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Artem Zakharov
Founder at Polymind AI | ex-Product and Strategy Director at Gett
Over the last decade, I got experience in the IT sector, specifically in the ride-hailing industry in Gett, driving business as a Strategy Director, Product Director, Head of Product Operations.
Today, being a strategy, product and fundraising advisor, I help startups across AI SaaS, marketplaces (delivery, materials, telecom), productivity tools, SEO and marketing SaaS, from seed to series B stages in the US, UK, EU and MENA markets.
My core strengths:
1) Strategy - create or enhance your value pr…
Work
- https://meetsidekick.com/
Sidekick is a secure browser-OS for information workers. As a fundraising advisor, I built a pitch deck for Seed extension, a data room with the company financial model and P&L, created a VC outreach and led the start of the funnel in VC negotiations, leading to dozens of calls between investors and the founding team, resulting in several term sheets.
Polymind AI
https://polymind.co/Polymind AI is an LLM aggregator enabling users to see what 8+ AI engines think about their request. In 3 months, together with my co-founder, we built a team of 5, created a platform MVP, and executed go-to-market to validate our set of hypotheses, leading to hundreds of users enjoying the product by asking thousands of questions from the "AI board of directors".
Experience
Polymind AI
CEO | Founder
Mar 2023 - Present
LLM Aggregator, enabling access to market leaders in generative AI
- Built an MVP in a team of 5
- Launched the product, leading to 100+ MAU in the first weeks and 1000+ questions
Sidekick
Fundraising Advisor
Jul 2022 - Present
Secure browser-OS for information workers
- Created a pitch deck for Seed extension, inc. market positioning, go-to-market strategy, defensibility measures, and more
- Outreached 1k+ VC funds and angels, resulting in term sheets from investors
- Created a data room, inc. company financial model and P&L
Romantic AI
Fundraising Advisor
Jun 2023 - Jul 2023
AI Suite of Adult Entertainment
- Created a pitch deck for Seed extension
- Created a data room, inc. company financial model
GTI
Fundraising Advisor
Oct 2022 - Jan 2023
One-stop data and intelligence platform for managing 3P risk and compliance
- Created Series-A pitch deck, inc. positioning and go-to-market strategy
Gett
Product Director
Dec 2021 - Jul 2022
B2B Ride-hailing marketplace
- Built product strategy for Ground Transportation Management platform (Gett new core SaaS product)
- Created a roadmap, enabling sales to enterprises niche totaling in $35m GMV, proving Product/Market Fit on the US and UK markets
Gett
Strategy Director
Aug 2020 - Dec 2021
B2B Ride-hailing marketplace
- Led Gett strategy creation during the pivot to a SaaS business model, inc. market segmentation, value proposition, go-to-market strategy across SaaS, all country units, delivery, resulted in securing $100m+ funding in several latest rounds
Gett
Senior Product Manager
Dec 2016 - Aug 2020
B2B Ride-hailing marketplace
- Created corporate billing solution from scratch, leading to new global contracts signed with £10m+ GMV
- Developed VAT optimization in B2B billing engine, leading to 10% revenue increase in Gett UK
- Increased Driver App rating from 2.5 to 4.5 by closing all major gaps compared to competitors’ offerings
- Eliminated driver’s needs to call to Customer Care, leading to 30% decrease in calls amount globally
- Rebuilt rating engine, introduced passenger’s feedback, leading to global rating increase from 4.6 to 4.89