Episode page and notes: https://buildersinfintech.ai/podcast/episode-29
In this episode, I sit down with Victor Orlovski, Managing Partner at R136 Ventures.
Victor started at IBM, then he became CTO of one of Europe's largest banks, managing a 25,000-person engineering team serving 90M+ users. But he discovered then that the real challenge, and his true passion, wasn't scaling tech. It was scaling founders.
He started his journey in Venture at Fort Ross Ventures in 2015. Now, he is General Partner at R136 Ventures, a $500M fund investing in Series B+ rounds ranging from AI, fintech, B2B software, and more. He was also the author of: "From Rhino to Unicorn", a WSJ Bestseller, and a Forbes contributor on late-stage markets and agentic AI.
Some of his exits over time: eToro (Nasdaq, $5.2B), Dynamic Yield (McDonald's, $327M), Granulate (Intel), DeciAI (Nvidia).
With him, we talked about the very basic dynamics of venture markets, the impact of AI on the global economy, but also why he thinks virtual assets and metaverse will be one of the main trends to watch.
