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Semyon Dukach
Founding Partner at One Way Ventures
Boston, Massachusetts
Overview
Semyon Dukach is the Founding Partner at One Way Ventures in Boston, Massachusetts, where he focuses on investing in startups, particularly in sectors like AR/VR and DeepTech. With a background in executive management and entrepreneurship, he has successfully invested in companies like Machinery Partner and Impilo, showcasing his expertise in strategic planning and venture capital.
Dukach's career highlights include serving as Board Chairman at SharpSpring and Managing Director at TechStars, where he honed his skills in business strategy, competitive analysis, and fostering strategic partnerships to drive growth and success in the startup ecosystem.
Work Experience
Founding Partner
2017 - Current
Backing exceptional immigrant founders. onewayvc.com
One Way Ventures is a seed-stage fund that invests in immigrant tech founders.
Member, Advisory Board
2024
Horasis is an independent, international think tank headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland. Founded in 2005 by Frank-Jürgen Richter, former director of the World Economic Forum, Horasis has spent two decades gathering the most senior business leaders, policy-makers and heads of state across all continents to form a global dialogue that can help shape the future. For One Way Ventures I was named to the Advisory Board at Horasis: https://horasis.org/semyon-dukach-founding-partner-of-venture-fund-for-exceptional-immigrant-founders-joins-the-horasis-advisory-board/
Founding Board Member
2022
Board Chairman
2002 - 2017
SharpSpring, Inc. (SHSP) is a rapidly growing, global provider of cloud-based marketing and email software solutions, ranging from marketing automation to scalable transactional email, email marketing, and mobile marketing services. The company's product lines, which include SharpSpring, SMTP and GraphicMail, are known for their innovation, flexible architecture, ease of use, and cost-effectiveness — all backed by high-quality, multilingual customer support. Learn more at www.sharpspring.com, www.smtp.com, and www.graphicmail.com. (SharpSpring, Inc. was formerly known as SMTP, Inc., and traded under NASDAQ: SMTP.)
Managing Director
2014 - 2017
Techstars is an accelerator that provides pre-seed investment and mentoring for various early stage startups.
Raised $108,919,999.00 from SVB Financial Group and Foundry Group.
Director
2009 - 2017
Bike Power for African micro-entrepreneurs
Director
2008 - 2017
Angel Investor, Director
Terrafugia manufactures aircrafts for personal transportation.
Raised $6,817,312.00 from Haiyin Capital.
Angel Investor
2000 - 2014
I look for super passionate teams doing something they really believe in, where I also think I can help. Occasionally I'm able to make a big impact as an advisor, especially in a difficult moment when the founders may forget why they started their company in the first place. Some of my own startups have done well, but I have learned much more from the founders I'm helping now as an angel.
co-founder, director
1999 - 2003
Company developed taxi-top displays which show location-specific content to outdoor audiences. http://www.vert.net.
seed investor and Interim CEO
2001 - 2002