About me

I was born in St. Petersburg, Russia and emigrated to the US in 1996. I studied computer science (Course 6-3) at MIT, and dropped out before senior year to join Y-Combinator S11 class with a (terrible) EdTech idea.

In 2012, me and my co-founders launched analytics.js. It was an open-source library that went on to become Segment.com and created the Customer Data Platform category. That scaled to a multi-billion dollar valuation in 8 years.

Now I'm an angel investor, focusing on Seed and Series A-stage climate tech & healthcare startups. I'm deeply passionate in medical diagnostics, functional medicine, autoimmunity, and the gut microbiota. I spend my time helping founders tackle hard problems in climate-tech and healthcare.