# Max Yankelevich

> Max Yankelevich is a technology entrepreneur and investor, co-founder and former CEO and chief architect of WorkFusion, and US managing partner at MYVA Ventures. His career spans enterprise cloud architecture, crowdsourcing and machine-learning-based automation, and investment in B2B AI agents. He studied computer science and mathematics at MIT and worked as chief architect at Freedom OSS before building WorkFusion with Andrew Volkov.

- **Role:** Managing Partner, USA at MYVA Ventures
- **Organizations:** MYVA Ventures, WorkFusion, Freedom OSS
- **Education:** Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- **Known for:** Co-founded WorkFusion and served as CEO and chief architect., Helped develop an enterprise automation business combining human work and machine learning., Co-inventor named on the Managing crowdsourcing environments patent application.

## Career timeline

- **Before WorkFusion** — Chief architect at Freedom OSS, working on enterprise cloud computing.
- **2010** — Co-founded the business that became WorkFusion with Andrew Volkov; Finovate records a June 2010 founding.
- **2010-11** — Listed by AWS as Freedom OSS chief cloud architect and a presenter at a Chicago cloud security, compliance and governance event.
- **2012** — WorkFusion’s first platform launched, organizing online workers for enterprise knowledge tasks.
- **2013** — Named with Andrii Volkov on the published patent application Managing crowdsourcing environments.
- **2014** — WorkFusion introduced active-learning automation at FinovateFall.
- **2016-12** — As WorkFusion CEO, announced free RPA Express, with invited beta and a wider release planned for early 2017.
- **2017-01** — WorkFusion announced a $35 million Series D, bringing reported funding to $71 million.
- **2017-06** — Discussed customer-focused product development and automation in public interviews.
- **2019-03** — Identified as WorkFusion founder and chief strategy officer at a Compensation Committee Leadership Network meeting.
- **2026** — MYVA Ventures lists him as US managing partner, alongside Andrew Volkov as managing partner for Europe.
- **2026-02** — UiPath announced its acquisition of WorkFusion, the company he co-founded.

## Achievements

- Co-founded WorkFusion and served as CEO and chief architect.
- Helped develop an enterprise automation business combining human work and machine learning.
- Co-inventor named on the Managing crowdsourcing environments patent application.
- Led WorkFusion when it announced the free RPA Express product in December 2016.
- US managing partner at MYVA Ventures, focused on B2B AI agents.

## Latest updates

- **2026-02** — UiPath announced the acquisition of WorkFusion on February 6, 2026; this is a company milestone, not an appointment for Yankelevich.
- **2026-10** — Research checked: MYVA Ventures’ live investment-team page lists Yankelevich as Managing Partner, USA. This date records verification, not a newly announced appointment.

## Links

- Website: https://www.myvavc.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/maxyankelevich

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Last updated: 2026-10-25