Evgeny Shadchnev

Founder Coach

2020 - Current

I coach founder CEOs and their boards through leadership transitions: stepping down as a CEO or stepping into the CEO role (even if the founder had the title for years).

Venture Partner

2025

I work closely with founders and teams to help startups in EdTech, AI, and digital learning grow and succeed. ✔️ Strategic advice and mentorship for scaling your business ✔️ Connections to experienced operators, investors, and industry specialists ✔️ Guidance on growth strategies in lifelong learning, corporate training, and K-12 education

Co-founder and Board member

2013

CEO

2014 - 2020

Makers Academy is an intensive, full-time, 12 week course in web development. We help our students to change careers and become junior software developers and apprentices. We help companies hire great junior programmers.

Podcast Host

2024

Real stories of CEO succession. I interview founder CEOs who stepped down, professional CEOs who took over and investors involved in the process.

Volunteer Advisor

2021

Powered by a collective of CEOs from some of the UK's most successful companies, All Together is a pro bono advisory platform offering 1-2-1 advice, peer learning events, and impactful online content to help you build a better business.

Venture Scout

2020

Ada Ventures finds and funds extraordinary talent-building breakthrough ideas for the hardest problems we face. We invest across climate, economic empowerment and healthcare & ageing.

Mentor

2020 - 2025

Founding Partner

2012 - 2013

Forward Labs is a startup lab. Using lean startup methodologies, we validate ideas, rapidly build and test products and hire teams around those products that have solid traction. Founding partner of Forward Labs, responsible for overall strategy and management, ideation, development of MVPs (Ruby, Rails, iOS, etc), hiring developers and entrepreneurs etc. During the first year we grew the team from 3 to 18 people and worked on Dropwines.com, MakersAcademy.com, PocketShop.com, AppearHere.com and several other projects. In 2014 Forward Labs was merged into a newly created investment fund Forward Partners.

Tech co-founder at InvisibleHand

2008 - 2011

Technical co-founder of InvisibleHand (http://www.getinvisiblehand.com/), the most popular price comparison browser extension in the world, which since its launch found over 1 billion dollars in savings on products, flights and car hire for hundreds of thousands users. I led the development of the project for the first two and a half years. The backend written in Ruby and JS maintained an consistent, up-to-date database of dozens of millions of items across hundreds of retailers serving real-time prices to the users. Ruby / Rails / Sinatra / JS / advanced regular expressions / AWS / MySQL The company was sold to Skimlinks in August 2013.

Co-founder

2008 - 2008

Kappa Prime is a startup aiming to help research community to keep abreast of latest scientific developments. Ruby / Rails / HTML / JS / CSS.