Andrew
Kalibabin

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  • Founder and operator.

  • Based in Dubai 🇦🇪

Now

    Co-founder and CEO of Valetcart, a software company building automated online shopping carts for grocery retailers. The software runs inside the retailer's own systems and assembles the cart before the shopper opens the app.

    Headquartered at DIFC Innovation Hub, with the first pilot now running in Dubai. Selected for Launchpad, the founder residency at Oraseya Capital.


    CEO of Valetcart, an AI company building automated online shopping carts for grocery retailers. Headquartered at DIFC Innovation Hub, working with retailers across MENA and Europe.

    • Previously

      • CPO at Martistel, a Dubai robotics startup building warehouse automation for FMCG and e-commerce. Secured pilots with two major regional enterprises — a leading MENA food-delivery platform and a global ports and logistics operator. Led the product debut at MODEX '24 in Atlanta.

        Also led the brand launch — which, a year later, earned Bronze at the Transform Awards MEA 2025 for Best Visual Identity.

        Before Dubai, ten years running Artutkin, a digital agency I founded in Moscow. Grew it to $2.7M revenue, mostly working at the intersection of AI, big data, and online sales for banks and insurers. The work I'm proudest of: a real-time personalization platform that added $6M in digital revenue in its first month at a top-5 insurer, and a portfolio-rebalancing system that grew net profit in a major bank's online VIP segment by $45M in a year.

        Before that, co-founded autocommunity.ru, an early Russian e-commerce startup, and before that ran B2B sales in the Moscow telecoms sector.

      • On the UAE 🇦🇪

        • Dubai is home. I came here to build — Valetcart is a Dubai-born company going global, and I write about what that actually looks like on LinkedIn: retail, AI, and what it takes to land an enterprise pilot in this region.


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