Vasily Alekseenko

Founder @ Rare Founders 🦄 25K+ members, UK’s loudest startup community | Building SoPhy 📱 quantifying relationships through social physics | Creator of London’s Largest Demo Day 💸 | LGBTQ+ 🏳️‍🌈

📍 United Kingdom🔄 Updated September 2026💼 9 investments📅 10 years investing🗓 Last invested Oct 2024
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Oct 2024
Healthy Air, Healthy Buildings, Made Simple. indoor air quality is the greatest influencer of health, well-being and productivity in buildings, however… - It’s complicated – healthy air involves many parameters, addressing it can be expensive - It’s invisible – certifications are complex & expensive, however without them healthy & toxic buildings look the same: The AirZones platform makes indoor air simple and visible for everyone, everywhere with the world’s first star rating for air quality! Understand, manage, improve and report your indoor air quality with AirZones, the simplest, most cost effective and totally independent solution - built with everyone in mind!
mid stageReal Estate
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Jul 2024
Inference is the engine that powers AI, and Groq was built from the silicon up to deliver the worlds fastest inference at scale. We pioneered the LPU—the first processor designed specifically for AI inference—and are transforming that innovation into a global cloud platform powering production AI workloads. With the capital, infrastructure, and team to execute, were uniquely positioned to define the next era of AI infrastructure. The opportunity is massive, and its still wide open. Now lets go build it!
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Jul 2024
Varda is building the infrastructure for a thriving orbital economy, from in-orbit pharmaceutical processing to reliable and economical reentry capsules. From new, life-saving pharmaceuticals to more powerful fiber optic cables, there is a world of products used to benefit life on Earth that can only be manufactured in space. Our mission is to expand the economic bounds of humankind.
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May 2024
The most powerful answer engine. Powering curiosity with answers backed by up-to-date sources. This is where knowledge begins.
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Mar 2024
Audiomob is a completely new way to monetise mobile games. We offer non-intrusive audio ads that can be listened to in game and can greatly increase player retention, generate better reviews, all while providing developers with monetisation. Built from the ground up by developers, for developers, we strive to offer a simple, elegant alternative to standard ads.
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Dec 2023
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core. OpenAI is dedicated to putting that alignment of interests first — ahead of profit. To achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity. Our investment in diversity, equity, and inclusion is ongoing, executed through a wide range of initiatives, and championed and supported by leadership. At OpenAI, we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges, and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared. Join us in shaping the future of technology.
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Sep 2023
The all-in-one interview platform for fairer hiring. Hire the best candidates, in half the time, in the fairest way possible. Equitas is an interview platform designed to facilitate structured two-way interviews (remote and face-to-face). The software streamlines the interview process while capturing valuable data to ensure hiring managers can make objective hiring decisions in half the time.
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Sep 2016
Buzzbike is the urban bike subscription making it easy to start and keep cycling in London and Manchester. Get your very own Buzzbike-CTY or Buzzbike-EZ ⚡️ 24/7 plus lock, theft replacement and on-demand maintenance. All of this for a monthly subscription you can cancel any time.
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Feb 2026
SoPhy is the networking app for people who take relationships seriously. Every week, thousands of founders, investors, and operators show up at events, conferences, and meetups. They have great conversations. They exchange contacts. And then - by Monday - most of those connections quietly fade away. Were building SoPhy to fix that. **What SoPhy does today** SoPhy turns event-based networking into something you can actually act on. See whos in the room, find the people most relevant to you, capture what was said, and follow through while it still matters. No more business cards lost in jacket pockets. No more "we should catch up" messages that never get sent. For attendees, it means walking out of every event with a clear list of who you met, what you talked about, and what to do next. For organisers, it means giving your community a tool that makes your events demonstrably more valuable - and surfaces the connections that wouldnt have happened otherwise. **Where were going** SoPhy is built on a simple idea drawn from social physics: relationships have measurable patterns, and the strength of a network is one of the best predictors of what someone can build. Were starting with the startup ecosystem - the founders, investors, and operators who live and die by the quality of their network - and building toward a dynamic relationship graph that makes warm introductions, trust signals, and network intelligence available to everyone. **Where we are** Were at MVP, beta testing with active communities, and laying the analytics foundation that will power the next phases of the product. Backed by a team with deep expertise in product, data science, and the startup community itself. If you run events, invest in early-stage founders, or just believe networking should be measured by outcomes rather than business cards collected - wed love to talk. SoPhy - owned an ran by Rare Founders Limited.
2024
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Oct 2024
Healthy Air, Healthy Buildings, Made Simple. indoor air quality is the greatest influencer of health, well-being and productivity in buildings, however… - It’s complicated – healthy air involves many parameters, addressing it can be expensive - It’s invisible – certifications are complex & expensive, however without them healthy & toxic buildings look the same: The AirZones platform makes indoor air simple and visible for everyone, everywhere with the world’s first star rating for air quality! Understand, manage, improve and report your indoor air quality with AirZones, the simplest, most cost effective and totally independent solution - built with everyone in mind!
mid stageReal Estate
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Jul 2024
Inference is the engine that powers AI, and Groq was built from the silicon up to deliver the worlds fastest inference at scale. We pioneered the LPU—the first processor designed specifically for AI inference—and are transforming that innovation into a global cloud platform powering production AI workloads. With the capital, infrastructure, and team to execute, were uniquely positioned to define the next era of AI infrastructure. The opportunity is massive, and its still wide open. Now lets go build it!
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Jul 2024
Varda is building the infrastructure for a thriving orbital economy, from in-orbit pharmaceutical processing to reliable and economical reentry capsules. From new, life-saving pharmaceuticals to more powerful fiber optic cables, there is a world of products used to benefit life on Earth that can only be manufactured in space. Our mission is to expand the economic bounds of humankind.
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