Mark Pavlyukovskyy is an entrepreneur and investor excited by the possibility of unlocking human potential through technology. He started his first company, Piper, after dropping out of his Oxford PhD. The Piper computer kit went on to win top industry awards, get support from Steve Wozniak, count Elon Musk as a customer and attract over $15m in funding from top edtech investors. In early 2020 Mark was invited to New Zealand on the Edmund Hillary Fellowship and started New Zealand's first operator-run fund, NZVC. To date NZVC has invested into 30 companies deploying $17m+ in capital into New Zealand's most promising tech startups and helping them expand to markets beyond New Zealand. Mark has been the recipient of various awards including: The Oxford-Cambridge PhD Scholarship from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), The Maclean Award for Best Oration, The Priscilla Glickman Memorial Prize for Service, The Adel Mahmoud Global Health Scholarship, The Google ESD Scholarship, a Thiel Fellowship Finalist, Princeton Alumni Entrepreneurs Fund (AEF)'s inaugural Entrepreneur of the Year, Forbes 30 Under 30 and the Edmund Hillary Fellowship.