Investing Profile

Pavel Cherkashin(795)

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gva.capitalSan Francisco, California

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Current Investing Position

GVA Capital Managing Partner

Investment Range

$500K - $20.0M

Sweet Spot

$3.0M

Investments On Record

Pavel Cherkashin's Investments On Record (11)

Company	StageDateRound Size	Total Raised
People.ai	Seed RoundAug 2016$3M	$200M
Co-investors: John Thompson (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Jeff Richards (GGV Capital), Paul Levine (Sapphire Ventures), Peter Levine (Andreessen Horowitz), Ross Mason (SignalFire), Alan Leong (Sand Hill Angels), Ihar Mahaniok (Geek Ventures), Sam Kwok (Garage Technology Ventures), Jean Sini (Partech Ventures), Doug Pepper (ICONIQ Capital), Nakul Mandan (Audacious Ventures), Amos Ben-Meir (Sand Hill Angels), Jake Seid (Ballistic Ventures), Yevgen Sysoyev (Aventures Capital), Kevin Mahaffey (SNR), Dharmesh Shah, Ashish Toshniwal
Cherry Home	Seed RoundApr 2016$900K	$900K
Diamond Foundry	Series ANov 2015$50M	$50M
Co-investors: Mark Goldstein (Advisors Fund LLC), David Spector (ThirdLove), Owen Van Natta (Prefix Capital), Leonardo DiCaprio, Alison Pincus, Mark Pincus, Scott Banister, Jean Pigozzi
Kiana Analytics	Convertible NoteApr 2015$1M	$1M
Co-investors: Alireza Masrour (Plug & Play Ventures), Tom Chiu (Enspire Capital)
FiscalNote	Series ANov 2014$7M	$350M
Co-investors: Alireza Masrour (Plug & Play Ventures), Aaron Holiday (645 Ventures), Jerry Yang (AME Cloud Ventures), Sheel Tyle (Amplo), Matthew Murphy (Montage Ventures), Chris Fisher (GPO Fund), Luke Armour (Chaac Ventures), Jeff Stewart (GPO Fund), Keith Nilsson (Visionaire Ventures), Sterling Witzke (Winklevoss Capital), Mark Cuban, Mathieu Guerville, Tom Monahan, Key Compton
Pixlee	Seed RoundOct 2013$1.5M	$1.5M
Co-investors: Richard Boyle (Canaan Partners), Timothy Dick (Startup Capital Ventures), Ariel Poler (Human Augmentation Syndicate), Robert Siegel (Piva Capital), Will Mcclelland (Grace Beauty Capital)
GdeSlon	Seed RoundSep 2013$500K	$500K
Co-investors: Igor Ryabenkiy (Altair Capital Management), Sergey Gribov (Flint Capital)
GBooking	Seed RoundAug 2013$1M	$1.4M
Co-investors: Konstantin Siniushin (the Untitled Ventures), Igor Ryabenkiy (Altair Capital Management)

most interested in

Early-stage technology startups with proven product traction and scientific invention as key competitive advantage (revenue is good to have but not a requirement) Examples: Artificial intelligence / neural networks Autonomous vehicles / self-driving cars Deep tech Cannabis (hemp) Silicon / new chips / edge computing Video processing on the edge Innovation for oil and gas / metallurgy / coal and other "old" industries Consumer financial services (scoring, credit, factoring, freelancer financing)

not interested in

Not interested in technologies that (1) hard to scale (2) require a lot of capital to win (3) I don't understand (4) evil Examples include: - Vertical marketplaces (too expensive to scale, CAC>LTV) - Tobacco/vaping (evil) - Blockchain for X (too early) - ICOs

Pavel Cherkashin's Experience

Managing Partner GVA Capital2015 - Present

General Manager, Consumer & Online - Russia Microsoft2009 - 2011

Country Manager - Russia & CIS Adobe Systems2006 - 2009

Country Manager, Russia & CIS Siebel Systems2004 - 2006

Director Sputnik Labs2001 - 2004

CEO Actis Systems1997 - 2000

Pavel Cherkashin's Education

Stanford Continuing Studies Continuing Studies Degree Creative Writing, A

International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science

Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU) BS Computer Science in Global Ecology

Moscow School #5 (1230) Master of Science (MS) Computer Technology/Computer Systems Technology