Edward Shenderovich

Shenderovich was born in Leningrad, USSR (now St. Petersburg, Russia). He came to the United States aged 14 in 1990, later becoming a naturalized American citizen. He attended Mira Mesa High School in San Diego and graduated from the University of California at Berkeley. In 2006, Shenderovich became a founding executive of online media company SUP and oversaw the company's strategic development, including the development of LiveJournal in Russia. In 2009, Shenderovich founded Kite Ventures, a venture investment company that led investments in Darberry (acquired by Groupon), Fyber (FRA:FBEN), Delivery Hero (FRA:DHER), Plated (acquired by Albertsons), Tradeshift, and others. In 2015 he co-founded and became executive chairman of Knotel, a flexible real estate service, now owned by Newmark Group. Shenderovich is currently the co-founder and CEO of Roebling (formerly Synonym), a New York-based company building AI-assisted process engineering and techno-economic modeling infrastructure for the bioeconomy and broader process industries. Roebling is backed by Andreessen Horowitz.

Shenderovich writes and publishes poetry in Russian. He has been published by many Russian journals and included in ‘’Ulysses Released: Contemporary Russian Poets Abroad (In Russian:2004)’’ edited by Dmitry Kuzmin. In December 2010, Samokat Publishing House released a collection of Shenderovich's children's poems. A new collection came out in January 2014. Translators of his poetry into English include Richard Wayne Chambliss. In September 2015, Shenderovich's collection entitled "About One, Two, 3, 4 and 5" received an award at Biennial of Illustration Bratislava.

In 2000, Shenderovich became a professor of business modeling at Universitá Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Piacenza, Italy, and was named Fellow of the MiNE cratos program in 2004.