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Advising startups, Finding cofounders, Finding engineers, Getting press, Helping friends, Meeting new people, Professional opportunities, Promoting my startups, Recruiting for my startup, Sharing my projects
YouNoodle is a place to discover and support the hottest early-stage companies and university innovation.
Startup type: Company
Status: Active
Stage: Beta
FULL BIO
Kirill's is the co-founder of YouNoodle, the emerging business analytics company which has been used by 25,000 businesses and has a community of over 400,000 entrepreneurs. YouNoodle is funded by Peter Thiel, The Founders Fund, Max Levchin and several other investors; and has been featured in the New York Times, BusinessWeek, Inc. Magazine, The UK Telegraph, BBC World News and NPR. Kirill has been responsible for product, business development and the architecture of the Startup Predictor and other analytical models while at the company.
Prior to YouNoodle, Kirill managed analytics and metrics and was an early employee of Slide, the world's leading community-driven entertainment company entertainment company. Before that he held the #1 Graduate in the UK award based on his work while at Oxford University.
Kirill was also in the founding team and a President of Oxford Entrepreneurs (the largest student enterprise club in Europe) and graduated from Oxford University with a double first in Applied Mathematics.
Growing up, Kirill also once wanted to be (in order) a pianist, tennis player, artist, poker player and skier; all of which (for now) have been consigned to his spare time category.
WORK EXPERIENCE
Employer:
YouNoodle, Inc.
Position:
Co-founder
Time period:
September 2007 - Present
Description:
Media partnerships and business development. Built the Startup Predictor model. Created and manage partnerships with leading media properties including BusinessWeek, Fast Company, UK Telegraph, San Francisco Chronicle, Techcrunch and Venturebeat.
Employer:
Slide, Inc.
Position:
Data and Analytics
Time period:
July 2006 - September 2007
Description:
Product analytics and data management; virality analysis; data insight; data infrastructure, product analysis, product development, business development, financial modeling, product spec writing, mysql and excel coding, API distribution, product and logging QA. While I was at Slide we grew from under a million registered users to more than 150 million people interacting with our products every month.
Employer:
Global Equity Partners
Position:
New ventures analysis
Time period:
July 2005 - September 2005
Description:
Analysis of the games of skill market; analysis of the betting platform market; analysis of games of skill web designer; financial modelling; investment decision presentations.
Employer:
Meinl Bank
Position:
Derivative Analyst
Time period:
July 2004 - September 2004
Description:
Carried out Monte Carlo simulation to price equity options; categorised risk in highly structured interest rate products; carried out Value at Risk analysis.
Employer:
Oxford Entrepreneurs
Position:
President and founding team member
Time period:
January 2004 - April 2006
Description:
Headhunted and led a committee of 14 of 3-year old Society with already 3000 members; raised in excess of £150,000 from sponsors and founding patrons; organised tens of events each involving at least 200 students and entrepreneurs; made contact and successfully invited entrepreneurs such as Sir Alan Sugar and Dame Anita Roddick to speak to members for free; helped create replica societies at 3 other universities; co-ordinated the set up of and advised 5 student start-up companies that together had revenues in excess of £20,000 in their first year; secured PR coverage from The Times, The Economist, New York Times, Guardian. In 2004 the DTI highlighted OE as “one of the top three organisations in the UK for supporting innovation and enterprise”.
New online media startup headed up by the founder of PayPal, Max Levchin. Backed by Mayfield Fund, Blue Run Ventures, Khosla Ventures and the Founders Fund.
Spanish, Industrial Engineer, MBA & Entrepreneur. Experience as a Consultant, Sales Engineer and now Lead manager at Technology-based SMEs UPM (Technical University Madrid)
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