Partner
Ivan Protopopov
Managing Partner and CEO, Phystech Ventures
- Firm
- Phystech Ventures
- Title
- Managing Partner and CEO
- Role
- Managing partner
- Known as
- Investor
Record updated 18 September 2026
About
Ivan has been working in Venture Capital and Private Equity since 2010, spending all this time in various leadership positions focused on outstanding deals. He co-founded Phystech Ventures in 2013 and is currently serving as a Managing Partner and CEO of the firm. Prior to Phystech Ventures, he worked on putting together strategy and funding for high-tech startups and invested at pre-seed stage as an angel, with 4 three-digit IRR exits. Ivan is actively interested in later stage deals of Phystech, serves on a number of boards and is also responsible for Life Sciences and SpaceTech pipelines of the firm. Over the past few years, he has been transferring his expertise to a new generation of fund managers, having authored his trademark deep-dive course on VC/PE funding instruments aka "What Makes a Deal Great".
Background
- Expertise
- Life Sciences; SpaceTech
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