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Pavel Cherkashin

Managing Partner at Mindrock Capital

Los Altos, California

Overview 

Pavel Cherkashin is a Managing Partner at Mindrock Capital with a background in entrepreneurship and venture capital. With experience as a CEO and in senior management roles at companies like Microsoft and Adobe, he has invested in and mentored numerous successful startups, including Storj and Cherry Labs. Cherkashin's career highlights include leading as CEO at 906.World and serving as Managing Partner at GVA Capital, demonstrating a strong track record in startup consulting and venture management.

Work Experience 

Mindrock Capital

  • Managing Partner

    2017 - Current

    At Mindrock Capital, we invest primarily in emerging tech leaders when they show the highest growth rate (late stages, incl. pre-IPO) — the least risky and the most profitable investment period.

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Silicon Valley Camp

  • Mentor

    2020 - 2024

    Teaching young entrepreneurs (12-19 y.o.) from around the world how to launch a startup, identify a problem that needs to be solved, develop a product, launch a marketing campaign, get investments etc.

Silicon Valley Camp created to help the successful entrepreneurs from the venture capital of the world inspire children.

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906.World

  • CEO

    2015 - 2021

    906.World is a сultural сenter dedicated to improving the quality of life for neighbors by offering classes, workshops and community gatherings that focus on personal wellness and professional development.

906.World is a сultural сenter dedicated to improving the quality of life for neighbors by offering classes, workshops and community.

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GVA Capital

  • Managing Partner

    2015 - 2021

    We founded GVA Capital to introduce global perspective to Silicon Valley, supporting best entrepreneurs from around the World with capital, insights, connections and good advice.

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Microsoft

  • General Manager, Consumer & Online - Russia

    2009 - 2011

    My role is to manage growth of online services for Microsoft in Russia (MSN, Windows Live, Bing, Hotmail, Messanger, etc.), drive success of Windows as best OS for home users and win market share of Windows Phone in portable world.

Microsoft Advertising provides digital advertising solutions.

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Adobe Systems

  • Country Manager - Russia & CIS

    2006 - 2009

    Established the business for Adobe in Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan and CIS countries, including: - Growing sales x10 times in 3 years - Building excellent professional team and stable channel sales ecosystem with more than 3,000 participants - Winning largest government, education and commercial deals for the company - Establishing legal, logistical, production and marketing infrastructure in the company

Adobe Fund for Design,a $10m fund that supports emerging companies to build products and services

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Siebel Systems

  • Country Manager, Russia & CIS

    2004 - 2006

    Responsible for business development of Siebel Systems in Russia and CIS

Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.

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Sputnik Labs

  • Director

    2001 - 2004

    As the general manager of the company I am responsible for the overall operations of the company from managing financial flows and envisioning sales and marketing strategy – to supervising production and quality control business processes. The company became profitable in 9 months and double its revenues every year by the following steps: • Introducing new strategic concept with primary focus on industry-specific CRM solutions (primarily for financial sector, telecommunications and distribution) • Establishing strategic vendor relationships with key global players in the segment (Siebel, Sage Group - SalesLogix) • Restructuring costs and financial accounting (establishing self-financing profit-centers, time management, strict budgeting and resource allocation) • Attracting key strategic clients in the target segments I report directly to shareholders and managed team of more than 50 employees, including consultants, developers and support staff.

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Actis Systems

  • CEO

    1997 - 2000

    As a co-founder and general manager of the company I grew it from small Web-development studio with 6 employees to one of the largest eBusiness Solution Provider with more than 200 employees and large multinational corporations like clients, including BMW, Microsoft, Canon, Intel and many others. With support of professional team I lead the company to strategic acquisition by international venture fund late in 1999 and left it in early 2000 to start new venture in corporate automation field (CRM).

Education 

Investments 

Storj

Seed

Total funding: $37M

Cherry Labs

Seed

Total funding: $6.8M

GdeSlon

Seed

Total funding: $500K

GBooking

Seed

Total funding: $1.4M

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