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Ihar Mahaniok

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Smart Money Rating: 96 out of 100

Managing Partner, Geek Ventures

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Geek Ventures
Title
Managing Partner
Role
Managing partner
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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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