A world of talent untapped

We’re Vention, partner of forward-thinking tech leaders around the globe. For more than 20 years, we’ve equipped the world’s fastest-growing companies with best-in-class engineering talent.

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Global expertise at your fingertips

Our expansive footprint — spanning time zones and country codes — allows us to source the top developers from the world’s foremost tech destinations.

Meet our leadership team
Sergei Kovalenko
Co-founder & CEO
Sergei Kovalenko

Based in New York with a background in microelectronics and software engineering, he focuses on applying software solutions to help scale disruptive startups and fast-growing companies worldwide. In addition to leading the strategic vision for Vention’s service provision model, he is passionate about investing in and partnering with early-stage tech companies.

Sergei is an investor through TechLaunch, DreamIt Ventures, Arc Angel Fund, and Scout Ventures — and in 2014, co-founded Braavo Capital, a company focused on funding and growing mobile app and game companies.

Andrey Kulgachev
Co-founder & CIO
Andrey Kulgachev

A Vention cofounder, Andrey oversees the company's IT administration department as well as related business operations and internal systems. 

Andrey continues to play an integral role as the company rapidly expands, leading day-to-day operational activities, strategic planning, and community activities to support uninterrupted, uncompromised growth.

Konstantin Tsybulko
CRO
Konstantin Tsybulko

Konstantin is responsible for optimizing revenue-generating processes, driving predictable growth, and implementing go-to-market strategies. 

Based in Vention’s New York City headquarters, he leads the global Business Development team, establishing business operation resilience and ensuring Vention’s competitive position in the ever-changing tech landscape.

Konstantin’s business-oriented mindset and adaptable work ethic have led him to excel in various roles across Vention. His rise through the company — starting over a decade ago as a Technical Writer and rising ultimately to EVP of Business Development prior to his current role — exemplifies its dedication to employee growth, mentorship, and education.

Marc Karasu
CMO
Marc

Marc has over 20 years of experience as a growth marketer, helping to transform B2B and B2C brands and scale disruptive initiatives. 

As CMO, Marc leads Vention’s three marketing divisions: Growth, Design, and Brand, defining the department’s collective strategy and associated goals on a global scale.

Previous leadership roles with tech innovators including Yahoo!, Betterment, and Ellevest complemented by hands-on creative development, media buying, and channel optimization at renowned brand agencies such as Chiat/Day and BBH have shaped Marc’s strategic approach to marketing objectives, consistently resulting in the generation of efficient user growth; brand awareness; audience engagement; and revenue.

Ilia Belenki
CFO
Ilia Belenki

Ilia works to optimize the company’s fiscal strategy, implement structures and best practices, and manage financial and operational risks.

Ilia is responsible for assembling and aligning a hybrid team across finance and accounting around long-term growth objectives, external financial reporting, auditing, planning and budgeting, tax planning and compliance, and more. Prior to Vention, Ilia held senior auditor titles at Big Four accounting firms including EY and PwC, sat on the Board of Directors for a bank, and led the financial transformation of a publicly-traded Finnish beverage production group.

Our story
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  • Vention undergoes a rebrand, unveiled in May

  • We expand to LATAM with the opening of our Mexico City office

  • Vention lands on the Inc. 5000 list for the sixth consecutive year and the Financial Times Americas’ Fastest Growing Companies list for the third consecutive year

  • Vention opens its doors in Bulgaria, Lithuania, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Slovakia

  • Vention opens its fourth US office in San Francisco

  • We launch our DACH presence, headquartered in Vienna

  • Our team sets up new development hubs in Poland and Uzbekistan

  • Vention establishes partnerships with SVB, Adobe, AWS, and Google Cloud

  • Our team is named to the IAOP Best of Global Outsourcing 100® list

  • For the second year in a row, Vention lands on the Inc. 5000 list

  • Vention accepts a bronze trophy at the Stevie® Awards

  • Deloitte names Vention to its Technology Fast 500™ list

  • Vention is certified as a Salesforce Silver Consulting Partner

  • We launch our UK presence with a London office

  • Vention’s IPO’ed client list increases to 15

  • We debut on the Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing companies

  • Our in-house engineering headcount hits 1,000

  • Vention initiates our first blockchain project

  • Our team is recognized as a top engineering company by Clutch.co and GoodFirms

  • Vention first dips a toe in the then-nascent AI pool, partnering on AI-powered applications for the first time
  • Vention wins our first unicorn client

  • Our client IPO count swells to 10

  • Vention secures accounts in every US startup hub: Silicon Valley, Boston, New York, and Austin

  • We land our 100th active account

  • StoneX becomes the first Vention client to go public
  • Vention-developed apps hit 10 million daily users in total

 

  • Vention’s first US sales office opens its doors
  • Co-founders Sergei Kovalenko and Andrey Kulgachev pilot the Vention model with their own startups

  • Vention signs its first client, DAQ Electronics — and they’re still with us today!

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Our culture
Who are we?

Vention is a worldwide team of engineers and innovators, who partner with clients to transform entire industries. Our dedication and technical skill sets us apart as a true partner, capable of taking a company's vision from inception, all the way through to IPO, and even define new industry best practices.

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What drives us?

We exist to provide technology leaders with the top talent they need to accelerate their roadmap, innovate faster and more efficiently, and ultimately scale their operation to new heights.

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What makes us work?

Vention teams believe in our clients' vision just as much as we believe in the software we deliver. We are proud to leverage our 20+ years of expertise and driven to help innovators make their ideas into tangible products that improve users' lives and transform industries at scale.

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