Mikhail Zenchenkov

Directing and providing strategic and operational leadership of the X3 Co-Venture startup Hub. Collaborating with university leadership team, government bodies, investors, external ecosystem partners and the entrepreneurial community to facilitate the growth and success of startups.Dr Mikhail has led two international startup accelerators as a program director, helping early stage founders to become fully ready for the next step in the company’s growth, - connecting with mentors, investors, industry leaders and designing custom built acceleration programs. In the last 3 years alone he has helped and advised over 25 early stage teams in IoT, robotics, food tech, edu tech, med/bio tech, hardware, blockchain, metaverse/web3, fintech selected from over 2000 applications. Through his career Mikhail has worked in Russia, Hong Kong, South Korea, Saudi Arabia, India in academia, corporate, government and startup ecosystem spaces, leading and promoting entrepreneurship agendas. Mikhail’s vision is to create next level integration of startup support services fully linked with national and global ecosystems for passionate and entrepreneurial business or tech students - founders of a next unicorn, making this world a better place through innovation and technology.