Peter Loukianoff

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Managing Partner, PORTAL Venture Partners @ Portal Venture Partners
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Peter Loukianoff has over 25 years of experience as a business innovator, leader and investor in Silicon Valley, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. His core strengths are in creating growth opportunities and driving new initiatives by leveraging his unique combination of cross-border operating experience and international relationships.Mr. Loukianoff has been part of launching funds with Alumni Ventures Group (AVG) ranked by Pitchbook as the #1 most active VC firm in the US with $1.3B+ in AUM and managing a global portfolio of over 1,400 start-up companies; Black River Ventures, a US/European cross-border investment fund; and Almaz Capital, one of the first technology funds focused on the Eastern European market.Earlier in his career, Mr. Loukianoff was a partner at Alloy Ventures and Senior Advisor to McKinsey & Co. He has negotiated dozens of investment deals, served on numerous boards and done business in 40+ countries around the world. He got his start in venture capital as an intern at Kleiner Perkins during business school. Notable start-ups that he and his funds have backed, include Acumatica (acq. by EQT), Qik (acq. by Skype), Yandex (Nasdaq: YNDX), Relayr (acq. by MunichRe), Marqeta (Nasdaq: MQ), Coursera (Nyse: COUR), Algorand (token sale), Accolade (IPO), nScaled (acq. by Acronis) and Xactly (Nasdaq: XTLY). Formerly, Peter was a founding team member and senior operating executive with several start-ups, including Autonomy, a pioneer in unstructured data applications, and Silicon Valley Data Science (acq. by Apple).As an internationally recognized expert in cross-border innovation, venture capital and entrepreneurship, Mr. Loukianoff has advised several heads-of-state and world leaders on these subjects, and served on an International Cyber Security Commission. Peter has also been a contributor to Forbes and the EastWest Institute, a guest commentator on CNBC’s Street Signs, and has been covered by The Wall Street Journal, New York Times and Bloomberg. Mr. Loukianoff is a member of the Forbes Global CEO network and frequent conference speaker, and guest lecturer at Berkeley, Oxford and Stanford. As an co-inventor on seminal technologies for mobile voice and data messaging, he was awarded several patents, which were acquired by HTC. Peter earned an MBA and BS in Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley.

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Portal Venture Partners

Portal Venture Partners

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Managing Partner, PORTAL Venture Partners
Peter Loukianoff Work Experience Details
  • Portal Venture Partners
    Partner
    Portal Venture Partners 2021 - Present
    San Francisco, Ca, Us
    PORTAL is a venture capital firm that invests in defensible and scalable Data Driven startups. We favor Cross-Border opportunities in which we can find better value for our investors with higher upside and lower risk. PORTAL takes an Art & Science approach that leverages our decades of investment and operating experience; proprietary AI / ML software for sourcing, evaluating startups, and measuring private company portfolio risk; and a filter for Positive Technology - innovations that advance abundance, sovereignty and wellness.Role: Raised seed and investment capital, recruited the team, developed relationships with over 100 family offices, conceived of our machine learning platform and acquired a dataset consisting of $211B in venture capital transactions and 70,000+ startups.
  • Black River Ventures (Brv)
    Advisor, Venture Partner, Chairman
    Black River Ventures (Brv) Oct 2012 - Present
    Barcelona, Es
    Black River Ventures is a trans-Atlantic venture capital fund focused mid-stage startups.Role: helped raise $50M+ in capital, and as venture partner and Chairman of Investment Committee provided guidance on portfolio construction and investment selection. Two of our companies have achieved unicorn-status: Coursera and Marqeta. Other notable deals include Litres.ru (eBook publisher - Eastern Europe), Mirantis (cloud services provider for OpenStack), and PetNet (an IoT and data services company focused on the petcare industry).
  • Alumni Ventures Group
    Managing Partner (Emeritus)
    Alumni Ventures Group Jun 2017 - Oct 2021
    Manchester, Nh, Us
    Providing Smart, Simple Venture Investing for accredited investors and family offices.Role: Founded Strawberry Creek Ventures, a diversified venture capital fund for UC Berkeley alumni. Successfully raised three funds, invested in a diversified portfolio of 50+ impressive start-ups alongside top-tier VC firms, and built a community of over 20,000+ Cal alums.Founded Modern Venture Partners, a spin-off from AVG.
  • Strawberry Creek Ventures
    Founding Partner
    Strawberry Creek Ventures Jun 2017 - Oct 2020
    Berkeley, California
    Strawberry Creek Ventures, part of the Alumni Ventures Group family of funds, is a community of UC Berkeley-connected investors, executives, entrepreneurs, and innovation enthusiasts. We are a venture capital fund by alumni for alumni - affiliated with similar funds at Dartmouth, Harvard, MIT, Penn, Yale, Northwestern, Stanford, Columbia, Cornell, Brown, Princeton, Texas, UCLA, Wisconsin, Duke, and USC. Together, we are a powerful global alumni network of over 500,000 highly accomplished and influential individuals - providing our portfolio companies with an invaluable asset and unparalleled world-wide reach.
  • Mckinsey & Company
    Senior Advisor
    Mckinsey & Company 2017 - 2019
    Us
    Facilitated and advised on corporate venture strategy and innovation projects with global impact.
  • Silicon Valley Data Science
    Co-Founder, Seed Investor
    Silicon Valley Data Science Apr 2013 - Dec 2017
    Mountain View, California, Us
    Silicon Valley Data Science (SVDS) works with leading companies to turn their data into a strategic asset. SVDS is a digitization solutions firm specializing in business transformation through data science and data engineering. We are a company of experienced software engineers, architects, data scientists, strategists, and designers who specialize in data driven product development and experimentation. We work in holistic teams trained in strategic and agile approaches: whether you’re using your data to predict outcomes, understand your customers or build new go-to-market offerings, we help you align each project with your business objectives so that together we can create meaningful capabilities and capture value early and often. SVDS was acquired by Apple. Role: as a co-founder and seed investor, contributed to developing the initial concept, building key relationships, and recruiting core team members. SVDS was recognized as one of the leading firms in the fast growing and increasingly important field of data science and analytics.
  • Almaz Capital
    Co-Founder, Managing Partner
    Almaz Capital Jan 2008 - Oct 2016
    Portola Valley, Ca, Us
    First-of-its-kind US-CEE cross-border venture capital firm investing in software, cloud-computing and Internet related businesses.Role: co-founded the firm and, despite the global financial crisis of 2008, successfully raised a $72M venture capital fund with Cisco as anchor investor. Drove four (4) investments that achieved successful exits (1 IPO, 3 M&A’s). Had full day-to-day operational and P&L responsibility for managing the firm (recognized by investors/industry as a top performer in its category). Sold controlling interest in the management company (Aug '12); remain a shareholder.
  • Alloy Ventures
    Partner
    Alloy Ventures Jan 2001 - Jul 2008
    Alloy Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm with over $1 billion under management that invests in the entrepreneurs creating the next generation of ground-breaking Information Technology, Life Sciences, and Cleantech companies. Role: participated in the investment process of 19 deals totaling $140M in capital commitments. Led and contributed to six (6) early-stage investments (1 IPO, 4 M&A). Co-invented four (4) patented technologies in the field of mobile advertising/messaging (sold to HTC).
  • Hp Autonomy
    Director, Sales/Business Development
    Hp Autonomy 1997 - 1998
    Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, Gb
    Automony was one of the pioneers in unstructured data applications and eventually sold to HP for $10B.Role: as part of U.S. founding team, developed initial sales organization, key accounts and partnerships.
  • Ubiquinet
    Co-Founder, Product Marketing, Sales
    Ubiquinet 1991 - 1996
    Ubiquinet was a field service and asset management software company.Role: raised initial seed capital, developed product offering and sold initial customers (including a seminal $1M+ deal with Viacom).
  • Marketwise Technologies
    Owner
    Marketwise Technologies 1989 - 1995
    In anticipation of the impending collapse of the Soviet Union, MarketWise Technologies was founded to create business opportunities by marrying Silicon Valley and US companies with the best talent and innovations out of the newly independent states of Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Georgia, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. Role: upon thawing of the Cold War, organized and ran the first-of-its-kind Russian-American symposium on research, technology and trade with President Gorbachev's Chief Technology Advisor. After independence in 1991, was one of the first to create tech-transfer joint ventures in Russia and the CIS with Apple, GM, General Atomics, et al.

Peter Loukianoff Skills

Start Ups Venture Capital Entrepreneurship Enterprise Software Management Investments Restructuring Marketing Joint Ventures Finance Negotiation Fundraising Big Data International Business Strategic Partnerships Business Development

Peter Loukianoff Education Details

  • University Of California, Berkeley
    University Of California, Berkeley
    Engineering
  • University Of California, Berkeley, Haas School Of Business
    University Of California, Berkeley, Haas School Of Business
    Mba

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