OUR TEAM
Meet Vitosha Venture Partners:
Max Gurvits
Managing Partner
Max has been around Sofia's entrepreneurship scene since the early days, and has helped shape the local community through his work at Eleven and a number of angel syndicates. Connecting Bulgaria with Silicon Valley, London, and the rest of Eastern Europe is his credo.
Marin Iliev
Managing Partner
Marin is an insider of Bulgaria's venture industry from day one, responsible for investments and operations in the first fund in this region. For our founders, Marin brings an intricate understanding of venture techniques and growth channels.
Stoyan Nedin
Venture Partner
A serial entrepreneur by nature, Stoyan is experienced in M&A and venture investing, technology assessment and innovation. He has been a vibrant part of Sofia's ecosystem with Nexpur, Fanstream and Teres Capital, among other endeavours.
Paul Weinberger
Managing Partner
A veteran of venture investing and hands-on portfolio management in Austria, Switzerland, and Germany, Paul’s extensive transaction and exit experience in the largest European markets connects our founders to the top players in the business.
Nikola Stojanow
Managing Partner
Nikola is one of the founders of Aeternity, and the head of Aeternity Ventures' acclaimed StarFleet program, Bulgaria's most successful and globally recognized accelerator program. Nikola's deep expertise in fintech is a key team asset.
Kamen Bankovski
Principal
Kamen is a swiss-army-knife for all things related to strategic planning, financial management, and operational diligence. With background in finance, tech, and management, having mentored multiple startups in the region, Kamen is superpower for our team and our investments.
Maris Prii
Managing Partner
Maris has been involved with the Estonian startup ecosystem from the early days through her work with Startup Wise Guys. An experienced accelerator manager, community builder, and VC operations insider, she brings the Nordic connection to our team.
Erik Anderson
Managing Partner
Shuttling between California and Europe, Erik has been the US access point for a number of successful European accelerator programs and VC funds. At Vitosha Venture Partners, Erik unlocks US connections and is the lead expert on marketing and growth.
Alexandra Todorova
Marketing and Community Manager
Alex develops and oversees all marketing, communications, and events of Vitosha, leveraging her rare combination of copywriting, content design, events planning superpowers matched with her solid business and venture capital understanding.
Antoniy Zahariev
Investment Analyst
With his expertise and passion for finance, business and technology, Antoniy is contributing to Vitosha's investment analysis as well as to the portfolio management processes of the fund.
"Vitosha Venture Partners", "Vitosha ACCELERATE", and "Vitosha" are the trade names of Vitosha Venture Partners Ltd. and VVP Fund I LP. This privacy policy will explain how our organization (short: VVP) uses the personal data we collect from you when you use our website, www.vitosha.vc. Topics: What data do we collect? How do we collect your data? How will we use your data? How do we store your data? Marketing What are your data protection rights? What are cookies? How do we use cookies? What types of cookies do we use? How to manage your cookies Privacy policies of other websites Changes to our privacy policy How to contact us How to contact the appropriate authorities What data do we collect? VVP collects the following data: Personal identification information (Name and email address) How do we collect your data? You directly provide VVP with most of the data we collect. We collect data and process data when you: Register online or submit an application for any of our programs, services, or events. Voluntarily complete a customer survey or provide feedback on any of our message boards or via email. Use or view our website via your browser’s cookies. VVP may also receive your data indirectly from the following sources: Your publicly available social media profiles. How will we use your data? VVP collects your data so that we can: Process your order and manage your account. Email you with special offers on other offerings and services we think you might like. If you agree, VVP will share your data with our partner companies so that they may offer you their products and services: SummitSummit Community OÜ Economedia AD Muncho OÜ When VVP processes your order or registration, it may send your data to, and also use the resulting information from, credit reference agencies to prevent fraudulent purchases. How do we store your data? 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