We’re excited to share that we’ve invested $500,000 in EVE, an AI Revenue Operator built to help small businesses recover missed leads and close more deals directly from the inbox. EVE connects to Gmail and Outlook to surface forgotten opportunities and track every active lead in real time. It’s a simple solution tackling one of the biggest hidden revenue leaks in SMB sales.
We are excited to share that we have invested $500,000 in EVE, an AI Revenue Operator that helps small businesses recover missed leads, track active opportunities in real time, and close more deals, directly from their inbox.
Small businesses run their entire sales process through email, not CRMs.
Important leads get buried, follow-ups slip through the cracks, and valuable revenue is lost every day simply because inboxes are chaotic and overloaded. Many SMB owners don't have time, capacity, or technical know-how to set up complex tools to fix it.
EVE acts as an AI Revenue Operator built directly for the inbox.
It connects to Gmail or Outlook, uncovers missed or neglected leads, tracks every opportunity in real time, and provides the context needed to close deals faster - with no CRM, no setup, and no prompts.
EVE is built by Vadim Rogovsky and Vadim Axelrod, two highly experienced founders with multiple successful exits behind them. Rogovsky has founded and sold several tech companies, led a $23M venture fund, and built 3DLook.ai, an advanced AI company serving Fortune 500 clients. Axelrod co-created Rentals.com (acquired for an eight-figure sum) and has been a core technical leader in several successful exits across tech and healthcare.
Their combined track record in company building, technical execution, and global expansion made this an easy decision for us.
And for Silicon Gardens, it represents exactly the kind of story we believe in: exceptional CEE-origin founders building world-class products from the US.
What makes EVE especially compelling is how the idea was born. While acquiring a 17-year-old software company, the founders realized that crucial leads, quotes, invoices, and customer conversations were buried inside the previous owner’s inbox, with no software capable of extracting them. An early prototype of EVE surfaced 400+ missed or poorly followed-up leads, instantly helping close deals worth hundreds of thousands of dollars.
The market opportunity is enormous. While many AI tools target outbound automation for tech-savvy SMBs, EVE serves a much broader and underserved segment - small and medium B2B companies whose entire revenue flow lives inside email.
We are backing EVE as part of their $2M pre-seed round, alongside Firsthand Ventures, a16z Scout Fund, Acquisition.com Ventures, Founders Future, Geek Ventures, and a strong group of global operators and angels.
To Vadim, Vadim, and the entire EVE team - welcome to the Gardens. 🌱
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