Andrey Shirben

Wombat @ WombatDAO, Dreamer @ BlinDEX, Strategic Advisor @ StackAI & Blubird, ; Founding Partner Follow[the]Seed; Head of DeFi Strategy @ EF. Crypto investor. Changing the world as we know it, one block at a time.

📍 Greater Sydney Area, Australia🔄 Updated September 2026💼 40 investments📅 20 years investing🗓 Last invested Sep 2020𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
VC🌍 Australia20+ investments
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Early Investor & Advisor
Sep 2020
OroPocket is one of the leading and fastest-growing FinTech platforms in the space. We strongly rely on our innovative measures and technology-enabled background to ensure people create wealth in the quickest and most hassle-free way. Through our platform, users can buy, sell, pay, and get paid using digital assets instantly.
Angel Investor
May 2020
Shouta® is a nano-gifting® App that lets users send gifts like coffee, drinks or *anything* else, redeemable instantly via a digital Shouta Mastercard sent straight to your recipients phone. Were all about celebrating or commiserating lifes mini moments. Shouts are perfect for saying "thanks", "congrats", "cheer up", "Im sorry" or more. Its the most flexible, fun, personalised and instant gift youll ever send or receive! Get Shouta® App on app stores today http://app.shouta.co Keen to reward and incentivise employees, clients and customers? Step away from the App. We have another solution for you - Shouta Biz®. Register at www.shouta.co/biz
Head of DeFi Strategy, Early Investor & Board Member
Sep 2018
Efficient Frontier has been building powerful autonomous trading technology in crypto markets since 2017. EF’s algorithms optimize hundreds of millions of dollars and more than 150K transactions in daily trading turnover across numerous digital assets and exchanges 24/7/365. With several decades of combined technology, algorithmic trading and research experience, EF helps partners build healthier, liquid markets and deliver higher value for traders and investors.
Investor
Mar 2017
The world's largest digital business card platform, specializing in large scale deployments with some of the world's most recognized brands. Upgrading from paper business cards to our digital business cards helps your company be more sustainable, reduce costs and increase in your team's sales performance and customer satisfaction metrics.
Angel Investor
Aug 2015
Sun Protection Made Cool. One in five Americans will develop skin cancer during the course of their lives. SunZee's goal is to develop products that make sun protection accessible and fashionable.
Angel Investor
Feb 2015
Cymmetria is a cybersecurity company at the forefront of deception technology, and offers the only commercially available deception technology that has caught 5 nation-state APTs. Cymmetria’s deception products, MazeRunner and ActiveSOC, give organizations the ability to hunt attackers, detect lateral movement inside the perimeter, automate incident response, and mitigate attacks. The company also offers deception as a service, enabling organizations to customize deception technologies for their business environment. Founded in 2014 by security expert Gadi Evron, Cymmetria is changing the asymmetry of cybersecurity, giving defenders the upper hand. For more information, visit www.cymmetria.com.
Angel Investor & Active Partner
Oct 2014
The Out of X platform connects Global independent fashion designers with Chinese customers. For retailers in China: We raise Brand Desirability & Product Diversification for High -End retailers through Our Trusted Network of Independent Fashion Designers For designers: Out of X provides the groundwork for brands to significantly expand their customer base through our partnerships with luxury Chinese retailers in Tier 1 Cities.
Angel Investor & Advisory Board Member
Sep 2014
Teach Design & Technology curriculum and STEM in a fun and engaging way with the world's easiest to use 3D design app & 3D printing program for K-8 students. Makers Empire is loved by 2.2 million students in 40 countries. At Makers Empire, we believe every child can make their world better. With Makers Empire, K-8 educators learn how to teach Design Thinking, cover Design and Technologies Curriculum and embrace maker pedagogy using 3D design and printing. We equip educators with the tools, resources, knowledge and support they need to embrace creativity and making in education for improved student performance, engagement and learning. With Makers Empire, K-8 students are empowered by an engaging design process to develop a growth mindset and important problem solving, analytical and spatial thinking skills. STEM subjects become fun and engaging, as students use their creativity and newly acquired Design Thinking skills to solve real-world problems and help both themselves and people within their communities. Over 44 million designs have been made using Makers Empire 3D modelling software - students make 100,000 new designs each day! Our school solutions are used by 28,000 teachers and 2.2 million students in 40 countries. At Makers Empire, we’re proud to work with teachers to help create a new generation of creators, problem solvers and innovators. Join us
Angel Investor
Sep 2014
Newsfusion melds algorithmic relevance with user engagement, creating vertical communities where the best content meets the most passionate audiences. Each of our apps delivers an immersive experience for one specific vertical. We offer products in dozens of verticals, used by millions around the globe. Visit www.newsfusion.com to check us out and find out which of our apps is for you.
Angel Investor
Aug 2014
The ultimate hub for jobs in education ​ Access a thriving hub of teachers looking for work, with 2000+ teachers signing up every month. ClassCover instantly connects you with teachers to book for casual relief teaching days or hire for full time, part-time and temp positions.
early stageEducation
Founding Investor
Aug 2014
StorReduce is pioneering a virtualization layer containing numerous unique technologies for companies to move data to and better use it at scale on object storage and cloud. StorReduces vision is to enable enterprises to have a single cloud data lake with no data silos, that is affordable, scalable and maximizes the data’s business value. One technology in the StorReduce virtualization layer is software defined, scale-out deduplication with a cloud native interface. The only deduplication built for modern cloud object storage, StorReduce reduces object storage costs, speeds up transfer, by up to 97% and enables reuse of the data and metadata on object storage with generic cloud services. (See StorReduce Malware Detection demo at https://youtu.be/9_FNSqaNUDU.) A single StorReduce cluster can handle 10s to 100s of petabytes of data at extremely high throughputs and enables new business cases such as removing backup appliances and storing primary backups straight to object storage or cloud. Other technologies in the StorReduce layer include: Object Clone, Deduplicated Replication, StorReduce Insight and more. See storreduce.com for details. StorReduce was 1 of 4 partners worldwide for the AWS S3 Infrequent Access launch, 1 of 8 partners worldwide for the Google Cloud Coldline launch and was recommended by Gartner as a cloud deduplication software in their report: Market Guide for Data Center Backup Targets. StorReduce is in production around the globe and is recommended by most leading clouds and private object stores. StorReduce software installs on-premises or in your cloud or object store in minutes and is available for Free Trial by contacting StorReduce.
Angel Investor & Active Partner
Jul 2014
Cartesian Co. presents the Argentum, the world’s first consumer-level 3D Circuit Board Printer. After an extremely successful Kickstarter campaign – reaching the funding goal on the first day and exceeding the end target by more than 400% – the Cartesian Co team has already shipped hundreds of printers. The Argentum works on similar principles to an inkjet printer – though instead of ink, it prints a silver nanostructure onto a growing range of substrates. The product is a circuit board, allowing our current customers – hobbyists and members of the maker movement – to create complex electronics without the hassle and expense of contracting an industrial circuit board printer. Currently selling pre-orders through the website (cartesianco.com), Cartesian Co predicts expansion into the education, research and small-medium enterprise markets, filling a need for rapid electronics prototyping and fuelling the hardware startup revolution.
Angel Investor
Jul 2014
Our mission at Pixc (www.pixc.com) is to turn your product images into awesome ones so you can increase your online sales. With the rise of online shopping, we’ve noticed that professional photos helps to highlight your products, make you stand out from your competitors and gets your customers clicking ‘add to cart’. The process of background removal is tedious and can often take up to an hour per image. At Pixc we want to provide a quick, efficient and easy way for you to have retail-ready photos. We’ve helped hundreds of e-commerce store owners and we want to help you sell more products. We remove the background and touch up a photo within 24 hours. Submit your free trial to www.pixc.com/freetrial
Angel Investor & Board Member
Jul 2014
Farmbot is an Australian agritech providing remote monitoring solutions for the agriculture industry that solves water challenges, safeguarding the long-term availability of water whilst improving stewardship of natural resources. IP hardware drives data to a SaaS platform providing users with near real-time SMS and email alerts and reporting on water levels and trends. This data along with predictive analytics improves management, production and resource allocation equipping farmers with actionable insights to help make better business decisions. Farmbot improves productivity and profitability through reductions in labour and fuel costs whilst improving sustainability outcomes, animal welfare and carbon emissions for as little as $1 a day.
Angel Investor
Jul 2013
Malabi is a computer vision company developing image enhancement solutions for the e-commerce market, using cutting edge Artificial Intelligence technologies. Our patented Automatic Background Removal service is already embedded in leading e-commerce websites, and has been proven to increase user engagement, conversion rates, and bottom line profits for its customers. Harnessing the power of the latest Deep Learning technology, our researchers are forging new ground in the fields of image understanding and image enhancement. Malabi is the market leader in Automatic Background Removal.
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2020
Early Investor & Advisor
Sep 2020
OroPocket is one of the leading and fastest-growing FinTech platforms in the space. We strongly rely on our innovative measures and technology-enabled background to ensure people create wealth in the quickest and most hassle-free way. Through our platform, users can buy, sell, pay, and get paid using digital assets instantly.
Angel Investor
May 2020
Shouta® is a nano-gifting® App that lets users send gifts like coffee, drinks or *anything* else, redeemable instantly via a digital Shouta Mastercard sent straight to your recipients phone. Were all about celebrating or commiserating lifes mini moments. Shouts are perfect for saying "thanks", "congrats", "cheer up", "Im sorry" or more. Its the most flexible, fun, personalised and instant gift youll ever send or receive! Get Shouta® App on app stores today http://app.shouta.co Keen to reward and incentivise employees, clients and customers? Step away from the App. We have another solution for you - Shouta Biz®. Register at www.shouta.co/biz
2018
Head of DeFi Strategy, Early Investor & Board Member
Sep 2018
Efficient Frontier has been building powerful autonomous trading technology in crypto markets since 2017. EF’s algorithms optimize hundreds of millions of dollars and more than 150K transactions in daily trading turnover across numerous digital assets and exchanges 24/7/365. With several decades of combined technology, algorithmic trading and research experience, EF helps partners build healthier, liquid markets and deliver higher value for traders and investors.
PROTON GLOBAL FOUNDATION LTD.
Advisor & Seed Investor
Jan 2018
2017
Rumble
Angel Investor
Aug 2017
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