About

On every side
of the table.

Founder, investor, advisor, author, and musician. Different ways of doing the same thing: making something that matters.

Portrait of Vitaly M. Golomb
San Francisco Bay Area

A builder’s perspective.

Vitaly M. Golomb is a Silicon Valley-based technology entrepreneur with more than 20 years of experience as a venture-backed CEO, venture capitalist, and investment banker. His career spans company-building, financings, strategic partnerships, and M&A across North America, Europe, and Asia.

Today, he is Managing Partner of Mavka Capital and Mavka Ventures, and Managing Director of Mavka Growth. Together, the three businesses connect strategic and financial advisory, early-stage embodied AI investing, and go-to-market execution.

He is the author of Accelerated Startup and is developing two new books: a reworked startup guide for the AI era and a manuscript under the working title Displaced. He also writes essays on technology, entrepreneurship, society, and culture. His speaking brings an operator’s perspective to entrepreneurship, innovation, capital, and technological change.

Outside the boardroom and the page, he produces and performs electronic music as VTLX. His R&B- and funk-driven dance music draws on years as a fusion musician alongside a parallel involvement in electronic music.

Vitaly M. Golomb is a Silicon Valley-based entrepreneur, investor, and advisor with more than 20 years of experience as a venture-backed CEO, venture capitalist, and investment banker. He is Managing Partner of Mavka Capital and Mavka Ventures, Managing Director of Mavka Growth, and author of Accelerated Startup. He speaks on entrepreneurship, AI, venture capital, and innovation, and produces and performs electronic music as VTLX.

Before Mavka.

  • Drake StarGlobal Mobility and Climate Tech Practice Lead
  • HP Tech VenturesFounding Partner
  • Keen SystemsFounder & CEO; acquired by Aleyant
  • Sofie LabsCo-founder & CEO
  • HyperChargeIndependent Board Director
  • Ukrainian Venture Capital & Private Equity AssociationSupervisory Board Member

Learning & perspective.

  • University of Silicon ValleyB.A., Computer and Video Imaging
  • UC Berkeley Haas School of BusinessVenture Capital
  • University of Chicago Booth School of BusinessBehavioral Economics
  • Professional qualificationsFINRA Series 7, 79, 63, and 24
  • Writing & commentaryContributor to TechCrunch ↗ and Boss Magazine ↗

More professional background on LinkedIn ↗

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