Founder
RUCEA & Thankyou
Co-founded RUCEA, an artist and event agency, at eighteen. Later built Thankyou, Russia’s largest digital music label. Both brought together culture, business, and the people who create.
Music & entrepreneurshipLife is
the act of
creation.
I find meaning in making things real.
A company. A painting. A game. A new path for a friend. Different forms of the same impulse: to bring something into the world.
Explore my journey
Arkady KulikSan Francisco
Founder & GP, Arkane
Founder & GP, Arkane
Business, art & philosophyDifferent forms. The same impulse.
The journey
A life in the making.
Age 18 · RUCEA
An agency for artists.
At eighteen, I co-founded RUCEA, an artist and event agency. My first business began with people who create.
01 / 10
01 / Business
Scientific rigor.
Founder empathy.
Operator resilience.
Conviction, earned
through building.
Building companies and helping others build theirs. Today, I’m the founder and GP of Arkane, backing early-stage deep-tech founders in the US and Europe.
I came to investing through theoretical physics, entrepreneurship, company turnarounds, and operating at scale. That experience shapes the questions I ask and the work I want to do.
Operator
VK & turnarounds
Rebuilt two struggling companies as external CEO. Later, as COO, helped scale VK to $1B in revenue.
Restructuring & scaleInvestor
Arkane
First checks for deep-tech founders. My focus includes neuroscience, energy, and technologies that change how the physical world works.
Pre-seed · US & EuropeThe scientific method is humanity’s greatest compounding technology.Arkady Kulik
Working on a hard problem?
I’d like to hear about it.
02 / Art
Pursuits beyond making moneyCreation takes
many forms.
Some things I create for the sheer pleasure of making them. Others help someone find a new path or make everyday life a little better.
Making everyday life better
Hygge
A meal-planning app built for my household. Helps us plan, buy and cook, saving time for life around the table.
Opening a possibility
A new flight path.
I took a friend flying and helped him find a new profession as a pilot. Helping someone see a possible future is a definition of zero to one.
Making a game
Omensource
A two-player strategy game where secret societies use modern technology to perform ancient rituals.
Play Omensource ↗03 / Philosophy
Ideas I come back toA way of
being.
I find purpose in the act of creation. These are voices I return to as I think about how to live, what to make, and what to give.
A man with outward courage dares to die; a man with inner courage dares to live.
Lao Tzu
What are you
working on?
For founders
Tell me about the science, the hard problem, and why you’re the person to solve it.
For LPs
Let’s talk about deep tech and how I approach backing founders through Arkane.
For the curious
The longer writing is shared by request. Tell me what caught your attention.