Eugeny Tarasyutin

Eugene Tarasyutin is listed by Continent Capital as a Partner. Continent describes itself as an investment-consulting firm specializing in private equity and venture investments, corporate finance, and M&A, with more than RUB 25 billion of closed deals since 2018.

Continent’s team biography says Tarasyutin has more than 15 years of experience in private equity and venture investments. Before Continent, he worked on portfolio-company promotion and partnerships at the RVC Seed Investment Fund, where his work included high-technology investment transactions in Russia, China, Europe, and the United States, corporate accelerators, and technology scouting.

Earlier in his career, Continent says he analyzed structured-finance projects at Aeroflot and Gazprom-related structures, modeled markets and financial flows for large holding companies, and worked on M&A and private-equity transactions for industrial companies in Russia, Europe, and China. His education is listed as MGIMO University and the University of Surrey; a 2012 Balakam presentation states that he graduated from MGIMO in 2004.

Public materials also place him in venture-market activity before Continent: Cbonds event participant lists show him affiliated with RVC Seed Fund in 2014 and 2016, and a Balakam investor presentation identifies him as Director of Development and Investments and a PE/VC professional.

• Continent Capital’s stated model is advisory-led rather than a standard fund model: it says it takes on missing investment functions for clients and “effectively becomes part of the client’s team.”
• For startups, Continent lists services including investor fundraising, preparation for an institutional round, roadshows in Russia and other regions, preparation of materials and a data room, round-strategy consulting, and full transaction support.
• For corporate clients, Continent lists M&A pipeline generation, acquisition analysis, transaction negotiation and support, fundraising for M&A, open-innovation strategy, startup/project scouting, investment analysis, accelerators, pitch sessions, and investment support.
• His RVC Seed Fund background points to seed-stage innovative companies with high growth potential in Russian and foreign technology markets; RVC Seed Fund’s published policy was to invest in shares or securities of Russian seed-stage innovative enterprises.
• The strongest fit appears to be technology companies where financing, commercialization, cross-border partnerships, corporate innovation, or transaction structuring are central to the pitch.