Sasha Baranikov

MD Steam Ventures | Investor | Director | Growth Advisor | Winner 40 Under 40 | Entrepreneur of Year Finalist | ESG Technology Advocate | Speaker | Artist

📍 Australia🔄 Updated September 2026💼 7 investments📅 6 years investing🗓 Last invested Jun 2023
VC🌍 Australia
7
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2
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6y
Years active

Portfolio

7 investments · sorted by recency
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Investor
Jun 2023
Rockfish Data’s vision is to create a world where innovation is not constrained by data silos. Rockfish’s synthetic data workbench for Data Scientists is a generative AI software solution to address data sparsity and data sharing restrictions in enterprises globally across a variety of verticals. Drawing upon foundational innovations developed at CMU, Rockfish provides a one-stop synthetic data workbench for data scientists that automatically customizes itself to the data. It plugs directly into existing data ingestion pipelines, automatically chooses the best representation for the data, and trains the models in the most cost-efficient way possible, while optimizing for downstream use cases. Founded in 2022, Rockfish Data is headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area. For more information, please visit https://www.rockfish.ai. Rockfish Overview video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrF1CU4Y2sc
Investor & Advisor
Feb 2023
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Advisor & Investor
Feb 2023
Flux is replacing pesticides with robotics. We attract the best engineers from around the world to build the next step change in agricultural systems.
Investor
Dec 2022
Cake Equity is the best cap table and equity management software for startup founders who want to accelerate team motivation through equity ownership. We’re on a mission to simplify the way startups and scaleups grow their business. Manage equity, issue options globally, manage your capital raise and more.
Investor
Sep 2021
EzLicence is a global online marketplace that connects learner drivers & verified driving instructors. We bring transparency, choice and efficiency to the selection of a driving instructor and the ongoing management of driving lessons. Visit us at www.ezlicence.com.au and at www.ezlicence.co.uk.
Investor
Mar 2021
Zero Co is on a mission to eliminate single-use plastic packaging from every Aussie kitchen, laundry and bathroom. Our range of planet-friendly personal-care and home-cleaning products get delivered direct to your door, minus all the single-use plastic packaging. It works just like the milkman: you order, we deliver, you return, we refill. Our refill and return model makes it easy to replace single-use with forever-use. Our dispensers are made from plastic waste pulled out of the ocean (and you keep them at your house forever). You fill them up with our refill pouches made from recycled plastic (that you send back to us over and over again). Order your box of Zero Co today and win the war on waste at your place. For good. https://zeroco.com.au/ #imgoingzero
early stageManufacturing
Advisory Board & Investor
2020
We’re on a mission to help mortgage brokers keep their clients for longer, protect their trail book income, and generate valuable refinancing leads. We were sick and tired of banks offering better interest rates to new mortgage customers while existing customers were being charged a ‘loyalty tax’ (a higher interest rate the longer they’re with the bank). So we came up with a solution. Sherlok is Australia’s first automated repricing and home loan refinancing retention tool that delivers loan book growth and prevents clawback commission. Reprice loans automatically • Sherlok monitors interest rates, detects when homeowners could be on a lower rate with their current lender, and automatically reprices the home loan on the brokers’ behalf. Generate refinancing leads • Sherlok compares clients’ rates against other lender rates, identifies valuable refinancing opportunities from the broker’s existing trail book, and sends these leads straight to the broker’s inbox. Mortgage brokers put a lot of work into building their trail book. Now it’s time to make their trail books work as hard as they do. It’s win-win: happy clients, and with Sherlok working quietly in the background, the broker will look like the hero. And that’s what drives us. Founded by award-winning mortgage broker Adam Grocke, Sherlok remains privately held by Adam and his founding team, who have a bold vision to grow Sherlok to a market-leading platform for brokers to refinance loans.
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2023
Investor
Jun 2023
Rockfish Data’s vision is to create a world where innovation is not constrained by data silos. Rockfish’s synthetic data workbench for Data Scientists is a generative AI software solution to address data sparsity and data sharing restrictions in enterprises globally across a variety of verticals. Drawing upon foundational innovations developed at CMU, Rockfish provides a one-stop synthetic data workbench for data scientists that automatically customizes itself to the data. It plugs directly into existing data ingestion pipelines, automatically chooses the best representation for the data, and trains the models in the most cost-efficient way possible, while optimizing for downstream use cases. Founded in 2022, Rockfish Data is headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area. For more information, please visit https://www.rockfish.ai. Rockfish Overview video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrF1CU4Y2sc
Investor & Advisor
Feb 2023
Want to keep updated on different fields of research? Read short summaries of research articles, carefully curated by experts on trending topics in simple language. Dont be opinionated, get informed with Outread.
Advisor & Investor
Feb 2023
Flux is replacing pesticides with robotics. We attract the best engineers from around the world to build the next step change in agricultural systems.
2022
Investor
Dec 2022
Cake Equity is the best cap table and equity management software for startup founders who want to accelerate team motivation through equity ownership. We’re on a mission to simplify the way startups and scaleups grow their business. Manage equity, issue options globally, manage your capital raise and more.
2021
Investor
Sep 2021
EzLicence is a global online marketplace that connects learner drivers & verified driving instructors. We bring transparency, choice and efficiency to the selection of a driving instructor and the ongoing management of driving lessons. Visit us at www.ezlicence.com.au and at www.ezlicence.co.uk.
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