EdenBase Learning Circle: Superscaling Your Product
This is an in-person event.
A discussion with the COO of the rapidly growing startup Reface, sharing the lessons learned on scaling a tech product and a team.
About this event
We are delighted to welcome the COO of Ukraine-based Reface, Anton Volovyk, in a fireside chat sharing the lessons learned as the tech startup experiences supergrowth - in the current climate.
The fireside chat includes:
Anton Volovyk - COO of Reface, a tech startup focused on developing and commercialising AI and ML technologies in content creation
Gokce Gizer - A leading organisational development expert and the investment lead of the UK’s EdenBase, the fund and supergrowth hub-and-ecosystem
In a discussion, moderated by Eric Van der Kleij (Co-Founder of EdenBase)
At this Edenbase Learning Circle, you will hear our panellists' experiences and insights on:
How does a product reach the tipping point?
The role and impact of "synthetic media" on the internet
How to identify and overcome technical and ethical challenges that come with success
Becoming the “Google Play app of the year” and the lessons learned
Rapidly growing the team while still creating a great culture and meeting company goals
What is overscaling, what are the impacts and how to avoid it?
How to attract the attention of one of the world's top VCs
Tools, methods and insights on scaling your product and tech startup
We look forward to hearing from Anton, about the story of scaling from zero to 2 to 10 to 200 million users in 1.5 years. How Reface is helping shape their industry, supporting the creation of new standards (Synthetic Media Education, digital watermarking) and looking to enter the metaverse race. How they overcame the challenges and setbacks of rapid scaling and overscaling.
17:00 - Doors open & networking
18:00 - Panel Discussion & AMA
19:00 - Networking over snacks & drinks
We are encouraging voluntary contribution to this Ukrainian charity for refugees, at this event.
Anton Volovyk
Anton is the COO of Reface. At Reface Anton runs the P&L of the company, aligns strategy and execution, and is responsible for business development.
Prior to Reface, Anton worked at the Boston Consulting Group focusing on growth strategy and marketing in the consumer sector and at Horizon Capital, the $1bn Central and Eastern Europe private equity firm, investing in tech and consumer companies in the region.
Anton holds an MBA degree from Harvard Business School and Master in Finance degree from IE Business School.
Gokce Gizer
GG is leading the EdenBase fund’s investments and developing supergrowth programs with portfolio companies.
During her time in New York, she served as Contest Director of the Extreme Tech Challenge.
She has taught courses on Innovation and Design for Sustainability and Sustainable Business Models at The New School in New York. She's a mentor for global programmes including Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator, WeWork Labs, Innovation Norway and Katapult Accelerator.
She’s passionate about leveraging technology towards a more sustainable future.
Eric Van der Kleij
Eric is cofounder of the UK’s EdenBase, a fund plus a supergrowth hub and ecosystem investing in the next generation of game changing frontier-technology powered tech companies.
Previously Eric created the world’s leading Fintech hub - Level39.co in London’s Canary Wharf, supporting the growth of many unicorns, following which he advised the Swiss Government backed Kickstart Fintech accelerator. Before that he worked for the UK Department for International Trade and the U.K. Prime Ministers office, and led the UK’s famous Tech City (TechNation.io) initiative, feeding into government policy that helped transform the UK’s tech economy.
He is Chairman of distributed ledger Activeledger.io and chairs the annual CFC-Conference in St Mortiz, moderating high level regulatory panels most recently interviewing the Deputy Governor of the Bank of England.
About Reface
Reface is a tech startup focused on developing and commercializing AI and ML technologies in content creation. The main product of Reface is Reface app with +200 million downloads globally. The app provides an easy and fun content creation experience and helped its users generate 6 billion synthetic videos and images. Reface is backed by Andreessen Horowitz and other prominent investors.
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