SVOD – Silicon Valley Open Doors

Impact Through High-Tech Entrepreneurship

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Vitaly Polekhin

Vitaly Polekhin

Vitaly Polekhin

Managing Partner at Venture Angels

VENTURE ANGELS, Seed & Early Stage Investments, Co-founder, Managing Partner

Background:

High technology entrepreneur and investor
Angel Investor of the Year 2015 by Russia Venture Awards
Vice Chairman of National Business Angels Association NBAA
Head of SKOLKOVO Business School Investor club

Education:

Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO Executive MBA
Lomonosov Moscow State University MBA
MIT Sloan School of Management Entrepreneurship and Innovation Program
UC Berkley Haas School of Business Venture Capital Executive Program
PhD in Philosophy

Testimonials

It’s a great conference and it brings together great content from really terrific speakers like we just had and then a network of really interesting entrepreneurs.

Andy Tsao

Managing Director, Silicon Valley Bank

It was great to present at SVOD and meet world-class entrepreneurs and investors. Our venture was off to a fast start in the funding round after the conference, we had an early closing to the round, and I look forward to being part of SVOD in the future!

Alexei Dunayev

CEO &CoFounder, TranscribeMe & Stanford MBA

A lot of energy, lot of very dedicated entrepreneurs here, very passionate, very committed to what they’re doing.

Mitchell (Mitch) Kapor

Partner, Kapor Capital

The founders of the conference are very authentic and these are people that want to change the world and make things better for entrepreneurs and help people and I think that’s a great thing.

George Zachary

Partner, Charles River Ventures, (Midas List, 1st investor in twitter & Yammer, $1.4B under management)

The SVOD conference was a wonderful event. Networking is very important for start-ups. The challenge for them is often not money: it is mentoring and finding people who can give good advice from experience.

Esther Dyson

Founder, EDventure Holdings

Excellent! Great conference! Lots of People! Lot of energy! Enthusiastic! Everything is just going so good.

Vish Mishra

Venture Director, Clearstone Venture Partners ($600M under management)

Cleary one of the very best conferences we attended and sponsored in Silicon Valley this year. To us the conference truly captured what we see in our daily practice, the substantial opportunities and also the challenges with cross-border business arrangements. We made many new meaningful connections.

Lars Johansson

Partner, K&L Gates

The organizers here are doing an amazing job with selecting the people who attend, selecting the speakers, coming up with ideas for panels and discussions. The truly amazing side is that the audience gets bigger, more involved, active and more thoughtful. It’s just a fun place to be!

Daniil Stolyarov

Investment Director, Almaz Capital Partners (102M under management)