Exited founder+CFO of a nine-figure B2B American startup, now helping global founders scale with smart U.S. capital and top-tier tech talent from Central Asia.
About Me
I never planned to be a startup founder. I grew up in a small town in Kyrgyzstan, far from the world of venture capital and tech unicorns. But life had other plans...
During my MBA in the U.S. in 2013, a friend and I entered our school’s business plan competition, and that idea turned into Honorlock, a B2B edtech startup that grew into an industry leader with 150+ employees, $40M+ in venture funding, and patented technology.
Eight years later, the startup had outgrown its founders. I exited with a nice check, became a mother of two, and found my true passion—helping female founders build and scale great B2B companies.
At Honorlock, I learned that success isn’t just about great ideas—it’s about having the right people, capital, and strategy in place. That’s where I come in—connecting global founders, U.S. investors, and top-tier tech talent from Central Asia to build high-growth businesses.
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A story about a quite ordinary girl from a small post-Soviet-Union country coming to the States to get her degree in Business. With little means and no choice but to succeed, she ends up starting a successful compnay with her friend, and that changes the trajectory of her life once and forever.
Every year, the List gathers the fastest growing private companies in the U.S. Microsoft, Intuit, Zappos and many other well-known names gained their first national exposure as honorees on the Inc. 5000. Honorlock is honored to make the list two years in a row, showing three-year revenue growth of 3858%.
Owl Ventures - the biggest edtech VC fund in the world led the round. The announcement comes a year after the company secured $11.5 million in Series A led by Defy Partners. Honorlock has 134 employees, including 50 based in South Florida, and serves more than 300 corporate and higher education customers.
Tech Runway, a start-up incubator and accelerator program where students and faculty, community entrepreneurs, mentors and investors come together in a collaborative, innovative ecosystem to support and nurtur entrepreneurship in South Florida.
A pair of Florida Atlantic University business school grads who once bemoaned the ease of cheating on online tests have jumped into the increasingly competitive world of high-tech proctoring with a twist, a patent and a mentor with big credentials in the electronics of education.
Elena Soboleva, a recipient of the US-Central Asia Education Foundation Enterprise Fellowship, while pursuing her MBA in the U.S., partners up with her fellow student and together they open a company to help universities uphold academic integrity of the online exams.
I opened a U.S. charitable entity Kind Hands Inc. to help collect international donations for a small pet rescue organization in my home country Kyrgyzstan.
I could not stay indifferent seeing how street pets are being brutelly killed by the govermnemt, because there are no sterelization programs.
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