Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (State University) (MIPT)

Research-driven early stage investments

United Kingdom

Tidal Wave is an early stage VC fund. We invest $200k-1m per deal (along with small opportunistic angel style investments) with strong preference towards experienced founders tackling hard problems. In a year since launch we invested >$6m in 12 deals (incl. HyPoint, xRobotics, Abagy, placid.money, GPU Audio, primeclass.io, etc.). We are research-driven, our main areas of interest are Zero Emission & New Energy, Robotics & Real life AI applications, HPC & Custom Silicon, Mental Health & Psychedelic Research. We are ex-founders with scientific training and background in finance.

Tidal Wave VC

Managing Partner

ZeroAvia

Shareholder

GPU Audio is a technology startup that bridges the world of GPU innovation with professional audio, through the world’s first fully capable solution for audio processing over GPU.

Our mission is to provide a truly next-gen, qualitative level of performance for pro audio, and become the new standard of audio processing for the digital future across numerous verticals.

GPU Audio

Advisor, Investor

Acquired by ZeroAvia. As HyPoint delivered breakthrough technological results, I transitioned from an Advisory to a hands-on role to help streamline financial governance and lead the M&A deal process from the HyPoint side.

HyPoint

Interim Chief Financial Officer

HyPoint develops next generation fuel cells based on HTPEM to enable electric air transportation.
The team managed to solve specific power problem - the main barrier preventing using hydrogen fuel cells in electric planes. I help with strategy, fundraising and negotiation tactics.

HPC Hub enables the cost-optimal deployment, configuration, and scaling of computation heavy workloads in the multi-cloud environments, without sacrificing performance and security.

The result is a significant increase in application performance, decreased idle time, and up to 80% reduction in cost.

We leverage ML-based optimization to eliminate any bottlenecks by taking advantage of automatic workloads and infrastructure profiling. Such profiling is performed across thousands of configurations over multiple clouds. Our software accounts for observable patterns, as well as undocumented irregularities in cloud behaviour.

HPC Hub's main product is <a href="http://RocketCompute.com">RocketCompute.com</a> - SaaS platform that helps DevOps teams and Engineers to shrink cloud bills for computational heavy workloads. We detect performance bottlenecks and suggest configuration improvements based on ML analysis of server monitoring data.

HPC HUB

Co-Founder and CEO

Co-Founder

During the tenure at ACG, in various roles participated in deals with total volume of more than US$ 9 bn in FMCG, Engineering, TMT, IT and Construction.
As a VP was responsible for origination of M&A deals, team and overall deal process management.
Managed a team which successfully launched PE fund of US$ 300m with a focus on US Healthcare.

Aquila Capital Group

Vice President (M&A)

Seed-stage VC fund with a focus on early-stage IT and Telecommunication startups.
Managed fund creation at all stages from an idea inception to strategy development, establishment of a legal framework (Luxembourg) and fundraising process.

Fund's launch process was terminated after failure to secure target level of commitments (anchor LP withdrew the commitment after steep country risks increase in 2014).

AVC Investments

Investment Director, Co-Founder

Financial and strategic consulting for technological startups; among other engagements helped several teams to raise their initial funding.

Freelance Consultant

Adviser

Clothing, equipment and nutrition for MMA, BJJ & combat sports.
Launched internet-store of equipment and nutrition for MMA & combat sports (overall strategy and financing, acted as a CEO during startup period).

MMA Bazar

Founder and CEO

Financial modelling and investment memo preparation as part of an M&A deal process
Overall analysis of markets and target companies
Selective deals: Electrocom, Yota & Megafon (US$ 7.5 bn merger), ROK-1, Tunaicha, coal mine in Kazakhstan, sale of Inteko (~US$ 1 bn), etc.

M&A Analyst

Was responsible for financial modeling and bank application preparation and management as part of a process to secure US$ 1bn loan financing for Compay's largest asset.
Managed investment analysis and business planning business unit.

MBC Corporation

Manager, Finance Department

Financial analysis: business planning and financial modelling in Oil&Gas, mining and catering.
Investment analysis & consulting: fundraising process management for technological startups (incl. memo/models preparation)

Freelance

Consulting

Since 06.2008 senior in-charge of a Journal Entry Testing group: statistical analysis of accounting data for patterns of fraudulent activity.

As a group leader developed new methodology of tests based on frequency analysis, proposed and implemented transition to SQL-based data handling for largest clients, which accelerated analysis 10x times.

Also as part of ERS team participated in projects related to FCPA, AML, etc.

Deloitte

Consultant in Forensic & Dispute Services

Various projects within Forensic team related to JET (Journal Entry Testing) and AML (Anti-Money Laundering), etc.
De-facto Senior In-Charge of JET group since January 2008.

Eugene Protasenko