Modular Dual-Use Robotics Holding
Capital Under Management: $200M+
Mellivora is Latin for honey badger, chosen deliberately. The animal operates where others won't, moves through terrain that stops everything else, and has a resilience built into its biology that is entirely disproportionate to its size. Like Ukraine these days.
Battlefield to Enterprise Flywheel
Frontline demand in Ukraine forces fast iteration -> modules are proven in the harshest conditions -> the same modules go into logistics, mining, energy and manufacturing, sold outright or under Robot-as-a-Service -> enterprise revenue and field data fund the next generation. One kit, two customer sets, one compounding loop.
Supply Chain Control
We bring every critical layer of a robot into one group: actuators, controls, manipulators, structures, energy, software, assembly and service. No single foreign supplier can stop production, servicing or development.
Value Creation
Shared engineering (one component kit, one SDK, one test and certification path) / Shared commercial reach (Ukrainian MoD and Brave1, allied ministries, defense primes, Gulf and EU industrial buyers) / Industrial ops (integration of acquired teams, JV factories, quality, export compliance)
Group Compounding
Every acquired company plugs its module into the common kit. Our own robot lines buy those modules, and so do other robot makers. Each acquisition brings its own revenue and lowers the cost of every robot we build.
Geo Edge
Ukraine
Field testing with units, the fastest feedback loop for ground robotics, deep hardware and software engineering talent, and component makers we can acquire.
EU
Joint-venture factories, integration and assembly sites, precision engineering targets, and rearmament budgets with joint procurement programs.
US & UK
Largest buyers and exit paths (defense primes, new-generation defense companies, industrials), allied procurement, and deep-tech operator and research networks.
Middle East
Acceptance, assembly and service hub, Robot-as-a-Service deployment market, strategic buyers and scale capital.
Igor Ovcharenko
Managing Partner (Kyiv - Dubai)
Igor is a Ukrainian investor with 13 years in venture capital, startup ecosystems and angel investing across emerging markets. He has made 30+ VC investments and 6 angel investments across CEE, MENA, Central Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa and co-founded three funds.
Previously Regional Manager for CEE and MENA at Seedstars, Chief Innovation Officer at the Innovation and Digital Development Agency of Azerbaijan, and Head of Global Programs at Global Innovation Catalyst. He leads acquisitions, joint-venture partnerships and the Gulf commercialization track.
A civil and industrial engineer by training, former professional footballer and 70.3 Ironman finisher.
Arthur Grigoriants
Managing Partner, Physical AI & RaaS (Milan)
Arthur has spent more than a decade putting automated hardware into the field at scale. Since 2012 he has helped build Omnic, the Italian smart-locker and self-service automation company, from an early team into a manufacturer with 45 patents, deployments in 30+ countries across Europe, MENA and Asia, and a Guinness World Record for the largest single-venue parcel-locker installation.
He is a board member of LLAMA BOX, a Saudi smart-locker and last-mile network, and Senior Partner at IOI Capital in Riyadh. Earlier he led digital-transformation programs for large retail, logistics and e-commerce companies (1,400+ advisory hours) and worked in San Francisco and Kyiv. He is an early-stage investor and mentor in logistics, e-commerce and edtech.
At Mellivora he leads the Robot-as-a-Service business: sourcing fleets, structuring long-term leases and running Gulf deployments with enterprise customers. A management graduate, he started his career in AMD distribution.
Peter Kolomiets
Founding Partner (London, UK)
Peter is an ex-Special Forces officer, serial entrepreneur and investor with two exits. He co-founded the Make It Real Foundation, which has supported civilians in Ukraine since the start of the full-scale war, and is Founder & CEO of JobCannon, where AI replaces manual recruiting work from sourcing to scheduling. He leads the fund's relationships with military end users and allied procurement.
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25+ years of combined experience in venture capital, private equity and trust fund management
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Co-founders of 4 startups (2 exits), 3 VC funds and 2 trust funds (vintages 2021, 2022, 2024)
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Ukrainian founders with direct access to the MoD, Brave1, frontline units and the domestic defense industry
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Proprietary access to acquisition targets and joint-venture partners in Ukraine, the EU, the Gulf, the UK and the US
Advisors
Marvin Liao
Global Macro Investor with a Speciality in Startups. Operator-Investor. Portfolio Entrepreneur.
José Achache
Space technologies and intelligence
John F. Campbell
General, retired
Former U.S. Army Vice Chief of Staff
Francis J. Wiercinski
Lieutenant General, retired
Former U.S. Army Pacific Commander
James G. Stavridis
Admiral, retired
Former NATO Supreme Allied Commander Europe
Charles A. Flynn
General, retired
Former U.S. Army Pacific Commander
Jeffrey L. Harrigian
General, retired
Former USAFE / Allied Air Command Commander
Mark MacCarley
Major General, retired
Former TRADOC Deputy Chief of Staff
Full-Cycle Supply Chain
A robot is only as independent as its weakest component. We bring every critical layer into one holding, so we can design, build and service robots without relying on any single foreign supplier.
Exit Map
Strategics
Hyperscalers / Defense primes / Industrials / Semis & Networking / Cyber platforms
Investors
Tech-focused PE / Growth equity / Continuation vehicles
Holding Summary
AUM
$200M+, released in stages against technical and commercial milestones
Use of Capital
Acquisitions $90M; joint ventures $40M; platform and software $45M; sites, integration and working capital $5M; reserve $20M
Model
Permanent capital holding company. No fund term; we build and own the group for the long run.
Structure
UAE top company. PlatformCo: software, component kit, SDK and ecosystem. IndustrialCo: acquisitions, joint ventures and factories. Ukrainian and EU entities where required for defense procurement.
Geography
Ukraine first; EU; US & UK; Middle East
Product Focus
Modular dual-use robots: mobile platform, manipulation module, mission modules, component kit, autonomy and SDK, service and Robot-as-a-Service
Key Locations
Kyiv: engineering, field testing, acquisition targets. EU: joint-venture factories, integration and assembly. Washington: largest buyers and exit paths. London: research, operator network, European primes. Dubai + Riyadh: assembly, service, RaaS deployments, scale capital.
Acquisitions
10 small engineering companies in actuators, motion control, manipulators and precision transmissions; majority control
Joint Ventures
4-6 production JVs for structures and machining, battery packs and grippers; the holding keeps rights to drawings, code and tooling
Revenue Lines
Complete robots and integration; modules and kits sold to other robot makers; deployment, maintenance and updates; Robot-as-a-Service leases
Robot-as-a-Service
The group leases its robots to enterprises on 3 to 5 year contracts; target net fleet yield 15%+ unlevered, contract payback under 4 years
Return Paths
Strategic sale or IPO of the group or of individual subsidiaries (see Exit Map); operating cash flow; contracted RaaS yield
Investor Participation
Equity in the holding; co-investment in individual acquisitions and joint ventures, deal by deal. Terms and minimums on request.
Execution
Pilots and diligence → first acquisitions and JVs → production readiness → scale against orders. The board releases each stage on agreed milestones.