Ukrainian venture market is smelling crime and sanctions. Part III
Got new heroes for you.
Meet Dmitry Podolev, co-founder of iHub network in Kyiv and L’viv. He is from Kuchma and Yanukovitch officials and diplomats family. Last years they corrupted Ukrainian Chamber of Commerce. Now he is in trouble with grants and willing to start seed fund.
Interesting links. Icon fund funded Freshtel for 200m USD during the same Q where standard WiMax went to history. Good good investment. But see who were heroes in this story. Evgen Sysoyev and Maх Nefyodov (Prozorro) from ICON, Olena Minich as CEO Freshtel. Nice deal, I know where money to AVentures fund came from. After this fail Olena pretend to be expert on innovation.
Thank you, my follower for you feedback and interesting info. Now I have some info about Oleksy Vitchenko secret business and more.
Great person has shared interesting letter from past.
From: John Galt
Date: 2014/1/23
Subject: Please, ignore and ban IDCEE and TA Venture because of Sergy Tigipko
IDCEE and TA Venture was founded by Viktoria Tigipko. Viktoria is wife of Serhy Tigipko who is #3 in Party of Region of Ukraine.
Party of Region is responsible for violence in Ukraine during January of 2014.
Serhy Tigipko personally voted for the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dictatorship_laws_in_Ukraine. It was start of violence (5+ protesters killed, 50+ activists kidnapped, 500+ protesters injured, 70+ journalists shot on purpose, 30+ doctors shot and beaten just during 2 days)
#1 of Party of Region was banned on Davos http://www.buzzfeed.com/miriamelder/world-economic-forum-drops-ukrainian-prime-minister-as-prote
#4 of Party of Regions is under criminal investigation in Austria http://www.pravda.com.ua/articles/2014/01/23/7011063/
At least 10 members of Party of Regions from top 30 lost they US visa and are under sanction of US. EU, US, GB and Switzerland are in sanction starting process. http://euobserver.com/foreign/122829
Will you join the team? Welcome!
Next https://medium.com/@JoseAngeloMarillo/part-iv-ukrainian-vc-tales-russian-invasion-fb119505892f
You can send me some other info about Ukrainian VC Heroes to joseangelomarillo@gmx.de
To be continued… and stay tuned
JAM, Barcelona-Zurich-Lugano