Geoffrey Baehr

Role: General Partner at Almaz Capital
Location: Menlo Park, CA, US
LinkedIn followers: 500 followers

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About Geoffrey Baehr

Previously Chief Network Officer Sun Microsystems etc. Network Engineering, Operating…

Experience

General Partner
Almaz Capital
Jan 2011 — Present
Venture Capital fund, Bridge model between Baltic, trans regional Turkey, Lithuania, Romania, Estonia Belarus, Ukraine, Russia and USA. Primary LP\'s are Cisco and EBRD. Fund II under way, Fund I was very successful. With my dear friend (from 1991) Dr Sasha Galitsky. I was an Advisor to Fund I, which among others funded Parallels, Acumatica, Yandex. We did Vyatta (BRCD). Qik (YHOO) also. Our company nScaled was just acquired by Acronis SW on 9/8/2014. Director at Sensity, nScaled, Cinarra, Content Analytics, GridGain.

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Current company

Almaz Capital

Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals · 24 employees · Founded 2008 · Portola Valley, California, United States

Almaz Capital was founded in 2008 to invest in early stage startups in the CIS (commonwealth of independent states) and CEE (central and eastern Europe) region with the backing of Cisco Systems and the EBRD (European Bank for Reconstruction and Development). Almaz Capital set out to invest and build a bridge between investee companies from the newly independent countries of the former Soviet Union to resources and connections in Silicon Valley. With that intention the firm opened its first offices in Silicon Valley and Moscow. During that period Almaz supported many startups with origins in Russia, such as QIK (acquired by Skype), Yandex (NASDAQ:YNDX) or Parallels (acquired by Corel). In March 2014, after Crimea was annexed by Russia, Almaz Capital stopped investing in companies with any ties to Russia. In 2017 Almaz moved its European operations to Berlin and focus shifted from the countries of the CIS to the CEE region (central and eastern Europe). Following the crackdowns in Minsk in 2020 Almaz stopped investing in Belarus, another former Soviet state. We are helping our Ukraine-based startups survive the war ravaging their country. Not only are we one of the largest investors in Ukraine over the last 5 years, but we are also a long-time supporter actively involved at the governance level at the UVCA (Ukrainian Venture Capital Association). Almaz Capital invested over $50m in over 15 companies with Ukrainian founders or teams including Adjoy, Arcycle, Content Analytics, DMarket, Hover, Jelastic, Mobalytics, Maketime, Petcube, Speedsize, Starwind, and 3Dlook. Startup teams have shown amazing resiliency and despite the war Ukraine remains one of our favorite investment destinations.

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