Oxana Kukhaneva

Oxana Kukhaneva is a Venture Partner at Seventure Partners based in Geneva, Switzerland, where she directs early-stage venture capital allocations. Before joining her current firm in 2023, she served as an Investment Director at Lakestar and held a previous investment position at Idinvest, a financial entity that is now part of Eurazeo. Throughout her career in the venture capital industry, she has participated in funding rounds for more than 20 startup companies, which includes the notable exit of Darkpool following its acquisition by Wise. Kukhaneva leverages her foundational engineering background and an MBA from HEC Paris to evaluate complex scientific innovations and guide portfolio companies through their commercial expansion phases. Her current professional focus centers on providing strategic funding to scale early-stage deep tech, climate tech, and digital infrastructure enterprises across the broader European market.