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Andrey Lunev

Venture Partner XR at Startup Wise Guys

Lausanne, Vaud

Overview 

Andrey Lunev is a Venture Partner XR with a focus on investing in XR technologies such as 3D, VR, and AR. He has a strong background in entrepreneurship and has held key roles in various startup ventures, including founding XR Crowd and serving as Founder & Chief Intelligence Officer at XR Insight Europe. Andrey has made significant contributions to the XR industry, including founding multiple companies and holding leadership positions in various organizations. Currently, he is actively involved in investing in XR startups at Startup Wise Guys and has a proven track record of success in business development and strategic planning within the XR space.

Work Experience 

SW

Startup Wise Guys

  • Venture Partner XR

    2022 - Current

    Welcome to learn more and apply to Wise Guys XR Malaga via https://startupwiseguys.com/xr/

  • Investor - XR Batch 2022

    2022 - 2022

XC

XR Crowd

  • Founder, Community activist

    2018

    - Build up informal community of VR/AR industry professionals (1300+ ppl) and maintained engagement in global conferences, festivals and exhibitions (20+ offline events prior to 2020) - During pandemic, spun off #ZeroEvent as a recurring living lab for collective exploration of the tools to transfer offline events of the VR/AR industry into remote formats hosted on multiuser Virtual Reality platforms (Social VR) #zeroevent #embraceonlinexr #xrcrowd

FV

Fores Ventures

  • Venture Partner

    2021 - 2022

    - Invest in XR: 3D | VR | AR aka #Spatial #Phygital #Metaverse

XI

XR Insight Europe

  • Founder & Chief Intelligence Officer

    2020 - 2021

    - Inform decision-making for investors (VC, BA, CVC), companies and policy makers on 3D/VR/AR & AI tech and Industry 4.0 - Assist startups on IR, fundraising, and product storytelling

X

XRBASE

  • Executive Producer

    2020 - 2020

    #XRBASExperiment The entire event in Virtual Reality was pulled off in a couple weeks, including call for startups that yielded 100+ applicants and got buy-in from 20+ global investors. - Developed the concept of replicating off-line Investor event into online remote format and host it in Virtual realty - Generated deal flow - Assembled and managed the crew to deliver event in VR - Navigated stakeholders value creation. The entire event in Virtual Reality was pulled off in a couple weeks, including call for startups that yielded 100+ applicants and getting buy-in from 20+ global investors.

  • Head of Industry analytics

    2019 - 2020

    - Developed investment thesis for early-stage VC fund focused on European VR/AR - Built up market intelligence capacity and deal-flow generation - Organized as Executive Producer, the first Investor Event hosted remotely in Virtual Reality - Contributed to event production of VR Days Europe and Laval Virtual conferences

I

INVESTLAND

  • Board Advisor

    2018 - 2020

B

BotanikaFlowers.Ru

  • Founder, Chief Strategy Officer

    2017 - 2020

    - Built up team-led operations and retained ownership until exiting in 2020 through M&A deal

  • Founder, CEO

    2004 - 2016

    - Launched new retail brand by acquiring and turning around existing business

WV

World VR Forum

  • Innovation Project Leader

    2018 - 2019

    - Developed strategy and value proposition through research of attendee customer journeys - Contributed to partnership development, event production and communication

  • Innovation Project Leader

    2018 - 2018

YG

Yode Group

  • EU Sales & Business Development

    2018 - 2019

  • Business Development, CH

    2017 - 2018

A

A-VR.CH

  • Co-Founder

    2017 - 2018

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