How to Invest in Unicorns: An Interview with Igor Ryabenkiy the founding partner at AltaIR Capital
Curious to learn how a VC with 10+ unicorns and 400+ portfolio companies makes investment decisions? Join our webinar with Igor Ryabenkiy, a venture investor and the founder of AltaIR Capital. Igor was an early investor in companies such as Miro, Deel, Turing, PandaDoc, Mesh, Fundamental, and more.
We will cover the following topics:
What investment trends and sector AltaIR is focused on, and how to pick the right niche for a startup in the era of AI
What a unicorn company looks like in its early stages, and how to identify a potential unicorn to invest in
How to compete with Open AI and Anthropic, and what opportunities startups can have in the age of AI
How to determine and negotiate the proper valuation with investors
How to choose the right investor and assess their added value before the deal
How AltaIR selects startups to invest in and what the investment process looks like
Follow-on or stop-loss: when should an investor stop believing in a company?
Q&A
About the speaker
Igor Ryabenkiy is a venture investor and the founder of AltaIR Capital, a global VC firm ranked in the top 1% of VC firms worldwide (Dealroom, Power Law Investor Ranking), and founder of AltaLab, a hands-on program designed to help founders build scalable and investable companies. Over the past two decades, Igor has built a portfolio spanning the US, Europe, and Israel, investing in FinTech, Productivity Tools, Future of Work, InsurTech, and Digital Health. Igor has backed 400+ companies and 10+ unicorns — most of them backed at seed — including Miro, Deel, Turing, PandaDoc, Mesh, Fundamental, and more. Igor Ryabenkiy holds a Doctor of Business Administration degree and is the author of books Adventures in Venture Capital and Unicorn Focus, where he shares lessons from investing in hundreds of founders around the world.