My investment strategy is simple yet based on years of experience in venture capital investments - I invest in great teams targeting and disrupting huge markets.

I target startup companies with a potential of growing into multibillion businesses. That requires strong team, huge market, profitable unit economics and highly scalable business model.

What I also look for in startups: unfair and sustainable competitive advantages, preferably strong network effects, high switching costs, highly profitable unit economics, well defined go-to-market strategy, ideally a business model based on recurring revenue.

About me:

I am an entrepreneur turned venture capitalist. I'm the Founder and Managing General Partner of Scale-Up, a Silicon Valley venture capital firm based in Palo Alto, California. Scale-Up is focused on investing in late and growth-stage companies in artificial intelligence, fintech, real-estate tech, data and analytics, next-generation infrastructure, online to offline sectors, and the sharing economy. Scale-Up’s experienced team of managing and venture partners have invested in nearly 100 technology companies from seed to growth stage, a number of which have since become unicorns and decacorns, including Snap (Snapchat), Slack, Opendoor, Poshmark, PAX, Reddit, Outreach, DataRobot and many other. I led investments in Altair Semiconductor (acquired by Sony Corporation), Kaminario, StartApp, Siklu, OpenWeb (Spot.IM), Xjet3D, Sckipio (acquired by Sequans Communications). Before moving to venture capital side of the tech industry, I was a serial tech entrepreneur and executive.

Any deal I syndicate is a startup that I am incredibly passionate about its team, target market and business model. I invest in startups where I can leverage my experience and personal network to support them.