Adrian V.

Exploring the Digital Frontier

📍 Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa🔄 Updated September 2026💼 4 investments📅 12 years investing🗓 Last invested Sep 2016𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
VC🌍 South Africa
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Sep 2016
Polymail is the email platform for business. By combining email with real time collaboration and integrating it with your teams other tools, Polymail allows everyone to work together seamlessly, move faster, and be more productive. Polymail participated in Y Combinator in 2016, and was acquired and is now run by a veteran team obsessed with productivity and elegantly designed software. We currently help over 3,000 customers around the world communicate and collaborate more efficiently.
Investor
May 2015
We’re reimagining the way banking works. We make it easy to manage your money – wherever you are in the world. We create financial freedom for all of us who live, work, travel, study or send money abroad. We’re the mobile app alternative to the banks, offering accounts you can open instantly so that you don’t lose access to the money you need every time you cross a border on a map. We’re here for everyone, not just for those with perfect credit scores or the right set of utility bills. We push the boundaries daily with over 2 million sign-ups across 31 countries.
early stageBanking
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Mar 2015
YFret is a conversational commerce platform build for consumer facing businesses like retail, healthcare media, travel, content. Our AI powered real time recommendation engine enables rich experiences on a voice assistant, mobile app/website, and can re-engage them on multiple channels like browser notifications, text messages, email and social media.
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Dec 2014
Scandid is an AI powered Digital Retail & Loyalty Assistant. We are San Francisco based company with offices in Zurich & Pune. We are backed by technology focused investors from US, Europe and Asia. Scandid - Largest Shopping Assistant for Online and Local Shopping with 28M installs: Scandid app is the leading shopping assistant app for online & local shopping with 40M SKUs, 5000+ Brands, 200+ Ecommerce partners and 14 malls. Our AI powered discovery and personalization engine helps user in discovering great deals & saving money. It enables user to discover products, instantly compare prices, find coupons and offers from hundreds of online shopping portals and mobile apps in India like Flipkart, Amazon, Myntra and more & maximize their savings.  It also helps in getting the "phygital"​ shopping experiences from nearly malls. TravelX.ai - Digital Travel Retail Assistant powered by AI for Airports, Airlines and Concessionaires: TravelX.ai is a digital travel retail marketplace for food & shopping that helps the Airports, Airlines, Duty Free / Concessionaires, Malls, Cruise & Ferry Lines, Railway Stations to increase retail sales with easy ordering & delivery and personalized location based marketing. We engage early with passengers by offering trip assistant, capture users intent in an unprecedented way followed by personalized marketing that result into higher conversion rates.  We also have a range of following B2B2C digital offerings where we are partnered with the global leaders like PAYBACK, American Express, Micromax, 9Apps by Alibaba, Microsoft Bing in offering delighted shopping experiences - Shopping and Web Search Partnerships with Microsoft Bing - Digital Loyalty Platform for Global Loyalty Providers & Banks
Experience · 7 entries
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2020
Founder
Sep 2020
GatherIn = a free app that allows gamers to organize and keep track of their gaming events and activities through a simple event landing page.
early stageComputer Games
2016
Investor
Sep 2016
Polymail is the email platform for business. By combining email with real time collaboration and integrating it with your teams other tools, Polymail allows everyone to work together seamlessly, move faster, and be more productive. Polymail participated in Y Combinator in 2016, and was acquired and is now run by a veteran team obsessed with productivity and elegantly designed software. We currently help over 3,000 customers around the world communicate and collaborate more efficiently.
2015
Investor
May 2015
We’re reimagining the way banking works. We make it easy to manage your money – wherever you are in the world. We create financial freedom for all of us who live, work, travel, study or send money abroad. We’re the mobile app alternative to the banks, offering accounts you can open instantly so that you don’t lose access to the money you need every time you cross a border on a map. We’re here for everyone, not just for those with perfect credit scores or the right set of utility bills. We push the boundaries daily with over 2 million sign-ups across 31 countries.
early stageBanking
Investor
Mar 2015
YFret is a conversational commerce platform build for consumer facing businesses like retail, healthcare media, travel, content. Our AI powered real time recommendation engine enables rich experiences on a voice assistant, mobile app/website, and can re-engage them on multiple channels like browser notifications, text messages, email and social media.
2014
Investor
Dec 2014
Scandid is an AI powered Digital Retail & Loyalty Assistant. We are San Francisco based company with offices in Zurich & Pune. We are backed by technology focused investors from US, Europe and Asia. Scandid - Largest Shopping Assistant for Online and Local Shopping with 28M installs: Scandid app is the leading shopping assistant app for online & local shopping with 40M SKUs, 5000+ Brands, 200+ Ecommerce partners and 14 malls. Our AI powered discovery and personalization engine helps user in discovering great deals & saving money. It enables user to discover products, instantly compare prices, find coupons and offers from hundreds of online shopping portals and mobile apps in India like Flipkart, Amazon, Myntra and more & maximize their savings.  It also helps in getting the "phygital"​ shopping experiences from nearly malls. TravelX.ai - Digital Travel Retail Assistant powered by AI for Airports, Airlines and Concessionaires: TravelX.ai is a digital travel retail marketplace for food & shopping that helps the Airports, Airlines, Duty Free / Concessionaires, Malls, Cruise & Ferry Lines, Railway Stations to increase retail sales with easy ordering & delivery and personalized location based marketing. We engage early with passengers by offering trip assistant, capture users intent in an unprecedented way followed by personalized marketing that result into higher conversion rates.  We also have a range of following B2B2C digital offerings where we are partnered with the global leaders like PAYBACK, American Express, Micromax, 9Apps by Alibaba, Microsoft Bing in offering delighted shopping experiences - Shopping and Web Search Partnerships with Microsoft Bing - Digital Loyalty Platform for Global Loyalty Providers & Banks
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