Oleg Kaganovich

DFJ VTB Aurora

Managing Director

Biography

Oleg Kaganovich is a Managing Director of DFJ VTB Aurora based in the Silicon Valley office. He focuses on early stage companies in clean technology and renewable energy, manufacturing innovation, materials science, communications, media, IT, internet and consumer products.

Mr. Kaganovich was formerly a Principal and is currently a Venture Partner of DFJ Frontier, a leading West Coast venture capital firm. His investments included Zadspace, United Sample, Planitax, and AudioMicro. He is also currently a Board Director or Observer of the Sacramento Regional Technology Alliance (SARTA), Tioga Energy, and Intematix, a material science company. Oleg’s prior investment experience includes working as a Senior Associate within Sun Microsystems’ venture group, where he made over $150M of investments and acquisitions in Entercept Security Technologies (sold to Network Associates), ProactiveNet (sold to BMC Software), and Agea (sold to Avalon Digital Marketing Systems). Previously, Mr. Kaganovich was the first associate at Black Emerald Capital, a Wall Street merchant bank and M&A boutique focused on alternative energy in emerging markets. He has operational experience as CEO of SARTA, and as Founder/CEO of a computer integration company. In a previous life, Oleg was also a professional jazz saxophonist.

Mr. Kaganovich received his MBA from Columbia Business School, has performed graduate work at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, and has a BS cum laude in International Business from Aquinas College.