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Denis Dovgopoliy

Denis Dovgopoliy

Denis Dovgopoliy

Denis is Founder and Head of BVU Group, that included BayView Innovations consulting company, GrowthUP Incubator (first in Ukraine), few infrastructure projects (like Expertorama.com, SVCDB.com). As a leader of Ukrainian VC and entrepreneurial community Denis is involved into various internet and investment conferences as a co-organizer or executive committee member (idcee.org, iForum.ua, Startup Crash Test, Entrepreholic, SVOD). He is an author of most popular blog about high-tech and venture capital in Ukraine and in top5 in Russia http://dennydov.blogspot.com) since 2007. In 2011, having exclusive rights on Russian Edition, he has published “The four Steps to Epiphany” by Steven Blank.Denis is director of the boards or member of the advisory boards of various startups in Russia and Ukraine. Before BVU Group Denis held С-level positions and did some exits from Ukrainian local companies. Graduated from Kiev Politecnic Institute in 1996 and IMI in 2000 (MBA).

Testimonials

This conference is clearly a labor of love for a group of dedicated professionals who care deeply about the European entrepreneurs. From the value-packed educational panels, to the star-studded keynote speakers’ line up, to an amazing quantity of venture capitalists – this is a not to be missed event for any high tech entrepreneur.

Richard Guha

President of the Marketing Executives Network and Managing Partner at MaxBrandEquity

It’s a great conference and it brings together great content from really terrific speakers like we just had and then a network of really interesting entrepreneurs.

Andy Tsao

Managing Director, Silicon Valley Bank

Thank you for the opportunity to present Driveway at SVOD. It gave us much needed exposure to the wide investor community. Combining the pitch preparation classes with the presentation content guidance, we came out strong and confident from the podium. During the conference we had a chance to speak to many investors and industry leaders resulting in a very valuable feedback.

Jake Diner

Driveway Software

Cleary one of the very best conferences we attended and sponsored in Silicon Valley this year. To us the conference truly captured what we see in our daily practice, the substantial opportunities and also the challenges with cross-border business arrangements. We made many new meaningful connections.

Lars Johansson

Partner, K&L Gates

The organizers here are doing an amazing job with selecting the people who attend, selecting the speakers, coming up with ideas for panels and discussions. The truly amazing side is that the audience gets bigger, more involved, active and more thoughtful. It’s just a fun place to be!

Daniil Stolyarov

Investment Director, Almaz Capital Partners (102M under management)

A lot of energy, lot of very dedicated entrepreneurs here, very passionate, very committed to what they’re doing.

Mitchell (Mitch) Kapor

Partner, Kapor Capital

The SVOD conference was a wonderful event. Networking is very important for start-ups. The challenge for them is often not money: it is mentoring and finding people who can give good advice from experience.

Esther Dyson

Founder, EDventure Holdings

The quality of entrepreneurs and the international flavor: it’s always fun to see where innovation is happening around the world. It was fun for us to see not only the quality of thought but also pace of execution and the teams here are becoming ready to play.

Byron Deeter

Partner, Bessemer Venture Partners ($4B under management)