V alentin Kipyatkov is a Russian technology entrepreneur and one of the three co-founders of JetBrains, a highly successful software development company. While the company was founded in the Czech Republic and is now headquartered there, all of its founders are of Russian origin. JetBrains is a major global provider of integrated development environments (IDEs) and other productivity tools for software programmers. The company's products, such as IntelliJ IDEA for Java developers and ReSharper for .NET developers, are widely used and highly respected in the global developer community.

The company has been bootstrapped and has grown organically without taking on any outside venture capital, a rarity for a company of its scale and success. The three co-founders, Kipyatkov, Sergey Dmitriev, and Eugene Belyaev, have built a highly profitable and respected software powerhouse. Kipyatkov's billion-dollar fortune is derived from his one-third ownership stake in the privately held company he co-founded.