Interview with Alexander Galitsky, Co-founder at Almaz Capital

About Alexander Galitsky

Alexander Galitsky is a co-founder and Managing Partner of Almaz Capital, an international venture fund with major office in Portola Valley, CA, as well as with offices and representative offices in Berlin (Germany), Kiev (Ukraine), Warsaw (Poland) and other Central and Eastern European countries. The fund was backed in 2008 by Cisco Systems, EBRD and IFC. Among the most famous deals of Almaz Capital are Yandex (IPO NASDAQ), QIK (sold to Skype), Sensity Systems (sold to Verizon Communications), Acumatica (sold to EQT) and others.

Alexander Galitsky is a well-known innovator, entrepreneur and investor in USA and Europe. Alexander is the President of the South East Europe Tech Tour which took place in Bucharest (Romania) and Sofia (Bulgaria) in May 2019, as well as the President of the 2018 East Europe Tech Tour, which was organized in Warsaw (Poland) and Sofia (Bulgaria). He was honored numerous times as the most influential person in the Russian IT and Internet industry by Forbes, best GP of 2013 by Venture Awards, EY Entrepreneur of the Year in Russia in 2013. Alexander was nominated for the best venture capitalist of the last decade in Europe in 2012 by Investor AllStars and named “Technology Pioneer” at the World Economic Forum in Davos in 2000.

Currently Sasha serves as a member of Board of Directors at the following international companies: CarPrice, Jelastic, Octonion, Virtuozzo (part of Parallels Holdings) and as Institute Advisor in B612 Foundation.