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About Vention
Vention is an industry-leading software development company providing startups and tech-powered enterprises alike with cutting-edge, scalable solutions.
Headquartered in New York with 20+ global offices, Vention provides industry disruptors and visionaries with access to 3,000+ engineers worldwide to realize their product vision and catapult operations to new heights.
Over the course of its 20-year history, Vention has partnered with more than 500 clients worldwide. An engineering powerhouse, the company has expertise across 30+ industries and 25+ technologies. To date, its developers’ work has contributed to $13B+ in acquisitions and 20+ IPOs on behalf of clients.
What’s inside
Vention aims to be the premier global leader in software engineering, synonymous with technology designed for scale, and the common denominator behind the world's most successful tech-empowered enterprises, industry innovators, and startups. Learn more about how our teams are crafting game-changing products and solutions for industry-disrupting clients.
Our story
In 2002, the time of Vention’s inception, the startup scene was only just taking off, but Sergei and Andrey knew its potential firsthand having worked with disruptors in the space.
In the early-2000s, the time of Vention’s inception, the startup scene was only just taking off, but Sergei and Andrey knew its potential firsthand having worked with disruptors in the space.
Pairing the world’s most esteemed tech talent with leaders from its startup capitals, Vention became synonymous with companies reaching their business-critical goals.
Today, we are a partner of choice to leading global companies, including AWS, Google, Microsoft, and Salesforce.
Pulling on extensive experience in web, mobile, cloud, DevOps, and emerging technologies like AI/ML, AR/VR, fintech and blockchain, and more, our highly skilled and dedicated teams of developers deliver high-ROI and high-performing products that clients’ end users love, from healthcare and finance to gaming and real estate.
Vention stands at the forefront of innovation, developing next-gen solutions for every market.
To demonstrate this, the company underwent an extensive global rebrand in May 2023 to reflect the level of excellence evident in our development services. Still true to our core, Vention is a people-driven technology company with values and a culture that boasts creative, collaborative individuals. We’re constantly ideating, innovating, and inventing.
Meet the team
Vention’s leadership is comprised of a diverse and dynamic group of experts across engineering, sales, business operations, and marketing.
Sergei Kovalenko
CEO and cofounder
Sergei brings over 20 years of entrepreneurial and executive experience to his role.
Based in New York with a background in microelectronics and software engineering, he focuses on applying software solutions to help scale disruptive startups and fast-growing companies worldwide. In addition to leading the strategic vision for Vention’s service provision model, he is passionate about investing in and partnering with early-stage tech companies.
Sergei is an investor through TechLaunch, DreamIt Ventures, Arc Angel Fund, and Scout Ventures — and in 2014, co-founded Braavo Capital, a company focused on funding and growing mobile app and game companies.
Marc Karasu
CMO
Marc has over 20 years of experience as a growth marketer, helping to transform B2B and B2C brands and scale disruptive initiatives.
As CMO, Marc leads Vention’s three marketing divisions: Growth, Design, and Brand, defining the department’s collective strategy and associated goals on a global scale.
Previous leadership roles with tech innovators including Yahoo!, Betterment, and Ellevest complemented by hands-on creative development, media buying, and channel optimization at renowned brand agencies such as Chiat/Day and BBH have shaped Marc’s strategic approach to marketing objectives, consistently resulting in the generation of efficient user growth; brand awareness; audience engagement; and revenue.
Andrey Kulgachev
CIO
A Vention cofounder, Andrey oversees the company's IT administration department as well as related business operations and internal systems.
Andrey continues to play an integral role as the company rapidly expands, leading day-to-day operational activities, strategic planning, and community activities to support uninterrupted, uncompromised growth.
Glyn Roberts
CTO of Digital Solutions
Glyn holds nearly two decades of experience in multiple technology stacks, cloud solutions, distributed team performance, technology advising, and more.
Based in the UK, Glyn builds dedicated engineering teams that deliver scalable software solutions to companies, from early-stage startups to legacy enterprises. Before Vention, Glyn held several technical and executive roles, including at Zappit, Lumeon, and Imaginary Cloud, in addition to his active role in CTO Craft, a global mentorship and coaching CTO community.
What we do
Our dedicated teams of developers sync with fast-growing tech companies and startups to craft groundbreaking, durable solutions.
Our web experts understand the importance of how grade-A web applications can revamp business operations, profitability, and scale. With a keen awareness of transformative solutions, our team is well-equipped to streamline applications with a full stack of web development solutions.
Our software engineers are well-versed in every phase of the mobile app lifecycle, coupling their technical expertise with dedicated knowledge of the crowded mobile landscape. We work alongside clients to build reliable and secure mobile apps that bring the “wow” factor and boost trust and engagement with users.
Our expert engineers intricately examine clients’ software products through a best-in-class functionality lens to identify strengths and weaknesses. With these robust insights, our team arms clients with the knowledge needed to make business-savvy decisions and align their products and vision through bug-free solutions.
Our dedicated teams take a sophisticated approach to solving complex challenges by seamlessly working with clients to migrate their apps, databases, digital assets, resources, and services to the cloud. If yet to exist, our team develops new, robust cloud-based solutions that solve clients’ most crucial business challenges.
Our UI/UX experts craft intuitive software interfaces that engage target audiences and reflect clients’ brands. Being design-minded, our team ensures every detail — from user flow to layout, color scheme to fonts — matches our clients’ needs and vision.
Our industry insights ensure clients benefit from tried-and-true solutions and the latest-and-greatest tech.