Masha Bucher ^{Ultimate Decision-Maker}

Founder and General Partner at Day One Ventures

Current Job Duration: 8 yrs 2 mos (until March 2026)

HEADLINE:
General Partner & Artist at Day One Ventures

PERSONAL SUMMARY:
We help exceptional founders working on the biggest ideas win by harnessing the power of storytelling, art & culture.

Founded Day One Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm that’s pioneering a new model in VC by spearheading communications for its portfolio companies. Since the launch in 2018 fund backed early 16 companies that reach over $1B value, our portfolio captured over $250B in value and we had 40+ exits to companies like Amazon, Twitter, Doordash, MasterCard. The fund AUM has grown from $11M in 2019 to upper 9 figures AUM in 2025.

We are investors at Remote, World, Valar Atomics, Owner, You.com, Superhuman, XAI, Merge, Erebor, Aven, Invisible, Truebill (acq), DuckDuckGo, & others.

Before that I was an angel investor and PR studio founder working with companies like Houzz, HotelTonight, Gett, Toptal, PandoDoc and more.

Prior to that was VP Communications at multibillion data protection company Acronis and Head of Communications at VC firm Runa Capital.

Listed in Forbes "30 Under 30" List of 2019: https://www.forbes.com/profile/masha-drokova

Languages: english, spanish

EDUCATION:
School: Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU)
Degree: Master of Public Administration (MPA), Management
Activities: None

School: Stanford University
Degree: Venture Capital Unlocked Program
Activities: None

School: Singularity University
Degree: Executive Program
Activities: None

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