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Andrey Lunev

Venture Partner XR at Startup Wise Guys

Lausanne, Vaud

Overview

Work Experience

  • 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

  • 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

  • Venture Partner

    2021 - 2022

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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Board Advisor

    2018 - 2020

  • 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

  • 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

  • EU Sales & Business Development

    2018 - 2019

  • Business Development, CH

    2017 - 2018

  • Co-Founder

    2017 - 2018

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