Yury Melnichek (Belarusian: Юрый Мельнічак, Russian: Юрий Мельничек) is a tech-entrepreneur, venture investor and software engineer.

Melnichek Investments[6] funds and supports machine learning and biotech startups, with the aim "to improve the quality of human lives"[citation needed].

In April 2019, Bulba Ventures, as a founding investor, launched the Vochi project together with Ilya Lesun[7] to create a “computer vision”-based video editing and effects app for smartphones.

[8] In March 2018, Yury, together with his business partner Andrei Avsievich, founded startup investment company Bulba Ventures.

[9] Bulba Ventures was focused on machine learning startups at the intersection of real economy & IT, life & health sciences.

[12] In February 2022, Melnichek and Avsievich announced that they were freezing joint investments within Bulba and would continue to operate separately.

[13] AIMATTER was founded in April 2016, and in Autumn 2016[14] launched a neural network-based AI platform and SDK to detect and process images quickly on mobile devices.