Alex Svinov

CEO @ Insquad I Best Software Talents Worldwide matched with Best Startups | Entrepreneur in IT

📍 United States🔄 Updated July 2026💼 2 investments📅 27 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2022
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Startup Mentor, Investor
2022
The Alchemist Accelerator is a venture-backed initiative focused on accelerating the development of seed-stage ventures that monetize from enterprises (not consumers). The accelerator’s primary screening criteria is on teams, with primacy placed on having distinctive technical co-founders. The accelerator seeds around 75 enterprise-monetizing ventures / year. Over 50% close institutional rounds within 12 months of their Alchemist Demo Day.
late stageFundraising
Analyst, Private Investments
1999
Morgan Stanley is a leading global financial services firm providing investment banking, securities, wealth management and investment management services. With a 90-year history, Morgan Stanley today operates in 42 countries serving corporations, governments, institutions, families and individuals. Morgan Stanley is a talent business that demands ongoing investment in our people. Key drivers of our success have been the breadth and tenure of our talent, as well as a unique culture and a set of values that guide our employees. We view Morgan Stanley’s talent and culture as a key competitive advantage enabling the Firm to achieve its potential and drive future success. As an integrated firm with scaled capabilities, we partner with clients at every stage of their financial journey. Our ability to do so is grounded in four pillars that define Morgan Stanley: a clear and consistent strategy to help clients raise, manage and allocate capital; a culture grounded in rigor, humility and partnership; financial strength through capital, earnings power and durability; and growth driven by smart, strategic investment globally. These pillars enable Morgan Stanley to provide trusted advice, operate with resilience across market cycles and deliver long-term value to our clients and shareholders. Social Media Disclosures: mgstn.ly/SocialDisclosure
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2023
Managing Partner
Jan 2023
2022
Startup Mentor, Investor
2022
The Alchemist Accelerator is a venture-backed initiative focused on accelerating the development of seed-stage ventures that monetize from enterprises (not consumers). The accelerator’s primary screening criteria is on teams, with primacy placed on having distinctive technical co-founders. The accelerator seeds around 75 enterprise-monetizing ventures / year. Over 50% close institutional rounds within 12 months of their Alchemist Demo Day.
late stageFundraising
2021
CEO, Co-Founder at Insquad
2021
Insquad is an IT services company with focus on providing top quality remote software engineers from all over the world to US and EU companies. With a proprietary AI-vetting algorithm and 100,000+ developers in our database, we offer our clients fast solution to scale development teams with quality software engineers at very competitive prices. Each Insquad engineer passes a AI-vetted coding test, tech interview, English language interview and a remote working capabilities such as self-management and clear communication to ensure our clients get only top quality developer. Today we are offering engineers in 100+ technologies including React, Vue.js, Node.js, Php, Python, Java, C#, iOS, Android, and many others.
2015
CFO, Co-founder
2015
Advalange is a company supplying outsourced safety-critical software development and verification services. Focusing on the aerospace industry, we deliver products for any industry where safety and reliability are mandatory. Our experienced engineering team is the driving force behind Advalange. To harness that force, professional managers founded Advalange with this philosophy: * Our mission is not only to meet the needs of our customers in the most efficient way, but also the needs of everyone who touches our product. We are serious about safety, all the way down the line from our customer to their customers. * We view each project independently. Others might favor a cookie-cutter approach to save themselves time and money, but at Advalange we’re always thinking outside-the-box. We balance your budget, schedule, and quality requirements to give you exactly what you want, on time and at a competitive price. We are able to handle the following stages of the SW lifecycle: * System requirements review * SW requirements capture, development, and review * SW design * Coding * SW testing * SW/SW and SW/HW integration * Certification support The founders, while still young, each have over 15 years of in-the-trenches experience and complementary skills in: * Offshore SW development * Aerospace * IT * Growing successful start-ups Every team member at Advalange holds these values: * Efficiency and Focus - Provide what the customer desires, deliver it on time, and at reasonable price * Professionalism - This is what bonds us together as a team * Safety and Reliability - Quality assurance depends on intense focus and compliance with regulations * Respect for Individuality - We value the creative individuality of all our teammates * Long-term Outlook - It’s not about the quick fix, but doing the right thing for the long run Whether youve an idea for a project or just want to see what’s possible, let us know today!
1999
Analyst, Private Investments
1999
Morgan Stanley is a leading global financial services firm providing investment banking, securities, wealth management and investment management services. With a 90-year history, Morgan Stanley today operates in 42 countries serving corporations, governments, institutions, families and individuals. Morgan Stanley is a talent business that demands ongoing investment in our people. Key drivers of our success have been the breadth and tenure of our talent, as well as a unique culture and a set of values that guide our employees. We view Morgan Stanley’s talent and culture as a key competitive advantage enabling the Firm to achieve its potential and drive future success. As an integrated firm with scaled capabilities, we partner with clients at every stage of their financial journey. Our ability to do so is grounded in four pillars that define Morgan Stanley: a clear and consistent strategy to help clients raise, manage and allocate capital; a culture grounded in rigor, humility and partnership; financial strength through capital, earnings power and durability; and growth driven by smart, strategic investment globally. These pillars enable Morgan Stanley to provide trusted advice, operate with resilience across market cycles and deliver long-term value to our clients and shareholders. Social Media Disclosures: mgstn.ly/SocialDisclosure