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Alexander Galitsky is a co-founder and Managing Partner of Almaz Capital Partners, an international venture capital fund headquartered in Portola Valley (California, USA).
Biography
1955-1993
Born in 1955 in the village. Zarechany Zhytomyr region. In 1972 he graduated from the Zhytomyr special school with teaching in Ukrainian.
In 1978 he graduated from the Moscow Institute of Electronic Technology (MIET), is a candidate of technical sciences with a degree in Technical Cybernetics.
1978-1992 - worked at the Research Institute of Micropribors of the Scientific and Production Association ELAS of the Ministry of Electronic Industry.
1987-1992 - chief designer of the direction and special program of the defense industry, including the national program "Salyut-90" and the international project of the low-orbit satellite communication system "Courier."
1990-1994 - Director General of the ELVIS SPC NGO ELAS.
1991-2003 - created and managed as CEO by five companies: Elvis +, TrustWorks Systems (sold to Hamsard), EzWIM (sold to TMT Ventures), ELVIS Telecom (sold to Telenor) and NPC ELVIS.
1993 - By order of Sun Microsystems, the Elvis-Plus team has developed the world's first prototype of today's WiFi over 802.11 and received investments from Sun Microsystems, becoming its technology partner.
1995-2004
1995-1996 - Elvis Plus developed the world's first VPN product for Windows environments, the rights to which were sold to Sun Microsystems in 1997.
1998-2003 - Creator and CEO of TrustWorks.
1998-2022 - President of ELVIS-Plus.
2003-2007 - private investor and adviser to Companies NavMaps, Start Telecom, Magnifire, SJLabs, PGP, Parallels, Acronis, EverNote.
2004 - President of the first international TechTour in Russia.
2007-2019
2007 - Co-founder and managing partner of Almaz Capital Partners.
2018 - President of the East European TechTour, held in Poland and Bulgaria.
2019 - President of the East European TechTour held in Bulgaria and Romania.
2025: Seizure of property worth ₽435 million
The Presnensky Court of Moscow arrested the property of a former member of the board of directors of Alfa-Bank Alexander Galitsky for ₽435 million in the framework of the case on the division of jointly acquired property. This became known from court materials on October 17, 2025.
According to RIA Novosti, the arrest was imposed at the suit of the former wife of the entrepreneur Alia Galitskaya. The cadastral value of the seized real estate is ₽435 million. Market valuation can exceed ₽1,2 billion. The court appointed an examination to establish the exact cost of the objects.
The list of arrested property includes three real estate objects in Moscow and the Moscow region. The apartment on Patriarch's Ponds with two parking spaces became the first object under arrest. A country cottage in the elite village of Millennium Park on Novorizhskoye Highway also fell under restrictions. The third object is an apartment in the club house "Turgenev" on Sretenka with a parking space.
The Presnensky Court is simultaneously considering a counterclaim by Alexander Galitsky against his ex-wife to recover alimony. The spouses have two daughters with Russian and US citizenship. The divorce took place in March 2025 through the California Supreme Court, which determined where the children lived with their mother.
At the end of May 2025, Alexander Galitsky took his daughters from a school in the Moscow region and took them away in an unknown direction. Aliya Galitskaya's lawyer Ruben Markaryan said that his client turned to the American authorities with a statement about the abduction of children. USA There has been no reaction from the competent authorities yet.
Alia Galitskaya filed an application with Russian law enforcement agencies. The Internal Affairs Directorate of the Central Administrative District conducted a survey of the applicant on this fact. The woman managed to locate her daughters and meet them in Switzerland. She could not take the children to Russia, since the documents are with her father.
In a statement of claim, Alexander Galitsky pointed to the children's "great affection" for their father. The entrepreneur asks the court to allow his daughters to live with him. He also demands to recover alimony from his ex-wife for the maintenance of common children.[1]
Membership on Boards of Directors
As of 2023:
- Virtuozzo
- Ukrainian Venture Investment Association (UVCA)
- Member of the International Venture Club (IVC)
- Advisor to B612 International Association
Awards and regalia
In 2013, Galitsky won the prestigious EY international competition "Entrepreneur of 2013" in Russia.
In 2012, he was nominated for the best venture capital investor of the decade in Europe. At the Economic Forum in Davos
in 2000, Galitsky was named a Pioneer in Technology. Alexander is recognized by independent agencies, including Forbes, as the most influential person in Russia in the field of information and Internet technologies.
Alexander owns more than 30 patents and inventions.
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