Anna Lebedeva

Chief Editor & Co-founder at The Top Voices

Chief Editor & Co-founder at The Top Voices, Anna brings 15 years of marketing experience across agencies, IT hardware, SaaS B2B, and her own media company, including leading Semrush's marketing from its early days to a successful IPO. She has deep expertise in SaaS, martech, and tech landscapes, and understands business, tech products, and people. Anna built marketing teams of 50+ professionals across the USA, EMEA, and LATAM. An international speaker and award-winning marketer, she excels in strategy, project management, and full-cycle marketing. Also a certified yoga teacher with education in psychology and group dynamics.

AI VC

December 8, 2025

1 min

Mirror Security Secures $2.5M for AI Encryption

Mirror Security raises $2.5M pre-seed to scale VectaX, its fully homomorphic encryption platform, enabling secure AI adoption for enterprises.

AI Startups

December 2, 2025

2 min

UK AI Ambitions Hit by Legacy Systems, Cloudhouse Reveals

Cloudhouse finds outdated systems block AI adoption in 61% of UK organisations, with technical debt draining budgets and slowing innovation.

Startups Growth

November 28, 2025

1 min

POM Acquires FarPay to Expand European Invoice Automation

POM acquires Danish fintech FarPay to create a scalable, AI-driven European platform for invoicing, payments, and accounts receivable automation.

AI VC

November 25, 2025

1 min

BKN301 Raises €33M and Acquires Planky to Accelerate AI-Driven Fintech Expansion

BKN301 raises €33M, acquires Planky, and expands AI-driven digital banking infrastructure across EMEA for smarter, scalable fintech solutions.

VC Fundraising

June 2, 2025

3 min

Sam Lessin’s New VC Report Says the Playbook Is Dead. Here’s What Comes Next

VC in 2025 is belief-driven, founder-led, and deeply custom — no playbooks, just narrative-based, regatta-style capital trades.