Vitaly Golomb is a mergers and acquisitions and venture capital expert specializing in the transportation and mobility, industry 4.0 and software/internet sectors. Prior to cofounding GS Capital, he was a founding partner at HP Tech Ventures, the corporate venture arm of Silicon Valley’s original startup where he led fund-of-funds and early stage investments and was recognized as a Global Corporate Venturing Rising Star (awarded to the top 1% practitioners in the corporate venture industry). Vitaly led HP’s investment in The VR Fund and served on its advisory committee. He was also the exclusive advisor to Rimac Automobili’s €50M Series B with Camel Group and Porsche and €150M China EV market joint venture. Vitaly is a supervisory board member of the Ukraine Venture Capital and Private Equity Association. He founded three technology and services companies, served as a consistently top-ranked mentor to a dozen global startup accelerators and business schools, contributed to TechCrunch and authored the best-selling book Accelerated Startup.
Vitaly grew up in Cupertino, California, and started his technology career as a teenager. He served as the executive producer of the Startup AddVenture conference across seven countries and appeared onstage as a speaker and lecturer in over 30 more. He is fluent in English and Russian, holds a BA in computer and video imaging from Cogswell College, studied venture capital at Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley and is a registered FINRA broker-dealer agent.
