Lidiya Dervisheva is a Partner at Next47, based in the United States. Lidiya has a wealth of experience in the venture capital industry, previously working as an Investor and Associate at G2VP. She is also a former MBA Summer Associate at Braemar Energy Ventures and a former Engineer and Project Manager at Synergy Efficiency Solutions, where she utilized her background in electrical engineering to manage projects. Lidiya studied at Yale University, where she received her Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, and Harvard Business School, where she received her Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.). Throughout her career, she has also interned at Vattenfall and London Sustainability Exchange. Lidiya is passionate about innovation and has previously served as Co-Leader of Idea Institute Programme at Tsai Center for Innovative Thinking at Yale (Tsai CITY).