{"id":146510,"date":"2022-09-16T13:23:46","date_gmt":"2022-09-16T18:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/revolut-founder-nik-storonsky-hires-ceo-for-his-ai-powered-vc-firm"},"modified":"2022-09-16T13:23:46","modified_gmt":"2022-09-16T18:23:46","slug":"revolut-founder-nik-storonsky-hires-ceo-for-his-ai-powered-vc-firm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/revolut-founder-nik-storonsky-hires-ceo-for-his-ai-powered-vc-firm","title":{"rendered":"Revolut founder Nik Storonsky hires CEO for his AI-powered VC firm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/revolut-founder-nik-storonsky-hires-ceo-for-his-ai-powered-vc-firm2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Revolut founder Nik Storonsky appears to have named the CEO of his AI-powered venture capital firm Quantum Light Capital.<\/p>\n<p>Ilya Kondrashov, most recently the founder and advisor to Dubai-based family office <a href=\"https:\/\/five8.com\/\">Five8 Foundation<\/a>, joined Quantum Light Capital as its chief executive this month, according to his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/iskondrash\/\">LinkedIn profile<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Before Five8, Kondrashov held executive positions and founded small business credit startup MarketFinance, which was backed by banking giant Barclays and venture capital firm Northzone. On his <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/iskondrash?lang=en-GB\">Twitter page<\/a>, he describes himself as an \u201centrepreneur and investor\u201d, with interests in fintech, SaaS and Web3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Revolut founder Nik Storonsky appears to have named the CEO of his AI-powered venture capital firm Quantum Light Capital. Ilya Kondrashov, most recently the founder and advisor to Dubai-based family office Five8 Foundation, joined Quantum Light Capital as its chief executive this month, according to his LinkedIn profile. Before Five8, Kondrashov held executive positions and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-finance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146510\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}