Ihar Mahaniok

Ihar Mahaniok, an immigrant engineering leader turned early stage investor, founded Geek Ventures to support other immigrant entrepreneurs in need of capital and important industry connections. Prior to Geek Ventures, Mahaniok invested in notable unicorns including Instacart, PandaDoc, People.ai, Chainalysis, Airbyte, and Jeeves at pre-seed and seed stage, and hundreds of other successful companies. Through Geek Ventures, Mahaniok has continued to deploy capital in immigrant-founded technology companies including NewHomesMate, ShapesXR, FoodReady, Decile Group and more, to help them grow in the U.S. VC ecosystem.

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9.19.2023

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How to build unicorn startups?

In this episode, Ihar Mahaniok shares his journey as an immigrant founder and investor. Ihar provides invaluable advice for immigrant founders looking to break into the US startup ecosystem. He explains how his fund GeekVentures helps founders become fully embedded by introducing them to investors and helping them communicate effectively.

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