Felix Shpilman
Founder & Partner @ Start Fund
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Felix Shpilman is a seed investor at Start Fund in Dubai focused on Telecommunications. Member of the Board of Directors and CEO of Emerging Travel Group, Felix was an early employee at DST Global and DST Russia (later renamed to Mail.ru Group). Felix was a co-founder and General Partner of Start Fund, an early-stage investment fund in San Francisco, which has invested into 400+ startups. Some of Felix’s notable investments at StartFund include Uber, Gusto, Coinbase, Doordash, Instacart, and AngelList. He joined Emerging Travel as VP of Strategy in April 2013, was promoted to the COO role in 2014 and during his tenure at COO oversaw all the commercial, operational and financial business functions. In 2017 he replaced Serge Faguet as CEO. Felix attended University of Southern California’s Marshall School of Business where he studied business strategy and received a dual degree in Finance and Strategy.
- Total investments:
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Investments
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| https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/phonesys | Seed / Aug 23, 2011 |
Co-Investors
About Start Fund
Start Fund, created in January 2011, is a joint venture between [Yuri Milner](http://www.crunchbase.com/person/yuri-milner) and [SV Angel](http://www.crunchbase.com/financial-organization/sv-angel). The fund was created to invest in Y Combinator startups and[ made its first set of investments](http://techcrunch.com/2011/01/28/yuri-milner-sv-angel-offer-every-new-y-combinator-startup-150k/) in January 2011.
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Felix Shpilman invests primarily in Telecommunications startups, most often at Seed stage. Most of the 1 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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