The rest of the 100 (in alphabetical order): Egor Abramov, Fort Ross Ventures
Egor Abramov is an investment adviser at US-based venture capital firm Fort Ross Ventures, which has a global investment mandate focused on the US and Israel and a $300m fund with Sberbank, Russia’s largest bank, as an investor.
Abramov joined Fort Ross in September 2017, and oversees the fund’s operational and investment activities, including sourcing dealflow and managing the pipeline and portfolio. According to managing partner Victor Orlovski, he brought in “exciting opportunities which the firm managed to close in 2018”.
Orlovski added that after Abramov joined the firm, “a totally new approach” had been employed to build its pipeline and investment process. Abramov built Fort Ross’s top-down dealflow sourcing engine from scratch, and he and his team constantly sought potentially attractive deals and regularly generated shortlists of companies in target markets.
Before his current appointment, Abramov was based in Moscow and held several roles in investment banking, private equity and venture capital. He has a a bachelor of science and a master’s degree in applied mathematics and physics from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and a master’s in economics from the New Economic School. He is also a chartered financial analyst.
