Geek Ventures
New York pre-seed and seed fund backing immigrant tech founders building in the US.
🇺🇸 New York, New York · Founded 2021
Checks $200K – $800K·Pre-seed to Seed·Leads or follows
Geek Ventures is a New York venture fund founded in 2021 by Ihar Mahaniok, an engineer from Belarus who worked at Google, Facebook, WeWork and Lightning AI. Its motto is "Built by Immigrants, Investing in Immigrants". It invests at pre-seed and seed, from idea stage to $1.5M ARR, in US-focused companies and is sector-agnostic. It also helps founders with fundraising, investor introductions and community. Fund I closed at $23M in 2023.
What they invest in
We come in early, at pre-seed and seed, from idea stage to $1.5M ARR. We are sector-agnostic. Immigrant founders are our priority. We look for large and fast-growing TAM ($10B+). Bold ideas preferred. High scalability is a must.
- Check size
- $200K – $800K
- Stage
- Pre-seed to Seed
- Role in a round
- Leads or follows
- Fund
- Fund I · $23M
- Closed 2023
- AI
- SaaS
- Enterprise software
- Deep tech
- Hardware
- United States
How to pitch
They read inbound pitches that match the criteria above.
Open to
- Pitches from founders
- Co-investment
Founders can send a deck through the pitch form on the fund's site. The fund mostly co-invests alongside other investors.
Portfolio
Geek Ventures lists 55 portfolio companies on its site, with partnerships dating from 2021 to 2026. It invests at pre-seed and seed in US-focused startups, mostly with immigrant founders. The list spans AI, SaaS, hardware, deep tech and health.
Some of the companies they have backed
The portfolio at a glance · 30 companies · 2021–2026
Sectors
- AI developer tools7%
- AI infrastructure7%
- Industrial AI7%
- Marketing AI7%
- Other73%
Stage when they invested
- Seed3%
30 of the companies on the fund's own portfolio page, as of Oct 2026, most recent first. The years are the partnership years shown there. The full list is on its site.
Co-investors and partners
Funds that invested in the same rounds.
