# Almaz Capital

> Almaz Capital is a VC fund backing Software and Artificial Intelligence. See 109 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Portola Valley, United States
- Total investments: 109
- Last investment: Apr 2026
- Lead investor: 49%
- Fund size: $300M
- Last fund: Aug 2016
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/1961578/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/AlmazCapital
- Website: https://www.almazcapital.com/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Almaz-Capital-132935050104217/

Almaz Capital is an international venture capital firm investing in early stage, capital efficient technology companies. A unique bridge fund headquartered in Silicon Valley, Almaz Capital connects Eastern European/former Soviet engineering and entrepreneurial talent to the U.S. market and helps build global businesses. The firm invests inhigh-growth sectors such as artificial intelligence and blockchain applications, data engineering, cybersecurity, industrial IoT, networking architecture and infrastructure. Its investors include Cisco, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), and International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group. Founded in 2008, Almaz Capital has invested in over 30 portfolio companies and has had nine exits to date.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.1M–$10M |
| Series A | $2M–$21M |
| Series B | $3.1M–$58M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 30 | 28% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 12 | 11% |
| Internet | 11 | 10% |
| Mobile | 10 | 9% |
| Machine Learning | 8 | 7% |

124 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 30 | 28% |
| Seed | 19 | 17% |
| Series B | 16 | 15% |
| Funding Round | 13 | 12% |
| Series C | 5 | 5% |

10 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 35 | 32% |
| Russian Federation | 8 | 7% |
| Germany | 4 | 4% |
| Latvia | 2 | 2% |
| Poland | 2 | 2% |

14 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Alexander Galitsky | Co-Founder and Managing Partner | 6 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dr-alexander-sasha-galitsky |
| Pavel Bogdanov | General Partner | 4 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pavel-bogdanov |
| Aniruddha Nazre | General Partner | 5 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aniruddha-nazre |
| Charles E. Ryan | General Partner | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/charles-e-ryan |
| Daniil Stolyarov | Investment Director | 9 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/daniil-stolyarov |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Alcatraz AI | Alcatraz AI replaces badging as an access point identification method by leveraging facial recognition, 3d sensing, and AI. The company builds a facial authentication platform using AI and 3D sensing to enable a highly secure and frictionless entry into physical locations. Alcatraz AI was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in California, USA. | $50M | Series B | Apr 01, 2026 |  |
| Refurbed | Refurbed operates as an online marketplace for refurbished products in the german-speaking world. It sells renewed phones, laptops and tablets which are up to 40% cheaper and 100% more environmentally friendly than their brand-new, store-bought counterparts. Refurbed devices are renewed through a 40-step process, making them look like new andfunction like new. On top of that, each device comes with at least a 12-month guarantee.The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Vienna, Austria. | $60.2M | Series C | Oct 22, 2025 |  |
| Moonshot AI | Moonshot AI is a No-code solution that optimizes e-commerce stores automatically. The platform utilizes the power of generative AI to enable brands to constantly iterate on CRO experiments, without requiring design, analysis, or developer resources. | $10M | Seed | Oct 21, 2025 |  |
| Certivity | Certivity RegTech Software solution makes regulatory management smarter, more transparent, more efficient, and way cheaper. | $15.4M | Series A | Jul 29, 2025 |  |
| specter automation | Construction is the second least digitized sector in the world with 96% of all data being unused. Although detailed planning data is created upfront, a lack of suitable digital tools prevents its transfer to the construction site. SPECTER’s web-based construction management software uniquely incorporates the core components of constructionplanning, reducing the organizational burden on construction management and helping to meet project timelines and budgets. | $5.4M | Seed | Mar 26, 2025 |  |
| Dubformer | Dubformer is an Amsterdam-based company that provides AI dubbing solutions for the Media and Entertainment Industry.Dubformer leverages a unique technology stack, developed by a team of leading AI experts, which includes Speech Recognition, Voice Biometrics, Speaker Diarization, Machine Translation, Generative Voices, and AI Mixing. This iscomplemented by the Human Touch platform, where professional proof-listeners review and refine AI-generated content, ensuring its alignment with industry standards.Dubformer works with 130+ languages and offers 1000+ voices. The company has delivered hundreds of hours of dubbing and voice-over content to the global audiences, working both directly with Media companies, and as a SaaS partner for leading LSPs. Client list includes Little Dot Studios, Motorvision, W4tch.tv, VOXX Studios, and others. | $3.6M | Seed | Mar 04, 2025 |  |
| Nomagic | Nomagic provides smart pick and place robotic solutions for order fulfillment. Their solutions bring efficiency, flexibility and reliability to e-commerce warehouses. They automate tedious tasks while reducing the cost of fulfillment and allow warehouses to face shortage of labor and scale easily to 24/7 operations.Nomagic's firstrobots are on packing lines at Cdiscount, the #1 French eCommerce platform. | $44M | Series B | Feb 26, 2025 |  |
| Alison AI | Alison is the world's best AI-powered creative (Video) Analysis platform. From ideation to optimization to production, Alison makes it easier than ever to create Videos with the highest likelihood of success.Our unique SaaS technology allows businesses to identify their top-performing elements in creatives, get full-funnel data, and performintelligent competitive analysis. Stop the guesswork and start making results-driven creatives! | $13.3M | Seed | Nov 12, 2024 |  |
| Yazen | Yazen is a digital healthcare provider that offers tailored weight loss programs, combining medical treatments with lifestyle coaching. The platform connects users with a team of experts, including doctors, dietitians, and personal trainers, to create individualized weight management plans. | $21.2M | Series A | Nov 04, 2024 |  |
| PLATMA | PLATMA is the next era of Low/No Code Development Platforms evolution that is grounded on the real Declarative Programming approach. We help small and medium businesses pass IT developers and automate their business processes without IT skills by generating ready-to-go blocks through declarative requests (write requests in English). | $2M | Pre-Seed | Sep 10, 2024 |  |

10 of 109 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Almaz Capital invest in?

Almaz Capital invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Internet startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 109 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Almaz Capital's check size?

Almaz Capital typically joins rounds of $1.1M–$10M at Seed, $2M–$21M at Series A and $3.1M–$58M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Almaz Capital participates in.

### How do I contact Almaz Capital?

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### Who are the partners at Almaz Capital?

The team at Almaz Capital includes Alexander Galitsky (Co-Founder and Managing Partner), Pavel Bogdanov (General Partner) and Aniruddha Nazre (General Partner), among 10 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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