Stronger
with Vibranium

Building a fast growing company and bringing it to the international market is an ambitious task. We believe that only true champions can do it. At Vibranium.VC we are able to find those champions in the early stages of their development and to give them help and support to grow through the difficult stages.

Managing partners of the Fund are serial entrepreneurs and investors with extensive experience in startups. In addition to investments, we are ready to offer our long term expertise in the field of startup acceleration, corporate innovation, softlanding and business scaling. Adding to this our extensive network of international and local contacts with market players, you will definitely get not just money, but smart money with a network.

Our investments focus is on startups with global ambitions, ready to enter their first foreign market. We are mainly looking for IT solutions with B2B business models, based on advanced technologies and with high potential for rapid growth and scaling.

Our team will be happy to meet if the above matches your vision of partnership. Let's build future unicorns together. We suggest filling out a special FORM to start a productive dialogue.

Founder and General Partner

Founder and General Partner of Vibranium.VC fund, CEO and partner of the Global Venture Alliance, serial entrepreneur (created 10 companies and organizations), business angel/investor, expert in venture capital, management, startup acceleration, corporate innovations and marketing. Over 18 years of professional expertise, including 6 years practice in the US.

Ex-managing Partner of GVA Capital Fund 1, partner of GVA LaunchGurus Fund 1, mentor of startups, author of a column in Forbes Russia and 47 publications in leading media, certified coach of the Stanford I2M program. Included in the TOP-30 of the most prominent participants in the venture capital industry according to MoneytoStartup.ru. Lecturer of EMBA programs on innovations.

Under his management 530+ events were organized and 40 accelerators were created: MEGA Accelerator, PepsiCo Lab, MTS Startup HUB, Startup Kazakhstan, Faberlic Accelerator, GVA TeenStart, SteelTech Accelerator, ED2 EdTech Accelerator, ForestTech Accelerator, Tech Export to India, and many other leading programs with over 1250 startups.

GVA has received a number of awards, including as the World No. 1 Private Business Accelerator by UBI Global. GVA funds have invested about $ 150 mln in 220+ startups around the world. Zamir has 35 professional recommendations from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, UNESCO, RVC, Skolkovo, IBM, MTS, Severstal and many other significant organizations.

Zamir is married, has three children& a dog, enjoys sports, yachting and outdoor activities. Engaged in volunteering and charity work in his spare time.

Kirill Timofeev

Co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer

Kirill launched his business career at the age of 20, when he organized a professional MMA-team. As a manager he assembled young athletes and boosted their careers to the next level — most of them have reached world-class leagues.

In Events Marketing Kirill invented and organized Upward Motion — a unique forum which supported young and dedicated people from the provinces.

At the Global Venture Alliance Kirill was in charge of promoting start-up acceleration programs.
He also worked as an ESG communications consultant and was responsible for a number of global brands’ international projects at the Dear Editors agency.

Kirill’s first university qualification was in sports rehabilitation for people with disabilities. At the age of 23 he received an MBA in Strategic Management.
At Skolkovo Business School he then completed the Digital Transformation Management program.

He spends his free time with his wife and son and enjoys surfing.

Olga Sokurova

Chief Operating Officer

Chief Operating Officer of Vibranium.VC fund, ex COO of Global Venture Alliance, expert in taxation, management and finance for 23 years of professional career, of which 5 years in the USA.

Education: Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA), Diploma in Taxation of the Russian Federation; Baruch College (New York), Strategic Planning; Spanish-American Institute (New York), Business English, Business management; Kabardino-Balkarian State University (KBSU), Combined Master’s and Bachelor’s degree in Accountancy and Auditing.

Married, two children, loves outdoor activities and reading. Engaged in charity work in her spare time.

Valentina Pidgaina

Chief Business Development Officer

Chief Business Development Officer at Vibranium.VC, ex-scout at MTS Startup Hub, ex-director of projects at GVA. Valentina has more than 7 years of experience in innovation ecosystem: she was responsible for the development and conducting the corporate and industry acceleration programs, softlanding programs for international startups, corporate programs to Silicon Valley, including startup scouting for corporate departments in MTS StartUp Hub.

Education: Simon Kuznets Kharkiv National University of Economics, degree in International Economic Relations& Tourism.

Valentyna’s hobby is martial art: 1 dan in Taekwon-Do ITF.

Alexander Zhulyev

Analyst

Vibranium.VC fund analyst with over 13 years of experience in analytics in private equity funds, large Russian and international companies. Expert in the analysis of markets and trends, cost estimation, due diligence, and investment project evaluation and analysis.

Education: Plekhanov University of Economics, diploma with honors, majoring in Finance and Credit. Valuation of the company (PWC, Moscow), Risk Management in Investment Projects (E&Y, Moscow). FFMS Qualification Certificate 1.0 and 5.0.

Loves winter sports, gastronomic events and places, jazz, travel, and contemporary art.

Eugeny Klykov

Investment Manager

Investment Manager of Vibrabium.VC fund. More than 10 years of experience in management consulting, M&A, alternative investments. Previously worked in information technology.

Education: Moscow Institute of Radio Engineering, Electronics and Automation, Applied mathematics; American Institute of Business and Economics, MBA.

Ella Shukho

Chief Marketing Officer

Chief Marketing Officer at Vibranium.VC fund, ex-head of PR&Marketing for acceleration programs at GVA. She has extensive experience (over ten years) in management, innovation, consulting, and marketing.

She has two degrees: in PR and management, numerous awards, diplomas, and gratitudes. She takes part in charity events and organizations. Ella likes to spend her free time with her family, enjoying both outdoor activities and travel as well as visiting theatrical premieres, photography and art exhibitions.

Lyudmila Kharitonova

Legal Expertise

Managing Partner at Zartsyn & Partners Law Firm. Areas of expertise: digital projects, including Due Diligence projects, business law for over 12 years.

Owns IT law school, as well as conducting training programs for IIDF, HSE Business Incubator, GVA, #tceh. In 2019 and 2020 she was recognized as one of the best Russian lawyers in the field of IT by the Best Lawyers rating, and by Pravo 300 rating in the field of Digital Law.

Evgeny Kuznetsov

Independent Member of the Investment Committee

CEO at Orbita Capital Partners LLC, the managing company of the Digital Evolution Ventures fund, created as the investment partnership agreement with "ROSATOM" Group of Companies.

Authorized Representative of Singularity University in the Russian Federation (https://su.org/).

Innovation expert, futurologist.

• Since 2009 he held management positions in the Russian Venture Company, in 2016 he was the Interim Director of RVC. In 2017, he headed the Subsidiary Funds of RVC, successfully restructured them.
• In RVC he was involved in the development of the venture capital market, in support and training other venture fund teams, scouting and accelerating startups; also launched the National Technology Initiative.
• Member of the Boards of Directors and Investment Committees of funds with the participation of RVC, initiated a number of landmark investments in Russian technology companies.
• From 2007 to 2009 he headed the Foundation for the Promotion of Science, Education and Medicine, which carried out a number of national campaigns for the development of the social sphere.
• From 2002 to 2007 he was the Managing Director of Edelman Russia, implemented major development projects for companies and markets, promoting them in the Russian and global markets while removing administrative barriers.
• In 2015 and 2016 Evgeny was the head of the authoring group for the development of the National Report on Innovations, launched by the request of the Government of the Russian Federation.

Member of the Expert Council of the Presidential Grants Fund, member of the Expert Council of the Agency for Strategic Initiatives, public representative of ASI in Moscow, member of the Presidium of the Council for Foreign and Defence Policy.

Natalia Dzhoraeva

Financial Expertise

Being the founder of the Finexpert and Get-Investor.ru projects, Natalia is an expert in corporate finance and investments with 16 years of professional experience.
For more than 10 years she worked in large companies, such as Sistema Public Joint Stock Financial Corporation -as Investor relations Directoк in one of the subsidiaries of Sistema, and as Director of Corporate Finance at the headquarters of Euroset.

She was also responsible for the company's loan portfolio of more than 10 billion RUB, Natalia was part of the management team for preparation and execution of shareholder transactions worth more than $ 1 billion.

During her professional practice Natalia worked with banks from the “ top 30” list, with auditors of the Big Four, international rating agencies, investment funds and stock exchanges in Moscow, London and Frankfurt am Main.

As a consultant, she collaborated with 300+ companies, including Russian Railways, Faberlik, the Moscow Innovation Cluster Foundation and others. Author\teacher of the courses and master classes in finance for startups and entrepreneurs at StartHub and University 20.35.

Leonard Grayver

Legal Expertise

Leonard Grayver is the founding partner at Grayver Law Group, a corporate and litigation boutique with offices in Los Angeles and Palo Alto. Leonard represents startup companies and venture capital funds in a wide variety of technologies. His practice ranges from the formation of new startup companies through venture capital financings, M&A, technology and licensing transactions. Leonard also represents many leading venture capital funds in matters ranging from fund formation to investment structuring.

In addition to his law practice, Leonard is a partner and mentor at the Pulsar Venture Capital and its Acceleration Program. He is also a member of the Board of Director of AmBAR (American Business Association of Russian-Speaking Professionals) and a member of the Board of Governors of the Eastern European Bar Association.

Leonard writes and lectures frequently on private equity, corporate, and technology licensing issues. He has authored a definitive Russian-language guide to venture capital financings and hosts a Russian-language blog on startup legal issues at www.startupjurist.com.

Max Grinevich

Technical Expertise

Founder and CEO at CBI Technologies, whose main goal is to optimize, automate and scale business using information technology.

● 15 years of experience in IT, 8 of them as a developer
● Technicalpartnerof 5 startups
● 7 years of experience in creating and maintaining development teams
● 6 successful expeditions to rescue projects in a difficult technical situation
● co-founder of a B2B startup in the field of music education “MUSIO.IO”.

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