Fireside chat w/ Egor Abramov, Principal at Fort Ross Ventures

Name: Fireside chat w/ Egor Abramov, Principal at Fort Ross Ventures
Start: 2021-02-16T19:00:00+03:00
End: 2021-02-16T20:00:00+03:00

Feb 16, 2021, 4:00 – 5:00 PM

Moscow

Denis Kalyshkin, Principal at I2BF Global Ventures, and invited speaker Egor Abramov, Principal at Fort Ross Ventures, will discuss why the Eastern Europe is a gold mine and how startup can get on the radar of the Fort Ross Ventures.

Virtual event

About this event

Denis Kalyshkin, Principal at I2BF Global Ventures, and invited speaker Egor Abramov, Principal at Fort Ross Ventures, will discuss why Eastern Europe is a gold mine and how startups can get on the radar of the Fort Ross Ventures. 

We are going to cover the following topics:Why Eastern Europe is an area of focus for the Fort Ross Ventures?
How startups can get on the Fort Ross Ventures radar?
How Fort Ross Ventures benefit from the affiliation with Sberbank?
Which technologies and industries are in the focus of the Fort Ross Ventures?
Q/A session
About the SpeakerEgor is a Principal at Fort Ross Ventures. He has 10+ years of wide-ranging international experience in venture capital, private equity, and investment banking both in Moscow and London.
Egor has a vast PE/VC track record, from mature TMT companies to early-stage startups in the US, Europe, Middle East, and Russia. At different stages of his career, he has been in charge of execution, lead gen, portfolio management, and investment process design across all geographies and industries.
Apart from his family and career, Egor devotes much time to sailing. He considers it a pure venture sport that helps to cleanse the mind, soothe the soul, and raise the fighting spirit.
Egor has a BSc and MSc from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technologies as well as an MSc from New Economic School. These are two leading Russian universities in math, physics, and economics. Egor has also studied at UC Berkeley, Haas School of Business; he holds the prestigious, international CFA designation.

About the HostDenis Kalyshkin is a principal at I2BF Global Ventures. He has 6+ years of experience investing in Vertical SaaS, Industry 4.0, AI, AR/VR, IoT, RPA & automation startups at Seed and pre-series A-stages. Denis also runs a non-profit initiative Ask VC (ask-vc.com) promoting entrepreneurship in Emerging countries.