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Serhii Sokolenko

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Serhii Sokolenko
CEO & Co-Founder of
Tower.dev (2024)
About

Serhii Sokolenko is Co-Founder and CEO of Tower.dev, a Python-native production platform for Data and AI apps built on open Apache Iceberg storage, targeting builders of vertical AI services and SaaS.

Before founding

Originally from Ukraine, Serhii holds an MBA from The Wharton School and built his career in product management at Databricks, Snowflake, Google Cloud, AWS, and Microsoft across Berlin and Seattle.

Founder Insights

Serhii is also an angel investor in database and data platform startups, and serves as a venture partner at Radix Venture Partners, a CEE deep tech fund focused on Ukraine and infra software.

Experience

Prior to Tower.dev, Serhii co-founded Cuesense (text analytics) and Greenline Legal (legaltech), and held senior product roles at Databricks in the Unity Catalog compute group and at Snowflake on a high-concurrency data warehouse.

Scale & Impact

Tower.dev raised $5.5M in seed funding led by Speedinvest with backing from DIG Ventures and angel investors including Datadog CEO Olivier Pomel and MotherDuck CEO Jordan Tigani, and was selected as a top AI startup at Data Council AI Launchpad 2025.

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Serhii Sokolenko

Tower.dev
Co-Founder
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Serhii Sokolenko

Company(s)

Tower.dev

Industry

SaaS

Year Founded

2024

Stage/Funding

Seed • $5.5M

Company Location

de

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About

Serhii Sokolenko is Co-Founder and CEO of Tower.dev, a Python-native production platform for Data and AI apps built on open Apache Iceberg storage, targeting builders of vertical AI services and SaaS.

Before founding

Originally from Ukraine, Serhii holds an MBA from The Wharton School and built his career in product management at Databricks, Snowflake, Google Cloud, AWS, and Microsoft across Berlin and Seattle.

Founder Insights

Serhii is also an angel investor in database and data platform startups, and serves as a venture partner at Radix Venture Partners, a CEE deep tech fund focused on Ukraine and infra software.

Experience

Prior to Tower.dev, Serhii co-founded Cuesense (text analytics) and Greenline Legal (legaltech), and held senior product roles at Databricks in the Unity Catalog compute group and at Snowflake on a high-concurrency data warehouse.

Scale & Impact

Tower.dev raised $5.5M in seed funding led by Speedinvest with backing from DIG Ventures and angel investors including Datadog CEO Olivier Pomel and MotherDuck CEO Jordan Tigani, and was selected as a top AI startup at Data Council AI Launchpad 2025.

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