The Russian Academy for Foreign Trade

Troika New Talent

Co-Founder at Capsula

My company was developing an AI-powered personal finance autopilot, designed to connect bank accounts to LLMs with built-in financial advice logic. Our mission was to empower individuals to make informed financial decisions effortlessly on a set-and-forget basis. Our initial target audience was young doctors, given their unique financial profiles. We built an MVP and partnered with several residency programs across the United States. However, we ultimately decided to shut down due to poor unit economics.

Stealth Startup

Co-Founder

Capsula delivers boxes with highly personalized clothing outfits. We gather 80+ unique data points about each client and match them with clothes from our stock with the help of professional stylists and machine learning. I co-founded the company and led to $3,6m in annual revenue and a team of 150 people. We raised 2 investment rounds from angel investors and venture capital funds. I was responsible for fundraising, financial management, product, analytics and warehouse operations.

Capsula

Co-Founder & CEO

Failed Startup
Bramble is a second-hand fashion marketplace. We raised pre-seed round, built a product, but failed to find PMF

Bramble

Gett is a mobility marketplace, and enterprise spend management software provider. Founded in 2010, Gett is trusted by thousands of corporations, including more than 1/4 of the Fortune 500. The company has raised more than $750M in funding, including $300M+ from the World's #1 carmaker, The Volkswagen Group.

• Strategy development: analysis, presentation to top management, and implementation
• M&A: evaluating potential targets, negotiating, due diligence, financial modeling, post-merger
integration
• Analyzing related transport opportunities to add to the core business: taxi aggregator, carsharing,
scooter sharing, etc.
• Key results: acquiring market leader in the ride-hailing industry. Leading the whole transaction process including due diligence, deal closure, and post-merger integration

Gett

Deputy Head, M&A and Corporate Development

Hi Capital is one of the largest mezzanine loan funds in Eastern Europe. Total AUM exceeds $1bn. We are a sector-agnostic investment vehicle focusing on financing LBO deals. 

•	Supervised Junior Analysts
•	Negotiated deal terms with clients' senior management
•	Developed structuring solutions
•	Due Diligence process of potential targets both internally and externally (Big4 and ILF consultants)

Key transactions: LBO $170m auto retail business, LBO $35m pharmaceutical company, Investment Loan $25m TMT

Hi Capital Corporation

Senior Associate

•	Preparing investment memoranda and presentations
•	Building financial models
•	Term Sheets preparation

Analyst

•	Participating in preparation of banking sector overview and company reports, was primarily responsible for market data and model updates
•	Collecting and analyzing data from different sources (Internet, Bloomberg, data rooms), daily preparing news update

Troika Dialog

Equity Research 

•	Participating in audit works of Russian and International clients 
•	Preparing documents in accordance with international standards
•	Was engaged in 7 projects with top-tier financial corporations

Pavel Shibanov