Alexey Girin
Founder, Partner @ Starta VC
New York, United States
Alexey Girin is a Founder and General Partner at Starta VC (www.starta.vc).He has 15 years of experience in audit and finance and 10 years in the venture capital industry.His introduction to investment started in 1996 when he was the Chief Financial Officer for the Investment Company Dominanta. His success at Dominanta led to a new CFO role atFMGC where he stayed for several years.As an Entrepreneur, Alexey was the Co-Founder and Partner in AFD Consulting. AFD is an audit and accounting firm. Advancing from AFD in 2004, he began his Angel Investing work. In this capacity, which he still serves, Alexey functioned as an advisor and fundraiser for innovators and venture capital entities.In 2010, Alexey became the Co-Founder and General Partner of Starta Ventures. Starta Capital’s portfolio now includes a number of deep tech startup companies.In 2015, together with Ekaterina Dorozhkina, Starta Capital’s Managing Partner, they launched Starta Accelerator. Starta Accelerator is New York City-based program that aims to empower startups with Eastern European roots and frontier technology.Alexey earned his Master in Economics from the Russian State University of Trade and Economics.
- Total investments:
- 13
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 92%
Last updated:
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Industries Alexey Girin invests in
Stages Alexey Girin invests in
Countries Alexey Girin invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Marketplace 3 (23%)
- Travel 2 (15%)
- Software 2 (15%)
- E-Commerce 2 (15%)
- Health Care 2 (15%)
Stage
- Seed 9 (69%)
- Pre-Seed 4 (31%)
Country
- United States 9 (69%)
- United Kingdom 2 (15%)
- Egypt 1 (8%)
- Armenia 1 (8%)
Investments
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b0arding.com
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b0arding is a travel booking platform that helps people make the best travel choices and take better trips. Backed by Google, Booking.com, Amadeus, and others, b0arding.com is the only go-to site for finding hotels & vacation rentals with video reviews from those who have been there before. Witnessing fellow travelers' experiencesfirsthand enhances the authenticity of the feedback and helps potential guests make the most informed decisions. | Seed / Oct 01, 2024 | |
Expper Technologies
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Expper Technologies is a robotics company that develops social robots that serve as a companion for kids in hospitals. | $2.5M / Seed / Jan 18, 2022 | |
KitchenHub
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Kitchenhub helps restaurants to manage orders and menu from multiple delivery or online ordering services from a single app. | $500K / Seed / Oct 01, 2021 | |
YouTravel.me
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YouTravel.me is a marketplace platform that specializes in travel experts and private independent guides for tourist. | $1M / Seed / Sep 02, 2021 | |
Beam Coffee
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Beam builds Smart Cafes that offers an app-driven coffee shop experience. | $110K / Seed / Oct 01, 2020 | |
LeoHome
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The first all-in-one pet care ecosystem that provides a simplified adoption process & curated products to meet your animals needs based on aggregated data. To help animals get adopted faster, our adoption platform will connect shelters with the people and resources they need.Industry Accredited Accolades:- Top E-Commerce startup - New York2021 | The Startup Pill - Top 34 Best New York City Pet companies & startups 2021 | BestStartup.us - Most Innovative Global Pet Adoption Platform 2021 | LUXlife magazine award - 10 The Most Promising Pet Adoption Resources | adoptionpress.com - Top 100 unicorns-to-be | EMERGE report 2021 | $110K / Seed / Oct 01, 2020 | |
Alcove Systems
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Alcove is an on demand, short-term luggage storage web app where concierges meet travelers to retrieve their bags. | $110K / Seed / Oct 01, 2020 | |
Food Safe System
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Food Safe System is a food producer's company. They use a food-safe system to digitally record the cooling and hot hold units, and the temperatures are stored within the app. | $110K / Pre-Seed / Oct 01, 2020 | |
Artpot
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Artpot closed in January 2021, King Li, the co-founder of Artpot, registered a new company to compete with Artpot during the same time as Artpot in the Starta Ventures batch 10 accelerator program. | $110K / Seed / Oct 01, 2020 | |
RAIM Solutions
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RAIM Solutions provides information management solutions. Manufacturing robotic mannequins for your fashion retail store. | $110K / Seed / Oct 01, 2020 | |
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Co-Investors
About Starta VC
Our main mission is to introduce international startups to best practices, trusted advisers and mentors, and overcome cultural differences through a customized educational program at Starta Accelerator. We help startups to gain traction in the US and become part of the local startup and investing ecosystem. Diversity is one of our strong points:150+ portfolio companies with founders coming from Eastern and Western Europe, US, Africa, Latin America.
Starta VC Contacts
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Alexey Girin
Founder, Partner
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Anastasia Lykova Allan
Partner
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Ekaterina Matveeva
Public speaking coach
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Elana Barlev
Program Manager
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Ivan Terekhin
Partner, Director at Liqvest.com
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What does Alexey Girin invest in?
Alexey Girin invests primarily in Marketplace, Travel and Software startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 13 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 Alexey Girin closed in Oct 2024. Shizune tracks 13 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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