Ihar Mahaniok is the founder and Managing Partner of Geek Ventures. As an engineering leader, Ihar has over 20 years of experience building code, ML models, and engineering teams for startups and conglomerates, including Google and Meta. As an investor, Ihar has invested in 150+ startups. Companies he has backed at seed include unicorns such as Instacart, PandaDoc, People.ai, Airbyte, and Jeeves. Ihar founded Geek Ventures to advance his mission to support visionary immigrant entrepreneurs.