Pavel has two decades of experience in principal investing. He is actively investing with Neo Ventures, an open-ended fund backing early stage entrepreneurs globally. He is also a co-founder of NEVEQ I and II, institutional venture capital funds, backed by sovereign investors and family offices. Pavel backed over 30 companies and exited successfully in several of them. His earlier career was in corporate finance, with Microsoft in Redmond and Deutsche Bank in London and Sofia. Pavel graduated in finance with honors from Northeastern University, studied French at the Sorbonne and neuroscience at Vrije University in Amsterdam.