Andrey Kolodyuk

Andrey Kolodyuk (Андрей Колодюк)
birth_date 25 May 1971
Nationality Ukrainian
Occupation Venture capitalist, Entrepreneur, Investor
Known For Founder of Divan.TV Managing Partner in AVentures Capital, Chairman of UVCA
Web-site a.kolodyuk.info

Andrey Kolodyuk is a serial entrepreneur and venture capital investor. He started his entrepreneurial career in New York in 1992 and eventually has founded and built over 10 companies in IT, telecom, internet and media with $1 Billion total revenues.[1]

In 2008 he exited from previous companies and started a new one Divan.TV – one of the pioneers of TV streaming OTT service for ethnic groups available in 200 countries worldwide.[2]

In 2012 the new fund was launched — AVentures Capital, leading venture capital fund focused on global companies that leverage R&D in Ukraine and CEE. The fund targets the following IT categories: software, e-commerce, cloud services, mobile technology, IoT and others. AVentures Capital has over 10 companies in its portfolio, including Augmented Pixels, nuPSYS, Petcube, Spinbackup, StarWind Software, Rallyware, Bookimed, Teamfusion, CoreValue and others. AVentures Capital portfolio companies mostly focus on the U.S. market and raised follow on round from international funds.

VC fund coinvests with ABRT, Almaz Capital, Vegas fund, TA Ventures, Y Combinator and other permanent investors

In August 2014 Andrey has initiated a foundation of UVCA (Ukrainian Venture Capital and Private Equity Association) and in November, 2014 was selected as Chairman of it.

In November 2015 he became Board Member in Ciklum, a global technology solutions provider with 3,250 employees.

Andrey was elected as Young Global Leader (from Ukraine) of the World Economic Forum in 2008.

He initiated Ukrainian Davos nights events, that were organized by UVCA, on January 16 and January 19, 2017 during the World Economic Forum. Than by Andrey’s initiative, Ukraine House Davos, a multi-format venue which from January 22-26 ran in Davos, Switzerland, for the first time in the Forum’s 48-year history. Andrey has joined Organizing Committee.

Ukraine House run a week-long venue under the theme: «Ukraine: Creativity, Innovation, Opportunity» A vibrant hub, it showcased Ukraine to global leaders from business, politics and civil society, and present Ukrainian business and investment opportunities.

Education

Andrey Kolodyuk graduated from Kyiv Polytechnic Institute and studied law at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. In 2005, he defended his PhD thesis: “Information Society: Modern Condition and Perspectives of Development in Ukraine” with the specialty “Political Culture and Ideology”

Entrepreneurship

He started his entrepreneurial career in New York City when he was 23.[3][4] He said to Strategy magazine: 'I was no exception of the American rules: if you want to become a director of the restaurant, start as dish washer. For the first time my work required only physical strength and endurance (construction, transportation, etc.) work. Later, I went to company engaged in the wholesale trade of office equipment’ .[5] In 1994 he founded his first startup – Universal Trading Enterprise. In 1995 he came back to Ukraine and founded his first IT-investment firm, which financed its first project Unitrade which became the most famous retail change. In 2001, Kolodyuk reorganized Ukrinvestcom into a venture capital firm, AVentures.[6] During the last 20 years, he has founded and developed more than ten companies. Among his most notable projects are Unitrade (electronics retail), City.com (electronics retail),[7] Ukrainian Software Consortium (software), PH Softpress (publishing),[8] Universal Telecom (telecom) and DK Zvyazok (media). Andrey is the main founder and investor of DIVAN.TV,[9] the first over-the-top content (OTT) Smart TV provider for all Russian-speaking community worldwide.[10] He is also an adviser at Contacter.[11]

His last project DIVAN.TV[9] – is a pioneer of OTT market in CIS countries and only Russian-speaking community worldwide. It is available in 200 counties, according to Viaway web-site.[12]

Investor

In March 2012 AVentures Capital[6] has launched a new venture capital fund, to support successful technology entrepreneurs in Ukraine and Russia.[13] Within a year AVentures Capital has acquired a 25% equity stake in Augmented Pixels,[14] one of the world’s leading augmented reality technology developers, according to the information at the siliconangle web-site.[15] The deal closed on February 15, 2013. Lately, in April 2013, AVentures Capital announced the 2nd deal.[16] The fund has acquired a minority equity stake in nuPSYS,[17] the world’s leading visual network software developer, wrote KyivPost newspaper.[18] AVentures Capital and nuPSYS, Inc, didn’t disclose the financial details of the Series A deal to the public. AVentures was the lead investor in the round, where as nuPSYS is in talks with international investors to increase the size of the round up to $5–6 million.[19] Aventurres representatives sits at the boards at Jooble[20] and Depositphotos companies.[21][22]

References

  1. ↑ "Обо мне | Андрей Колодюк". www.a.kolodyuk.info (in Russian). Retrieved 2018-05-15.
  2. ↑ "Divan.TV launches worldwide for 300-million Russian and Ukrainian language audience". East-West Digital News. 2013-10-23. Retrieved 2018-05-15.
  3. ↑ "Andrey Kolodyuk in Entrepreholic! C чего начинается предпринимательство". Hi-TechUA (in Russian). Ukraine. May 25, 2011.
  4. ↑ "Blog". Andrey Kolodyuk personal blog (in Russian). Ukraine.
  5. ↑ "Управление - это концентрация силы". Журнал Стратегия (in Russian). Ukraine. Archived from the original on 2014-02-22.
  6. 1 2 "AVentures Capital".
  7. ↑ City.com
  8. ↑ SoftPress Publishing House Archived July 26, 2013, at the Wayback Machine.
  9. 1 2 "DIVAN<gwmw class="ginger-module-highlighter-mistake-anim ginger-module-highlighter-mistake-type-3" id="gwmw-15371812581641231372086">.</gwmw>TV".
  10. ↑ How Smart TV/OTT changes the <gwmw class="ginger-module-highlighter-mistake-anim ginger-module-highlighter-mistake-type-2" id="gwmw-15371812587842668937474">scape</gwmw> of <gwmw class="ginger-module-highlighter-mistake-anim ginger-module-highlighter-mistake-type-3" id="gwmw-15371812587846982648182">VOD market</gwmw>
  11. ↑ "Andrey Kolodyuk". TechCrunch. CrunchBase April 15, 2013.
  12. ↑ DIVAN<gwmw class="ginger-module-highlighter-mistake-anim ginger-module-highlighter-mistake-type-3" id="gwmw-15371812598047868029474">.</gwmw>TV via <gwmw class="ginger-module-highlighter-mistake-anim ginger-module-highlighter-mistake-type-1" id="gwmw-15371812598046199496394">ViaWay</gwmw>
  13. ↑ AVentures launches new venture capital fund Archived August 21, 2013, at the Wayback Machine.
  14. ↑ AR23D <gwmw class="ginger-module-highlighter-mistake-anim ginger-module-highlighter-mistake-type-1" id="gwmw-15371812605561068722889">web-site</gwmw>
  15. ↑ AVentures Capital Backs Startup Augmented Pixels for AR Applications
  16. ↑ AVentures Capital invests in network software developer <gwmw class="ginger-module-highlighter-mistake-anim ginger-module-highlighter-mistake-type-1" id="gwmw-15371812616639651712757">nuPSYS</gwmw>
  17. ↑ <gwmw class="ginger-module-highlighter-mistake-anim ginger-module-highlighter-mistake-type-1" id="gwmw-15371812620930850697447">nuPSYS</gwmw> <gwmw class="ginger-module-highlighter-mistake-anim ginger-module-highlighter-mistake-type-1" id="gwmw-15371812620932501027672">web-site</gwmw>
  18. ↑ Local venture fund
  19. ↑ "Aventures Capital". TechCrunch. CrunchBase.
  20. ↑ Jooble
  21. ↑ DepositPhotos
  22. ↑ Aventures Capital: Board Member roles Archived December 19, 2013, at the Wayback Machine.
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