Alexander Galitsky
Webit Speaker, Co-founder and Managing Partner of Almaz Capital
Dr. Galitsky is an internationally well-known inventor, entrepreneur and venture capitalist with a proven track record and executive operational experience in the US and Europe.
Alexander Galitsky is a co-founder and Managing Partner of Almaz Capital, an international venture fund with major offices in Portola Valley, CA (USA) and Berlin (Germany), and representative offices in other Central and Eastern European countries. Established in 2008, The fund's investors include EIF, Cisco, 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), Xometry (IPO NASDAQ) and others.
Alexander was 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 won the world known EY Entrepreneur Award (a unique global program that recognizes entrepreneurial achievement among individuals and companies that demonstrate vision, leadership and success) and became Entrepreneur of the Year in Russia in 2013. Beside that Sasha was honored as the best GP of 2013 by Venture Awards, 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.
Alexander has been a featured speaker at international conferences, including Interop, the World Economic Forum, RSA, Catalyst, LaWeb, StartUp weekend, EUROS Forum, TechCrunch, High-Tech Forum, Podim, Latitude, SuperReturn, Wolves Summit, ETRE, InfoShare, DLD, DigitalK, NOAH, Lviv Arena, SeedStars, SLUSH, Webit and others and has been profiled in various publications including The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, BusinessWeek, CEO Weekly, Financial Times, Harvard Business review, LA Weekly, Entrepreneur, NY Weekly, IB Times, NY Times and others.
For the last years, Sasha served as a member of Board of Directors at the following international companies: Acumatica, Acronis, Ezwim, Jelastic, PetCube, PGP Inc, Parallels, StarWind, Virtuozzo. Beside that he is still an Institute Advisor in B612 Foundation from 2014 and a member of a Founding circle.
Prior to Almaz Capital, back in 2003, Dr. Galitsky established AV Galitsky Holdings based in the Netherlands and became an active VC investor. He made a series of private successful investments. His past and current investments include: NavMaps (sold to TeleAtlas), Start Telecom, Acronis, Magnifire (sold to F5) SJLabs sold to MagicJack (Vocaltech), PGP (sold to Symantec), Parallels (sold to Corel) and EverNote (sold to Bending Spoons), ClickHouse, ShapesXR, Element Energy and others.
Alexander founded five successful high-tech companies, ELVIS+, TrustWorks Systems (sold to Hansard), EzWIM (sold to TMT Ventures), ELVIS Telecom (sold to Telenor) and NPC ELVIS, all of which he led as CEO. Prior to becoming an entrepreneur, Galitsky served as one of the top Technical Executive for the Soviet Space Agency.
Galitsky pioneered in Wi-Fi and Virtual Private Network technologies, as well as product development on the global market in partnership with Sun Microsystems. He has over 30 patents for numerous inventions. Alexander is PhD in Computer Science and holds a Master's degree in physics.