Mikhail Zenchenkov

Directing and providing strategic 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 investment 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 5 years alone he has helped and advised over 120 early stage teams in IoT, robotics, food tech, edu tech, med/bio tech, hardware, blockchain, metaverse/web3, fintech selected every year from over 2000 applications globally. 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 empower young technopreneurs to build transformative innovations, - next generation of unicorns, contributing to global startup ecosystem and society.