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Misha Lyalin

Founder and Investor. Lazy AI, ZeptoLab, DataMilk ...

London, England

Invests in

Locations:

  • Min Investment:

    $5,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $50,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $25,000.00

Skills

Telecommunications
Retail
Start-ups
Mergers
Strategic Planning
Mobile Applications
Product Management
Venture Capital
Mobile Devices
Strategy
Entrepreneurship
Management
Business Development
Strategic Partnerships
Product Marketing
Outsourcing
Online Advertising
New Business Development
Mergers & Acquisitions
Leadership

Education

  • University of Louisville - J.B. Speed School of Engineering, EMACS

  • High School Diploma

    Moscow school #52

Work Experience

2023

  • Co-Founder

    2023

  • Board Member

    2022

  • Board Member

    2011

  • CEO

    2010 - 2022

    ZeptoLab is a global gaming company dedicated to the science of fun. It all started back in 2010 with just two people and one monster – the cheerful green Om Nom, whose biggest passion are candies. Since then, Cut the Rope games have been downloaded more than 1.2 billion times (it’s on every 5th smartphone in the world!), and the team consists of more than 130 enthusiastic employees in London, Moscow and Barcelona offices. Cut the Rope franchise aside, ZeptoLab released C.A.T.S. Crash Arena Turbo Stars and King of Thieves, massive multiplayer mobile titles with more than 200 million combined downloads so far. The company’s portfolio also includes Pudding Monsters and My Om Nom.

  • Co-Founder

    2021

Kite Ventures

2011 - 2016

  • Venture Partner

    2011 - 2016

    Kite Ventures is a global venture investment company specialising in marketplace and transactional network investments.

2011 - 2012

  • Advisor to the Chairman

    2011 - 2012

2007 - 2011

  • 1st Vice-president

    2010 - 2011

    Svyaznoy (Russian: Связной) is Russia's second-largest[1] independent handset retailer, with over 2,900 stores in Russia and Belarus.[2] Its founder and owner is Maksim Nogotkov. As of 2009, the company controls 22,4% of the Russian mobile retail market. Its main rival is Euroset, which Svyaznoy later acquired. The company was known as Maxus between 1995 and 2002.[3] As of July 2013, Svyaznoy was the only official reseller of iPhones in Russia.[1] Since 2010 Nogotkov has also been developing a banking chain, Svyaznoy Bank.

  • VP Strategic Business Development & General Manager "Svyaznoy Club"

    2007 - 2010

    creating a biggest coalition loyalty bonus program for telecommunications, finance and retail sector

Reaxion Corp

2001 - 2007

  • CSO & Founder

    2007 - 2007

    Reaxion Corp was a Seattle-based mobile game publishing company. While its primary business is developing and publishing games for mobile phones, Reaxion has also produced several other types of mobile applications, including a mobile Content Management System. Reaxion produces a number of well-known mobile games in a variety of genres, including puzzle, fighting, sports, and strategy. Games from Reaxion include Men in Black, Kojak, Shop 'Til You Drop and Frame Games. Reaxion also manages a mobile gaming community called Gamarama, which allows users to compete in several mobile games using their phones. Reaxion has relationships with all major North American wireless service carriers, such as Sprint, Verizon, and Cingular, as well as several other North American and some major European and Asian carriers In addition to publishing mobile games, Reaxion also has an in-house development department that does most of its software development work for both the BREW and Java ME platforms. Reaxion’s development team also manages the quality assurance process. In addition, Reaxion does all of its own marketing and advertising.

  • CEO & Founder

    2001 - 2007

1999 - 2001

  • Advanced Technology Managment

    1999 - 2001

    Oxygen is an American pay television channel that is owned by the NBCUniversal Television and Streaming unit of NBCUniversal, which is a subsidiary of Comcast. The channel primarily airs true crime programming and dramas targeted towards women. The network was founded by Geraldine Laybourne, and carried a format focused on lifestyle and entertainment programming oriented towards women, similar to competing channels such as Lifetime. NBCUniversal acquired the network in 2007; under NBCU ownership, the network increasingly produced reality shows aimed at the demographic, and was relaunched in 2014 to target a "modern", younger female audience. After the network experienced ratings successes with a programming block dedicated to such programming, Oxygen was relaunched in mid-2017 to focus primarily on true-crime programs. As of February 2015, approximately 77.5 million American households (66.5% of households with television) receive Oxygen.[1] Under its current format, the network primarily competes with Investigation Discovery and HLN.[2]

Intype Inc

1998 - 1999

  • Director Development, Platform

    1998 - 1999

    became part of Oxygen Media in August 1999

Netreflector Inc

1997 - 1999

  • VP of Development, Co-founder

    1997 - 1999