Mark Pavlyukovskyy is co-founder and General Partner of NZVC, New Zealand's first operator-run venture fund, which writes the first institutional check into companies started in New Zealand and Australia. Born in Ukraine, he moved to the United States at nine, studied molecular biology at Princeton and started a doctorate in biomedical engineering at Oxford before leaving to build Piper, a DIY computer kit that teaches kids to code. Piper shipped 100,000 kits to more than 70 countries before he sold it. He also co-founded Learn With Mochi, which makes screenless coding toys for young children. He came to New Zealand as an Edmund Hillary Fellow in 2020 and started NZVC the next year with Ajay Gupta and Glen Anderson. He co-hosts the TechMates podcast with fellow NZVC General Partner Hendrik Remigereau.