page_title: Viktor Prokopenya
section_title: VP Capital
hierarchical_section_title: Viktor Prokopenya / Entrepreneurship / VP Capital
caption_attribution_description: Русский: Виктор Прокопеня
context_page_description: Viktor Prokopenya is a technology entrepreneur and venture investor born in Belarus, now residing in London, UK. He created Viaden Media, a software development company, and after its sale he founded the investment company VP Capital. Prokopenya is the architect of regulations of the Belarusian Decree on Development of Digital Economy. For this work, Viktor Prokopenya has been awarded in the Parliament of Great Britain. Viktor Prokopenya became the top taxpayer of Belarus as physical person for the years 2016 and 2017, consecutively. Оver the past 10 years, Prokopenya has been the country's largest taxpayer at least five times.
context_section_description: In 2012, Prokopenya founded his investment company, VP Capital, which has a focus on the technology sector. Later this year he started the fintech company exp(capital), which develops solutions for banks and brokers in order to construct algorithms for high frequency market making. The company is located in the Belarus High Technologies Park, and was ranked the best employer of the year in 2014. The mobile applications department of exp(capital) was acquired by the British company IG Holdings for an undisclosed sum.
  Prokopenya also established VP Capital's Real Estate company in 2012 and acquired a number of key commercial real estate assets in the center of Minsk—by 2017, the company became the largest private owner of real estate of its kind in Minsk.
  In December 2016, together with the Larnabel Ventures Fund, owned by Gutseriev family, Prokopenya announced his intention to invest over $100 million in artificial intelligence startup businesses. In 2017-2019 the partners announced six investment agreements on a parity basis, in which they have invested equally:
  VP Capital and Larnabel Ventures together with Vast Ventures and GVA Capital invested $16.65 million in the Russian-American company Astro Digital, which develops satellites and a real-time monitoring system of the Earth's surface; On 14 July 2017, the company successfully launched its first two satellites into orbit.
  Banuba, a company which develops applications based on augmented reality technologies, with the development center in Minsk, was allocated $5 million. An additional investment amounting to $7 million was announced in November 2018. The company specialises in neural networks and machine learning algorithms that are capable of revealing and identifying objects, and facial expressions in real time.
  The partners took a stake in Dronefence company that develops defences against unmanned aerial vehicles. The investment size was undisclosed.
  Capital.com, a fintech startup developing mobile applications for retail investors was allocated $25 million. The Artificial Intelligence enhanced application allows users to trade wide range of financial instruments from their smartphones and provides them with access to educational materials.
  VP Capital and Larnabel Ventures invested $2 million in FaceMetrics, a startup that specialises in artificial intelligence apps for children's education.
  VP Capital and Larnabel Ventures invested $10 million in Currency.com, the world's first regulated tokenised securities exchange.
caption: Viktor Prokopenya, May 2018
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