Raya Yunakova
Investor at LAUNCHub Ventures
Bulgaria
Overview
Work Experience
Board Observer
2025 - Current
Principal
2019
Backing ambitious founders from Central and Eastern Europe.
Board Observer
2024
Investor
2022
Colossyan specializes in AI video for workplace learning, empowering users to generate videos from text through AI technology.
Raised $28,179,350.00 from Lakestar, LAUNCHub Ventures, Marius Istrate, Oktogon Ventures, Emerge, Day One Capital, LAUNCHub Ventures, Day One Capital, Emerge and APX.
Investor
2022
Investor
2022
Board Observer
2021
Programme Director
2016 - 2019
Pre-seed investor and acceleration programme manager Pi Labs is Europe’s first venture capital platform to invest exclusively in early stage ventures in the property tech vertical. Pi Labs is based in London and invests in property tech companies globally.
Technology Evangelist
2016 - 2016
Technical evangelist for Microsoft's software development platforms. Working with students, software developers, and startups.
Technology Evangelist
2010 - 2015
Working with professional technical audiences, startup community and academic field to increase the adoption of Microsoft technologies.
Microsoft Innovation Center global team (project)
2014 - 2014
Supported the implementation of the new global strategy for Microsoft Innovation Centers.
Microsoft Advertising provides digital advertising solutions.
Co-Founder
2008 - 2010
Co-founded of the leading SaaS EdTech start-up in Bulgaria now working with 25% of Bulgarian schools.