Andre Bliznyuk spent about a decade in public markets at UBS and Goldman Sachs, working on London Stock Exchange listings like Mail.ru, Comstar, and Sistema, before joining Runa Capital in 2011, where he has stayed ever since, focusing on regulated industries like fintech, edtech, and digital health through investments such as Mambu, Zopa, Smava, Brainly, and EchoPixel. He holds an M.A. in Cross-Cultural Communications rather than a finance degree, sits on boards including Clearly, Reelgood, Kreditech, Rogue Games, and SchoolMint, and saw one of his portfolio companies, Final, get acquired by Goldman Sachs, his former employer.