Viktoriya Tigipko

Viktoriya Tigipko (2017)

Viktoriya V. Tigipko (born August 17, 1973 in Kiev) is a business-lady, public figure and wife of Sergey L. Tigipko, founding partner and managing director of venture capital firm TA Ventures, president of Odesa International Film Festival, president of Ukrainian Film Academy, organizer of the "IDCEE. Internet technologies and Innovations" conference. Initiated the establishment of Code Club Ukraine - the Ukrainian network of volunteer-led coding clubs for children.

Biography

Viktoriya Tigipko was born on August 17, 1973 in a family of a military musician and a music teacher Viktor Lopatetskyi and a speech therapist Lidiya Lopatetskaya.

Education

In 1990 Viktoriya graduated with honors from a Kyiv School №191. In 1996 she graduated from a faculty of "International Economic Relations and Law" from Kyiv Institute of National Economy also with honors diploma. After, she continued her studies in Austria, in Vienna University and Vienna Economic University, where she studied financial management and international insurance. Viktoriya also completed an Executive Education program in a Californian University of Berkley.

Besides native Ukrainian and Russian, she also masters English, German, French and Italian.

Career

First income Viktoriya Tigipko earned while still at school, in the 9th grade. She was an interpreter for an international exhibition. Her professional career started when she was a freshman at University. Viktoriya was the youngest broker at Ukrainian universal trade stock. In the same time she was working as an English interpreter in a banking school at the International Management Institute.

Viktoriya Tigipko founded her first company in 1996. Eventually, her company became the biggest Ukrainian dealer of a German "Karcher". Viktoriya was dealing with engineering, construction and special industrial equipment delivery. For the time being, her main realm of activities include investment and Internet projects.

Today Viktoriya is a managing director of TA Venture, organizer of the "IDCEE. Intetnet Technologies and innovations" conference for Internet entrepreneurs in CEE. More than 200 people are working under her management.

Hobby, which has always been cinema, has grown into a large-scale social and cultural event: she is a president and organizer of Odessa International Film Festival.

In 2010 she was rated among "25 most successful business ladies in Ukraine",[1] and in 2011 she was rated 10th among "100 most influential women of Ukraine".[2] In 2012 sha was named one of the "TOP-100 most influential Ukrainians".[3] Besides, the same year she became one of the TOP-5 most influential persons in Ukrainian Internet.[4]

TA Ventures is an international early-stage venture capital fund with a specific focus on AI, Mobility, Digital Health startups from Western Europe, US, and CEE. [5]

The fund has $50 mn under management that has been invested in more than 125 companies since TA Ventures was founded in 2010. Some of its most prominent current investments include Caroobi, Aurora Labs, Zesty, Klara, CUJO, Sense.ly, Invision.ai and 100+ others including Azimo, SumUp, Wallapop. The fund provides operational support to its portfolio companies, helping them grow, stay competitive, and achieve their most ambitious R&D goals. [6]

TA Ventures also founded iClub - the largest investor club for business-angels in Ukraine. The fund hosts regular meetups at prominent Ukrainian tech-companies’ offices (PDFiller, Terrasoft, Ring Ukraine) and educational events on venture capital 101 latest tech-trends. [7]

In 2010-2014, the fund also was a general partner of the largest tech conference in Ukraine and CEE, "IDCEE. Internet Technologies and Innovations”. Such top entrepreneurs and VC funds' partners as Alan Patricof (Greycroft Partners), Esther Dyson (EDVenture Holdings), Drew Guff (Siguler Guff), Fabrice Grinda (OLX cofounder), Tomasz Czechowicz (MCI Management), Florian Heinemann (Project A), Limor Schweitzer (Robosavvy), Chris Chabot (Twitter), Philippe Botteri (Accel Partners), Alan Caffi (Ventech), Bessie Lee (WPP China), Andreas Haug (eVentures), Jose Marin (IG Expansion), Tim Draper (DFJ), Avishai Abrahami (WIX), Bernhard Niesner (Busuu), Martin Weber (Holtzbrinck), Jan Henric Buettner (BV Capital), Joachim Schoss (Myhanicap), Glenn Fogel (Priceline), Mark Zbikowski (Microsoft, Jelastic, Parallels), Gareth Williams (Skyscanner), Rasmus Lerdorf (PHP creator), Steffen Krause (Amazon) were among 2500 attendees from 45 countries. [8]

Interests

Among Viktoriya's hobbies are cinema (arthouse, art-mainstream), jazz, modern art, yoga, skiing. Viktoriya Tigipko is a modern art collector, she tries to catch up on all significant world art fora. When a child, she used to be passionate for music: she graduated with honors from the Kiev child school of arts №6 named after G.L. Zhykovskyi from the guitarre class.

Personal life

Viktoriya is married to a politician Serhiy Tigipko, former Deputy Head of the Party of Regions. They have three children: Timofey 2002, Anastasiya 2005 and Leontiy 2008.

References

  1. ↑ «25 самых успешных бизнес-леди Украины»
  2. ↑ «100 самых влиятельных женщин Украины»
  3. ↑ 100 Самых влиятельных украинцев»
  4. ↑ (http://ain.ua/2012/12/18/105768)
  5. ↑ "TA Ventures Official Web-Page"
  6. ↑ "CrunchBase, TA Ventures"
  7. ↑ "iClub Official Page"
  8. ↑ "TA Ventures' Initiatives"
  • "Website of TA Venture fund". Archived from the original on 2012-05-11. Retrieved 2012-12-21.
  • "Website of Odessa International Film Festival". Archived from the original on 2012-05-11. Retrieved 2012-12-21.
  • "Rating of the TOP-25 most influential business ladies of Ukraine". Archived from the original on 2012-05-11. Retrieved 2012-12-21.
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