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Kyrill Zlobenko

Fractional CRO & GTM lead at Bacon

London, England

Overview 

Kyrill Zlobenko is an accomplished entrepreneur and fractional CRO & GTM specialist with a diverse background in business development, leadership, and product development. He has made significant investments in various sectors and stages, including SMB software, consumer internet, and FinTech, and has held key roles at companies like Seedrs and Bacon. Zlobenko's career highlights include serving as Head of Europe at Seedrs and making strategic investments in companies like Perkbox (Series B), showcasing his expertise in business strategy, risk management, and market research.

Work Experience 

  • Non Executive Director

    2025 - Current

    The Curly Doggo Company is building pawsome software that over 2M 🌍 users enjoy every day. 🐾 Interested in partnering? Reach out > woof@curlydoggo.com

  • Co-Founder, GTM lead

    2024 - 2025

    Vertical AI for financial services. Join forward-thinking businesses: bacon.tech

  • Angel Investor | LP

    2012 - 2024

    Since 2012, Kyrill has been investing as an angel in European and US tech startups through angel syndicates, funds, accelerators, as well as through secondaries and ECF platforms. Notable deals in Kyrill's angel portfolio include: - Mootral.com (backed by Lowercarbon Capital / Chris Sacca) - Restream.io (backed by Insight Partners and Sapphire Ventures) - Vade.ai (backed by Upfront Ventures / Mark Suster) - Nothing.tech (backed by Animoca Brands and Tony Fadell) - Mate.bike (backed by Marcy Venture Partners / JAY Z) - Taster (backed by Battery Ventures and Global Founders Capital) - Y combinator companies: Fathom, Typewise, Coinrule - The Syndicate (by Jason Calacanis): Giggster, Steezy, Cake Equity, Vincent, Grin - Fund investments: Passion Capital, Hambro Perks, JamJar, G Force (by Founders Factory)

  • Venture Partner

    2021 - 2024

    Seedrs (acquired by Republic in 2022) is a leading pan-European investment platform with over £2.9 billion in raised capital and 2300+ funded firms, authorized and regulated by the UK Financial Conduct Authority.

  • Head of Europe

    2019 - 2021

    As Head of Europe at Seedrs from 2016 to 2021, Kyrill led the EU team that raised over €180M for 140+ European ventures, setting several notable milestones, including the largest and fastest European equity-crowdfunding campaigns. Kyrill was responsible for driving EU revenue growth, ensuring that revenue targets were met while building a high-performing sales team across 2 regional offices (Berlin and Amsterdam).

  • Regional Manager Northern Europe

    2018 - 2019

    As the Regional Manager overseeing Northern European operations (DACH, Nordics, Baltics), Kyrill was responsible for the end-to-end success of the business in the region. Building a high-performing team, while driving revenue growth and ensuring that revenue targets were met.

  • Regional Manager DACH

    2016 - 2018

    As the Regional Manager overseeing DACH operations, Kyrill was responsible for the end-to-end success of the business in the region. He led the charge in setting up sales strategies, identifying and validating product-market fit, and scaling operations to meet demand.

  • Co-Founder

    2023 - 2024

    Dua Pa fosters Black art worldwide by supporting emerging artists through a network of collectors & curators.

  • Executive Track Member (BER)

    2020 - 2022

    Pavilion was founded in 2016 as a support network for revenue leaders. Kyrill is an Executive Track Member (Berlin) at Pavilion & a Revenue Growth Architecture School Graduate (July 2021).

Pavilion is a private membership for high-growth leaders to achieve their professional potential.

Raised $25,000,000.00 from Elephant.

  • Mentor

    2014 - 2022

    The Founder Institute is the world's largest pre-seed startup accelerator. Since 2009, we have helped over 5000 startups raise over $1B+ and build some of the world's fastest-growing companies 🌱

  • COO | Founding Member

    2014 - 2016

    Joined as the first employee in the Munich HQ approx 6 months after eCozy was founded. We've built and marketed premium connected home devices (mostly IoT thermostats) in the DACH market 🇩🇪🇦🇹🇨🇭

  • Batch Member

    2015 - 2015

    Joined the 6-week program as part of the eCozy.de team. Many members from this cohort have built the backbone of successful hardware startups in Germany (look up Quantum Systems, Senic / Nuimo).

  • Fellow

    2013 - 2014

    Startupgen.org (by Startup Canada) brought together young leaders who have demonstrated a commitment to advancing entrepreneurship in their communities, countries or internationally.

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