The Yellow Door/Venture · I8GV

05 - Get funded · scale

New-generation
early-stage fund.

We bridge innovation and capital between the CIS and the West. We build the playing field - then invest in the players. Seed-stage, deep-tech affinity; we lead early and follow alongside the top VCs.

Yulia Tretyakova - men in black suits
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“They do some of the most insanely amazing work we've seen bringing early-stage startups and great venture funds out of emerging markets.”
Gary Tan · Y Combinator

Track record

$30M
AUM
40+
Portfolio companies
340%
Fund I return
7
Exits / markups

Fund I returned ≈340% (≈$20M on $6M over 5 years). Named exits / markups: AgFunder 4×, PipelineDB 30× (ex-YC), ChannelMeter 15×, Vyng 20×.

Our companies

40+ · selected

The thesis

“We build the playing field, then invest in the players.”

An uncanny ability to see around corners, in the dark - and touch the future. Venture capital for a multipolar world: we find the connections others can't, and back the founders the rest of the world hasn't noticed yet - fast, under the radar, and done.

Our team

01
General Partners

Lead the fund, set thesis, sit on boards

Dima Bolshakov · Aleks Volkov · Mike Schwittay · Val Jerdes
02
Principals

Source, diligence, support portfolio

Val Trofanov · Kolya Zhegin · Mikhail Trofimov · Ilya Khanykov
03
Operations

Platform, LP relations, the machinery

Raisa Zhidok · Kat Bodrova · Sergey Makarov
04
Advisory Partners

An extraordinary network of Valley names

Kat Manalac · Phil Wickham · Cameron Teitelman …
05
EIRs / Venture Partners

Founders-in-residence, co-investors

Carlos de la Lama-Noriega · Damiano Ramazzotti

Building something the world hasn't noticed yet?

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