— Updated 2026 —
A timeline of Grapes Foundation milestones and third-party press coverage of Russell Grapes' projects — Zorachka, CastCast VR, Anser Rossii, HoollyWoody, SynaBrain Labs, and Grapes Vision Fund I — from 2017 to today.
Sponsor-led, UAE-based fund pairing primary capital with a studio operating layer. Concentrated by design: few bets, larger ownership, deeper involvement. Initial portfolio includes Anser Rossii, HoollyWoody, and SynaBrain Labs.
Edge co-processor combining living neural cells with silicon electronics. On-device learning for robots and machines where cloud AI is too slow, too costly, or unavailable.
Full-stack pipeline that turns a prompt or short script into a watchable, shareable movie. Multi-model planning across scenes, timing, transitions, and orchestration over video, image, audio, and voice engines.
Roadable flying car program — compact personal flying car with road and air capability in one vehicle. Dual ring-wing geometry, bicopter propulsion, proprietary cross-wind compensation.
Proprietary binocular cameras with Time-of-Flight sensors capture and stream the Le Mans Cup in true 3D for dual-display headsets. Production-grade end-to-end pipeline from camera to viewer.
Cross-device streaming platform for immersive video, with native stereo depth on dual-display headsets. Built on Zorachka's video pipeline and protocol stack.
9to5mac names the Zorachka Homam 64GB the leading high-end HomeKit Secure Video camera at launch.
9to5mac.comAnnual Central & Eastern Europe startup report cites Zorachka among the region's rising-star companies.
dealroom.coZorachka's flagship HomeKit camera recognised by the international Red Dot Award for product design.
red-dot.orgLong-form Q&A covering Zorachka's product, technology stack, and the team's path to market.
techround.co.ukUmbrella for Russell Grapes' projects and the operating layer that builds them — engineering, product, growth, and partnerships across the portfolio.
Seed round closes for the smart-home camera company; capital allocated to scaling production and product engineering.
finsmes.comYahoo Finance covers the Zorachka seed round and the company's smart-home thesis.
finance.yahoo.comMarkets Insider profile of the Homam camera launch and Zorachka's go-to-market.
markets.businessinsider.comRussell Grapes contributes founder-perspective tactics on sales execution through market dislocations.
forbes.comCEO Today feature on the smart-home category and Zorachka's product thesis.
ceotodaymagazine.comIntelligent CIO interview on Zorachka's privacy-first architecture for connected-home devices.
intelligentcio.comIoT Now publishes Russell Grapes' analysis of why home networking is the bottleneck for IoT scale.
iot-now.comTechRadar feature on consumer data protection in connected homes, with commentary from Zorachka.
techradar.comCompare the Cloud op-ed on local-first security architectures for connected-home devices.
comparethecloud.netSmart-home camera company built around the Homam product line. Apple-provided SoC, HomeKit ecosystem, proprietary lenses, manufacturing in Taiwan and China.