Alexey Garyunov
Founder of FinSight Ventures
Alexey Garyunov
Founder of FinSight Ventures
Los Angeles, California
Overview
Work Experience
Co Founder
2013 - Current
The company was created in December, 2013 with the belief, that innovation in the financial sector is long overdue, and new software solutions are transforming commerce.These changes require the right combination of ideas, talented entrepreneurs and an extensive domain experience, which our team is able to provide. FinSight helps entrepreneurs every step of the way as they build large successful companies. Our portfolio includes such projects as LendingClub (P2P lending, USA, IPO), Platiza (online micro loans, Russia), FinanceIt (POS lending, Canada), NSR Invest (asset manager and investment software tool for P2P assets, USA) and others.
Founder
2005
The company was started in October, 2005. The core business is to invest directly into innovative projects worldwide. Generally these projects are focused on the sectors of finances (asset management, payment systems), telecommunications (social networks, online services) and advertising (Internet marketing). In 2005 we took part in the web advertising market, focusing on purchase of social networks. In 2006 we launched the first Russian IT-fund specializing in web industry. We continues to focuse on financial technologies and online banking. In 2013 we entered the international market; we purchased growing companies operating in the sector of financial services that changed the image of the banking system, LC, SL & Platiza transactions. Since its foundation the company has invested in more than 20 projects. The company has invested funds in such projects like the largest Russian contextual advertising service "Begun", dating networks "Mamba" and "Badoo", financial web portal Banki.ru, payment systems DeltaPay.ru, Platiza.ru, as well as in many other, from our vision, promising business projects. We have numerous successful withdraws from companies (selling them to strategists or financial investors) that bespeaks our understanding of the sector and project’s teams in which we invest financial resources and intelligence. We want to be the part of a world’s changing technological Internet progress. We implement projects we believe in, offering comprehensive partnership for talented entrepreneurs. We use a wide professional toolkit for creating leading companies and products.
Director General "Bin Finam Group"
2010 - 2012
Principal axes: - Asset management; Closed-end investment funds; - Trust asset managent of private and institutional investors; - Management of pension reserves and savings of private pension funds; - Management of funded parts of citizens' labour pensions.
Deputy Director General
2007 - 2010
Managing Company "Finam Management" provides services of trust asset management of physical and legal entities, as well as assets of institutional investors and private pension funds.
Managing Director
2005 - 2007
Foundation and managing of investment fund in real estate (housing, commercial real estate). Closed-end investment funds