Sixa

Sixa develops the platform for access for users to personal virtual computers. The solution allows to use programs in a cloud, without updating the physical equipment. The startup is based by Ukrainians Mikola Minchenko and Evgeny Nechayev.

History

2020: Disappearance of founders after the investment attraction

At the end of May, 2020 it became known of disappearance of founders a blockchain startup of Sixa which ran away after attraction of $5 million investments. The director of strategic development of TMT Investments venture fund Herman Kaplun told about it.

According to him, TMT Investments invested $300 thousand in a startup, however developers ceased to come to investor relation. The fund will involve lawyers to deal with a situation.

The Ukrainians who based a blockchain company were gone with $5 million investments

After several rounds of financing the company gave account everything with a bigger delay, and the CEO and the co-founder of Sixa Mikola Minchenko dared not to respond to letters and calls long. As a result the largest investor of Sixa, Tandem Capital, withdrew a half of the investments in a round for $3.5 million.

Ain.ua  writes that after several rounds of financing investors began to receive reports of founders with big delays, and the CEO and the co-founder of Sixa Mikola Minchenko for a long time vanished and did not respond to letters and calls. Tandem Capital, the largest investor of Sixa, withdrew a half of the  investments  in a round for $3.5 million.

Also attempts of certain investors to get access to the developed product ended with failure. Current situation forced them to doubt not only readiness of a product, but also the existence of Sixa company. One of investors studied Facebook and LinkedIn and came to a conclusion that the company simply has no employees, in addition to founders.

To yourself you will not purchase the supercomputer, and to here lease it — another matter. Against the background of growth of VR which just requires powerful iron investors fell in love with the project —  one of investors of Sixa on the condition of anonymity told Ain.ua.[1]

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