Team

We back founders who see around corners

Our New York-based partners have decades of experience across art, technology, media, communications, and entrepreneurship. Our work has taken many forms: building companies and platforms, recognizing cultural and technological shifts early, helping high-growth companies and venture funds close important rounds, and building high-trust relationships across industries. We bring that experience and network to founders early, when conviction is still ahead of consensus, and help turn that conviction into momentum.

01 — General Partners

Yana Lande

Co-Founder and General Partner

Yana Lande is a New York-based artist, curator and publisher who has spent thirty years working on a single question: how identity, transformation and power become visible.

She is the founder of LIMELIGHT Vision, an international art project at the intersection of monumental painting, photography and intellectual community, dedicated to women whose vision shapes the world.

As an artist Yana works across painting, performance, photography, video and sculpture, and has shown in London, New York, Miami and Boston. Her work has been acquired by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and other leading cultural institutions. Her most recent body of work, Transcendent Heavens, was made and exhibited at MIT with the bioart pioneer Joe Davis.

As a curator and publisher Yana has produced more than one hundred art books and exhibition catalogues, including monographs for Robert Wilson, the Chapman Brothers, AES+F and Zinaida Serebryakova, and has built exhibitions placing Old Masters alongside the contemporary avant-garde.

Victoria Zavyalova

Co-Founder and General Partner

Victoria Zavyalova has spent more than fifteen years in media and communications across the U.S., the U.K. and Europe, building spaces where founders and investors meet.

She is co-founder of V Star PR, a New York firm that has worked with more than two hundred technology companies and investment firms, and publisher of The Vertical, a community platform, event series and publication covering international startups in the US, which she built from the ground up in 2020. Through The Vertical Victoria has designed and run everything from intimate workshops and discussion panels to conferences of six hundred or more attendees.

She was Head of Brand, Culture and Storytelling at Fuelarts, an Art+Tech investment platform. Earlier, she was Science and Technology Editor, managing content in fourteen languages for supplements published by The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Le Figaro, and others. Victoria also served as a Conference Director at Informa in London.