Partner
Ihar Mahaniok
Managing Partner, Geek Ventures
- Firm
- Geek Ventures
- Title
- Managing Partner
- Role
- Managing partner
- Known as
- Investor
Record updated 28 September 2026
About
Ihar Mahaniok, an immigrant engineering leader with over 20 years of experience building code and machine learning models for startups and conglomerates, founded Geek Ventures in 2021 after seeing the difficulties immigrant entrepreneurs faced when trying to raise capital and make connections within the U.S. venture-capital ecosystem. Prior to Geek Ventures, Mahaniok invested in notable unicorns as an angel investor including Instacart, PandaDoc, People.ai, Airbyte, and Jeeves at the pre-seed and seed stages, and in hundreds of other successful companies.
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