Talk by Vlad Voskresenksy at Stanford on Jan 5 2015, as a part of our panel on 'Startups Under War & Censorship::Ukraine & Russia'. Website: www.StanfordEuropreneurs.org YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/StanfordEuropreneurs

1. Vlad Voskresensky
CEO & Co-­‐‑founder, InvisibleCRM
Kiev, Ukraine
• One of the original founders of invisibleCRM.
• Was also co-­‐‑founder and CEO of Afortio, an offshore software development
company (2002-­‐‑2008), merged with EPAM (NYSE:EPAM)
• Two Masters Degrees -­‐‑ Computer Science and International Business Relations
• A bit of political flavor:
– Ukrainian School of Political Studies
– Aspen Institute
– In Oct 2012 was elected to Ukrainian Parliament (within “Samopomich” party list)
January 5 2015 European Entrepreneurship @ Stanford Engineering

2. InvisibleCRM:
• Provider of Productivity Tools which integrates back office
applications (CRM, ERP, DM) with user environments
(Windows, Email, Social)
• ~100 people, headquartered in USA, all R&D in Kiev, Ukraine
(historically also in Moscow, Russia)
• Key customers:
• Named “Cool Vendor” by Gartner; Bill Gates and Larry Ellison
showcased our software in trade shows keynotes, etc…
Don’t change people,
change software
Bridging the gap between
Personal and Enterprise

3. Ukraine & Russia within InvisibleCRM
• Co-founders are from both countries
• Company started in Kiev and Moscow. Only Kiev office
now.
• One Board Director is Russian
• Some Russian customers client

4. • Historically
• Great source of talent
• Huge outsourcing but weak product eco-system
• Small internal market = people are global-
oriented
• Was (and still is) very hard to raise money
• We have no direct business in UA = no influence
of current economical situation
• Today it’s a mix of very social active and
patriotic people though no clear predictability,
only hopes yet
Why
Ukraine?
And how
it is now?