Imperious Group is a venture capital firm based in the US, Israel, and Eastern Europe that invests in startups in areas like advertising, e-commerce, SaaS, mobile products, online education, and financial services. The document provides details on Imperious Group's portfolio and investment strategy, including sectors and regions invested in, as well as updates on portfolio company performance and funding offers.

1. Three Years
Summary
’13 ’14 ’15

2. Imperious Group is a rapidly developing
venture capital company based in USA,
Israel and Eastern Europe.
The founder and the president of the fund
is Timur Yakubaros, businessman with 10+
years of experience in real-estate area.
The focus of our work — to invest in the growth
of strong, interesting startups in such areas:
• advertising (AdTech),
• e-commerce,
• SaaS,
• mobile-products,
• online education,
• big data,
• financial services.
We also consider the products aimed
at the corporate sector [b2b], as well
as a mass market [b2c] in niches
in which teams have the experience.
How We Work
• focused on startups at pre-seed,
seed and series A stage;
• investment range: $50k–500k [average],
$1m+ [series a];
• target locations of teams: cis, Israel, Europe,
usa, Asia;
• target markets: Europe, usa, Asia;
• no intervention into operational processes;
• connections with best tech /r&d teams
for quick growth.
about
venture

3. Pavel Aleshin
venture partner
A Graduate of Berkeley Venture Capital
Executive Program (California, usa).
Uses his knowledge and over 10 years
of experience in internet business within
the implementing strategy of the fund.
Dmitriy Shvets
associate partner
An expert in strategic & startup consulting.
Experience in investment banking and
government area, enterprise software
and marketplaces. Has worked with startups
from Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Ukraine.
Kyrylo Mazur
associate partner
An internet entrepreneur with interest
in it-outsource, digital-marketing
and tennis area with clients from usa,
Australia, Canada, uk, Ukraine, Russia
and Kazakhstan.
Dmytro Karpov
junior investment analyst
Studied at Kyiv School of Economics,
has experience in management consulting
and analytics. Working on startups research
and project analysis. Interested in mobile,
education (Edtech), social, marketplace.
team

4. commited
fund size
25M
years
term12
6.42
2013
3.25
2014
1.33
2015
currently
invested
$11M
remains
$14M
40%

5. Sportandme
Textgears
Pruffme
Bazzilla
Cardsup
Healthmaps
Football4you
Settle
Lendingstar
Ubiqmobile
Retargetapp
Hashtago
Croice
investing
timeline
& current
status
pt.1
1st
quarter
1st
quarter
2nd
quarter
2nd
quarter
3rd
quarter
3rd
quarter
4th
quarter
4th
quarter
2014 2015
1st
quarter
2nd
quarter
3rd
quarter
4th
quarter
2013status
profitable
breakeven
scale
paused

6. Freshoffice
Jetme
Publicfast
Topes
Polltopay
Echo
Coursmos
Cupli
Arquest
Audaster
Bethclip
Dentalcloud
Exclusivio
Foodle
investing
timeline
& current
status
pt.2
1st
quarter
1st
quarter
1st
quarter
2nd
quarter
2nd
quarter
2nd
quarter
3rd
quarter
3rd
quarter
3rd
quarter
4th
quarter
4th
quarter
4th
quarter
2013 2014 2015status
profitable
breakeven
scale
paused

7. Happytom
Mitten
Sportamba
Mutlitest
Delfast
Kwambio
Allset
Crowdnet
Crediograph
Instantapi
investing
timeline
& current
status
pt.3
1st
quarter
1st
quarter
2nd
quarter
2nd
quarter
3rd
quarter
3rd
quarter
4th
quarter
4th
quarter
2014 2015
1st
quarter
2nd
quarter
3rd
quarter
4th
quarter
2013status
profitable
breakeven
scale
paused

8. usa5
russia10
ukraine17
azerbaijan 1
belarus 1
israel1
malaysia1
uk1
portfolio
structure
by countries

9. portfolio
structure
by category
10
Enterprise Software
Cloud Data Service
3D-Printing
Edtech
VR
10
Adtech & Social Media
Music Services & Streaming
Dating
3
Health Care
Pet Care
7
Ecommerce
Marketplace
Fintech
7
Foodtech
Delivery
Sports

10. portfolio
structure
by stage
seedpre-seed extended seed /series a
9
5
23

11. assets
upturn &
turnovers
Assets value based on confirmed valuations,
investing commitments and current metrics
Portfolio companies’
turnovers growth summary
2013 2013
$5.743M
$0.52M
$9.423M
$1.52M+64% +125%
$21.238M
$3.21M
2014 20142015 2015

12. pt.1
Venture have a wide and versatile network of partners in vc ecosystem
worldwide as partnerships in the usa, Germany, Holland, Ukraine, partners
in China and Middle East.
network of vc
professionals
and partners
We have developed tailor­made vc ecosystem database, applying our internal
methodology, which helps our startups to grow faster and find right partners
for their needs.
ecosystem
researches
In­house developed system for investors, startups and co­investors, which helps
our startups and our co­investors stay connected and updated.
crm for investors
and startups
benefits and
cooperations

13. pt.2
FbStart provides startups with an exclusive community, worldwide events,
mentorship from Facebook, and up to $80k in free tools and services.
fb start
Free transaction volume up to $1.5m on PayPal and Braintree ($50k of PayPal
fees and $100k of Braintree fees waived for 18 months).
paypal
blueprint
Dealflow sharing with international accelarators and funds helps us to see
the best ideas on the market and companies who could become a valuable
partners for our portfolio companies.
network of
co­investors
Co-investment opportunities via AngelList and partnership network.syndicate
investing
benefits and
cooperations

14. Companies have a choice of $15k valid for two years or $100k for one year.
The package includes free credits and a lot of support such as 24 ⁄ 7 technical
support, solution architect access, trainings and third party offers. The team
at Amazon Web Services has a startup program for early stage companies.
The program, aws activate, provides you with the following:
• two years of aws credits (up to $15k) or one year of aws credits
(up to $100k) starting from your investment date (seed/series a);
• one year of premium aws business support (up to $5k);
• free access to the aws essentials one day web-based training (normally
~$600/course), plus 8 tokens for self-paced labs (normally ~$30/lab);
• free access to 1:1 virtual office hours with aws solutions architects;
• special offers from other companies that help startups, including Chef,
Cloudability, Bitnami, Amazon Payments, soasta, CopperEgg and more.
amazon
web services
pt.3
benefits and
cooperations

15. Imperious Group is an excellent partner for world class entrepreneurs seeking
seed and early stage funding. Comprised of former experienced entrepreneurs
and startup executives, the fund's team moves quickly with the entire
investment process, allowing entrepreneurs to close fundraising rounds
efficiently and focus on executing their plan. I had the pleasure of working
with Imperious Group when they invested in a number of Velton Zegelman pc
clients, both in Silicon Valley and internationally.
testimonials
tmt investments
velton zegelman
I've been honored to be a shareholder in a long list of Imperious Group portfolio
companies, so, it gives me a special pleasure to congratulate the fund in many
fast-growing startups. True to its name, Imperious bets on teams with grand
Vision—the vision of building empires of talent, cutting edge tech and solid
growth drivers. I wish Imperious continues success with selecting success-
found startups.
Perfect team, deep expertise and the smart money for real.
Successful co-investing experience. Fast, cohesive and professionally.
wannabiz
altera capital

16. Fresh Office
series b
A cloud based platform
combining all the
necessary software tools
for running a business.
• one of the “Most
successful projects
powered by Microsoft
Azure” in Russia;
• used by 25k users;
• “Top 50 of the best
startups”in Russian
Startup Ratings;
• over $2.1m of revenue.
valuation: 8m
Delfast
series a
1-hour delivery service
for online stores
on electric bikes.
• the number of deliveries
increased from 1 019 to
5 324 per month during
the last 10 months;
• sales volume increased
from $1.4k to $11.5k
during the last 10 months;
• the number of b2b
clients increased from
27 to 367 during the last
10 months.
valuation: 7m
Topes
series a
SaaS solution which makes
companies more profitable
by reducing their costs and
making procurement more
efficient and transparent.
• min 10% m /m revenue
growth during 12 months;
• 1k+ employees using
Topes for their offices;
• 100+ suppliers in Topes
suppliers network;
• 50k+/month revenue.
valuation: 5m
Cupli
series a
Cupli is a state of the
art platform for highly
targeted yet cost-effective
respondents recruiting
for quantitative market
research.
• $0,99m annual revenue;
• 209% annual revenue
growth;
• 40k respondents
interviewed monthly,
started from 8000 a year
ago.
valuation: 10m
Echo
seed
Collective music
curation.
• 13k units
downloaded (organic);
• 100+ sign ups a day;
• 25% returning traffic;
• 8 screens per session.
valuation: 2.5m
actual
funding
offers

17. some
facts
653 people
were employed by
portfolio companies
20K people
preordered their
lunch with Settle
and wasted no
minute waiting
Multitest helped 2M
people find internet provider
3.5M lessons viewed by users on Coursmos
Over 50K people got their deliveries
within 1 hour with Delfast
Influencers earned
over 50K from
Publicfast just for
recommending brands
to their followers
The fund team made
over 200 flights
around the world,
reviewing more than
7000 startups and
listening over 1000
pitches

18. Follow-on
investments into
the best portfolio
companies
Co-investments
via partnership
networks in
eu, usa, Asia
Expansion
of the investment
focus geography
New investments
leveraging our strong
pipeline and market
experience
what's
next?

19. credits
Data analysis—Pavel Aleshin
Layout & data visualization—Marat Tyncherov