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Sciberia

Software powered by AI for healthcare

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Lex

Solution for hard-to-operate complex oil, gas and water wells

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Qummy

Restaurant quality robotic cooking solutions suits both home, horeca&dark stores

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Augmented reality holographic system

SaaS platform for no-code, on-the-fly industrial enterprise robots

Manufacturer of innovative biopolymers (biopolymer surfactants) for water treatment and household usages

Biogas-fed power plants project

Ruslan Sarkisov

General partner

Konstantin Gibalo

Partner

Arthur Martirosov

Partner

Varvara Melikhova

Investment director

Sergey Nefedov

Investment director

Maria Sakhirova

Director of Operations

Kristina Busko

External Relations Director

Maria Gorbunova

Analyst

Timur Latypov

Senior analyst

Ruslan has more than 20 years of experience in business and investment management. He worked for leading Russian and international companies and funds that focused on high-tech projects, telecoms and the commodity sector. He launched Far East High Technology Fund in 2018 and was its CEO until 2021. Before that he was Deputy CEO at Far East and Arctic Development Fund. In 2011-2013 he held the position of Senior Vice President at Russian Direct Investment Fund where he worked on setting-up of Russian-Chinese Investment Fund with the capital of $ 2 billion. Previously, he worked for leading Russian and international companies – Ernst & Young, Basic Element, CentreInvest Capital Partners, etc. In 2016, he founded the ARMA network of crossfit clubs in Moscow. Graduated from the State University of Management, Institute of Financial Management. His interests include painting and martial arts. He has a black belt in karate.

Konstantin manages Fund`s deals in microelectronics, IT, industrial and green technologies areas. Previously, he was Deputy CEO at Far East High Technology Fund. In 2014-2018, he was the director for industrial partners of Skolkovo Industrial Cluster Fund, where he supervised large investment projects localized in the Skolkovo innovation center and implemented corporate acceleration projects with Fanuc, S7 Group, Rosatom, Rostec and others. He held key positions and led projects in Russian and international technology companies, such as NEW Russia Growth Private Equity, CentreInvest Capital Partners, Xtera Telecommunications Inc, AFK Sistema Financial Corporation. He has a master’s degree in Applied Physics and Mathematics from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT), and a degree in Financial management from the Financial Academy under the Government of the Russian Federation.

Andrey is the head of the Fund’s office in Vladivostok and manages deals in agricultural technology and biotechnology areas. Andrey`s experience in investment banking, direct and venture capital investments exceeds 15 years. For four years he worked in two large regional development institutions – North Caucasus Development Corporation and Far East and Arctic Development Fund, where he was responsible for direct investments and project management in agriculture, tourism and the FMCG sector. Previously he worked for Citigroup Venture Capital (London), TRUST Investment Bank and several Russian investment funds where he managed transactions in energy, non-banking financial services, the consumer sector and retail and advertising. Graduated from the School of International Business of the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO), has an MBA degree from the London Business School.

Arthur is responsible for the Fund’s deals in medicine, biotechnology and robotics. Before joining the Voskhod VC team, he was responsible for a number of investments in Far East High Technology Fund. Previously, worked at Far East and Arctic Development Fund, Ernst and Young and the investment banking division of JPMorgan. Graduated from M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU) with a degree in Economics. He has a degree of Master of Science in Global Finance. Arthur teaches a course on Corporate Finance and Asset Management in Global Markets in the anglophone Master’s program at Moscow State University. He also co-authored with Changellenge a course on Investment Banking and Venture Funds. He enjoys triathlon (3x Ironman PB 9.31) and snowboarding.

Maria has over 20 years of experience in financial and administrative management in the industrial and financial companies. From 2014 to 2022, she worked as the chief accountant for Far East High Technology Fund and at the management company of Da Vinci Capital investment fund; before that, she held the positions of financial and administrative director and chief accountant in the Russian branches of Anstar AG and Ejendals. Graduated from State University of Management, Institute of Financial Management with a Master`s degree.

Sergey manages the Fund’s deals in industrial software and deeptech areas. Previously, he was responsible for the development of local business of multinational corporations Red Hat and Cisco Systems Inc. He led the project to establish and launch the largest commercial data processing center in the northwestern region of the Russian Federation – Stack Data Network. He graduated from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, has a bachelor’s degree in Applied Physics and Mathematics.

Varvara is responsible for the Fund’s pipeline in life sciences area (Medicine, Biotechnology, Agrotechnology). Before joining the Voskhod VC team she was responsible for corporate innovative projects in «big pharma», was involved in organizing market access for innovative pharmaceuticals, was a co-founder of several international drug discovery startups. Varvara has a scientific degree (Candidate of Biological Sciences in the field of tissue engineering), graduated from the Faculty of Biology of Lomonosov Moscow State University, enjoys alpine skiing, loves jazz.

Timur works on the Fund’s deals in IT technology, Microelectronics, Biotechnology, and Aerotechnology areas. Previously he worked in the Business Valuation Ernst & Young group, and was involved in structuring M&A deals, as well as direct investments in the VTB Capital team. Timur graduated from Lomonosov Moscow State University, he has a bachelor’s and master’s degree in Economics.

Kristina is responsible for the development of professional communities and partnerships, media relations, regional and federal government authorities. She has worked in media and PR for over 15 years. She began her career in 2006 at the “Kommersant” publishing house as a consumer markets department reporter. She also worked as an Editor at RBC and Deputy Editor-in-Chief at Rambler News Services. In 2019-2022 she was the PR Director at Far East High Technology Fund. In 2014-2019, she worked as a public relations consultant with The Seventh Continent, Telconet Capital and Klever Internet funds, OKKO online cinema, etc.

Ivan has a bachelor’s degree in Applied Physics and Mathematics from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT), works on Fund’s transactions in New Mobility and Industry 4.0.

Maria works on the Fund’s deals in agrotechnology, biotechnology and green technology areas. Prior to joining Voskhod team, Maria had working experience in more than 20+ projects as international strategic consultant at Strategy& and McKinsey. She was responsible for developing new business projects in ESG area and for conducting operational due diligence to improve process efficiency in the existing projects. Maria has master’s degree in Corporate Finance from the Graduate School of Management of Saint-Petersburg State University and bachelor’s degree in Economics from Lomonosov Moscow State University. She enjoys listening to electronic music and snowboarding.

Prior to joining Voskhod VC, Yana worked as Investor Relations Director at Xploration Capital (2021), RDIF (2019-2020) and as a capital raising and corporate advisor to the CEO in the biotechnology investment boutique IQ Group Global (2016-2018) in Sydney, Australia. In 2008-2016 Yana worked for the Institutional Equity Trading division of Morgan Stanley, where she specialized in equity sales and also headed corporate access offering to global funds investing in the EMEA and Russia. Yana graduated from the University of Maryland University College, USA majoring in International Business and Finance and has an ACCA qualification.

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