January 20th. Yuliia sends us a cold email with the deck which we ignore. January 25th. Yuliia pings us over email. We reply that Canada is outside of our scope and that we’re passing because we’re like total idiots :) How the hell did we eventually end up investing in @mastheaddata? Read the full story: michuk.medium.com/why-we-inv…

Exciting news! @smokvc joins the $1.3m seed round of @mastheaddata, a Canada-based 🇨🇦data observability startup founded by a Ukrainian 🇺🇦 couple Yuliia & Sergey Tkachov. I met Yuliia courtesy to Google Form Startups where she pitched her startup in front of investors in Warsaw 🇵🇱 in February. We immediately clicked as I experienced the problem they are solving first-hand while at @SambaTV. Actually any data-heavy company has that same problem - data streams breaking for multiple reasons. Masthead discovers such breaks simply by analyzing database query logs, thus not requiring any heavy integrations, which is the case in competing solutions. I'm happy to be joining this round led by @focal_vc together with other great investors like @monochrome_vc, @DEPOVentures and angels from Snowflake, Google and Uber. Finally, big thanks to @ciffra from Depo for the introduction to Yuliia! Go Masthead! Funding announcement at Yahoo Finance: finance.yahoo.com/news/masth… #bigdata #dataobservability #startups #investment #venturecapital #ukraine #ceevalley