We're a start-up company that just happens to invest in other start-ups. SYD Ventures, founded by Andrey Shirben in 2012 is not your ordinary fund - in fact it's not a fund at all - it's a company that invests in early-stage startups. We invest in people, rather than in ideas. We invest in startups we can personally get involved in, help building and scaling them. We invest relatively small amounts, mainly at the early seed and pre-seed stages and being long time entrepreneurs ourselves, we understand the needs and interests of the start-ups and the entrepreneurs.