About
Ilya joined Bright Capital as a Senior Investment Manager in June 2011 bringing to the team 10 years of international experience in high-tech entrepreneurship and innovation. Ilya actively works with companies in the sectors of energy efficiency and smart grid, infrastructure and innovative materials, life science and biotechnologies. He is also responsible for starting up the business development of Bright Capital portfolio companies in Russia and Corporate Venturing activities in energy sector. After graduation from Moscow Engineering Physics Institute (National Research Nuclear University) in 1999 Ilya spent 3 years in Innovation Business Centre for new Electrical Technologies in Moscow where he was in charge of R&D project management of the Centre. Years from 2002 to 2008 Ilya had been living in Switzerland doing research at EPFL (Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology in Lausanne) and actively participating in various activities focused on technology commercialization and start
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- • 2 investors hold the Vice President Investments role in VCSift. Ilya Pavlov is one of them.
- • 433 investors are based in Moscow, Moscow City, Russian Federation.
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- Moscow, Russian Federation
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