Very Good Advisors

Very Good Advisors

Very Good Advisors (VGA) was founded by Konstantin Besfamylnyi and Vladimir Pyrozhenko, who combine operator backgrounds with formal training from top-tier US MBA programs at Carnegie Mellon and Northwestern. The firm positions itself at the intersection of startup advisory and investor due diligence, drawing on the partners' collective experience founding and exiting startups. The advisory practice splits across two principal lanes. For startups, VGA provides fundraising strategy, financial modeling, competitor analysis, MVP development, and accelerator application support. For investors, the firm performs due diligence on startups and assists portfolio companies with their own fundraising. The website references a track record that includes two company sales to strategic buyers, though specific exits are not named. Team scale, geographic footprint, and deployment figures are not publicly disclosed. Besfamylnyi and Pyrozhenko lead the consulting engagements directly, leaning on an operator playbook that emphasizes practical frameworks, execution-focused advice, and introductions to a network of venture capitalists and angel investors. No adjacent vehicles, philanthropic structures, or club memberships are disclosed. The structural differentiator is the firm's dual posture: VGA serves both sides of the cap table simultaneously. Its partners operate as interim strategy officers for early-stage companies while functioning as technical due-diligence reviewers for the investors evaluating those same companies. This configuration creates information asymmetry advantages that pure-play consulting or advisory shops do not typically hold.