# Alex Scherbakovsky

> Alex Scherbakovsky is a Series B investor at AVP (San Francisco) backing Software and Big Data. See 16 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [AVP](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/axa-strategic-ventures)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 16
- Last investment: Apr 2026
- Lead investor: 63%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexscherbakovsky
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/scherbakovsky
- Website: https://x.com/scherbakovsky
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/alex.scherbakovsky

Alex Scherbakovsky is a Series B investor at AVP in San Francisco focused on Software and Big Data. Alex Scherbakovsky is based out of New York and is the General Partner of AVP and also Board Member. Alex previously worked at Celero Capital as a Founder. Alex Scherbakovsky attended Harvard Business School.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 5 | 31% |
| Big Data | 2 | 13% |
| Computer | 2 | 13% |
| Security | 2 | 13% |
| Analytics | 2 | 13% |

35 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series B | 4 | 25% |
| Series C | 3 | 19% |
| Series D | 3 | 19% |
| Series E | 3 | 19% |
| Series A | 2 | 13% |

6 stages tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Orkes | Orkes provides a cloud-based platform for orchestrating workflows across microservices, APIs, and distributed systems, enabling developers to manage complex application processes and integrations. Its platform is built on the open-source Conductor project and delivers a managed service that supports workflow execution, event-driven architectures,and long-running processes. The system includes capabilities such as workflow modeling, state management, monitoring, and access control, which help track executions and maintain operational reliability. It also supports integration with various programming languages, cloud environments, and external services, allowing teams to define workflows as code and coordinate business logic across systems. Additionally, the platform incorporates features for observability and governance, offering visibility into workflows and tools to manage performance, errors, and system behavior in production environments. | $60M | Series B | Apr 23, 2026 |  |
| Selector | Selector AI is a platform for operational intelligence of multi-cloud infrastructure and performance-sensitive managed services. By adopting an AI/ML-based data analytics approach, Selector AI provides actionable multi-dimensional insights to network, cloud, and application operators. Their customers can meet their service KPIs throughseamless collaboration on messaging platforms, search-driven querying with a conversational user experience, and automated data engineering pipelines. | $32M | Series B | Feb 18, 2026 |  |
| Gladly | For business leaders who want to get AI right, Gladly is the only customer experience AI that delivers the cost savings you need AND the customer devotion that drives lasting business value. Trusted by the world's most customer-centric brands—including Crate & Barrel, Breeze Airways, and Ulta Beauty—Gladly is purpose-built to engagecustomers, not deflect them. Learn more at gladly.ai | $40M | Venture - Series Unknown | Sep 26, 2024 |  |
| Strider Technologies | Strider is a strategic intelligence firm that utilizes artificial intelligence to convert publicly available data into vital insights. The company helps organizations secure and advance their technology and innovation. Strider focuses on identifying and mitigating risks associated with state-sponsored intellectual property (IP) theft, targetedtalent acquisition, and supply chain vulnerabilities. | $55M | Series C | Sep 12, 2024 |  |
| Tive | Tive is a Boston-based startup that helps companies take the surprises out of their supply chains through true end-to-end visibility. It is the easiest way for companies to manage their supply chain – and get results. Unlock unparalleled insight and enhanced visibility.They help companies improve efficiency and meet regulatory requirements byproviding an end-to-end sensor solution to visualize, optimize, and monitor operations in real-time. | $54M | Series B | Apr 11, 2022 |  |
| Gravia | Gravie is a health insurance marketplace designed to help consumers choose and buy insurance, pay for it, and manage all health care expenses in one place. Gravie specializes in the fields of health insurance, health care, and employer benefits. | $90M | Series E | Mar 09, 2022 |  |
| Gravia | Gravia offers steel products and services tailored for construction, industry, agribusiness, and metalworking. Its products include steel plates, coils, sheets, pipes, tubes, rebars, beams, angles, wires, bars, rods, mesh, gratings, and customized steel solutions for various industries. | $90M | Series E | Mar 09, 2022 |  |
| Contrast Security | Contrast Security is a code security tool developer that embeds code analysis and attacks prevention directly into the software. Its patented deep security instrumentation completely disrupts traditional application security approaches with integrated, comprehensive security observability that delivers accurate assessment and continuous protectionof an entire application portfolio. This eliminates the need for disruptive scanning, expensive infrastructure workloads, and specialized security experts. The Contrast Application Security Platform accelerates development cycles, improves efficiencies and cost, and enables rapid scale while protecting applications from known and unknown threats. | $150M | Series E | Nov 09, 2021 |  |
| Gravia | Gravie is a health insurance marketplace designed to help consumers choose and buy insurance, pay for it, and manage all health care expenses in one place. Gravie specializes in the fields of health insurance, health care, and employer benefits. | $28M | Series D | Mar 18, 2021 |  |
| Gravie | Gravie is a health benefits platform that offers insurance services. Their software products include Comfort and Ichra. Gravie designed health benefits to help employers control costs. They take a defined contribution approach, to employers set a fixed budget each year. | $28M | Series D | Mar 18, 2021 |  |

10 of 16 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Alumni Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alumni-ventures-group) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [FirstMark](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/firstmark-capital) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Revelation Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/revelation-partners) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Split Rock Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/split-rock-partners) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Acero Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/acero-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [General Catalyst](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/general-catalyst-partners) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

## About AVP

VC Fund · Paris, France

AXA Venture Partners (AVP) is a venture capital fund investing in high-growth, technology-enabled companies. AVP has built a unique investment platform specialized in tech investments with $600 million of assets under management through three pillars of investment expertise: Early Stage Fund, Growth Stage Fund and Fund of Funds. To date, AVP hasinvested in 40 Early and Growth equity deals and 6 Fund investments. AVP team operates globally backed by offices in San Francisco, New York, London, Paris and Hong Kong. Beyond investments, AVP provides access to business development opportunities helping portfolio companies to scale globally and accelerate their growth.

5 contacts available at AVP.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Alex Scherbakovsky | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alex-scherbakovsky |
| François Robinet | Managing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fran%C3%A7ois-robinet |
| Imran Akram | General partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/imran-akram |
| Manish Agarwal | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/manish-agarwal-bd0b |
| Marc Lewden | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/marc-lewden |

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## FAQ

### What does Alex Scherbakovsky invest in?

Alex Scherbakovsky invests primarily in Software, Big Data and Computer startups, most often at Series B and Series C stage. Most of the 16 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Alex Scherbakovsky last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Alex Scherbakovsky closed in Apr 2026. Shizune tracks 16 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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