better ventures brings on Alexey Kovtunets as Head of Engineering

The angel club for impact-driven start-ups, better ventures, is expanding its tech team with Alexey Kovtunets. Goal: Expand the technical foundation of the angel platform and promote sustainable investments

Munich, 31.01.2024 - The angel club better ventures, specializing in impact-driven startups, is strengthening its engineering team with Alexey Kovtunets as the new Head of Engineering. Kovtunets, with 15 years of experience as a software engineer, will focus on strengthening the technical foundation of the angel platform and driving the growth of the startup ecosystem for sustainable investments.

In his previous position at celebrate company, Kovtunets built the data engineering department and implemented architecture and orchestration strategies. His experience spans across data infrastructure development and cloud migrations.

With Alexey at the head of our engineering department, we are significantly strengthening our technical expertise.

Tina Dreimann, Managing Director and co-founder of better ventures

Tina Dreimann, Managing Director of better ventures, emphasizes the importance of Kovtunets' experience in e-commerce and data engineering for the team's technical expertise. The integration of AI services and the development of a data-driven foundation will expand the platform's functionalities.

In his new role, Kovtunets will take the technical lead and build a new tech team to make the platform scalable, flexible and user-friendly. His goal is to establish technical excellence and a strong tech culture.

I chose better ventures because I want to make a real difference with my work.

Alexey Kovtunets, Head of Engineering at better ventures

Kovtunets himself is motivated and emphasizes the exciting challenge of building something new at better ventures and professionalizing the platform both technically and culturally. He joins a team that has made a contribution to sustainable investments in the startup sector over the last three years.

The decision to appoint Kovtunets as Head of Engineering marks a first step towards an increased focus on technology in 2024. This development should help to increase the efficiency of the angel platform and further expand the European ecosystem for sustainable investments. The angel club better ventures has so far invested in startups such as Magnotherm, Everdrop and Liefergrün to help founders improve the world through sustainable business models.