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Honors Fund is thrilled to announce our recent investment in VSOptima.

VSOptima is a B2B SaaS platform founded by a 2022 UCLA Anderson grad aiming to solve operational inefficiencies through digital twin technology. VSOptima’s solution is a no-code interface that is built once yet continually reflects the current state of operations, shows performance issues, predicts the business impact of improvement decision and tracks change execution.

The platform’s use cases are the following:

(1) Retail/Supply Chain: Supply chain network optimization for speed/cost/inventory levels in the instances of structural changes, demand fluctuation, etc. The problem in retail is significant — misjudged inventory decisions account for 50–60% of unplanned markdown costs.

(2) Finance: Financial performance optimization of the customer journey as well as workforce planning/optimization and policy changes evaluation. There are potential efficiency improvements in the industry — the operating cost between leaders in the banking space and standard retail banks is up to 40%.

The company is led by the founder and CEO Pavel Azaletskiy, a 2022 Anderson grad. Pavel’s personal journey as a consultant led him to realize that the manual work he was doing could be optimized through digital twin technology and he set out to build the infrastructure to support his vision. The platform now supports both consulting partners who provide advisory services related to operational flow as well as enterprise companies looking to proactively manage their operations.

The value of VSOptima lies in its ability to save time and money as essentially a “copilot for operational leaders”. We were excited about the company’s vision particularly due to the untapped areas they plan to target as digital twin technology has already largely penetrated industries with a heavy reliance on physical assets such as manufacturing, production, and engineering. We strongly believe Pavel’s extensive background in consulting will give the company an edge when understanding their customers’ pain points and in turn further personify his vision.

Honors Fund is excited to support VSOptima’s mission and as the company continues its innovation, we are eager to see the positive impact it will have on industries that have been overlooked by digital twin technology.