Victor Orlovski
Managing Partner at R136 Ventures
Victor Orlovski
Managing Partner at R136 Ventures
Menlo Park, California
Overview
Work Experience
Author of Wall Street Journal Bestseller "From Rhino to Unicorn"
2022 - Current
In "From Rhino to Unicorn," Vladimir Korovkin and I combine our personal experiences with analyses of over 40 case studies to address the question: How can incumbent companies and executives maintain their competitive edge against emerging competitors? Many well known top executives consider this book to be a bible of digital transformation in legacy businesses.
Co-founder of NEIC - the most comprehensive course on Venture Capital in the world
2021
The most comprehensive education program about Venture Capital in the world. My role was to build a course with my partner Stanford professor Ilya Strebulaev, who is famously known as one of the leading experts in venture capital globally.
Managing Partner R136
2023
R136 Ventures has headquarters in the US (Woodside, Silicon Valley), Israel (Tel Aviv), and the UAE (Abu Dhabi) Notable investments: www.blochain.com, www.ladder.com My responsibilities are: managing the entire firm as a Managing Partner, defining strategy and investment thesis with my partners, developing major LP relationship, search for companies and managing our portfolio - I seat on the board of many companies and help them with their development, especially in B2B and fintech space.
Fort Ross Ventures
2015 - 2023
Fintech growth stage venture fund $400m under management. US and Israel, HQ: Silicon Valley. Notable investments: www.eToro.com, www.roofstock.com, www.mynd.co, www.rescale.com, www.granulate.com, www.deci.ai, www.insurify.com, www.dynamicyield.com, www.kiavi.com and many others. I was a founding partner at Fort Ross and built this firm from 0 to over $400m under management
General Partner
2015 - 2022
General Partner at Fort Ross Ventures. -$450m in committed capital - investments in www.etoro.com, www.dynamicyield.com, www.roofstock.com, www.granulate.com, www.thetaray.com, www.tufin.com, www.rescale.com, www.ridecell.com, www.mobewave.com and many others
Chief Technology Officer & Chief Digital Officer
2008 - 2015
Built one of the largest global digital banks - over 90 million consumers and 4 million companies. Designed, built and deployed fintech platform with over 500 million transactions a day and over 30 million daily transacting customers.
Partner
2007 - 2008
Business development, Strategy consulting, Banking
Chief Transformation Officer, SVP
2001 - 2005
Pioneered mobile banking, designed and deployed core banking and front end platforms for consumer, wholesale and investment banking units for the bank which was then recognized as one of the best banks in Europe
Project Leader of Business
1996 - 2001
Design and deployment of core banking platforms, online banking platforms, launching new products