Summary
Daria Yakovleva is a tech entrepreneur and AI-native CEO with 11 years of experience building product-led startups and algorithmic ad systems. Currently leading Mira, a Telegram-native AI agent that turns conversations into actions, she combines hands-on engineering, product ownership, and PhD-level research in mathematics and computer science. Her background includes leading smart-bidding and CTR models at VK, engineering ML solutions during internships at Google, and founding multiple ventures across blockchain, fashion tech, and real-estate aggregation. She excels at turning research-grade models into user-facing products and has repeatedly shipped high-impact systems used by hundreds of thousands of ads or real users. Based in London, she bridges academia and industry as a PhD student at ITMO while scaling teams and fundraising. An uncommon strength is her track record of applying advanced ML and economic design (e.g., impermanent loss-protected liquidity protocols) to practical marketplace and consumer products.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Student, Mathematics and Computer Science, PhD Student, Mathematics and Computer Science at ITMO University