Dmitry Volkov

Founder of Social Discovery Group, Venture investor, Expert in AI, Professor of Philosophy.

📍 Malta, Malta🔄 Updated September 2026💼 8 investments📅 11 years investing🗓 Last invested Nov 2019
VC🌍 Malta
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Private Investor
Nov 2019
Imagine a dating app that starts with getting to know a person before swiping on them. Where character is considered before physical attributes, and where profiles are evaluated on the basis of common interests, opinions, and values. You’re not in the twilight zone, you’ve just described S’More: a next-gen relationship app built to provide daters with a totally interactive way to learn more about a person before evaluating them on appearance.
Investor
Jan 2018
At Flo, our purpose is to build a better future for female health. We are the world’s leading period and ovulation tracker, empowering over 400 million women globally to take control of their health. With 77 million monthly active users, including 25% of US women, Flo has become a trusted partner in womens health. As the first European femtech unicorn, following a $230M Series C in July 2024, were proud to lead the way in innovation and investment in womens health. With over 100+ medical experts, Flo is committed to supporting women at every stage of their health journey, from menstruation to conception, pregnancy, and menopause. We provide curated cycle and ovulation tracking, tailored health insights, daily bite-sized visual content, and a private community for users to share their questions and concerns. Flo addresses critical challenges in women’s health by: *Expanding access: Through partnerships like UNFPA, Flo provides free Premium access to up to 1 billion women in 66 countries, with 17 million subscriptions donated, helping bridge healthcare disparities. *Improving health literacy: By delivering accurate, accessible information and daily insights, Flo empowers millions to better understand their health and make informed decisions. *Advancing womens health research: Collaborating with leading institutions, Flo contributes to evidence-based women’s health research. In a world where womens health data is increasingly vulnerable, Flo is dedicated to providing a safe and secure platform. Recognized for its commitment to privacy, Flos Anonymous Mode feature was named one of TIMEs Best Inventions of 2023 and a finalist for Fast Companys 2023 World Changing Ideas Awards. Anonymous Mode allows users to access Flos health features without associating personal information with their health data, setting a new industry standard for reproductive health data privacy.
Private Investor
2018
Patreon is the best place for creators to build community with their biggest fans, share exclusive work, and turn their passions into lasting creative businesses. Hundreds of thousands of video creators, podcasters, musicians, writers, game developers, and more are achieving creative and financial freedom doing what they love on Patreon, powered directly by fans who love what they do. Our endgame? A future where creators are in control, and real community thrives.
Private Investor
2017
Welcome to Halo Neuroscience's home on LinkedIn. Please follow us to learn more about how the brain impacts human performance. Below you can read more information about our company. You can also send us an email at hello@haloneuro.com, or see our available job postings at haloneuro.com/careers. ––––––– Halo Neuroscience is a neurotechnology company focused on human performance. Our first product, Halo Sport, utilizes neuropriming technology to accelerate the neurologic gains of strength and skill learning that result from athletic training. Since coming out of stealth in February 2016, the reception has been strong. Halo Sport is now live with teams and athletes from the NBA, MLB, NFL, Olympics, and U.S. Military. The company has been covered in hundreds of publications, including a feature in Sports Illustrated that details Halo's work with NFL prospects training for the Draft. In March 2016, Halo won the MIT Sloan Sports conference startup competition, and Halo Sport has over 28 filed patents. Halo has raised $9M in series A funding from top-tier venture investors like Andreessen Horowitz, Lux Capital, SoftTech VC, and JAZZ Partners. Our founders are neurotechnology veterans — Dr. Daniel Chao, Halo co-founder and CEO, received his MD and MS in neuroscience from Stanford. Dr. Brett Wingeier, Halo co-founder and CTO, earned his biomedical engineering doctorate with studies at Tulane, Stanford, and Swinburne, and is also a U.S. Registered Patent Agent named on 25 U.S. patents.
Private Investor
2017
Sunflower Labs designed and developed an autonomous security drone system for commercial, industrial, agricultural, and residential properties. The Sunflower Beehive System is a unique drone-in-a-box solution built to be fully autonomous from the ground up. It integrates with existing security cameras and sensors and extends the capabilities of any security installation or team. The Beehive system is now commercially available and it is actively deployed with partners like ADT, Swiss Federal Railways, Security Robotics, 10 Federal Storage, Japan Infra Waymark and others.
Private Investor
2016
At Roomi, we dedicate our passion and performance toward our collective goal of providing better and more affordable housing options for people who can’t afford to live alone. We take roommate compatibility and matching the right people along with the right place, really seriously. We are on a mission to build more transparency and trust into the shared housing search process with the goal of increasing more positive living experiences! Users are able to easily list their place, then Roomi verifies every listing and offers additional safety features, like background checks. After browsing thousands of real places and real people, potential roommates/flatmates can instantly apply to move-in and securely book it online at the click of a button. Our team, product, partnerships, and thought leadership help us blend tech, data, and social engagement to reach our users in all corners of the world. We believe that hiring and retaining the best talent creates a diversity of perspectives, ideas, and a culture that leads to the creation of stronger teams and better products. By offering a dynamic and challenging work environment that spans 5 global offices located in NYC, Mexico City, Barcelona, Delhi, and Split, we strive to give our teams the utmost autonomy over their roles and own their projects, start to finish.
Private Investor
2015
Academia.edu has built and is expanding the premier distribution and peer review platform for academic research. Guided by our mission to democratize and accelerate the world’s research, Academia aims to make every academic paper ever published available for free online and accessible by anyone in the world. This is just the start of our long-term vision and we are growing fast! Academia’s platform has registered more than 210 million users (still growing at 2M monthly), and has many millions of unique visitors every month, including over 30M logged-in monthly active users (MAU). We have over 300,000 paying premium subscribers, which has contributed to us being profitable YOY the last five years in a row. Academia has attracted $62 million in investment from leading VC firms including Khosla Ventures, True Ventures, Spark Capital, and Tencent. Our work has garnered favorable attention from trade and mainstream media including UK Times, Fortune, Wired, EdTech, Venture Beat, San Francisco Business Times, The Economist, The Washington Post, TechCrunch, Scientific American, and Forbes. Our Remote Work Policy * You can work 100% remotely from anywhere in the US or Canada if you are legally living and working in the USA or a Canadian citizen or Permanent Resident Academia is a proud equal-opportunity employer, and we are committed to hiring and supporting a diverse workforce. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. *NOTE: LinkedIn is incorrect. As of January 2023, we are only ~72 employees and ~38 Engineers.
Private Investor
2015
State of the Art University for Technology, Entrepreneurship and Design. Harbour.Space is an innovative private university that combines science and design taught by industry leaders from around the world. Harbour.Space offers distinct progressive university programmes: - Maths as a Second Language (Foundation) - Computer Science - Data Science - Cyber Security - Interaction Design - High-tech Entrepreneurship - Digital Marketing - Financial Technology (FinTech) - Product Management - Front-end Development All Harbour.Space degree awarding programmes are designed for full-time, almost year-round intensive study so that the programme can be completed in less than three years for Bachelor and two years for Master degree. Both Bachelor and Master programmes - taught in English. As an innovative private university we collaborate with the most relevant professionals today to be an active incubator for talented young people. Our approach sets out to pave the way to meaningful and creative careers for our technologically gifted children. Our teachers are the people who make technology and design move today. We believe the best way to learn is by immersion in the field of study and learning directly from the source. That’s why we invite today’s experts, the cream of the crop, to share invaluable hands-on knowledge in intensive 3 week courses. The most innovative technology lives hand-in-hand with great design. Harbour.Space University is the first university in Europe to offer the best of both, so we can help our students become the most excellent professionals in the world.
Experience · 15 entries
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2021
Limited Partner
2021
New Enterprise Associates, Inc. (NEA) is a global venture capital firm focused on helping entrepreneurs build transformational businesses across multiple stages, sectors and geographies. Founded in 1977, NEA has more than $28 billion in assets under management as of June 30, 2025 and invests in technology and healthcare companies at all stages in a company’s lifecycle, from seed stage through IPO. The firms long track record of investing includes 284 portfolio company IPOs and more than 500 mergers and acquisitions. For more information, please visit www.nea.com.
2019
Private Investor
Nov 2019
Imagine a dating app that starts with getting to know a person before swiping on them. Where character is considered before physical attributes, and where profiles are evaluated on the basis of common interests, opinions, and values. You’re not in the twilight zone, you’ve just described S’More: a next-gen relationship app built to provide daters with a totally interactive way to learn more about a person before evaluating them on appearance.
2018
Investor
Jan 2018
At Flo, our purpose is to build a better future for female health. We are the world’s leading period and ovulation tracker, empowering over 400 million women globally to take control of their health. With 77 million monthly active users, including 25% of US women, Flo has become a trusted partner in womens health. As the first European femtech unicorn, following a $230M Series C in July 2024, were proud to lead the way in innovation and investment in womens health. With over 100+ medical experts, Flo is committed to supporting women at every stage of their health journey, from menstruation to conception, pregnancy, and menopause. We provide curated cycle and ovulation tracking, tailored health insights, daily bite-sized visual content, and a private community for users to share their questions and concerns. Flo addresses critical challenges in women’s health by: *Expanding access: Through partnerships like UNFPA, Flo provides free Premium access to up to 1 billion women in 66 countries, with 17 million subscriptions donated, helping bridge healthcare disparities. *Improving health literacy: By delivering accurate, accessible information and daily insights, Flo empowers millions to better understand their health and make informed decisions. *Advancing womens health research: Collaborating with leading institutions, Flo contributes to evidence-based women’s health research. In a world where womens health data is increasingly vulnerable, Flo is dedicated to providing a safe and secure platform. Recognized for its commitment to privacy, Flos Anonymous Mode feature was named one of TIMEs Best Inventions of 2023 and a finalist for Fast Companys 2023 World Changing Ideas Awards. Anonymous Mode allows users to access Flos health features without associating personal information with their health data, setting a new industry standard for reproductive health data privacy.
Private Investor
2018
Patreon is the best place for creators to build community with their biggest fans, share exclusive work, and turn their passions into lasting creative businesses. Hundreds of thousands of video creators, podcasters, musicians, writers, game developers, and more are achieving creative and financial freedom doing what they love on Patreon, powered directly by fans who love what they do. Our endgame? A future where creators are in control, and real community thrives.
Gagarin Capital Partners
General Partner
2018
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