Nazarii Hrechanyk
Founder of Web3 Investor Community in Lisbon
London, England
Overview
Work Experience
СEO and Co-Founder
2025 - Current
We’re building the Pixar of Emotional AI—crafting technology that brings families closer, not just online. Our MVP is now live for parents with kids under 3. Curious? DM me to get early access.
Co-Founder
2023
Community of 50+ VCs and angels with monthly in-person meetup
Web3 VC Investment Lead and Ecosystem Development Manager
2022 - 2025
Leading investment initiatives at Tron DAO Ventures, a $1B chain-agnostic web3 venture fund with 30+ portfolio companies and strategic fund partnerships (Dragonfly, Animoca Brands, Cadenza Ventures). Key achievements: - Built a proprietary crypto network of 900+ industry professionals, enhancing deal sourcing capabilities and delivering 300% increase in quality deal flow - Successfully identified and executed early-stage investments in high-growth web3 projects including Ethena Labs and DappOS - Led financial and business analysis across investment opportunities, achieving 40X MOIC return - Established the largest Web3 VC community in Lisbon, organizing regular networking events and building relationships with founders and investors - Developed unique "in-the-trenches" investment approach by actively participating in portfolio projects (ranked top 5 player in Metaland among 2,000+ participants) - Expanded ecosystem development through content creation, speaking at industry events, and attending ~20 major web3 conferences in 2023-2024 Focus: Early-stage web3 investments, fund partnerships, ecosystem development across DeFi, infrastructure, gaming, and emerging blockchain verticals. Learn more about my work: My interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kl4xClEmKyA&t=415s Tron DAO Ventures https://cointelegraph.com/press-releases/tron-dao-ventures-to-invest-in-tron-ecosystem-and-beyond
Tron is a decentralized content entertainment protocol based on blockchain technology.
CEO and Founder
2023 - 2024
Built and led a Web3-focused influencer marketing platform that reduced campaign execution time from 3 weeks to just a few days. Scaled the influencer network to over 1,000 creators. Despite strong traction, the company was sunset due to unfavorable market conditions. More on the journey: https://sparkgate.substack.com/p/sparkgate-pivot-what-happened-and
Investment Relations Lead
2021 - 2022
Worked directly with the CEO on investor relations and fundraising at DMarket, culminating in acquisition by Mythical Games https://venturebeat.com/games/mythical-games-acquires-dmarket-blockchain-gaming-marketplace/ DMarket is an infrastructure technology aiming to help traditional entertainment businesses to benefit from the Metaverse and is working on the frontier of modern technologies such as Blockchain, NFT marketplaces, Fintech Key DMarket metrics: GMV ~$50M, Growth - >2.5X 3 years in a row, 40M transactions recorded on the Blockchain
Investment Analyst
2020 - 2021
INTECH is a part of UMG Investment (https://www.umginvestments.com/en/), one of the leading PE firms in Ukraine with the total market value of portfolio companies exceeding $500 million. - Consolidated and analyzed the information of the target companies; - Conducted industry and market research; - Drafted reports, memos, financial models, and other deliverables to the Investment Committee; - Reviewed the deliverables from external consultants and provided necessary amendments; - Prepared presentations and information notes for key stakeholders; - Established and maintained relationships with key stakeholders to ensure communication in order to collect and analyze information, deal with key issues, etc.; - Participated in negotiations, meetings, discussions, etc.; - Directly reported to Strategy Director
Junior Investment Analyst
2019 - 2020
- Was involved in different team set-ups and fruitfully collaborated with all members by defending 3 investment materials (IDS & Investment Recommendations) on the investment committee regarding projects within Сonstruction, Mechanical engineering, and Metallurgy industries- - Provided analytical support to the company pipeline for the cargo logistics, infrastructure, and mining projects by conducting DCF valuation, sensitivity and market analysis that were crucial instruments along the decision-making process and compliance check with the company investment projects criteria such as an investment size from to 2 to 30 mln USD and IRR 25%
Investment Analyst Intern
2019 - 2019
- Responsible for an update and development of company strategy via collaboration with strategy director - Analytical support of managers and analysts: financial models, teasers, IDS in buy-side and greenfield projects across metallurgy, cargo logistics and terminals, airports, seaports - Delivered a DCF financial model for a greenfield investment project in the mining industry
Financial Modeling Analyst
2019 - 2019
Waveup (https://thewaveup.com/) is a global advisory firm for startups with a $1.6B+ transaction volume - Drafted financial models for various projects including but not limited to a venture fund, e-commerce and SaaS businesses - Pitchbook preparation by conducting a market & product analysis, financial analysis and estimation of TAM, SOM, SAM
Intern
2019 - 2019
Dragon Capital (https://dragon-capital.com/about/profile/) - an investment firm that completed more than 100 capital-raising, advisory and M&A deals since inception, raising more than $5B in new capital. - Conducted investigation of the potential financial indicators manipulation by the top 10 agricultural companies using Beneish M-score statistical model ( both 8 and 5 variables) - Data-mining of electricity production/consumption, oil/gas/сoal extraction in Ukraine - CF analysis of the 3 Ukrainian agricultural companies - Prepared the financial dashboard of one of the biggest client - Assisted in a political overview of the future parliamentary election by diving deep in the "Servants of the People" candidate's list
Member of Corporate Finance department
2017 - 2018
- Cooperated with an international team and conducted the intrinsic (DCF) and relative valuation of Apple Inc.
Financial Analyst
2017 - 2017
- Was responsible for 2 monthly reports preparation; - Worked with Excel databases and MS Navision
Education
Master of Arts - MA
2018 - 2019
Master's degree with Honor
2018 - 2019
Non-Degree Education Within Erasmus+ Programme
2016 - 2017
Bachelor's degree
2014 - 2018