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Avant Partners

The firm

A new firm built on twenty-five years of the work it does.

Frontier and emerging markets produce good companies that fail international scrutiny for reasons that are fixable and knowable in advance. That gap is the business.

How we work

Partner-led. Every mandate is run by a partner rather than passed down, with specialists engaged for the work the mandate actually needs. Scope is fixed and the deliverable is named before we start — a gap report, a valuation, a function built and handed over — because an engagement measured in days is an engagement nobody can check.

We work from London, with a standing presence in Central Asia. The firm was incorporated in September 2026; the work below it is the partners', and every mandate on the work page carries its dates and its attribution.

The partners

Andrei Syropiatov

Founder and Managing Partner

Twenty-five years in risk, investment analysis and investor relations: institutional due diligence and valuation at a multilateral development bank, corporate credit risk at a French corporate and investment bank, rating advisory at a Russian commercial bank, and ten years running investor relations for a consumer lender through repeated rating cycles and Eurobond issuance.

Since 2021, independently: built the investor-relations function for an IPO-bound Central Asian bank from the ground up — department, in-house training, the full set of procedures and templates; delivered institutional equity research and DCF and peer-multiple valuations on the portfolio of a sovereign investment fund, inside the domestic manager's team, ahead of the dual London and Tashkent listing that completed in May 2026; and produced around ninety venture due-diligence reports for a technology investor across digital health, clinical AI, genomics, devices and fintech, in eight jurisdictions, under one assessment framework.

MSc Financial Management, SOAS, University of London. Trained across CompTIA, (ISC)² and offensive-security certifications, 2023–25 — which is why the firm can assess technical posture as well as financial. Builds and maintains the firm's platforms. English, French, Russian.

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Why we build software

A method that can only be described is a claim. A method a stranger can run is evidence. The 5 terminals we operate are the same assessment engine the practice uses, published so that anyone can put their own company through it before they talk to us — and so that what we say about our work can be checked rather than believed.

They are free at the entry point and paid at the depth. That is not a funnel trick: the free tier answers the question most visitors actually have, and the people who need more have already told us what they need by using it.