Rustam Gilfanov is a co-founder of a successful IT company and a venture partner of the investment fund LongeVC.
PRIVATE LIFE
Born on the 6th of January 1983, Rustam Gilfanov spent his early years in a little village called Basim in Perm region. Rustam’s mother worked as a teacher and his father served in the military. In his childhood, he was keen on maths and loved science fiction.
As of now, Rustam Gilfanov is a husband and a father to a little girl.
EDUCATION
Having graduated from the school, Rustam Gilfanov entered the Udmurt State University and had an active student life with many public events and conferences. He got a degree in law in 2005 but after all chose a different path and became an Insolvency officer.
CAREER IT
Student years of Rustam Gilfanov were the peak period of development of the Global Network. With the support of his profound knowledge of the law, a recent student dove fully into IT and eventually came to the decision to create his own start-up in this sphere. Nonetheless, he started by obtaining experience in different IT projects worldwide.
In 2006 Rustam was ready to start his own project. Then a little start-up, it is now one of the key figures in the financial software development, as well as gaming and marketing. With offices in Malta and Cyprus, and projects in Ukraine and Latvia, his company has produced over a hundred gaming applications.
From the very start, the particularity of Rustam Gilfanov’s company was the focus on support to young talents and on inspiring their development. Within 5 years the number of the company’s staff reached 1,000 and the creator is proud of all the opportunities his workers currently have.
CHARITY
Being a philanthropist, Rustam Gilfanov supports many projects designed for the development of corporate social responsibility within an IT company. Special attention he pays to educational projects for the younger generation.
A bright example of Rustam’s charity work is LakiBuks in cooperation with the fund I am Future of Ukraine. This project supports new talented authors and helps popularization of non-fiction in Ukrainian for teenagers.
The LakiBuks project started in 2017 with an official launch at the Book Arsenal festival. The next year LakiBuks was already one of the festival’s partners and since then visited many cities in Ukraine and Europe.
In the beginning, LakiBuks was only working with several kids’ libraries in the East of Ukraine. Now it is a partner of over 200 libraries in the whole country. In 2018 the project celebrated a big benchmark: the donation of over 5,000 teenage pop science books. The books were mainly brought to small villages where libraries lacked such literature, especially in Ukrainian. Rustam Gilfanov admits that LakiBuks is his most important program.
Another big project in the educational sphere is the renovation of the Kyiv children’s library. The aim is to create a unique library hub, and Rustam Gilfanov takes part in this initiative set by the Biblioteky Maybutniogo foundation. In this library, there is an IT room where visitors have access to programming courses by the country’s most prominent IT companies. Being set up as a sole project, it is now actively developing in other Ukrainian cities.
Also, Rustam Gilfanov is a long-time partner of I am Future of Ukraine, a fund supporting social programs. Among his private initiatives is financial support to single mothers and Ukrainian families who ended up in troublesome circumstances.
PRIVATE INVESTMENTS
Recently Rustam Gilfanov started shifting his focus from the operation of his business to investments in prominent IT projects in video streaming, financial technologies and gaming.
