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, media and some with $1 Billion in revenues.
He became a pioneer of venture investments business and launched first Aventures VC fund in Ukraine in 2001.Later he became a cofounder of US-Ukraine technology transfer center with a focus on commercialization of dual use technologies in airspace,nanotech,cyber and other areas.
In 2012 the new VC fund was launched, leading venture capital fund focused on Ukrainian founder that building global companies leveraging R&D in Ukraine.
AVentures Capital portfolio (http://aventurescapital.com/projects/) consists of more than 15 companies such as Petcube, Augmented Pixels, nuPSYS, VoX, Bookimed, Spin.io, Teamfusion, Ciklum and others.
In August 2014 Andrey has initiated a foundation of UVCA (Ukrainian Venture Capital and Private Equity Association UVCA.eu) and in November, 2014 was selected as Chairman of the board he is currently serving.
In November 2015 he became Board Member in Ciklum, a technology firm with more then 3 thousand employees and facilitated Soros Fund investment into the company.
Andrey was elected as Young Global Leader (from Ukraine) of the World Economic Forum www.younggloballeaders.org in 2008 and initiated Ukraine house Davos www.ukrainehousedavos.com/front-page/ in 2017 to promote investments and tech cooperation.
In February 2022 he became a cofounder of FreeUkraine NGO https://www.freeukraine.foundation registered in Belgium together with Belgian and Ukrainian colleagues.
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"
Chairman, Ukrainian Venture Capital and Private Equity Association (UVCA)
Young Global Leader, WEF, Founder, AVentures Capital Cell +380672096000