Meeting point for technology companies

From 2012 Sergey is looking for investment opportunities, full cycle deal flow management. Closed 16 investment deals worth more than $10M on Seed and Round A stages companies. Also Sergey is developing partnerships with business angels and investment boutiques to expand the number of potential opportunities with strong traction.

Earlier 2009 – 2012 – COO at ASK Labs – responsible person for industrial automation projects completion for metallurgical and energy enterprises. As COO of ASK Labs Sergey promoted Advanced Process Control Systems in Russia - smart control solutions for industrial production in mineral fertilizers, oil refining and metallurgy fields (Therefore, Sergey believes in machine learning, artificial intelligence and robotics future).

Other companies 2009 and earlier - Sergey started a career at 16 as a Cisco network technology engineer in Sibneft (oil&gas company), worked as a project manager at a consulting firm, made a regional representative offices network of trade firm, participated in different business administrations such as real estate development, pharmaceutical, etc.

Graduated from Lomonosov Moscow State University in 2008, the faculty of Physics. Started his career at PricewaterhouseCoopers in the audit department. He worked there for 3,5 years, gained an efficient experience in analysis and audit of telecommunication and media organizations’ financial reporting. Afterwards he worked for ROSNANO in the investment department of medical projects, where for 1,5 years he took active part in the launching of 2 new projects, as well as in the exit from the former one. At the end of 2012 joined Prostor Capital team as associate. At the end of 2015 joined IIDF investment team, where began to form a portfolio of Health and Logistic companies.

Eugenia is joined GoTech team as Head of Business Development since 2016. She is the chairman of the Expert Council of the GoTech competition.

Prior to GoTech, Eugenia was Senior Project Consultant in Russian division of the Consulting Group Martal, specializing in the consulting of Russian innovation infrastructure, large industrial players and technology startups. Prior to Martal within 5 years Eugenia held the position of Lead Consultant in Business Incubator Ingria, where she worked with technological startups, was responsible of partnership programs with VCs and corporations

Eugenia is experienced player in the innovation ecosystem with 15 years background.

Inga Petryaevskaya has 12 years of experience in IT and Telecom in global corporations, comprehensive knowledge in building alliances and partnership networks, go-to-market activities and business development in Russia and CIS, driving internal and external innovations, performing marketing initiatives and team management.

Inga Petryaevskaya was a head of New Business Development department at Dell EMC Saint-Petersburg development center during the last 7 years. In her role, Inga was responsible for managing go-to-market project office initiative, realization of joint innovation projects with customers and partners, building solutions for the local and global markets. Also, Inga was managing partnership relations including defining mid and long term cooperation strategy by leveraging Russian business and academic ecosystem, cooperation with venture and startups communities as well as for various marketing activities.

Inga joined EMC corporation in 2010 as a Senior Marketing and University Relations Program Manager.  Before joining EMC, Inga was a Leading Business Development Manager at Siemens. In that capacity, Inga was responsible for building partnership network for Corporate Technology central unit, establishing relations with Academia and Public sector.

Recently Inga has joined Tra robotics as a vice-president of business development. Tra robotics is a technology company. We are creating fully robotized flexible production which assembles any new design or product specification in real time without changing production process and factory layout. Inga has started an exciting journey of learning new industry of robotics and working with global partners ecosystem – academia and industry top-notch partners around the world.

Inga holds an MsC degree in Information and Communication Systems from Hamburg University of Technology, Germany and a telecommunication engineer degree from Saint-Petersburg state University of Telecommunications.  Inga holds US patent “Knowledge Management system across distributed entities”.

Business lady, business angel, VC, expert in VC, strategy, business development, internet technologies. More than 20 years of experience in developing technological internet projects, 10 years in VC-business.

Joined RVC Seed Fund in August 2016 as Investment Manager. Was a Principal at Almaz Capital Partners from November 2010 and headed the firm’s Internet practice for Russia/CIS. Prior to joining Almaz was head of strategy and business development at Finam Investment Company, based in Moscow, and a project manager for eHouse Holding and Manifest, where focused on developing the system of online advertising and on some of the first online advertising campaigns for the nascent Russian Internet market. Recognized as one of the “leading ladies” of the Russian Internet and digital media industry. Member of council under the commission on the modernization and innovation development in the Russian State Duma in 2011-2012. In 2012 entered Top 10 power women in Russia (https://themoscowtimes.com/articles/top-10-power-women-in-russia-17871). Top-5 VC-ladies in Russia since 2014.

Kirill Khripko is an investment analyst at iTech CapPrior to joining iTech Capital Kirill worked as a specialist in Risk Control Department at Bank of Moscow since 2014. A certified Project Management Expert (PME), Kirill holds Masters degree in Applied Mathematics and Technology Project Management from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology in partnership with Russian Venture Company. Fluent English speaker.

Entrepreneur, public figure. CEO at WelkerMedia & WM Foundation.

Product manager, Qbaka startup co-founder.

Today I describe myself as a “Serial IT Entrepreneur”. Having worked in IT industry since 1991, I co-founded several companies, including Reksoft - one of the leading software development and IT services company, CleverPumpkin which is in TOP-5 mobile developers in Russia, and three Internet companies - OZON.RU, Fishup, ASSIST, which are also among leaders in their sectors in Russia. Now I serve on the Board of Directors for several companies, create new software and Internet startups, mentor young entrepreneurs. I am the member of Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO).

Full coverage of the M&A pipeline at Rambler&Co; multiple deals in Russian TMT/internet sector. Governing of TMT cluster at A&NN group.

Head of product development at Social Discovery Ventures - an international umbrella brand for group of technology and software engineering companies which provide platforms for social discovery, personal development, and online entertainment. Social discovery and hi-tech market expert. Previously pioneered new technologies for online media – was proud to launch first Apple Newsstand title in Russia back in 2011.

Sergey Vasilev - managing partner preseed venture fund "Starta Capital".

9 yars in venture industry, specializing in high-tech sturtups.

Head of Business Development. 
HR Businesses SeverGroup. 
Основатель и CEO компании ResumUP.com. 
Ментор Y.Старт, CEO Camp, SSC, etc.

Askar Rahimberdiev is CEO and co-founder of MoySklad - one of the first Russian vendors of SaaS products. Since LogneX inception in 2007, Askar has been defining company's vision and building its operations. 

Askar Rahimberdiev has over 20 years of experience in software business. Prior to founding MoySklad, Askar Rahimberdiev held engineering and managerial positions at hi-tech companies. His previous position was a product development manager at Aspect Enterprise Solutions where he was responsible for delivery of SaaS products for energy market. Prior to that, he was a project manager at Auriga, one of the leading Russian outsourcing providers. Askar holds M.S. degree from Moscow Aviation Institute.

Mikhail Erman (Head of HSE business incubator, inc.hse.ru/en)

I founded several IT-startups during last 7 years and started to work with tech-entrepreneurs as adviser because of my experience. I started my professional way as a programmer in 2005 and then was team leader, project manager, CIO, CTO at different types of organizations: government, universities, software companies. At last I found myself as a cofounder and CEO of private incubator 6 years ago. Since that time, I’m working with startups as an adviser and trying to create the most efficient programs for yearly stage startups. I’m a head of HSE business incubator – one of the best incubator in Russia and in Europe as well (Ranked as 7^th European university business incubator by UBU Global).

I had a degree in computer since from Astrakhan State Technical University from 2008.

Ilya is a founder and CEO of Kogorta company, which provides consulting services in IT. Ilya has 12+ years of experience in corporate sales and business development in IT. Ilya worked at several SW development companies, including Microsoft and is an expert in B2B sales and business development.

Ilya has graduated from Saint-Petersburg state University, the department of applied mathematics and holds a degree of a mathematician – programmer.  In 2007 Ilya has got his second degree at the faculty of economics at SPBU.

Independent expert.

Great experience in fund raising for venture projects, business modeling, development of innovation management systems as well as industry, corporate and startup strategies. 
Fund raising for Semiotic, Wobot and Amaltea, now member of board of directors.

CEO & Founder of the Fibrum Company. He developed his frst game at the age of 15.
In 2011 with the partners from “Inform-Mobil”, one of the biggest content and service providers in Russia, he founded a company with 65 million users – Immo Games – which took the frst place among the game developers of “Vkontakte” social network.

In 2013 Ilya founded Fibstone Company which specialized in the development of mobile apps. Many years of development experience allowed to create Fibrum and develop business by following blue ocean strategy. Now, the company is the world leader in developing content in mobile VR industry and Ilya acts as an expert in numerous industry events for Russian VR start-ups.

Ilya was born in Kazan, Russia where graduated from the university as a specialist in Management and Automatization. In 2011 he graduated from the Moscow University Higher School of Economics with a master degree in Electronic Business. Since 2013 he has been CEO of the Fibrum Company.

Investment Director Maxfield Capital.

Alexei has over 7 years’ experience in venture capital. Prior to the advisory team Alexei was in charge for a deal flow and portfolio development at Allianz Investments and VEB.

Alexei also has entrepreneurial and software experience which was obtained during his occupation as a startup founder and a software engineer at Motorola. 

Alexei holds a MSc in Mathematics and a MSc in Corporate Finance.

20+ years in IT-business, serial enterpreneur, investor.
Key expertise: creation of business structures, marketing and sales strategies, creation of mobile applications and mobile devices, electronic commerce and corporate software, as well as management of software development process.

Co-founded Ectaco, Inc., (USA) – a leading developer of electronic translators and linguistic solutions, where was managing the sales network, comprised of 13 foreign sales offices and dozens of independent distributors around the world.

Was the founder of MobiDealer, Inc, (USA), where managed creation of distributed ERP system software package. After successful launch of the system, the company was sold to a strategic investor.

Co-founded DynoPlex, Inc., (USA). Grew the company from ground up to one of the largest developers of mobile applications. Successfully sold the company and transitioned to manage offshore development for the purchaser, Quickoffice, Inc. (USA), where managed work of two offshore centers for mobile application development, totalling 140 engineers. Company was subsequent sold to Google in 2012.

After sale of Quickoffice, started a venture fund RSV Venture Partners and serves as a managing partner of startup-accelerator iDealMachine, where invests in companies at the very early stage.

Alexander Khanin is a CEO and recognition technology author in VisionLabs.

In April 2012 Alexander founded VisionLabs company.

In 2009 – 2012 Alexander was leading department in Scientific Research Institute.

Alexander studied at ICVSS 2014 Computer Vision, ENS/INRIA 2013 Visual Recognition and Machine Learning, Imperial College Robotics 2012 and Microsoft Computer Vision 2011 Summer Schools.

In 2011 – 2014 Alexander Khanin was a PhD student for Computer vision & Robotics at Bauman Moscow State Technical University.

In 2011 Alexander graduated with honors from the Bauman Moscow State Technical University as a Robotics engineer (Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering).

Alexander Khanin OMG-Certified UML Professional Advanced.

Currently Alexander develops and raises the company in a role of a CEO.

Also Alexander is lecturing Control Automation Theory at Bauman Moscow State Technical University to share his expertise and to inspire students.

Internships and continuing education

Zoya Andreeva, CEO and founder at E-Contenta. She graduated from Public Relations faculty (St. Petersburg State Electrotechnical University) and proceeded to work as PR, marketing, and business development manager for different companies but mostly software and hi-tech. Zoya proved to be a true leader while managing a multinational team of 30 people in 10 countries at Veeam Software. Always passionate about media, innovation and story-telling the move to startup world and launching E-Contenta was a very natural fit.

Vasily Sizov is a Global Director of Account Management and Engineering for the Silicon Valley-based company Grid Dynamics, which specializes in the development of high-scalable high-performant software solution for retail, technology and financial industries.

Vasily has more that 17 years in software engineering. Having started as a developer, later he became an architect of information systems and later moved to an engineering manager role. From 2006 he worked as a director of IT in a number of Russian companies, where he was responsible for the development of information systems.

Between 2011 and 2013 worked on improving business performance and a management system as a CIO of international machinery manufacturing holding, where he also contributed as acting Chief Strategy Officer. Between 2013 and 2016 he joined Skolkovo Foundation, where Vasily became a head of Enterprise and Industrial Software.

Vasily graduated from the department of physics & math of Cherepovets State University, and as MBA from Moscow Business School. In addition, he has a diploma in Business Performance Management (CIMA, UK) and is a certified as internal auditor for ISO/IEC 20000 and ISO/IEC 27001.

Alexey Dmitriev is joined GridGain as VP Engineering in April 2016.

Prior to joining GridGain, Alexey was VP Engineering in MightyCall Inc. Under his management and techical supervision, company created new cloud based communication service.

Before MightyCall Alexey was leading the engineering team in Yota. One of the most popular service from Yota, well-known as Okko was created by that team.

Prior to Yota, Alexey was engineering department manager in Motorola Networks and worked for different Motorola projects such as CDMA, iDEN, WiMax.

Alexey holds a Master’s degree in Automatic Control System from Baltic State Technical University, Saint Petersburg, Russia.