Mikhail Antipkin

Mikhail Antipkin is an international entrepreneur, founder, and technology investor with more than twenty years of experience building and scaling businesses across retail, real estate development, fintech, and information technology. He is the founder of multiple ventures with a combined turnover exceeding $100 million.

Mikhail began his career in 2003 in telecom retail, advancing quickly into management. In 2005 he founded his first retail business and scaled it within three years into a chain of ten stores, reaching monthly sales of up to 40,000 pairs of shoes. In 2009 he launched a large-scale commercial real estate development project covering more than 10,000 square meters, and simultaneously founded a microfinance company that grew to 50 offices and issued up to 80,000 loans per month. He exited both ventures in 2016.

Since 2017, Mikhail has focused on international technology, building companies in payment systems, digital product development, and gaming. Today he leads an international group of companies with offices in Hong Kong, Dubai, Limassol, and London, and a workforce of more than 1,100 employees.

His current flagship project is Vivo Chat, an AI-powered platform that unifies customer communication across Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and other channels into a single interface. Vivo Chat enables businesses to deploy autonomous AI agents that handle incoming messages, answer customer questions, and help close deals, reducing team workload while improving response quality. In 2026, Mikhail's primary focus is scaling Vivo Chat globally.

Mikhail is also actively developing ventures in AI-driven digital transformation and business intelligence through several Hong Kong based companies. Outside of business, his interests include yachting, motorsports, and hockey.