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Alex Konoplyasty

Investor

Managing Partner at Flashpoint Venture Capital · Managing Partner at Buran Venture Capital · Board director at Guesty

London, England, United Kingdom

About

Alex Konoplyasty is Managing Partner and, with Michael Szalontay, co-founder of Flashpoint, a tech investment asset management firm established in 2012. He previously served as a Director at UBS, where he covered the TMT and financial services sectors and completed more than 20 investment banking transactions, and earlier held roles as an Investment Banking Analyst at Morgan Stanley and a Transaction Support Consultant at PricewaterhouseCoopers. His background is in corporate finance transactions, including M&A, IPOs, private placements, leveraged buy-outs, and debt raising and restructuring.

Contact· published on Alex's own website

Board director at GuestyYC W14

Intro paths

YC

Alex went through Y Combinator (Winter 2014) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.

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In turn, Alex can intro founders to Guesty's investors below.

Guesty's investors · 10

AltaIR CapitalHerzliyaAmino CapitalPalo Alto · $100K – $10M checksApaxsince 2024Flashpoint Venture CapitalLondon · $1M – $15M checks · since 2021Inovia CapitalMontreal · $250K – $8M checks · since 2024Sixth StreetSan Francisco · $50M – $2.5B checks · since 2024Titan Capital PartnersPalm BeachTLV PartnersTel Aviv · $3M – $70M checks · since 2018Viola VenturesTel Aviv · $1.4M – $32M checks · since 2019Y CombinatorSan Francisco · $500K checks · since 2014

Co-founders at Guesty

ASAmiad Soto
Amiad SotoFounder/CEO
KSKoby Soto
Koby SotoFounder/CTO

Experience

  1. Buchbinder & Co.Managing Directorcurrent2026 — present
  2. Owl VenturesVice President2023 — 2026Greater London, England, United Kingdom
  3. Owl VenturesAssociate2021 — 2023Greater London, England, United Kingdom
  4. JefferiesInvestment Banking Associate - TMT2021New York, New York, United States
  5. Oppenheimer & Co. Inc.Investment Banking Associate - TMT2020 — 2021New York, New York
  6. Oppenheimer & Co. Inc.Investment Banking Analyst - TMT2019 — 2020New York, New York
  7. Clearsight AdvisorsInvestment Banking Analyst - Professional Services / Tech Enabled Services2017 — 2018

Skills & more

Microsoft PowerPoint2Microsoft ExcelTeamwork2Customer Service2Research1

From Alex's professional profile.

Colleagues at Flashpoint Venture Capital

Anton Fedorov
Associate at Buran Venture Capital
Denis Mosolov
Managing Partner at Flashpoint Venture Capital
Henry Ukoha
Scout at Expert DOJO
Igor Bilous
Managing Partner at Flashpoint Venture Capital
Michael Szalontay
Managing Partner at Flashpoint Venture Capital
Samuel Izzard
Analyst at SyndicateRoom

Network7

Auren HoffmanScout
General Partner at Flex Capital Partners
Igor RyabenkiyScout
Founder and Managing Partner at AltaIR Capital
Matt MurphyScout
Partner at Menlo Ventures
Shahar TzafrirScout
Managing Partner at TLV Partners
Anton Fedorov
Associate at Buran Venture Capital
Nenad Marovac
Investor at DN Capital
Paavo Räisänen
General Partner at Maki.vc

Investors connected to Alex in public investor directories — a warm-intro map.

Frequently asked questions

Who is Alex Konoplyasty?
Alex Konoplyasty is Managing Partner and, with Michael Szalontay, co-founder of Flashpoint, a tech investment asset management firm established in 2012. He previously served as a Director at UBS, where he covered the TMT and financial services sectors and completed more than 20 investment banking transactions, and earlier held roles as an Investment Banking Analyst at Morgan Stanley and a Transaction Support Consultant at PricewaterhouseCoopers. His background is in corporate finance transactions, including M&A, IPOs, private placements, leveraged buy-outs, and debt raising and restructuring.
Where does Alex Konoplyasty work?
Alex Konoplyasty is Managing Partner at Flashpoint Venture Capital and Board director at Guesty.
Where did Alex Konoplyasty go to school?
Alex Konoplyasty studied at University of Virginia (McIntire School of Commerce, Finance and Management).

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