Lyubov Guk

Investing in and supporting immigrant entrepreneurs with global ambitions

๐Ÿ“ United Kingdom๐Ÿ”„ Updated September 2026๐Ÿ’ผ 15 investments๐Ÿ“… 6 years investing๐Ÿ—“ Last invested Jun 2024
VC๐ŸŒ United Kingdom
15
Total investments
9
Early stage
4
Mid stage
2
Late stage
6y
Years active

Portfolio

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Micro Angel Investor
Jun 2024
Itโ€™s exhausting to have to educate your therapist. Tala Thrive is a mental health platform that matches you to therapists and coaches who understand your culture, language and/or religion โ€“ for culturally competent support. Were here to help you thrive, not just survive.
Cogniss (Blue Lake Angel Group)
Jun 2024
Cogniss is the worldโ€™s first no-code ecosystem for creating patient-facing and consumer-facing digital health. Its unique point-and-click interface empowers healthcare experts and organizations to build highly customized apps, at a fraction of the time and cost than traditional code-based development. The platform addresses the complex challenges related to compliance, interoperability and distribution, offering innovators a seamless pathway from ideation to commercialization. Cogniss customers range from blue-chip enterprises to startups, government departments and major not-for-profits. Cogniss is an Australian-founded company now headquartered in Cambridge, UK. Our core product team is based in our research and development center in Sydneyโ€™s Surry Hills.
Angel Investor
Apr 2024
"Ship Shape is the Venture Capital Search Engine. Ship Shape is a Search Engine that lets you search individual investors at VC firms, portfolio companies and investment entities. Our results compress the research time required to draw up a well-informed investor shortlist from 183 days to a matter of seconds, dramatically improving the chances of a warm response to outreach. Because we index unstructured data, you can find the investors interested in a specific field. Ship Shape provides you with evidence, in addition to the firms portfolio of other investments. This gives you confidence, clarity and certainty that you are speaking with the right person. Ship Shape is the Welsh Fintech Start-up of the Year 2021."
Investor (Blue Lake Angel Group)
Mar 2024
inploi is a candidate experience platform empowering brands to forge authentic connections with their future workforce. We exist because we believe the future of hiring is personal. Our mission is clearโ€”to build a better future for hiring by seamlessly connecting employers with the right candidates, utilising cutting-edge solutions that prioritise inclusiveness, accessibility, and technological ease of use. We are reshaping the hiring landscape and redefining the interaction between employers and candidates. Through a combination of innovative technology and personalised experiences, inploi streamlines recruitment, optimises candidate journeys, and amplifies employer brand to match top talent with open roles. One platform seamlessly integrated with existing ATS technologies, providing businesses with full visibility and control over their hiring process.
Investor (Blue Lake Syndicate)
Nov 2023
Choose from a range of our bespoke services to get exactly the kind of experience you want: ๐Ÿ”ธย Moving with transparent pricing ๐Ÿ”ธย Secure storage with collection & delivery ๐Ÿ”ธย End-of-tenancy cleaning ๐Ÿ”ธย Full packing supplies
Investor (Blue Lake Syndicate)
Aug 2023
Imaginario AI empowers companies to build video search and curation workflows with a powerful vector-based API and no-code platform.
Investor (Blue Lake Syndicate)
May 2023
Trusted Twin is a Customer Data Hub connecting Data Providers with Data Users in a secure, privacy-centric environment. Data Providers can monetize their data at scale while Data Users gain real-time access to high quality customer data letting them increase sales.ย 
Investor (Blue Lake Syndicate)
Mar 2023
Based in York, United Kingdom, Humans Not Robots is a remote-first startup developing an analytics and observability platform to build a cleaner, cheaper and faster media supply chain. Our product will be pivotal in reducing the environmental impact of online video over the next decade.
Angel Investor
Feb 2023
We offer oversimplified, condensed study materials and personalised tutoring to help law students get high grades. Avoid reading thousands of pages of overcomplicated law textbooks. Choose our platform instead to get study materials and tutoring you need to improve your grades in law school. We offer: 1. Studying Materials and pre-tested tools helping you to get high grades. 2. Save 738 hours of reading per year compared to textbooks. 3. Maximise your chances of getting high grades with our personalised support.
mid stageE-learning
Investor (Blue Lake Syndicate)
Jul 2022
SearchSmartly builds AI-powered technology for property portals, marketplaces and real estate agents around the world. Our property discovery platform allows seekers to find perfect homes in the neighbourhoods that best meet their needs - all whilst helping advertisers maximise lead quality. With funding from Blue Lake VC, REACH UK, Syndicate Room and others, SearchSmartly is built on the idea that everyones perfect home is waiting to be discovered underneath mountains of disparate, disconnected data - all of which is important to quality of life. Our technology connects this data, allowing hundreds of data points to be used to find a home with the qualities that seekers love. Alongside SearchSmartlys UK property portal, our API also powers hyper-personalisation and property discovery for international portals and companies as varied as holiday home providers, pet-friendly home rentals and retirement communities. Today, millions of seekers around the world use our powerful and easy-to-use tools find the perfect home. To learn more, visit smartscore.searchsmartly.co. To try our technology and find your perfect UK home, visit searchsmartly.co
mid stageReal Estate
Investor (Blue Lake Syndicate)
Nov 2021
Connectd is a people-first platform connecting startups and scaleups with experienced fractional executives and strategic advisors. Using AI-powered insights and smart matching technology, we help ensure the right experts are placed with the right companies, so both sides can grow with confidence. In a world shaped by transformative technology, we provide a human-centred ecosystem where companies access the guidance they need to scale, and senior leaders find meaningful, flexible work that puts their experience to powerful use. Since 2019, Connectd has facilitated over 35,000 connections across the UK and US, helping both sides of the ecosystem succeed: startups and scaleups gain trusted leadership at pivotal moments, and senior leaders and executives build dynamic, rewarding fractional careers.
Investor
Oct 2021
EnVsion is an AI tool that helps UX, Product, and Sales professionals identify insights from hours of customer interviews in under 5 minutes.
Investor (Blue Lake Syndicate)
Apr 2021
๐–๐ž ๐ฆ๐š๐ค๐ž ๐ข๐ญ ๐ž๐š๐ฌ๐ฒ ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ ๐š๐ง๐ฒ๐จ๐ง๐ž, ๐Ÿ๐ซ๐จ๐ฆ ๐š๐ง๐ฒ๐ฐ๐ก๐ž๐ซ๐ž ๐ข๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฐ๐จ๐ซ๐ฅ๐, ๐ญ๐จ ๐ฅ๐š๐ฎ๐ง๐œ๐ก ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ซ๐ฎ๐ง ๐š ๐›๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ข๐ง๐ž๐ฌ๐ฌ ๐ข๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐”๐Š. GoSolo is an all-in-one financial platform for small businesses that covers company formation, banking, administration, reporting, taxation, cash forecasting, invoicing, making payments, and more. ๐ŸŸฉ Register a limited/LTD company in the UK (even without the UK residency). ๐ŸŸฉ Get a virtual business address. ๐ŸŸฉ Create a business account for an existing company. ๐ŸŸฉ Run multiple companies under a single GoSolo account. ๐ŸŸฉ Release unlimited payments, free or charge. ๐ŸŸฉ Use Tap-to-Pay to accept payments with your phone (no expensive POS card readers needed). ๐ŸŸฉ Generate and customise professional invoices. ๐ŸŸฉ Choose web, iOS, or Android to run your business accounts. Part of the #GrowLondonGlobal programme for 2024-25 ๐Ÿš€
Board Observer
Jun 2020
Our mission Is to create empathy online between conscious corporates and consumers, especially around ESG activities.ย ย  We help marketing specialists to increase conversions to 30% from deep customer feedback with emotion analytics. It builds bridges between corporates (as they can propose a niche personalization according to customer segments) and buyers (who get human attitude and more tailored recommendations with high GDPR compliance).
Investor
May 2020
FairHire is a next generation applicant tracking system (ATS) combining blind hiring with intelligent people analytics backed by behavioural science. Using the FairHire platform helps organisations to remove bias through the use of anonymised CVs whilst facilitating the best practice in their end-to-end processes.
Experience ยท 18 entries
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Investments (15)
Board (1)
2025
Emergent Ventures Grantee
Jul 2025
We build and maintain a vibrant community of in-house and external scholars dedicated to market-oriented thinking and classical liberal principles. We mentor and train up-and-coming scholars and thinkers who will generate ideas and influence societyโ€™s key institutions. A university-based research center, Mercatus advances knowledge about how markets work to improve peopleโ€™s lives by training graduate students, conducting research, and applying economics to offer solutions to societyโ€™s most pressing problems. Our mission is to generate knowledge and understanding of the institutions that affect the freedom to prosper and to find sustainable solutions that overcome the barriers preventing individuals from living free, prosperous, and peaceful lives.
2024
Micro Angel Investor
Jun 2024
Itโ€™s exhausting to have to educate your therapist. Tala Thrive is a mental health platform that matches you to therapists and coaches who understand your culture, language and/or religion โ€“ for culturally competent support. Were here to help you thrive, not just survive.
Cogniss (Blue Lake Angel Group)
Jun 2024
Cogniss is the worldโ€™s first no-code ecosystem for creating patient-facing and consumer-facing digital health. Its unique point-and-click interface empowers healthcare experts and organizations to build highly customized apps, at a fraction of the time and cost than traditional code-based development. The platform addresses the complex challenges related to compliance, interoperability and distribution, offering innovators a seamless pathway from ideation to commercialization. Cogniss customers range from blue-chip enterprises to startups, government departments and major not-for-profits. Cogniss is an Australian-founded company now headquartered in Cambridge, UK. Our core product team is based in our research and development center in Sydneyโ€™s Surry Hills.
Angel Investor
Apr 2024
"Ship Shape is the Venture Capital Search Engine. Ship Shape is a Search Engine that lets you search individual investors at VC firms, portfolio companies and investment entities. Our results compress the research time required to draw up a well-informed investor shortlist from 183 days to a matter of seconds, dramatically improving the chances of a warm response to outreach. Because we index unstructured data, you can find the investors interested in a specific field. Ship Shape provides you with evidence, in addition to the firms portfolio of other investments. This gives you confidence, clarity and certainty that you are speaking with the right person. Ship Shape is the Welsh Fintech Start-up of the Year 2021."
Investor (Blue Lake Angel Group)
Mar 2024
inploi is a candidate experience platform empowering brands to forge authentic connections with their future workforce. We exist because we believe the future of hiring is personal. Our mission is clearโ€”to build a better future for hiring by seamlessly connecting employers with the right candidates, utilising cutting-edge solutions that prioritise inclusiveness, accessibility, and technological ease of use. We are reshaping the hiring landscape and redefining the interaction between employers and candidates. Through a combination of innovative technology and personalised experiences, inploi streamlines recruitment, optimises candidate journeys, and amplifies employer brand to match top talent with open roles. One platform seamlessly integrated with existing ATS technologies, providing businesses with full visibility and control over their hiring process.
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