As a General Partner and Head of Portfolio, Alexandra is currently managing 450+ companies from 60+ countries invested by Startup Wise Guys — a global accelerator and a group of VC funds, investing in pre-seed B2B startups. She has been in venture capital for over 9 years, and her experience includes portfolio support, leadership, strategic growth, and fundraising.
Alexandra started her career from PR, working with clients across diverse industries, from logistics to telco, being a part of both agencies and a large IT product corporate. Then she moved to investments, becoming a part of a family office in her home country Ukraine, where she was running operations, from investor relations and deal sourcing to due diligence. She joined Startup Wise Guys as a managing director, running several B2B SaaS batches, supporting founders in their early startup journey on the strategic level. After several years, she has been offered to become a General Partner for Challenger II fund. Her work at Startup Wise Guys focuses on empowering entrepreneurs to create positive change by building great international tech companies. As a member of selection committees across all funds, Alexandra has invested in more than 150+ startups across 4 continents in the past few years.
Startup Wise Guys was founded in 2012 in Estonia as an accelerator, investing in roughly 10 deals yearly. Since then, the company accelerated to investing in 70-100 startups per year, and expanded to Latvia, Lithuania, Denmark, Spain, Italy, Romania, and Africa.