Vadim Arustamyan

Founder & CEO

About

I built and scaled a business to $500M+ in revenue with a 1,500+ person team over two decades. Today I invest full-time as an operator-investor via VEAM Family Office. My focus is broad but disciplined across AI systems in workflows, agentic AI, deployment infrastructure, robotics and autonomy, industrial and strategic infrastructure, and resilience-oriented technologies including selected opportunities in health, food systems, and fintech infrastructure. What ties these areas together is not theme-hopping, but a consistent underwriting lens: measurable deployment, workflow ownership, defensibility, repeatable go-to-market, and a credible path to becoming an enduring market leader. I am most useful when the challenge is not only building the technology, but turning it into a real operating system for customers: moving from pilot to rollout, shaping go-to-market, pricing and unit economics, building enterprise and strategic partnerships, hiring strong leaders, and creating execution discipline under real-world constraints. That is the operator lens I bring to investing. My background is not institutional finance. It is operating: scaling complex businesses, running large teams, building service layers, owning P&L, driving sales engines, managing partnerships, and turning messy growth into repeatable execution. I invest early, move quickly, communicate transparently, and prefer long-term, low-drama relationships with founders who combine unusual insight with real execution speed. I am based in London and active primarily across the UK and Switzerland, with selective exposure to the US and occasional opportunistic investments elsewhere. If you are building something genuinely important — and can show both ambition and evidence — feel free to reach out.

Country

City

United Kingdom

Industry

Computer Software

Skill

Go-To-Market Strategy (GTM), Venture Capital, Team Leadership, Corporate Finance, Scale-Up Leadership (Business Scale-Up), Investment Strategies, Entrepreneurship, Operations Management, Automotive industry, Technological Innovation, Strategic Partnerships, Growth Strategies, Change Management, Corporate Governance, International Business, Negotiation, Sales & Marketing, Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A), E-Commerce, Leadership Development

Experience

Founder & CEO

VEAM GROUP LIMITED (Family Office)

2022-11 - Present · 3 yrs 11 mos

Greater London

I manage angel investments as a full-time operator-angel focused on Humanoids / Embodied AI (software-first) and the deployment stack. Geography: UK + Switzerland + Bavaria (Munich); selective US bridge via strong leads/syndicates Stage: Seed / late pre-seed (selective pre-seed) Checks: $20–50k scout; $50–250k meaningful seed; follow-on heavy into winners Core focus (deployment stack): - Teleoperation / human-in-the-loop that compounds into autonomy via a data flywheel - Simulation & synthetic data; sim-to-real tooling - Measurable eval / verification, monitoring, safety testing and audit rails for embodied systems - RobotOps / ServiceOps under SLA (reliability, remote support, rollout playbooks, fleet ops) - Deployment economics: pricing, unit economics, contract structures, conversion from pilots to rollouts - Selective enabling AI infrastructure only when it directly supports the embodied loop (data rights/governance, edge/on-prem constraints, compliance gates where they are real moats) Selective hardware only with: exceptional differentiation + early paid pilot/contract path + a syndicate that can carry CAPEX. Hands-on support: GTM & pricing, enterprise/OEM partnerships, operating cadence (KPIs/OKRs), hiring, fundraising prep, and corp dev where relevant.

Founder/ CEO

Maximum Auto Holding

2003-5 - 2023-4 · 20 yrs

• Scaled the group to $500M+ annual revenue and 1,500+ staff with ~35% YoY growth. • Led P&L across sales, after-sales, finance, marketing and operations. • Executed multiple acquisitions to expand footprint and product portfolio. • Negotiated national-level partnerships with top OEMs: Audi, Volkswagen, Hyundai, Kia, Honda, Mitsubishi and others. • Built one of the region’s most recognized automotive groups with multiple industry awards.

CEO / Founder / Disruptive Innovator

Carmart (e-commerce)

2016-9 - 2022-3 · 5 yrs 7 mos

• Built an online used-car platform to $150M+ annual revenue. • Developed algorithmic pricing, data pipelines and omnichannel customer journey. • Launched mobile apps and digital operations integrating with traditional dealerships. • Secured partnerships and financing to support rapid scale-up.

Vice President, Digital Transformation

Automotive Dealers Association

2017-4 - 2018-3 · 1 yr

• Executive board role representing national auto retailers. • Led sector-wide digital innovation in e-commerce, CRM and data-driven decision-making. • Coordinated OEMs, regulators and industry stakeholders.

Chief Financial Officer

Dorognik-92

2000-12 - 2003-4 · 2 yrs 5 mos

• Built full finance function, FP&A, M&A support and predictive analytics. • Drove operational efficiency and corporate governance across the business.