Raya Yunakova

Raya Yunakova is an experienced investor currently backing ambitious founders from Central and Eastern Europe at LAUNCHub Ventures since November 2019. In addition to this role, Raya is involved with several other companies as an investor, including Colossyan, Neurolabs, and AMPECO, while serving as a Board Observer at Kriptomat. Previously, Raya was the Programme Director at Pi Labs, Europe's first venture capital platform focusing on early-stage property tech ventures. Additional experience includes serving as a Technology Evangelist at Microsoft, where Raya worked to promote software development technologies, and co-founding Nimero, a leading SaaS EdTech startup in Bulgaria. Raya holds an MSc in Computer Science from the University of Leicester.