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One Way Ventures

Boston, MA · Invests in US; North America · Website

Pre-SeedSeedSeries AConsumer Apps & SocialGamingB2B SaaSAI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsFintechEnterprise SoftwareFintech & PaymentsDeveloper Tools & InfrastructureRobotics & AutomationAerospace & Defense

Thesis

Immigrants are strongly underrepresented in venture capital despite founding or co-founding 55% of America's billion-dollar startups. Immigration and entrepreneurship are parallel one-way journeys. We back exceptional immigrant founders because their success is not priced into the market.

Likely not a fit for

Non-immigrant founding teams (firm exclusively invests in companies with at least one immigrant founder)

How they invest

Lead or follow
Usually leads
Typical decision
~2 weeks
Warm intro
Preferred
Involvement
Takes a board seat
Fund status
Actively deploying
Assets under mgmt
$125M
Decision process
Partnership vote

Partners & team

10 contacts on file

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Lex Zhao

General PartnerManaging Partner · Primary contact

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Rishab M.

PartnerPartner

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Semyon Dukach

General PartnerFounding Partner

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Eugene Malobrodsky

General PartnerManaging Partner

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Rhie Lim

PartnerPartner, Global Strategy

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MY

Mimi Yagoub

Head of Communications

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LA

Leo Arango

Venture PartnerVenture Partner

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Masha Levin

Venture PartnerVenture Partner

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Nadia Asoyan

Venture PartnerVenture Partner

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Philippe Kalaf

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Portfolio

BrexFintech Payments

Brex is a financial technology company that provides modern finance software solutions including cards, banking, expenses, and accounting, designed for startups and growing businesses.

PreplyEdtech

Preply is an online platform that connects learners with expert language tutors for personalized 1-on-1 lessons, enhancing the learning experience through human interaction and AI support.

ChipperCashFintech Payments

Chipper Cash is an African fintech company that facilitates cross-border payments. It has raised over $100 million in funding, including investments from Jeff Bezos. The company serves millions of customers and offers international transfers, payment cards, and investing.

KarmaCheckHr Tech Work

KarmaCheck is a technology-based solution for background checks, credentialing, and compliance, focusing on the staffing industry. The company utilizes AI and automation to streamline the background check process, offering a mobile-first candidate experience and powerful API integrations.

Helm AI
Buddy.aiEnterprise Software

Buddy.ai is the world’s first AI tutor designed for children under 12, providing affordable, high-quality 1-on-1 instruction through an interactive, voice-based character named Buddy the Robot. The platform features unique gameplay and educational content developed by experts, making it a popular choice for language learning among kids, with 20 million downloads in the past year.

MomentusAerospace Defense

Momentus is a U.S. commercial space company that offers in-space infrastructure services, including in-space transportation, hosted payloads and in-orbit services. The company focuses on developing innovative water plasma-based propulsion systems for its vehicles.

ProvisionEnterprise Software

Provision is an AI-powered pre-construction platform built for general contractors. The product reviews contracts, drawings, and specifications to surface risks, scope gaps, and cross-document conflicts before they become change orders or disputes. Core capabilities include contract review, specification review, cross-document conflict detection, and Scope Agent for scope-of-work generation. Provision has reviewed 66K+ documents and 1M+ risks across $100B+ in project value at 95% accuracy, with SOC 2 Type II compliance. Customers include EllisDon, PCL, NAC, Ferrovial, Colas Canada, and Parsons International.

3D Predict
BritiveSecurity Cyber

Britive is a leader in Cloud-Native Privileged Access Management (CPAM), offering solutions for unified access management across multi-cloud environments. Their platform focuses on enhancing security through zero trust principles, adaptive policy-based access management, and operational efficiency for DevOps and automation workflows.

Billdr
BrelyonEnterprise Software

Brelyon is an MIT spin-off introducing the first-ever, headset-free virtual display for gaming, entertainment, and enterprise applications. The technology uses novel physics with optical and computational techniques to create true depth and panorama, replicating a cinema-like experience in a 32” monitor form factor.

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One Way Ventures Research Investment Thesis and Philosophy One Way Ventures is a Boston and San Francisco-based seed-stage venture capital firm founded in 2017 with a mission to back exceptional immigrant-founded companies. The firm was created by Founding Partner Semyon Dukach, who after three years as Director of Techstars Boston, observed a critical market inefficiency: immigrant-led companies

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