Sasha Astafyeva

CEO & Co-Founder, Stealth

📍 London, England Metropolitan Area, United Kingdom🔄 Updated September 2026💼 8 investments📅 10 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2022
VC🌍 United Kingdom
8
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4
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Investor and Board Member
Jan 2022
We focus on improving outcomes for our Members through flexible, protected plans and personalized care that maximizes the chance of success. We take on the risk so that our clinic partners get paid regardless of outcomes. Our founder, Nader AlSalim, experienced the challenges of IVF firsthand as he and his wife went through 5 rounds of treatment to conceive their son. He created Gaia to give others the experience he wished he’d had. Today, a Gaia baby is born every 2.6 days, and with an NPS above 80, our Members feel taken care of at every step of their journey. Find out whats possible 👇
Investor
Mar 2021
Founded in 2020, Zapp is London’s leading premium convenience delivery app, elevating the everyday lives of hundreds of thousands of Londoners. We leverage cutting-edge technology to anticipate customer needs – ensuring the most relevant products are always available, at the right location, at the right time. From daily essentials to luxury favourites and pharmacy needs, our hand-picked product range showcases global icons and beloved local brands, available for delivery to customers doors in minutes, 24/7. Were on a long-term mission to bring technology to convenience retail, a $4 trillion global industry that remains largely offline. Our strategy is simple: build out the system in one of the worlds largest megacities – London. Weve witnessed significant demand (i.e. product-market fit) for on-demand convenience and have decided to focus on a large, profitable segment as we expand our system in the coming years: premium convenience. Catering to premium, high-demand customers forces us to constantly innovate and encourage the standards of excellence across the board. Were excited to expand Zapp over the coming years and decades as we build the ‘need it now’ supply chain of the future. Zapp is proud to be backed by some of the worlds leading venture capital and growth equity investors, including Lightspeed Venture Partners and Atomico, as well as some of the most iconic figures of our generation, including Sir Lewis Hamilton. Come and join our team of scale-up and exit experts from companies such as Amazon, Deliveroo, Selfridges and more.
early stageRetail
Investor and Board Member
Mar 2019
For teams that run on data. Adverity is the integrated data platform for connecting, managing, and using your data at scale. The platform enables businesses to blend disparate datasets such as sales, marketing, and advertising, to create a single source of truth over business performance. Through automated connectivity to hundreds of data sources and destinations, unrivaled data transformation options, and powerful data governance features, Adverity makes it easy to scale and automate your data operations and have trust in your data.
Investor and Board Member
Jul 2018
At Mejuri, were redefining luxury. Feeling disconnected from the traditional industry narrative, CEO Noura Sakkijha leveraged her learnings as a third-generation jeweller to rethink the way we purchase jewelry—for ourselves. From that founding moment, we’ve been putting a modern spin on a legacy industry through high-quality craftsmanship, timeless design, meaningful stories and an authentic sense of community. “I founded Mejuri because I saw a jewelry industry that was built for men gifting women and not women celebrating themselves. To me, the truest expression of Mejuri is mutual uplift: all of us supporting each other, and you, our community, feeling empowered to invest in yourself and, in turn, the community around you.” - Noura Sakkijha, CEO OUR VISION A world in which everyone feels inspired to celebrate more than what were told. To recognize the moments and memories we experience every day that matter most to us. JOIN OUR TEAM Visit our Careers Page for all of our current Corporate & Retail job openings: https://mejuri.com/company/careers.
Investor and Board Observer
Nov 2016
JOB TODAY is the #1 app for jobs in restaurants, hotels, shops and more. We use mobile technology to help millions of people find a job in 24 hours. Our easy to use platform empowers small businesses to connect with the right candidates in a matter of minutes. Join us on a mission to help everyone find a job the same day!
Investor and Board Observer
Nov 2016
We created Peanut with the idea that no one should have to navigate womanhood alone. Especially the hard parts. Our mission is to provide a social network for women to connect across fertility, pregnancy, motherhood and menopause. So far, over 3.5M women use Peanut monthly to build friendships, find support, and learn from one another.
Investor and Board Member
Nov 2016
Unmade is a software company based in London that provides the world’s leading apparel and sportswear brands with the digital infrastructure needed to realise the full potential of their products, unlock market opportunity and connect demand directly to production. Unmade’s platform, UnmadeOS, uses patented automation and visualisation technologies to enable brands to be demand driven, delivering customisation, teamwear and small batch production at scale. UnmadeOS dramatically increases product variety and speed to market whilst reducing operational overheads, inventory and waste. Unmade has raised over $18 million in investment and won numerous awards including D&AD, Drapers Digital and Fast Company’s 50 Most Innovative Companies.
Experience · 12 entries
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2024
Venture Partner
Oct 2024
We are VCs turned angels: angel checks + VC network & expertise 😇 We invest $250k-$500k angel checks at pre-seed/seed. And we don’t give a damn about stake. Free to be 100% on your side of the table. 😜 We have been VCs. We know how VCs think & operate. And we have the network of a VC. 🤟 We become your in-house VC: here to help you hack the system from the inside, with independent & unfiltered investor insights. And EQ. And chocolate ;). 😎 One more thing: we are backed by tech founders, no VC funds. #letsdothis 🚀🍫 Check out our founders deck: https://bit.ly/wearecocoa 🍫💙
2022
Investor and Board Member
Jan 2022
We focus on improving outcomes for our Members through flexible, protected plans and personalized care that maximizes the chance of success. We take on the risk so that our clinic partners get paid regardless of outcomes. Our founder, Nader AlSalim, experienced the challenges of IVF firsthand as he and his wife went through 5 rounds of treatment to conceive their son. He created Gaia to give others the experience he wished he’d had. Today, a Gaia baby is born every 2.6 days, and with an NPS above 80, our Members feel taken care of at every step of their journey. Find out whats possible 👇
2021
Investor
Mar 2021
Founded in 2020, Zapp is London’s leading premium convenience delivery app, elevating the everyday lives of hundreds of thousands of Londoners. We leverage cutting-edge technology to anticipate customer needs – ensuring the most relevant products are always available, at the right location, at the right time. From daily essentials to luxury favourites and pharmacy needs, our hand-picked product range showcases global icons and beloved local brands, available for delivery to customers doors in minutes, 24/7. Were on a long-term mission to bring technology to convenience retail, a $4 trillion global industry that remains largely offline. Our strategy is simple: build out the system in one of the worlds largest megacities – London. Weve witnessed significant demand (i.e. product-market fit) for on-demand convenience and have decided to focus on a large, profitable segment as we expand our system in the coming years: premium convenience. Catering to premium, high-demand customers forces us to constantly innovate and encourage the standards of excellence across the board. Were excited to expand Zapp over the coming years and decades as we build the ‘need it now’ supply chain of the future. Zapp is proud to be backed by some of the worlds leading venture capital and growth equity investors, including Lightspeed Venture Partners and Atomico, as well as some of the most iconic figures of our generation, including Sir Lewis Hamilton. Come and join our team of scale-up and exit experts from companies such as Amazon, Deliveroo, Selfridges and more.
early stageRetail
2020
Partner
Apr 2020
Atomico is the founder-built European venture capital firm. We partner with the most ambitious entrepreneurs using technology to rewire the world, better. Skype co-founder Niklas Zennström launched Atomico in 2006 with the belief that entrepreneurs are the ultimate gamechangers for positive transformation across the most critical aspects of our society and economy. Starting in Europe, the firm’s mission is to further their global progress, with a platform offering unmatched support from the early stage to scale. 130 of Europe’s most ambitious founders have partnered with Atomico, including Aiven, Bird, DeepL, Hinge Health, Jobandtalent, Klarna, Lilium, Pipedrive, Stripe, Supercell and Wellhub. Atomicos team of investors and operational leaders are drawn from some of the most successful technology companies in the world, including Skype, Google, Twitter and Wise.
2019
Investor and Board Member
Mar 2019
For teams that run on data. Adverity is the integrated data platform for connecting, managing, and using your data at scale. The platform enables businesses to blend disparate datasets such as sales, marketing, and advertising, to create a single source of truth over business performance. Through automated connectivity to hundreds of data sources and destinations, unrivaled data transformation options, and powerful data governance features, Adverity makes it easy to scale and automate your data operations and have trust in your data.
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