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Ana-maria Yanakieva

Growing web3 ecosystems with Arbitrum Growth Circles and Arbitrum Venture Initiative | Web3 VC

United Kingdom

Work Experience

2024

  • Co-founder, Farstar DAO

    2024

    Ecosystem development and growth through strategic initiatives. Working with L2, DeFi, AI, stablecoin infra teams incl. Arbitrum (Arbitrum Venture Initiative, Arbitrum Growth Circles), Nashpoint, Fairblock, Ostium, PixelPai, EmberAI and more. Arbitrum DAO delegate.

2023

  • Advisory and consulting

    2023

2022 - 2023

  • Principal

    2022 - 2023

2018 - 2022

  • Head Of Investment

    2021 - 2022

  • Investment Manager

    2020 - 2021

  • Investor

    2018 - 2020

    As an investor I: - am looking for pre-seed and seed deals in web3.0 - am managing relationships with founders and VCs at pre-seed and seed stage in Europe & the US - have set up the startup fundraising and investor relations process for the accelerator - am working with portfolio companies on GTM and fundraising strategies - am running the investment pipeline, due diligence process for fund and accelerator investments - am running “Weekly Investor Profile” and ANA.vc - am participating in the end to end investment process - am identifying new market opportunities (eg Corona Tech, Web 2.5) - am aiding on fundraising and enriching thesis for the firm Outlier Ventures is an early stage venture capital platform focused on the convergence of emerging technologies with deep expertise in web 3.0, DLT, AI, IoT. We provide not only capital but post-investment support like business development, token economics, branding and positioning, technology and more.

2020 - 2020

  • Mentor

    2020 - 2020

    Helping talented individuals access and plan for a career in Venture Capital.

2017 - 2018

  • Investment Analyst

    2017 - 2018

    Aiding the partnership through: • Assessing market opportunities across Enterprise, Frontier Tech, Marketplaces. • Extensive research on Blockchain technology. • Performing due diligence on early stage deals (seed). • Structuring a guidelines framework for deal evaluation and testing different approaches to deals evaluation. • Sourcing deals in Europe and the UK. LAUNCHub Ventures is an early stage (seed) venture capital fund with tendencies of investing in digital space (SaaS, Enterprise Software, Health-tech, E-commerce, Mobile, IoT).