Davydov Nikolay

Davydov Nikolay

Biography

Career

Nikolai Davydov has great investment and entrepreneurial experience, over the past 6 years he has been engaged in investments in companies in the fields artificial intelligence machine learning and at the seed stage, and also developed the co-founded startup in the field of computer sight Cherry Labs. Behind Nikolai are transactions with and, Facebook Google as well as joint investments with key investors in Silicon Valley.

2020: Sale of stake in Gagarin Capital fund to partner Mikhail Taver

On October 13, 2020, it became known about the withdrawal from the Gagarin Capital Partners fund of one of its founders, Nikolai Davydov. He sold his share to the fund's managing partner Mikhail Taver. The financial terms of the transaction are not disclosed.

After leaving Gagarin Capital Partner, Nikolai Davydov will develop his entrepreneurial projects: these are, in particular, Cherry Labs, as well as the Place startup and investor community, which he launched in June 2020 with Google Product Director Andrei Doronichev.

In 4 years, we [Gagarin Capital] have invested in 19 companies and even identified winners who will bring the basis of the fund's profitability. The further success of the fund depends on systematic work with portfolio companies and their preparation for M & A, and therefore now Gagarin Capital, first of all, needs Mikhail's competencies, Davydov said.

After Davydov left, Mikhail Taver will now lead the fund. Over 20 years of work in strategic consulting, direct investment, mergers and acquisitions, Taver closed more than 250 transactions totaling $24 billion, Forbes reports. The fund's portfolio projects include Prisma, iFarm, Earth AI and Wallarm.

If we talk about plans: the current fund is almost completely invested and closed to new investors. Starting next year, we will open the opportunity for third-party partners who did not have time to enter Gagarin, to enter portfolio companies pointedly, "Taver said.

In addition to Mikhail Taver, Anastasia Shvetsova, a partner responsible for foreign communications and relations with investors, continues to work in the fund. She joined Gagarin Capital Partners in the fall of 2019.

Shvetsova called Taver and Davydov "investors of the highest class," who were able to recognize future stars at the very start of the path and the entire AI market, and individual companies.^[1]

2021

Fort Ross Seed Fund Senior Partner

On February 19, 2021, the management company Fort Ross Ventures announced the joining of Nikolai Davydov, co-founder and former managing partner of Gagarin Capital and Cherry Labs, as a senior venture partner in the early stages of the Fort Ross Seed Fund.

Nikolay Davydov will also become an investor in the fund and will participate in the search for investments and managing the portfolio of the third fund under the management of Fort Ross Ventures, aimed at investing in startups in the early stages: Round A and the sowing stage. Nikolai will focus on investments in companies with Russian-speaking founders growing in international markets.

The most important thing that a good venture fund can and should invest in is people. It is people who are looking for companies and it is people who make investments and help startups get better and grow. We bring together a team of talented and extraordinary people who can analyze the present, predict the future, make excellent investments and raise strong teams. We are very pleased that Fort Ross Ventures is chosen by such strong professional investors as Nikolai Davydov. I am sure that his experience will strengthen the team and help the fund develop with even faster speed, said Victor Orlovsky, founder and general partner of Fort Ross Ventures

I am very pleased to be able to work and invest with the Fort Ross Ventures team, which in a short time was able to become one of the few venture funds with Russian roots that are truly visible on the Silicon Valley investment landscape. I believe that the expertise of partners and their strategic vision can bring great benefits to entrepreneurs and I will be glad to help them in this, noted Nikolay Davydov, senior venture partner at Fort Ross Ventures

As of February 2021, together with his wife, he is working on the venture studio Davidovs.com, in which they work on new products and startups, invest, and are engaged in impact and charity projects.

Investing in a site creation platform WeLoveNoCode

In May 2021, it became known that business angels Nikolai Davydov and brothers Daniel and David Libermans invested in the sowing round in. startup WeLoveNoCode This on his page Facebook in said the founder of the project Nikita Shevchenko. More. here

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