Dmitry Borisovich Volkov
<p>Serial entrepreneur, investor, and co-founder of the global tech company <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://socialdiscoverygroup.com">Social Discovery Group</a>,  a partner of multiple global investment funds. He is interested in social discovery-related technologies, artificial intelligence, and philosophy. Dmitry, an EU citizen, spends the majority of his time in Italy.
</p><p>He began his career as a serial IT entrepreneur when  established IT-Online company in 1998. This business produced a number of spin-offs, including UsabilityLab, which was established in 2002 and focused on enhancing user interface design, and PayOnline, a payment service that was sold to the American firm Net Element in 2015.
</p><p>One of the largest groups of social discovery companies in the world, Social Discovery Group, was founded in 2014 by Dmitry Borisovich Volkov and partners. More than 40 apps, a venture studio, and an investment fund are all part of Social Discovery Group. 
Dmitry Borisovich Volkov serves as an expert, mediator, and independent investor in negotiations for the sale of IT businesses. He works with a variety of foreign investment firms, including Blockchain Capital, Mangrove Capital Partners, Khosla Ventures, DN Capital, 500 Startups, Dream Machine, and Target Global. Also, Dmitry Borisovich Volkov was one of the early investors of the music identification app Shazam. He participated as a shareholder in the DN Capital fund, one of several funds that made investments in that service. Through several investment funds, he also invested in Patreon &amp; Open AI.
</p><p>Dmitry Borisovich Volkov, a philosophy PhD, highly values his investments in science. He invested $1 million in Academia.edu, a digital social net for scientists, in 2016. There researchers can exchange their scientific works. To "accelerate global research," Academia.edu provides scientists with a forum where they can post rough drafts of manuscripts or substitute articles.
</p><p>Dmitry Borisovich Volkov is a multifaceted individual. He is a musician, philosopher, and art collector. He describes himself as a "digital nomad," which is a person who travels or lives in various countries without settling down in any of them permanently. He does heli-skiing, is a helicopter pilot, and is a pianist.
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