-recorded by experts in various fields.
Udacity is an online education provider that offers online courses with a stronger focus on job training. Udacity offers “Nanodegrees” which are focused on in-demand skills in the field of technology.
Udemy is an online learning and teaching marketplace with over 155000 courses and 40 million students.
Automation Anywhere is a global leader in Robotic Process Automation, offering cloud-native, web-based, intelligent automation solutions.
Rubrik is a cloud data management company. It provides data management services such as backup and recovery.
Flexport is a freight forwarding and customs brokerage company. Flexport's software integrates and connects ERP data from various companies involved in a supply chain.
Thrasio is a leader in buying up and scaling third-party merchants selling on Amazon and other marketplace platforms.
Breadfast is an Egyptian foodtech startup that delivers household essentials, bakeries, groceries in minutes.
Moscow Digital School is an online school of law, analytics and finance.
IntellectoKids - educational & entertainment app for 3-7 year old kids that prepares children for school
SF Education is a leader in online financial education in the Russian-speaking countries
All-right - global online English language school for kids
Ultimate Education is a new leader of the fast-growing online education market in Russia.
MAED is a marketing training center with certification programs from the Netherlands Institute of Marketing – NIMA.
Fashion Factory is a school of business education in the fashion industry aimed at development of practical skills.
XYZ is a school of game development from concept art and 3D graphics to game design and programming.
Bang Bang is an online school of design and illustration. It offers courses and intensives from leading experts in the design industry.
Psycodemia is an online school for training psychologists and coaches.
Moscow Digital School is an online school of law, analytics and finance.
MetroSpeedy is a hyperlocal delivery service (15 minutes) operating in New York, the USA.
Bairro is a Portuguese hyperlocal delivery service that delivers food, groceries and essentials to consumers' homes in 15 minutes or less operating in Lisbon.
Breadfast is an Egyptian foodtech startup that delivers household essentials, bakeries, groceries in minutes.
X-way - # 1 technological platform for managing sales on marketplaces
An innovative service for storage and moving at a fixed cost
Voluntary health insurance for businesses. BestDoctor is a technological platform for health management
ByNext is a leader in the on-demand laundry & dry-cleaning segment in the USA.
MasterClass is an online education subscription platform on which students can access tutorials and lectures pre-recorded by experts in various fields.
Udacity is an online education provider that offers online courses with a stronger focus on job training. Udacity offers “Nanodegrees” which are focused on in-demand skills in the field of technology.
Udemy is an online learning and teaching marketplace with over 155000 courses and 40 million students.
Automation Anywhere is a global leader in Robotic Process Automation, offering cloud-native, web-based, intelligent automation solutions.
Rubrik is a cloud data management company. It provides data management services such as backup and recovery.
Flexport is a freight forwarding and customs brokerage company. Flexport's software integrates and connects ERP data from various companies involved in a supply chain.
Thrasio is a leader in buying up and scaling third-party merchants selling on Amazon and other marketplace platforms.
The Coach - #1 men's health program that wipes 10 years off
Vershina Capital office in Cyprus: 22 Gianni Ritsou, Pera Chorio Nisou, Nicosia 2571 Cyprus
Andrey Batanov - Managing partner, founder
At the age of 23, Andrey started his career as Deputy General Director for Finance of a mobile operator in an Asian country. Then he decided to start a new project with his partner to develop broadband Internet access in the regions of Russia, which was successfully sold together with NETBYNET to MegaFon for $ 270 million.
After the sale, from 2012 to 2020, Andrey worked at MegaFon as a CEO of NETBYNET, responsible for fixed and converged business in the mass market and corporate business. Successfully closed about 20 M&A deals, and subsequent business integration.
Currently he is a co-founder and managing partner of Vershina Capital. His areas of responsibility in the team include strategy, communications, organizational development as well as investor and partner relations. His main focus is pre-IPO.
Andrey is a four-time winner of the Innovation of the Year Award, a three-time winner of the "Bolshaya Tsifra" (Big Digit) Award, and was ranked among the 250 best CEOs in Russia.
He graduated from the university with a degree in Mathematical Methods in Economics, studied at the Joint Vienna Institute, and also graduated from the Executive MBA of the SKOLKOVO business school.
He has two sons. His hobbies include tennis, swimming, and traveling.
Vladimir Skrynnik - Managing partner, founder
Graduate of International Law Faculty of MGIMO (2002). Vladimir started his career as an international lawyer at the Jus Privatum law firm. In 2002-2007 he worked his way up from a junior lawyer to a managing partner of the company. In 2008 he bought out the legal business from the other founders and opened offices of Jus Privatum in Saint Petersburg (2009) and Dusseldorf, Germany (2011). Vladimir specializes in corporate law, support of transactions related to capital and debt financing, including those with a foreign element.
In 2011-2014 Vladimir acted as a founder and a CEO of a financial company with offices in Moscow and St. Petersburg and a franchise in two regions.
From May 2018 till October 2019 Vladimir completed the Executive MBA program at the SKOLKOVO Business school. He gives a course of lectures at the Seed angels Venture Investment Course organized by INVESTORO under the auspices of the Skolkovo Business School.
Since 2019 Vladimir is one of the founders and a managing partner of Vershina Capital. The key competencies are the development of relations with investors and co-investors of the fund, structuring of fund transactions (legal & finance), foreign markets.
Vladimir has two kids. His hobbies include mountain hiking and climbing, running, yoga.