Hanna Shuvalova, Principal at Horizon Capital, Joins the Strategic Board of Diia.City United

Diia.City United has further strengthened its Strategic Board by appointing Hanna Shuvalova, Principal at Horizon Capital.

Hanna first joined the Horizon team in 2017 as an Investment Associate. Leveraging her experience at Genesis, a Ukrainian technology company, Hanna worked with a portfolio of technology companies and analyzed new investment opportunities.

In 2019, she suspended her work at Horizon Capital to pursue an MBA at Stanford Business School. Simultaneously, Hanna co-founded Pawa, a venture studio specializing in artificial intelligence. Under her leadership, Pawa raised funding from international investors and launched several startups.

In May 2023, Hanna Shuvalova rejoined Horizon Capital as a Principal. A year later, in May 2024, she became a member of the Strategic Board of Diia.City United.

"Diia.City United is a powerful platform where the strength of community and international best practices can be leveraged to facilitate open dialogue among relevant stakeholders and identify new opportunities for the tech ecosystem," Hanna comments on her decision. "I look forward to active and productive cooperation!"

Hanna Shuvalova will work on the association's priority tasks together with Artem Borodatyuk (Netpeak Group), Den Dmytrenko (Roosh), Dmytro Dubrovsky (Uklon), Oleg Gorokhovskyi (monobank), Aleksandr Konotopskyi (AJAX), Oleksandr Kosovan (MacPaw), Nazarii Kurochko (GIGAGROUP), Volodymyr Mnogoletnii (Genesis), Roman Prokofiev (Jooble) and other founders and CEOs of Ukraine's largest technology companies. Additionally, together with the Executive Director Nataliya Mykolska, Hanna will work on expanding opportunities for women and veterans in the technology sector.

Horizon Capital is the leading private equity firm in Emerging Europe with $1.6 billion in assets under management, from investors with a capital base of over $700 billion, raising over $800 million in growth capital in six years, including its latest fund, $350 million Horizon Capital Growth Fund IV, L.P. The firm’s investment strategy focuses on backing visionary entrepreneurs leading fast-growing, primarily tech and export-oriented businesses in Ukraine and Moldova. Horizon Capital-managed funds have invested in over 172 companies employing more than 80,000 people.

Diia.City United is a business association of product tech companies-Diia.City residents. Together we make game-changing moves to create business space for tech companies to scale globally from Ukraine. To learn more, please visit the site.