Igor Shoifot

Igor Shoifot. Partner at TMT Investments, co-founder of Angelsdeck and Garage Syndicates, a prolific angel investor and board member at 100+ startups. – TMT Investments: $350M market cap (London Stock Exchange AIM), first VC investors in 4 unicorns, 16 profitable exits, 12x stock growth, 8x net returns to investors. – Boards of directors of 2 unicorns – co-founder at Angelsdeck: by far the largest Russian-speaking investment club (500+ investors), $50M/annual investment run - co-founder at Garage Syndicate: 100+ global investors – 25+ years in American high-tech. Rated a top investor in numerous investor rankings (National Association of Business Angels, etc.) – Founder: CEO of Epsylon Games, the largest gaming site on Microsoft WebTV in 1990s (70+ games). Co-founder of a large photo site Fotki (25M users in early 2000s). Sold vInternship.com system to Manhattan Institute of Management). – Professor/Writer: Taught at UC Berkeley, New York University, and UCSF for 11 years. Co-created a graduate course “Recreating Silicon Valley” at Stanford University. Wrote a chapter in "Masters of Corporate Venture Capital" book. – Created/owned startup accelerators and incubators (Happy Farm and Startup Nation) in Ukraine and Kazakhstan. – Numerous interviews and articles about venture capital and startup growth in Forbes, NBC, MSNBC, Inc. Magazine, CIO Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, Entrepreneur Magazine, Wired, LA Times, Business Insider, etc. – Education: MBA from Boston University, PhD from the Russian Academy of Sciences, MA from Central European University in Budapest.