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Andrei Yurkevich

Investor

Founding Member at Protofire

San Francisco Bay Area

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Andrei Yurkevich is a founding member at Protofire, where he leads the commercial operations of arenas.fi, a credit marketplace that connects specialty lenders with institutional capital for faster deployment and fewer covenants than traditional warehouse facilities. The platform serves lenders across embedded finance, revenue-based lending, invoice finance, B2B BNPL, earned wage access, and merchant cash advances. Protofire has developed financial infrastructure over two decades, applying that experience to address capital access constraints for specialty lending businesses.

Experience

  1. ProtofireFounding Membercurrent2021 — presentSan Francisco Bay Area
  2. AltorosMember of the Management Boardcurrent2021 — present
  3. AltorosChief Technology Officer2003 — 2022
  4. Apatar, Inc.Board Member2007 — 2009

Skills & more

Cloud Foundry4Cloud Computing56PaaS6Software Product Management13Performance Management16Data Science12Business Development17Big Data17NoSQL6Hadoop6Amazon Web Services (AWS)3

Languages English · Russian

  • Exam Developer: Cloud Foundry Certified Developer — The Linux Foundation

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Who is Andrei Yurkevich?
Andrei Yurkevich is a founding member at Protofire, where he leads the commercial operations of arenas.fi, a credit marketplace that connects specialty lenders with institutional capital for faster deployment and fewer covenants than traditional warehouse facilities. The platform serves lenders across embedded finance, revenue-based lending, invoice finance, B2B BNPL, earned wage access, and merchant cash advances. Protofire has developed financial infrastructure over two decades, applying that experience to address capital access constraints for specialty lending businesses.
Where does Andrei Yurkevich work?
Andrei Yurkevich is Founding Member at Protofire.
Where did Andrei Yurkevich go to school?
Andrei Yurkevich studied at Belarusian National Technical University (Bachelor's degree, Engineering); VC Lab (Venture fund management).

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