Strategic advisory
Executive sessions, technical due diligence, venture evaluation and scoring, AI product strategy.
Venture Architect for AI-era companies
Sergey Zverev
I help funds, venture studios and innovation teams turn ambitious ideas into investable, scalable ventures, and I build the ones worth building.
- Entrepreneur in Residence, 2080 Ventures
- Mentor, Founder Institute
- Founder, Trood
15+startups launched
40+business automation projects led, in the US, Europe and MENA
$5M+raised for Trood-powered ventures
1,000+specialists in the execution community I built and run
How I work with you
Venture architecture
Product strategy, execution design, governance and delivery planning, through to venture studio design.
Fractional venture leadership
Long-term strategic oversight for founders, innovation teams and venture studios.
Venture execution
Curated engineering teams and AI-assisted delivery through the Trood ecosystem.
Open to short-term projects and long-term partnerships, where either I or Trood can add value.
A 90-minute session
Bring me the problem
A pitch deck, a product, numbers, a strategy, or messy thoughts.
We work through it together
Ninety minutes on the actual problem rather than generic advice.
You leave with clarity
Decisions, priorities and concrete next steps.
What I am building: Trood
Deliver what you’ve been thinking of. Technology, people, knowledge and support for your projects, end to end.
Software · Technology consulting · Business development · Community
For businesses
A business automation platform: describe what you want to achieve, and see a precise plan, built and looked after by people who stay after launch.
For startups
Builders gonna build. But they also have to sell, do marketing, run operations and manage talent, and that is where we help.
For providers
No more cold outreach. Businesses come to Trood with a scoped need, and we bring them to the providers who fit.
Background
- Entrepreneur in Residence at 2080 Ventures and Mentor at Founder Institute: startup scoring and evaluation for institutional investors, advisory sessions, lectures, competition judging and portfolio tracking.
- Founder of Trood since 2015, and of Rizq Management Software, Trood’s holding company in Abu Dhabi.
- Fractional CTO for external ventures since 2016, including co-founding BINO CX and scaling it to acquisition-ready operations.
- Enterprise architecture from 2009 to 2015: Oracle, SAP and Microsoft platform integrations and custom automation across 30+ companies.
- Moscow State University, Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics, with merits.