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Back Syndicate
$151.7k ($1,000)
Typical Investments
45
Deals Last 12 Months
1291
Unique LPs have invested
Note from Ride Wave Ventures

We are only interested in investing in startups which could potentially have venture class returns. Mostly we are looking to invest in early stage startups: pre-seed, seed, and Series A. We look for high growth startups with huge or growing total addressable markets. In particular, we look for startups which product or service changes people’s behavior and creates a new market or significantly extends currently existing market.

Main areas of interest are:

  • Crypto/blockchain startups.
  • SaaS and subscription services startups.
  • Marketplaces, networks, platforms.
  • Fintech

We believe that one of the main next computational platforms will be blockchain. Even though that probably majority of startups in this area will eventually fail, but a few ones would be extremely successful and provide enormous returns to early stage investors. For example, during dot com era, there were Google, Facebook, eBay and Amazon which provided huge returns to early stage investors. Mobile era brought us Uber, Lyft, Instagram and Snap. All of the above businesses were enabled by a new platform(web 2.0 internet and mobile respectively) and were impossible before. We believe that blockchain era would create startups with new unimaginable now products and business models, and the winners in that space would provide huge returns to early stage investors.

SaaS and subscription businesses have predictable recurring revenue. SaaS startups often have high switching cost associated with their product. This provides defensibility at scale.

Marketplaces and platforms often have strong network effects. Network effects provide defensibility at scale. Nfx did a study which shows that about 70% of value captured by tech companies is driven by network effects.

Fintechs with a clear market fit often can reach a huge scale.

Our portfolio companies have raised follow-on financing from some of the best investors in the world, including:

  • Sequoia Capital
  • BlackRock
  • Founders Fund
  • Khosla Ventures
  • Softbank
  • Draper Associates
  • Jack Dorsey (Founder of Twitter and Square)
  • and many others

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Team
Oleksiy Ignatyev
Oleksiy Ignatyev
I am a data scientist with 10 years of experience in big data, predictive modeling, machine learning and cloud business applications.
Investments
LULA
Swan Bitcoin
IBEX
Stonks
Azteco
Techmate
Neutronpay
Amboss
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LPs
Chris Yeh
Chris Yeh
Angel
Investor, NYTimes Bestselling Author, Mentor, Entrepreneur. Stanford BS/BA, Harvard Business School MBA.
Maneesh Arora
Maneesh Arora
Angel
CEO & Co-founder @mightytext. Product @lyft, @zynga, @google (PM on Consumer, Ads; Founders Award). b4:Enterprise software. CS degree @ucla-1 #PRODUCTBUILDER
Shai Goldman
Shai Goldman
BD Manager
Head of XIR @ Brex , angel investor, web3 degen
Robert Simon
Robert Simon
VC
Investor in @dogster, @carwoo, @pulpo-media, @sidereel, @klicknation, @peanut-labs.
Bong Koh
Bong Koh
Investor
Partner at Hypothesis Previous experience includes Advanced Technology Ventures, Mucker, McKinsey, Salomon Smith Barney and Organic (IPO).
Sundeep Ahuja
Sundeep Ahuja
Angel
I've led 100+ Syndicates incl @mosaic @good-eggs @sandboxvr @notable-labs @livelyhsa @lus-brands; 3x Founder; Author; BS CS Stanford.
Mircea Pașoi
Mircea Pașoi
Angel
Engineering @clubhouse-app 👋 (We're hiring!) • Previously Novi @coinbase @twitter • 2x founder, 2x exits, now angel investing • Name is pronounced Meer-cha
Talmadge O'Neill
Talmadge O'Neill
Angel
Serial entrepreneur and angel investor. Co-founded MeziMedia (sold to VCLK in 2007), Vivo Aquatics (saas and service in the water management), and Juvo+ (one of the largest Amazon 3P sellers). Active angel (500+ investments)
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