Sergei is an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Venture for America, where he runs the organization’s summer accelerator program for its young Fellow founders.
His own entrepreneurship education started at 12 years old while working at his dad’s shopping mall kiosks as the de facto chief English/Russian translator.
While getting his formal business education studying Economics and Finance at Bentley University, Sergei worked on a few side projects, including a peer to peer ad network (which he financed by selling his beloved 1999 Toyota Solara) and a website for cat memes and flash games (which, surprisingly, made more money with less investment!). After a year and a half working in finance, and about 300 hours of studying to pass level I of the CFA, he joined his first startup, Edhance, to help run sales and marketing at the 10-person company. Soon after Edhance was acquired, Sergei moved to NYC to do enterprise sales at AppFirst while plotting his next venture! Within a year Tascit.com was born, which he bootstrapped with his two co-founders for the next 1.5 years as they built and sold B2B software for sales teams.