Aidar Kaliev
Global Head of Venture Capital @ VTB Capital Investment Management
Moscow, Russian Federation
Aidar Kaliev is a Series A investor at VTB Capital Investment Management in Moscow focused on Computer and Analytics. Aidar Kaliev is the Global Head of Venture Capital at VTB Capital Investment Management and a board member in a number of portfolio companies such as RNT (MICEX:RNAV), Mobi.Money, Eccentex and AiHit. Prior to joining VTB Capital in 2010, he was the Chairman of the board at Summa Telecom, a broadband internet provider in Russia, Ukraine, andKazakhstan. From 2006-2008, he was CEO at Eventis Telecom, a GSM and fixed-line telecommunication start-up in Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Moldova, and Georgia. Part of his vast experience in the Central Asian region was gained as Deputy CEO of Finance & Economics with Kyrgyzstan-based JSC Electric Power Plants and as First Deputy CEO of JSC Kyrgyzgas during 2001-2005. Aidar graduated with honors from St. Petersburg State University, where he specialized in Operations Research in Economics.
- Total investments:
- 3
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 33%
Last updated:
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Industries Aidar Kaliev invests in
Stages Aidar Kaliev invests in
Countries Aidar Kaliev invests in
Contacts
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Computer 1 (33%)
- Analytics 1 (33%)
- Consulting 1 (33%)
- Data Storage 1 (33%)
- Flash Storage 1 (33%)
Stage
- Series A 1 (33%)
- Series D 1 (33%)
- Series F 1 (33%)
Country
- United States 1 (33%)
- United Kingdom 1 (33%)
Investments
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| Avalanche is a disruptive technology company developing innovative, ultra high performance enterprise solid-state storage arrays using tightly integrated hardware/software and leveraging its own non-volatile magnetic memory. Backed by top-tier investors and led by a veteran management team, we’ve amassed a distinctive portfolio of more than200 cell, circuit, process and system patents. | $23M / Series F / Feb 02, 2016 | ||
| Avalanche is a disruptive technology company developing innovative, ultra high performance enterprise solid-state storage arrays using tightly integrated hardware/software and leveraging its own non-volatile magnetic memory. Backed by top-tier investors and led by a veteran management team, we’ve amassed a distinctive portfolio of more than200 cell, circuit, process and system patents. | $35M / Series D / Jul 01, 2012 | ||
| aiHit is a provider of company data to the business information, market research and lead generation industries. They specialize in collecting company information from the World Wide Web. Every day, they crawl through millions of websites, collecting information on companies. In addition, they process thousands of news sources for companyinformation and analyze the sentiment contained in these stories. The results in timely, rich information on a broad range of over 12m privately-owned companies as well as publicly-listed companies. | $5.5M / Series A / Oct 07, 2011 |
Co-Investors
VTB Capital venture business leads the way in the venture capital market in Russia and the CIS. Investing in Russian innovative cutting-edge technology is among VTB Capital’s priorities. Over the past few years VTB Capital venture business has backed over 30 companies in rapidly growing sectors of economy including cloud technologies, artificial intelligence, nanotechnology, energy efficiency, Russian E-commerce and consumer internet. We bet on growing demand for unique technologies and innovative business models specifically tailored for different industries. The long-term partnership with Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ), one of the top global venture firms, plays a key role for VTB Capital venture business. The portfolio companies obtain vital global exposure and the ability to build international partnerships to penetrate foreign markets. VTB Capital believes that the potential of Russian technologies in today’s global economy remains hugely unexplored. We are confident in numerous high-return start-up opportunities originating out of leading Russian scientific research institutions and pioneer IT companies.
VTB Capital Investment Management Contacts
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Aidar Kaliev
Global Head of Venture Capital
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Ivan Ilushin
Head of Research
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Nick Hutt
CEO
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Sergey Dyudin
Head of Portfolio Management Department
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Tim Demchenko
Global Head of Private Equity and Special Situations
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What does Aidar Kaliev invest in?
Aidar Kaliev invests primarily in Computer, Analytics and Consulting startups, most often at Series A and Series D stage. Most of the 3 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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The most recent investment recorded for Aidar Kaliev closed in Feb 2016. Shizune tracks 3 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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