Stepan Svistunov

Founder’s Associate | ex-VC | GTM & Recruitment for startups

📍 Italy🔄 Updated September 2026💼 5 investments📅 4 years investing🗓 Last invested Sep 2022
VC🌍 Italy
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Late stage
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Years active

Portfolio

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Sep 2022
OlaClick is a web-based digital menu solution that helps businesses receive simplified online orders through WhatsApp. We offer a commission-free platform for small and medium businesses eager to increase their online orders and reach more customers.
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Sep 2022
Were a team of data science and UX experts on a mission to empower eCommerce brands to build AI-powered UX on the level of Big Tech. DataMilk’s Smart UX suite enables fast, fluid, and predictive digital experiences that boost user engagement and gross profit.
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Jul 2022
Pencil Spaces consolidates a complete virtual classroom into one browser tab, providing video calls, unlimited whiteboards, chats, file sharing, and more. With no need for downloads, it simplifies class joining and scheduling through an integrated calendar. It boasts thousands of teaching tools for all subjects, AI-generated class summaries, and an intuitive interface, making it suitable for teaching various ages, learning styles, and special needs students.
Investor
Jun 2022
Buddy.ai provides affordable, high-quality 1X1 instruction to children worldwide using our interactive, voice-based character Buddy the Robot. Buddy is powered by proprietary AI technology for children and features a unique UX and gameplay. He teaches kids using voice- and tap-based games in a fun-filled world universe created by educational experts. With 20 million downloads last year alone, Buddy is the most popular language app for children on Google Play and one of TIME Magazine’s Worlds Top EdTech Rising Stars of 2024. We are backed by top VCs and angel investors, including stars of the game industry, deep tech, and Hollywood. Headquartered in Mountain View, California, we are a growing international team that combines expertise in AI, education, and game design.
mid stageE-learning
Investor
Feb 2022
EBAC (British School of Creative Arts and Technology) is an innovative educational center that offers online education in the fields of Design, Programming and Data, Audiovisual, Games, Marketing, Software and Business. We are in Brazil, Mexico, Peru and Colombia and today we have more than 140 options of courses designed and taught by teachers who are references in their areas of expertise and highly qualified tutors to provide individualized feedback. Our online learning platform features unique technology so students can learn whenever and wherever they want. These differentials have democratized access to education and contributed to the professionalization of more than 50.000 people who have already chosen us to change careers. For three consecutive years (2021, 2022 and 2023), we received recognition as one of the 100 most promising edtechs in Latin America according to the Holon IQ platform. We were also featured in Exame magazines 2022 special "205 expanding businesses", in the "newbies" category.
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2024
Founder's Associate
May 2024
AlumniHub helps companies hire top tech talent from Big Tech and high-growth scaleups. Our private community includes 15,000+ vetted professionals from companies like Google, Meta, Revolut, Yandex, Uber, Booking, Wise, JetBrains and other leading tech teams. These are engineers, AI experts, product leaders and operators with proven experience. We introduce carefully selected members from our community to enterprises, startups and VC-backed teams that need strong technical depth and ownership mindset. Companies and funds we work with include YangoTech, Gurudev Capital, Buddy.ai, Tabby, Salmon, ICT ($2bn AUM) and others. If youre building something meaningful and need really strong team, chances are we know someone who can help.
2022
Investor
Sep 2022
OlaClick is a web-based digital menu solution that helps businesses receive simplified online orders through WhatsApp. We offer a commission-free platform for small and medium businesses eager to increase their online orders and reach more customers.
Investor
Sep 2022
Were a team of data science and UX experts on a mission to empower eCommerce brands to build AI-powered UX on the level of Big Tech. DataMilk’s Smart UX suite enables fast, fluid, and predictive digital experiences that boost user engagement and gross profit.
Investor
Jul 2022
Pencil Spaces consolidates a complete virtual classroom into one browser tab, providing video calls, unlimited whiteboards, chats, file sharing, and more. With no need for downloads, it simplifies class joining and scheduling through an integrated calendar. It boasts thousands of teaching tools for all subjects, AI-generated class summaries, and an intuitive interface, making it suitable for teaching various ages, learning styles, and special needs students.
Investor
Jun 2022
Buddy.ai provides affordable, high-quality 1X1 instruction to children worldwide using our interactive, voice-based character Buddy the Robot. Buddy is powered by proprietary AI technology for children and features a unique UX and gameplay. He teaches kids using voice- and tap-based games in a fun-filled world universe created by educational experts. With 20 million downloads last year alone, Buddy is the most popular language app for children on Google Play and one of TIME Magazine’s Worlds Top EdTech Rising Stars of 2024. We are backed by top VCs and angel investors, including stars of the game industry, deep tech, and Hollywood. Headquartered in Mountain View, California, we are a growing international team that combines expertise in AI, education, and game design.
mid stageE-learning
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