Egor Shuppe

Georgy (“Egor”) Shuppe’s father, Nikolay Georgievich Shuppe, was a doctor of science of biology at the Academy of Science of the USSR and professor.

Participated in the creation of Anton Nossik’s charity fund Pomogi.org.

From the late ‘80s, Egor Shuppe began demonstrating an interest in computers, genetics, and IT; participated in the import of the first personal computers into the USSR and later, in Russia, created the first computer department in the Institute of General Genetics named after N.I. Vavilov.

Amongst the most famous projects realised by the fund is the German company, Delivery Hero, which had its IPO in July 2017 on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange and Tradeshift – a cloud service connecting the customers and sellers to companies such as Groupon, Fyber, Mydeco.com and others.

On 18th of August, 2017, the judgement of the Westminster Magistrates’ Court discharged the request of the Russian Federation to extradite Georgy Shuppe.

For the development of NetSkate projects, Anton Nossik came to Russia from Israel and Artemy Lebedev – from the USA. The design Art. Lebedev Studio and Lenta.ru started in NetSkate.

After Piatigorsky's death in 2009 until the present day, Egor Shuppe has curated and supported the works of the philosophical and creative legacy of the philosopher. For this purpose, he has created the Fund of Piatigorsky's Heritage and issued philosophical Buddhist books of the philosopher and his novels.

In 2008, together with Edward Shenderovich, Egor Shuppe created an investment fund for technological and internet projects – Kite Ventures. Over the years, the fund has invested over 400 million dollars into many acclaimed projects.

During the period between 2006-2009, Egor Shuppe, together with Alexander Piatigorsky, created a series of philosophical seminars which were named «AMP Classes». Over 50 seminars were held and over 400 hours of audio and video were recorded. The texts of the AMP Classes are the so-called philosophical legacy of Alexander Piatigorsky.

In 2002 Egor Shuppe moved from Russia and from 2004, he now lives and works in London.

From 2002, Egor Shuppe had strong personal and business relations with the world famous Russian and British philosopher, orientalist and writer, Alexander Piatigorsky, who also lived in London.

Cityline was acquired in 2001 by Golden Telecom. At that point it had over 150,000 clients.

From 1997 – 2012 Shuppe was married to Ekaterina Berezovskaya, daughter of Boris Berezovsky (businessman). He is a father of four.

In 1996, together with Emelian Zakharov and Rafael Filinov, Egor founded the company Cityline, which became the first and largest private internet provider in Russia. In 1997 Damian Kudryavtsev joined the team and later in 1999, Dmitry Bosov and Maxim Barsky. Egor Shuppe was one of the main shareholders and President of the company.

In 1996 the overall amount of Internet users in Russia was only 60,000, the Russian segment of the Internet consisting of only a few websites. In order to attract new users and increase the revenues per user (at that time access to the Internet was on a time payment basis), Cityline made a strategic decision to invest in the creation of free Russian content. That was when the company NetSkate, a production centre for new Russian online media, was established.

During 1991-1992 he worked as the deputy to the Commercial Director of the first Russian art place, Centre of Modern Art on Yakimanka, founded in 1990 by art specialist Leonid Bazhanov.

In 1991-1996 he became the vice president of the Trading House «Negotiant» and head of the «Magnat» holding, involved in various business projects including agriculture, creation of automobile distribution chains, design and implementation of a chain of petrol stations, etc.

Between 1987- 1989, Egor studied biologically active compounds at the department of Chemistry and Technology, the Institute of Fine Chemical Technologies (in 2015 it merged with the Moscow State University of information technologies, radio-technics and electronics (MIREA, MGUPI) and re-named the Moscow Technological University).

In 1984, Egor became the winner of the Moscow City Chemistry Olympiad.

1977-1987 Egor studied in school No. 171 in a specialised class under the patronage of the Chemical faculty of the Moscow State University named after M.V. Lomonosov. He studied chemistry and biology.

Georgy Nikolaevich Shuppe (Russian: Гео́ргий Никола́евич Шу́ппе, pronounced [ɡʲɪˈorɡʲɪj nʲɪkolajɨvʲɪtɕ ʂʉppʲɛ]; born 11 March 1971 in Moscow, Russia, USSR) is a Russian and British businessman and venture investor. 1996-2001 one of the founders, owners and president of the first major Russian internet providers “Cityline”, co-founder of the first Russian online-media agency and content provider "Netskate" ("Evening internet", "Locomotive-news", "Hayloft", "Anecdotes from Russia", etc). Partner and co-founder of the venture fund - "Kite Ventures".