Primary Job Title Partner Primary Organization 
TMT Investments
Location San Francisco, California, United States Regions San Francisco Bay Area, West Coast, Western US Gender Male Also Known As Игорь Шойфот
Investor Type Investor Stage
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Igor Shoifot. Partner at TMT Investments, co-founder of Angelsdeck and Garage Syndicates, a prolific angel investor and board member at 100+ startups. – TMT Investments: $350M market cap (London Stock Exchange AIM), first VC investors in 4 unicorns, 16 profitable exits, 12x stock growth, 8x net returns to investors. – Boards of directors of 2
unicorns – co-founder at Angelsdeck: by far the largest Russian-speaking investment club (500+ investors), $50M/annual investment run - co-founder at Garage Syndicate: 100+ global investors – 25+ years in American high-tech. Rated a top investor in numerous investor rankings (National Association of Business Angels, etc.) – Founder: CEO of Epsylon Games, the largest gaming site on Microsoft WebTV in 1990s (70+ games). Co-founder of a large photo site Fotki (25M users in early 2000s). Sold vInternship.com system to Manhattan Institute of Management). – Professor/Writer: Taught at UC Berkeley, New York University, and UCSF for 11 years. Co-created a graduate course “Recreating Silicon Valley” at Stanford University. Wrote a chapter in "Masters of Corporate Venture Capital" book. – Created/owned startup accelerators and incubators (Happy Farm and Startup Nation) in Ukraine and Kazakhstan. – Numerous interviews and articles about venture capital and startup growth in Forbes, NBC, MSNBC, Inc. Magazine, CIO Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, Entrepreneur Magazine, Wired, LA Times, Business Insider, etc. – Education: MBA from Boston University, PhD from the Russian Academy of Sciences, MA from Central European University in Budapest.
