Katerina Furtak

Hi! I am a Founder of the Open Innovation Studio, which helps corporations and startups connect, integrate, and innovate together.
For 10 years I have been working at startups in various fields: sharing economy, travel retail, web3. My roles have varied from co-founder and CEO to Head of operations and strategic initiatives. One of the startups became a unicorn.
Some words about my previous professional experience.
I joined Unstoppable Domains at its earliest days, have been an 11th employee, and have experienced the startup growing to 150+ employees. I have been responsible for various business areas, including hiring, partner integrations, operations, and managing strategic initiatives like developing Unstoppable Women of Web3 and Partnerships with Accelerators. In 2022, Unstoppable Domains reached $1B valuation.

Before Unstoppable Domains, I have been a CEO and co-founder of two e-commerce startups in travel retail (Mydutyfree) and sharing economy (Dressboom), leading teams of up to 20 people. Brought them from ideas to traction, revenue, and expansion. During this time, we have done integrations with largest travel retail operators, airports, airlines, delivery companies, partnered with fashion brands. I have managed companies in 7 countries, expanded products to 7 markets. I also have raised seed money and took part in acceleration programs like Plug and Play.

I will be happy to share my experience and advice on startups, entrepreneurship, business strategy, partnerships, leadership, corporate-startups collaboration.