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Semyon Dukach

Founding Partner at One Way Ventures

Boston, Massachusetts

Invests in

Stages:

  • Min Investment:

    $500,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $1,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $750,000.00

Education

Work Experience

  • Founding Partner

    2017

    Backing exceptional immigrant founders. onewayvc.com

2024

  • Member, Advisory Board

    2024

    Horasis is an independent, international think tank headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland. Founded in 2005 by Frank-Jürgen Richter, former director of the World Economic Forum, Horasis has spent two decades gathering the most senior business leaders, policy-makers and heads of state across all continents to form a global dialogue that can help shape the future. For One Way Ventures I was named to the Advisory Board at Horasis: https://horasis.org/semyon-dukach-founding-partner-of-venture-fund-for-exceptional-immigrant-founders-joins-the-horasis-advisory-board/

  • Founding Board Member

    2022

2002 - 2017

  • Board Chairman

    2002 - 2017

    SharpSpring, Inc. (SHSP) is a rapidly growing, global provider of cloud-based marketing and email software solutions, ranging from marketing automation to scalable transactional email, email marketing, and mobile marketing services. The company's product lines, which include SharpSpring, SMTP and GraphicMail, are known for their innovation, flexible architecture, ease of use, and cost-effectiveness — all backed by high-quality, multilingual customer support. Learn more at www.sharpspring.com, www.smtp.com, and www.graphicmail.com. (SharpSpring, Inc. was formerly known as SMTP, Inc., and traded under NASDAQ: SMTP.)

2014 - 2017

  • Managing Director

    2014 - 2017

  • Director

    2009 - 2017

    Bike Power for African micro-entrepreneurs

2008 - 2017

  • Director

    2008 - 2017

    Angel Investor, Director

2000 - 2014

  • Angel Investor

    2000 - 2014

    I look for super passionate teams doing something they really believe in, where I also think I can help. Occasionally I'm able to make a big impact as an advisor, especially in a difficult moment when the founders may forget why they started their company in the first place. Some of my own startups have done well, but I have learned much more from the founders I'm helping now as an angel.

1999 - 2003

  • co-founder, director

    1999 - 2003

    Company developed taxi-top displays which show location-specific content to outdoor audiences. http://www.vert.net.

2001 - 2002

  • seed investor and Interim CEO

    2001 - 2002