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Nikolay Melnichuk

Partner at Xploration Capital

United Kingdom

Overview 

Nikolay Melnichuk is a Partner at Xploration Capital, an Angel VC investor with expertise in valuation, financial modeling, and corporate finance. With a background in investment banking and experience at notable firms like Sberbank and Finstar Financial Group, he specializes in investing in various sectors including logistics, education, and FinTech. Melnichuk's career highlights include serving as an Executive Director at SberX, an Investment Director at Finstar Financial Group, and currently holding a Partner role at Xploration Capital, where he focuses on investments in Series A to Series D stages across diverse sectors such as BioTech and E-commerce.

Work Experience 

XC

Xploration Capital

  • Partner

    2022 - Current

  • Investment Director

    2020 - 2022

    Responsibilities: - full stages of PE & VC deals execution; - Investment Team management; - investment focus: edtech, fintech, biotech, e-commerce, logistics, marketplaces.

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Sberbank - SberX

  • Executive Director

    2020 - 2020

    Responsibilities: - analysis of new investment leads for ecosystem; - participation in synergies development between ecosystem portfolio; - analysis and optimisation of portfolio companies reporting; - investment focus: foodtech, e-commerce, logistics, marketplaces, TMT, media, fintech.

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Finstar Financial Group

  • Investment Director

    2019 - 2020

  • Investment Manager

    2017 - 2019

  • Senior Project Manager

    2016 - 2017

    Responsibilities: - new M&A leads origination; - portfolio management of CIS, Latvia, Mexico and Germany based companies; - Advisory & Supervisory Board member in few Germany based fintech ventures; - investment focus: fintech, adtech, TMT.

PC

Pride Capital

  • Vice President

    2015 - 2017

  • Senior Associate

    2013 - 2015

    Responsibilities: - PE fund establishment, open new countries and branches of the fund, team hunting; - fund's governance establishment: ICs, policies, procedures, etc.; - full stages of execution: origination, structuring, DD, transactional documents drafting, signing, closing; - portfolio management; - investment focus on B2C: Healthcare, Pharma, Education, FMCG, Retail, IT.

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Ernst & Young Valuation LLC

  • Senior Consultant 1-3

    2011 - 2013

    Responsibilities: - business valuation and business modeling; - participation in M&A, debt structuring deals, greenfield deals, DD projects; - junior staff supervision, project team management; - up to 12 projects performed: Oil&Gas, Warehouse, Logistics, Media, Public Utilities, Pharma and Railway industries.

Ernst & Young is a provider of assurance, tax, transaction and advisory services.

ey.com
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Sistema

  • Financial Analyst

    2009 - 2011

    Responsibilities: - investment project evaluation: investment analysis, business modeling; - portfolio management: budgeting, sales origination, internal reporting; - RAS, IFRS, GAAP transformations.

Sistemas is a technology firm that offers solutions to problems related to android mobiles to hardware services.

sistemas.com
NR

National Research University — Higher School of Economics

  • Junior Researcher

    2008 - 2010

    Research Laboratory: «Industry Market Analysis» Responsibilities: - Russian TMT market analysis & monitoring; - fundamental econometric analysis; - macroeconomic modeling.

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