Gary Sheynkman
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Dubai
Overview
Work Experience
Venture Partner
2022 - Current
https://further.ae At Further we partner with founders as early as idea stage to launch the next generation of regulated financial infrastructure. Home to Fuze.Finance, Tungsten.ae, Aurem.ae, CredibleX.io, eqtylab.io, kemettrading.com, librecapital.com, twinstake.io, and soter.insure
General Partner
2020
https://leyden.vc/ Multistage VC by GPs who previously invested in Coinbase, Superhuman, Pipe, Instacart, Fireblocks, Oxio, Emergence, and others.
Founding Member
2023
https://angelspark.net This one is for the founders. 🪽⚡️AngelSpark is a community of builders, investors, executives, and other good humans supporting founders around the world. We invest from $100K and lead larger syndicates in exceptional founders at the earliest stages to help them launch new ideas, create new companies, go to market, and win first customers. We gather our entire investor community for monthly pitch nights. Founders selected to pitch will have an opportunity to tell us about their business, answer questions, and receive an answer within 24 hours. No fees. No carry. No syndicates. No nonsense.
Venture Partner
2020
LearnCapital is a venture capital firm focused exclusively on funding entrepreneurs with a vision for better and smarter learning.
Advisor & Investment Partner
2016
Leyden executes all venture capital investment activities of GINCO Investments, a prominent UAE-based family office. As part of our advisory, GINCO Investments can now claim: * First Emirati family to operate a pure play early stage VC * First investment by an Emirati family into an Accelerator Program * First global accelerator program to be held in Dubai * First Techstars partnership in MENA * First "Partner of the Future" to launch under the Area 2071 initiative inaugurated by HH Sheikh Mohammed in Oct 2017
Founder & GP
2015
Leyden is an investment and advisory firm headquartered in Dubai || https://teamleyden.com We’ve helped government entities, family offices, and traditional enterprises create meaningful startup communities, launch and manage venture investment initiatives, and digitally transform their constituent touchpoints Leyden is home to Leyden Ventures & Leyden Opportunities Fund.
Corporate Lead for Techstars Dubai Accelerator in Partnership with GINCO
2017 - 2019
GINCO Group is a Leyden client and investor. Led initial outreach, all partnership and sponsorship negotiations, and strategic direction of Techstars Dubai Accelerator in Partnership with GINCO. Led executive oversight on behalf of GINCO Group and worked with Techstars and UAE Government partners to create what was widely reported as the best startup accelerator program in the Middle East.
Techstars is an accelerator that provides pre-seed investment and mentoring for various early stage startups.
Raised $108,919,999.00 from SVB Financial Group and Foundry Group.
Advisor
2017 - 2017
Area 2071 was a Leyden client. Retained by The Executive Office of HH Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al Maktoum, Prime Minister of the UAE & Ruler of Dubai to support the development and launch of Area 2071, a new facility and private-public partnership initiative aimed to develop and grow the UAE startup and innovation ecosystem. - Led partner negotiations end-to-end - Developed the operating model and staffing plan - Developed business development collateral - Led drafting of partners contracts, mentorship pledges, and press releases - Led ideation, product architecture, and RFP for the Area 2071 digital platform
Advisor
2016 - 2017
Dubai Holding was a Leyden client. Retained to launch Dubai Holding's first corporate Venture Capital fund, DHX. - Designed and implemented end to end (prospecting, researching, deal tracking, data rooms, PM, comms) integrated workflow - Worked with the Dubai Future Accelerator to help companies succeed during the program commercially and find additional investors - Led negotiations, evaluation, and documentation of early stage deal-flow
Advisor - Interim Director of Technology
2015 - 2015
Abu Dhabi Media was a Leyden client. Retained by the Head of Digital at Abu Dhabi Media Company in a consultative capacity to help launch a new digital products division to help the multiple media (broadcast, publishing, radio, news) brands revamp their digital strategy. 120 day engagement results: - Helped launch ADVANCE Digital Agency - Lead development of identity, values, and culture - Trained staff on resource and project management toolsets - Led development and launch integrated suite of tv show voting apps and on-air graphics for a Ramadan TV Show, Rating Ramadan -- #1 in iOS store for “rating” during Ramadan 2015 - Led development and launch Mobile news reader for Al Etihad launched using gesture-based navigation -- 1st Arabic-language news source on Apple Watch - Created product architecture for multiple web and mobile media platforms -- most notably TV.AE - Upgraded streaming quality for ADTV through improved downlink/transcode signal path - Kicked off major news media and video technology product development efforts - Facilitated partnership between Deutsche Telekom and Verizon to consolidate vendors - On-boarded multiple software development partners across 3 continents - Built active talent recruitment pipeline for product and engineering positions - Introduced over a dozen new toolsets and tech vendors