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Good News Ventures — VC Firm

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Good News Ventures is a venture capital firm. The firm has 45 portfolio companies in our records.

Portfolio
45 companies on record
Partners
4 listed
Check size
Not in our records
AUM
Not in our records

Last verified: 2026-08-29

Portfolio

45+ companies

Team

4 partners

About Good News Ventures

Good News Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage technology startups. The firm is led by a team of partners with backgrounds in venture investing, fintech, artificial intelligence, blockchain, growth, scaling, and mergers and acquisitions.

The partners are Marat Mukhamedyarov, whose focus areas are AI, blockchain, and early-stage tech startups; Mohan Markandaier, whose focus areas are AI, blockchain, growth and M&A, and scaling ventures; Mona Kung, whose background is in fintech and angel investing; and Pieter Dorsman, whose focus is on venture investing and early-stage startups. Good News Ventures maintains a portfolio of recorded investments in technology companies.

How Good News Ventures invests

Good News Ventures is a vc firm.

Good News Ventures has backed 45 companies in our records, including Stay22, #paid, Acto App.

Partners & Team

MM

Marat Mukhamedyarov

Managing Partner

AI
Blockchain
Early-Stage Tech Startups
MM

Mohan Markandaier

Managing Partner

AI
Blockchain
Growth & M&A
Scaling Ventures
MK

Mona Kung

Partner

Fintech / Financial Professional Background
Angel Investing
PD

Pieter Dorsman

Partner

Venture Investing
Early-Stage Startups

Recent Activity

Investment Track Record

Good News Ventures has recorded investments in 45 portfolio companies. These include #paid, ACTO, Acto App, ChowNow, Coinchange, Dashlabs, Datafold, Dawrwin AI, DevCycle, Doorr, EAIGLE, Eleven-x, Envoi, FineryMarkets, and Fleetops. Details on investment years, sectors, and stages for these companies are not specified in the firm's records.

The firm's partners apply their collective experience in AI, blockchain, fintech, and early-stage venture investing when selecting and supporting portfolio companies.

Portfolio Companies (45)

Other

ST

Stay22

#P

#paid

Good News Ventures Fund I and Fund II

Influencer marketing platform connecting brands with social media creators for campaigns and content creation.

AC

Acto App

IM

Impro.ai

QU

Quandri

Automation / SaaS, Internet Software & Services·Seed (CAD $2M)

Automation platform that builds and manages digital workers to handle repetitive back-office tasks for insurance brokers and other businesses.

SP

Spiky.AI

AI SaaS / Sales tech·Seed / early stage (second funding round)

AI-powered conversational intelligence platform that analyzes sales calls to provide insights and coaching.

PI

Pipeshift

AI infrastructure / Dev tools·Seed (US $2.5M)·Fund III

AI infrastructure and platform-as-a-service (PaaS) for deploying and managing AI workloads at scale.

AC

ACTO

CH

ChowNow

CO

Coinchange

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