Starta Ventures

Founder and Managing Partner Alexey Girin leads investment decisions. He established the firm in 2011 to connect Eastern European technical founders with the US market. His professional background includes venture investing and operational roles that shaped the firm's cross-border thesis.

Starta sources primarily from Eastern Europe and Central Asia, leveraging deep local networks to find pre-seed and seed-stage technical founders. The firm's accelerator program then brings selected teams to New York, creating a pipeline that most US-based seed funds cannot replicate without boots-on-the-ground presence in those regions.

Starta operates both. It runs a structured accelerator program in New York for early-stage companies and manages a separate growth-stage fund vehicle for follow-on investments and de novo growth deals. Founders can receive initial accelerator capital and later access the firm's later-stage funding.

Starta primarily makes direct investments into portfolio companies through its accelerator program and growth fund. There is no public record of the firm participating as a limited partner in other venture funds.

The firm targets seed-stage companies through its accelerator, typically investing between $100,000 and $200,000 per company. Its growth vehicle pursues later-stage rounds for companies that have shown product-market fit and are scaling US operations.