Veronika Kapustina

Founder, Advisor

2019 - Current

Co-Founder

2020

Creating a community around ESG in venture, and helping VC firms integrate ESG practices into their end-to-end processes - to find out more drop us a line at hello@ventureesg.com

Practitioner in Residence

2019

Angel Investor & Advisor

2015

Angel investments: ClearAccessIP (acquired by IPwe), Supr Daily (acquired by Swiggy), Orbiit, Finverity, Factmata, Lendable (debt), Pathmind, Pop & Bottle, Navenio, Qurasense, Copia, CALA, Volvita, Luca Faloni, HereWeFlo Co-invested with / followed by: Y Combinator, SV Angel, 8VC, Oxford Science Innovation (OSI), IP Group, Tencent, Founders Fund among others

Board Member

2017 - 2020

CAIP is a purpose-built solution for reducing transaction costs associated with building, managing and distributing patents. The company was sold to IPwe in Q2 2020. IPwe’s mission is to drastically improve the management of patents and reduce friction in patent transactions using blockchain and AI. The company has partnered with IBM to create a single freely accessible patent registry, the Global Patent Registry (GPR).

Partner, Head of US Operations

2017 - 2018

Set up fund operations in the US and the UK; initiated strategic partnerships with universities, accelerators and government; leveraged personal network to recruit operating partners and scouts.

Technology Investment Banking

2014 - 2017

Key Executions: private placements (equity & debt) for Uber and Airbnb; TubeMogul sale to Adobe; Optiv sale to KKR, Polycom sale to Siris Capital; debt raises for Netflix. ~$9Bn private placements, ~$2Bn public debt offerings, ~$6Bn M&A (16 deals)

Leveraged and Acquisition Finance

2011 - 2014

Key Executions: bond take-outs, repricings, acquisition for Kabel Deutschland; LBOs of OrangeSwitzerland and Domestic & General; high yield issuances for Isolux, Xella, HeidelbergCement, Continental AG, Towergate and Carlson Wagonlit. ~$15Bn total debt transactions (20 deals)

Equity Capital Markets

2010 - 2011

Key executions: IPOs of Mail.ru and Yandex (at the time the largest internet IPO since Google). ~$4Bn total equity transactions (6 deals)

Head of Business Development

2009 - 2009

Led the fundraising and marketing effort; won pro bono consultation support from Red Ochre, a leading UK consultancy for public agencies and companies in the Third Sector.

Summer Analyst

2008 - 2008

Worked on the acquisition of a mid-size media sector company based in the UAE, participated in management interviews and review of company’s organisational structure and financials; prepared the final investment proposal for review by the investment committee.

Summer Analyst

2007 - 2007

Commodity hedge fund sales, emerging market sales, FX options trading and index volatility trading.