Team

Lili Unachukwu

Managing Partner & Co-Founder

Liliana is an entrepreneur and a lead advisor in the field of emerging technologies and early-stage startups. She spent seven years leading and supervising deep tech businesses, gaining international recognition along the way.

For the past four years, Liliana has been active in mentoring and coaching founders of pre-seed and seed-stage startups. She has also served in consulting roles with important ecosystem stakeholders.

Liliana is a promoter of smart generalism – i.e., building early-stage startups with engaged and multiskilled problem-solvers. Her skill set and drive ultimately led to her founding Pipette & Chart, which has been delivering generalist power to founders all over the world since 2019.

Vladimir Rassushin

Product Strategist & Co-Founder

Vladimir is an entrepreneur with a scientific background. He started his career as a researcher working with nanostructures and polymers and then went on to broaden his scientific management and productization skills through disruptive product development roles within both the biotech and advanced materials fields.

At Pipette & Chart, Vladimir’s role focuses on connecting product, business, and science. He typically helps founders align their business and fundraising strategies with product development, offering guidance from proof-of-concept all the way through product launch. He is closely involved in activities ranging from R&D planning, strategy development, and data analysis to fundraising documentation, investor relations and project management.

What do clients appreciate about Vladimir?
He has a rare talent for making complicated things easy to understand.

Maria Kolodenko

Marketing Strategist & Co-Owner

Masha is a passionate marketing strategist with experience in designing and executing marketing solutions for both early- and late-stage innovative companies. Whether you need to set up a whole marketing game plan or have a single, highly specialised request, she is the person for the job!

At Pipette & Chart, we start our work by deeply analysing a startup’s solution, clients, business goals, and vision. We value customer feedback and data-proven tactics, which both help Masha create rockstar campaigns, even for complex, deep-tech businesses. Masha has her own unique approach built upon organic tactics; overall, she is a big believer in sustainable marketing practices. Her team can help you design and execute comprehensive marketing and communication strategies, establish brands, and build value around your inventions.

Violeta Martin Gil

R&D & Innovation Funding Manager

Violeta developed her career in the field of Chemistry and Materials Science, particularly focusing on developing advanced polymers for added value applications. She completed her Ph.D. at the University of Chemistry and Technology of Prague, University of Twente (The Netherlands), and the Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium) thanks to an EU grant award, where she contributed to international projects with intercultural teams. Violeta has extensive experience in polymers, biomaterials, nanotechnology, formulations, and delivery systems. She is keen to fill the gap between academia and industry, bringing science to its final application and building research synergies across Europe and the world.

Ira Saul Rubenstein

Senior Advisor, Business Development & Capital Formation

Ira began his lengthy career in the mid-1970s working in government in New York. He then moved over to consulting, working with both large companies and government agencies, before finally entering the finance arena in the late 1980s. Within the finance industry, his long-time focus has been on alternative energy and clean technology. After spending two decades working in finance in New York, he moved to Prague in 2005 to pursue both regional and global opportunities, and in 2009 he became a full-time resident.

Katerina Tomášková

Senior Advisor, Operations

Katerina supports our clients on the operational side of growth, helping founders keep processes, people and priorities organised as their companies take shape.

Madina Likhmanova

Lead Designer

Madina leads design at Pipette & Chart, turning complex scientific and technical ideas into clear pitch decks, brand identities and visual stories.