Available for the long game

Pavel
Tritchkov

Economist turned operator. I build the go-to-market and operating machinery that takes early-stage companies from first traction to real scale - through venture capital, FinTech BizOps, growth, and the messy work in between.

GTM & Ops Lead at The Interaction Company of California

Building Poke - San Francisco Bay Area

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Experience

Where I've operated

  1. GTM & Ops Lead

    Feb 2026 - Present

    The Interaction Company of CaliforniaNow

    Palo Alto, CA - building Poke

    Leading go-to-market and operations for Poke, owning the systems that turn an AI product into a growing business: distribution, funnels, tooling, and the day-to-day operating cadence.

  2. Investment Team - Visiting Analyst

    Jun 2025 - Oct 2025

    Redalpine

    Zurich - leading European VC, €1B+ AUM

    Sourced and diligenced early-stage European startups across FinTech and deep tech for a fund managing over €1B in assets - market mapping, financial analysis, and founder conversations.

  3. BizOps & Founder's Associate

    Oct 2021 - Aug 2023

    fulfin

    Germany - e-commerce FinTech startup

    Ran cross-functional BizOps at a German FinTech lending to e-commerce sellers: built reporting and forecasting, tightened operating processes, and worked directly with the founders on the things that didn't have an owner yet.

Academic & Research

Trained in economics

MSc Economics

GPA 4.0 / 4.0

Nova School of Business and Economics · Lisbon, Portugal

Thesis
Distributional Effects of Monetary Policy in the Euro Area: Evidence from the Consumer Expectations Survey

Visiting Graduate Student - Mathematics & Economics

Fall 2023

UC Berkeley · Berkeley, CA

BSc Economics & Business

Technische Universität Dresden · Dresden, Germany

Thesis
What are the Main Causes of Banking Crises, and Can They be Identified and Mitigated Before They Occur?

Core expertise

Venture CapitalFinTech BizOpsEconomicsGrowthEarly-stage Ops

Languages

  • EnglishFluent
  • GermanFluent
  • BulgarianNative
  • SpanishConversational
Off the clock

What I think about when I'm not working

Macro

Strategy & Markets

  • Tech, AI infrastructure & commodities investing
  • Copper-deficit macro bull
  • Game theory, played out over poker
Discipline

Fitness & Sport

  • Weightlifting & boxing at Equinox Palo Alto
  • Arm wrestling enthusiast
  • Competitive chess player
Tifoso

Formula 1

  • Dedicated Ferrari supporter
  • Charles Leclerc on the timing screen
  • Watching Nikola Tsolov on the way up
NBA

Basketball

  • New York Knicks fan
  • Through the highs and the rebuilds
  • Defense-first basketball believer
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Let's build
something that scales.

Go-to-market, early-stage operations, or a good argument about the copper market - send a note and it lands straight in my inbox.

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