Alexander Rugaev

Venture Capitalist and Serial Entrepreneur

📍 United Arab Emirates🔄 Updated August 2026💼 2 investments📅 5 years investing🗓 Last invested May 2023
VC🌍 United Arab Emirates
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May 2023
ABAKA is an award-winning Enterprise SaaS platform, powered by Artificial Intelligence, specifically designed to create digital customer engagements and digital advice on wealth, saving, life insurance and banking. For more information, visit www.abaka.me and follow us on Twitter at @My_Abaka. ABAKAs AI recommendation engine helps Financial Institutions create and display the right actionable recommendations to the right people, at the right time with Next Best Action. We help incumbents deploy a strategy aligned to their business logic and refine recommendations to increase engagement and customer activation to unlock business value from data. Our timely and actionable customer insight delivers simple, intuitive, and hyper-personalized, digital client experiences that retain and expand new revenue streams. Today institutions such as HSBC, Prudential, and Legal & General are licensing the ABAKA technologies across the globe to deliver outstanding customer experiences to their wealth clients and help these achieve financial security. Fahd Rachidy, Founder and CEO of ABAKA: “We must address customers’ needs for financial education and advice, improve ease of access, and explain the choices over pensions and savings. The pensions industry is facing a huge challenge to achieve better outcomes for customers. We live in a brave new world where individuals bear the full responsibility of managing their savings, yet they can neither find help nor affordable financial advice. We need to educate, engage and empower customers through an excellent financial platform with an ultimate focus on improving their financial wellbeing."​ Specialities: Financial Wellbeing, Financial Education, Artificial Intelligence, Financial Advice, Employee Benefits, Software as a Service, Pensions, AI, Customer Experience, Customer Engagement and FinTech
Board Member
Oct 2021
We’re changing the way people think of mobility. We know for a fact that the future is autonomous. Micropolis, through years of research & development, is positioned to make functional transportation safer, cleaner, and more accessible. In order to achieve this goal, we embarked on a journey to reimagine transportation. We are a catalyst in the paradigm shift towards sustainable mobility. Micropolis delivers mobility-as-a-service to dense urban environments with end-to-end management, maintenance, and upgrades for our fleet of vehicles. Strategic partnerships accelerate innovation. Micropolis joined forces with Dubai Police in 2020, and together, ushered in a new era for autonomous rovers. Much has been learned on the road to re-discovery. Roads are inherently unsafe and can be stressful. Our testing focuses on real-life scenarios as we move towards launching our first fleet.
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2023
Investor
May 2023
ABAKA is an award-winning Enterprise SaaS platform, powered by Artificial Intelligence, specifically designed to create digital customer engagements and digital advice on wealth, saving, life insurance and banking. For more information, visit www.abaka.me and follow us on Twitter at @My_Abaka. ABAKAs AI recommendation engine helps Financial Institutions create and display the right actionable recommendations to the right people, at the right time with Next Best Action. We help incumbents deploy a strategy aligned to their business logic and refine recommendations to increase engagement and customer activation to unlock business value from data. Our timely and actionable customer insight delivers simple, intuitive, and hyper-personalized, digital client experiences that retain and expand new revenue streams. Today institutions such as HSBC, Prudential, and Legal & General are licensing the ABAKA technologies across the globe to deliver outstanding customer experiences to their wealth clients and help these achieve financial security. Fahd Rachidy, Founder and CEO of ABAKA: “We must address customers’ needs for financial education and advice, improve ease of access, and explain the choices over pensions and savings. The pensions industry is facing a huge challenge to achieve better outcomes for customers. We live in a brave new world where individuals bear the full responsibility of managing their savings, yet they can neither find help nor affordable financial advice. We need to educate, engage and empower customers through an excellent financial platform with an ultimate focus on improving their financial wellbeing."​ Specialities: Financial Wellbeing, Financial Education, Artificial Intelligence, Financial Advice, Employee Benefits, Software as a Service, Pensions, AI, Customer Experience, Customer Engagement and FinTech
2021
Board Member
Oct 2021
We’re changing the way people think of mobility. We know for a fact that the future is autonomous. Micropolis, through years of research & development, is positioned to make functional transportation safer, cleaner, and more accessible. In order to achieve this goal, we embarked on a journey to reimagine transportation. We are a catalyst in the paradigm shift towards sustainable mobility. Micropolis delivers mobility-as-a-service to dense urban environments with end-to-end management, maintenance, and upgrades for our fleet of vehicles. Strategic partnerships accelerate innovation. Micropolis joined forces with Dubai Police in 2020, and together, ushered in a new era for autonomous rovers. Much has been learned on the road to re-discovery. Roads are inherently unsafe and can be stressful. Our testing focuses on real-life scenarios as we move towards launching our first fleet.
2018
Founder
Feb 2018
AR Ventures is an AI and capital markets advisory group helping tech founders raise debt and equity, plan IPOs and unlock long-term value.
2017
Partner
Jun 2017
Blackmoon is part of the Blackmoon Financial Group, a group of financial technology companies founded in 2014. We build integrated blockchain solutions, develop automated trading interfaces and create investment products from both fiat and crypto worlds. We strive to deliver a seamless experience in dealing with cryptocurrencies for beginners through to experts, while also bringing blockchain flexibility to fiat instruments and the benefits of accumulated financial wisdom to the crypto investments. Security Blackmoon is built in line with the highest security standards. Our sustainability was validated security audit by the Big 4 company – a true rarity in the crypto industry. All digital assets are held in the cold storage of the largest global custodians. Liquidity We carefully maintain high liquidity in all our markets to provide our customers with fast and cost-efficient trading experience. Products Blackmoon creates proprietary designed crypto investment products. New coins will be listed on a regular basis to have all assets you might need in one place. Client Focus Each client is valuable for us. We are listening closely to the feedback and responding accordingly to meet our customers’ demands. Our support team is always ready to help you via live chat or email.
Co-Founder
Jun 2017
We have facilitated a number of high profile ICOs and are constantly working on upcoming ones. Drawing on our team’s wealth of knowledge and experience in Blockchain space, we provide full circle ICO services. We fund, shape, market your idea to bring it to a successful ICO raise. We have the best marketing team in the business and only work with the top professionals in the space to deliver ICO results that always exceed our client’s expectations.
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