Viktor Prokopenya

[4][6] From 2009, Viaden developed mobile applications for iPhone and iPad, creating over 100 top-rated apps like All-in Fitness, Smart Alarm Clock, and Yoga.com.

By 2011, Viaden had achieved over 200 million app installations, becoming Eastern Europe's largest mobile software developer.

Some of its early investments included exp(capital), a fintech firm focused on developing solutions for banks and brokers.

[3][6][9] In 2017, VP Capital negotiated the acquisition of several Ukrainian and Belarusian banks, but Prokopenya subsequently postponed these plans due to poor market conditions.

[10] In December 2016, Larnabel Ventures Fund and VP Capital announced plans to invest in computer vision, augmented reality, and AI startups.

He began proposing for changes in 2017, which would later materialise into the Decree on Development of Digital Economy, designed to be a mutually beneficial legal framework for IT businesses in post-Soviet countries.

[18][19] In 2019, he proposed reforms to the state education system, including the introduction of electronic paperwork, virtual tutorials, personalized teaching methods, career guidance, and modernizing of teachers’ remuneration.

[20] He sponsors «Вяселка» (‘Vyaselka’) magazine for children, Jerzy Giedroyc Literary Award, and «Наша Гiсторыя» (‘Our History’) publication.

[22] From September 2023, Prokopenya precepts as a visiting professor of Practice in Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the University of Leeds.

[25][26] In the spring of 2015, Prokopenya was detained by Belarusian authorities for allegedly generating $650,000 of profits through unregistered business activity.

Pro-government sources accused Andros of incitement to a coup and Dev.by of provoking negative sentiment against the Lukashenko regime.

[38][39] After the scandalous 2020 Belarusian presidential election, Prokopenya condemned violence against protesters, donated $100,000 to victims of law enforcement abuse, and urged the business community to join this initiative.

[40] He, along with 300 IT CEOs, threatened to move their businesses out of the country if authorities didn't hold re-election and stop the violence.

His company, Currency.com became the first trading platform to stop working with clients from Russia, facing a large-scale DDoS attack afterward.

[45] Prokopenya signed a VC and startup petition condemning the bloodshed in Ukraine and attended the Munich Security Conference in 2023.

Viktor Prokopenya, May 2018
Viktor Prokopenya