Geek Ventures, a fund that specializes in backing immigrant founders, is raising a second fund

Gik is raising second funds in accordance with Ventures Filing a recent SEC.

This firm, founded by Iar Mahaniok in 2021, Focus on investment The founder of immigrants at the starting stage. Mahaniok migrated from Belarus to the United States and talked to TechCrunch a few years ago how difficult it could be for immigrants.

“The talent is distributed evenly, but the opportunity is not,” he told us at this time.

So he turned on Geek Ventures And a 23 million dollar has first raised funds. It has joined several other notable initiatives that have launched to target migrants, including Unsacted Ventures and One Way Venture.

Gick Ventures Saus, Hardware and deep technology focus on. According to the pitchbook, it has cut checks in companies such as AI developer Spice AI and Networking platform, which also said that the company has invested more than 605 to this day.

The second fund has no target, but so far, according to filing, $ 9 million has been collected, its first sales have been registered on Monday, January 13, 13.

Ihar Mahaniok refused to comment.