Investment Team

Peter N. Loukianoff, Managing Partner

Prior to co-founding Almaz Capital Partners, Mr. Loukianoff was a partner at Alloy Ventures from 2001-2008, one of the more successful and longest-established venture capital firms in Silicon Valley. Before joining Alloy, he was on the founding teams of Autonomy, Inc. (US), a pioneer in Internet search and categorization, and Ubiquinet, Inc., a location-based services and software company.

As the Cold War was ending, Mr. Loukianoff was one of the first Americans to establish joint ventures with prominent Russian scientific institutions, including the Kurchatov Institute, Troitsk Triniti Research Center, and the Russian Academy of Sciences. These joint ventures served to facilitate technology-licensing arrangements with US companies, such as Apple, Sun Microsystems and General Atomics. In 1991, he organized a first-of-its-kind Russian-American symposium on technology transfer and commercialization, which featured President Gorbachev's chief technology advisor Dr. Evgeny Velikhov and Nobel Laureate Dr. Glenn Seaborg.

Mr. Loukianoff is a co-inventor of five patent-pending mobile messaging technologies that are enabling a new and exciting market in voice and visual mobile advertising. He is on the board of directors of Apptera and chairman of the advisory council at Ravenflow Corp. His past investments include Audiobasket, Versata (Nasdaq: VATA), Xactly and ZipRealty (Nasdaq: ZIPR).

Mr. Loukianoff earned an MBA and BS Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley.