Viktoriya Tigipko

Before turning to venture capital, Tigipko was a serial entrepreneur with businesses in media, technology, and finance; her earlier business interests spanned financial services, industrial machinery distribution, construction, and real estate.⁠[1][2]

She holds a Master of Science degree from Kyiv National Economics University / Vienna University of Economics and Business and an MBA from the University of California, Berkeley.⁠[2]

In 2009, Tigipko moved into venture building, and in late 2010 she launched TA Ventures as a family office, serving since then as its founder and managing partner; she has said the firm’s first fund backed 152 companies.⁠[1][3][2][1]

In 2012, Tigipko, as a “Director at TA Venture,” was listed as a mentor at the Kyiv startup accelerator EastLabs, alongside former KP MediaKP MediaKP Media is a media and internet company that American Jed Sunden built in Ukraine starting from the Kyiv Post (named KP Publications until March 2006); its holdings once included the Russian-language weekly Korrespondent, the news site korrespondent.net and the portal bigmir.net. In 2006 the company raised $11 million by selling a 20% stake with the help of Dragon Capital; it sold the Kyiv Post in 2009, took in Ukrainian Media Holding (UMH) and Petro Poroshenko as investors in 2011, and in 2013 UMH bought Poroshenko’s 50% to become its sole owner.Open the full entry owner Jed SundenJed SundenJed Sunden is an American publisher and media entrepreneur who founded the Ukrainian English-language newspaper Kyiv Post in Kyiv in 1995 and built on it to create KP Media, whose holdings included the weekly Korrespondent, korrespondent.net and bigmir.net; he sold the Kyiv Post in 2009 and his stake in KP Media in 2011. Since 2024 he has run the American Ukraine PAC in the United States, raising money for members of Congress who support Ukraine.Open the full entry, Horizon Capital investment director Vasile Tofan, and Napster founding chairman and CEO John Fanning. EastLabs had opened in Kyiv that January and was owned by EastOne, an investment advisory set up by Victor Pinchuk.⁠[4][4]

Tigipko is a co-founder of WTECH, the first Ukrainian club for female tech CEOs; the community was founded in 2018 and later grew into the international community WTECH Global. On April 25, 2018, she spoke at the iForum conference in Kyiv as managing partner of TA Ventures, giving a talk titled “Ukrainian Startups — Fundraising Guide.”⁠[3][5][1][6][6]

On July 11, 2019, the Ukrainian government launched the state-backed Ukrainian Startup Fund with a budget of UAH 400 million, and Finance Minister Oksana Markarova signed a decree appointing its seven-member supervisory board; Tigipko joined as a representative of TA Ventures, alongside members including Lenna Koszarny of Horizon Capital and Charles Whitehead of Cornell Tech. She later became chairwoman of the fund’s board.⁠[7][8][7][1]

In April 2025, boxer Oleksandr Usyk joined ICLUB, founded by Tigipko, as a business angel. Tigipko called it a significant step toward advancing Ukraine’s innovation ecosystem.⁠[9][9]

Tigipko founded and chairs the angel investor network ICLUB, which in 2025 had more than 2,500 members in more than 40 countries; she also founded the startup and investor conference IDCEE and Code Club Ukraine, a network of volunteer-led coding clubs for children, and serves on the jury of the EIT Venture Award of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology.⁠[1][2][3][10]

In film, she is the founder and president of the Odesa International Film Festival and chairwoman of the supervisory board of the Ukrainian Film Academy.⁠[10]

TA Ventures: Official website: https://taventures.vc/ (opens in a new window).⁠[2]

LinkedInLinkedInLinkedIn is a social networking platform for professionals. It was founded in 2002 by Reid Hoffman and others, launched in 2003, and listed on the New York Stock Exchange in 2011; after Microsoft acquired it for approximately $26.2 billion in 2016, it became a wholly owned Microsoft subsidiary. Its revenue comes from membership subscriptions, advertising, and recruitment solutions.Open the full entry: Public profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/viktoriyatigipko/ (opens in a new window)⁠[2]