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A venture capital firm investing at two inflection points: the earliest stages of category-defining companies, and the final mile before they go public — both with structural downside protection built in.
Direct venture capital investments at pre-seed through early Series A, and structured secondary positions in Tier-1 backed companies before their IPO.
Primary — venture capital. Direct equity in exceptional founders building AI, robotics, and frontier technology. We invest when conviction is highest.
Secondary — venture secondary. Structured positions in late-stage companies backed by Sequoia, a16z, Khosla, and Tier-1 equivalents — purchased at a discount to the last institutional round. Fundamental risk is resolved. We capture the timing arbitrage before public recognition.
Both strategies execute deal-by-deal through discrete Delaware SPVs. No blind pool. Full economics disclosed per investment.
Every deal we structure enters below the previous institutional mark — the margin of safety that defines the risk profile for LPs.
Sub-12-month hold. Significant premium to entry. Full details available in the Circle case study — contact us to request it.
Each SPV targets a specific IPO, M&A, or secondary exit event. No open-ended blind pools.
We invest directly from day one and access the best late-stage companies through secondary purchases at a discount to the last institutional round. Venture capital structured to protect downside from inception to IPO.
Specific entry prices, terms, and minimums are disclosed exclusively in investment one-pagers, available to accredited investors on request. The companies below represent our current active portfolio positions.
Request one-pagers →One of the world's leading community platforms. Late-stage secondary opportunity with a defined IPO horizon. Significant structural discount to the last institutional funding round.
The company behind Claude. One of the most important AI safety and foundation model companies globally. Large allocation available via double-layer SPV structure.
Request One-PagerThe world's dominant private space company. Pre-IPO secondary access to one of the most valuable private companies in history. Minimum commitment applies — contact us for details.
Request One-PagerAI-native search replacing legacy web discovery. Rapidly growing revenue base and expanding consumer and enterprise distribution across global markets.
The foundational Ethereum infrastructure company. Home of MetaMask and Infura. Direct cap table access via Spinnaker SPV. 2026 IPO target.
The leading GPU cloud provider for AI workloads. Secondary purchase below Forge market pricing. AI infrastructure thesis with strong institutional backing.
"The right entry price is not negotiated at close. It is a condition of participation."
Circle Internet Group was a late-stage venture co-investment entered at $24.96 per share, at a discount to the prior institutional round. The company was subsequently acquired at $83.78 per share.
The position returned 2.9× DPI and approximately 182% annualized IRR within twelve months — a single-asset, fully disclosed co-investment vehicle with no blind pool and no style drift.
The deal exemplifies the thesis: Tier-1 institutional validation (Circle had JPMC, BlackRock, Fidelity as investors), structural discount to last round, defined liquidity event. The same criteria apply to every deal we bring today.
Our primary activity is pre-IPO secondary. We also make selective early-stage investments in AI, robotics, and frontier technology through the Ga^3in VC Early program. Early-stage portfolio logos coming soon.
Late-Stage & Pre-IPO PositionsSelective pre-seed and seed investments in AI, robotics, and frontier technology via the Ga^3in Early program. Logos coming soon.
Ga^3in VC offers structured LP access across four membership tiers. Each tier determines allocation priority and fee structure. Full terms disclosed upon inquiry.
Entry-level access for first-time or occasional investors. Deal-by-deal participation, allocated after member tiers.
Annual LP membership with priority allocation, reduced investment fees, and lower minimums per investment.
72-hour early access to all deals. Ability to signal anchor demand before general syndication. Enhanced allocation in oversubscribed SPVs.
First look at all deals before syndication. Direct coordination on structure, timing, and sizing. Anchor allocations available.
The premier gathering at the intersection of token generation events, private markets, and frontier technology. Where founders, institutional capital, and operators converge before the public markets do.
We convene founders, LPs, and co-investors at intimate, high-signal gatherings. Formats range from private LP dinners to the full TGE Summit conference. No panels for their own sake.
Request Invitation → View Events Calendar →We back exceptional founders at pre-seed, seed, and early Series A — and bring more than capital. LP network introductions, co-investor access, and hands-on capital formation support.
We are building our public profile. Press coverage and media mentions will be listed here as they are published. If you are a journalist covering private markets, pre-IPO secondaries, or frontier technology, we welcome the conversation.
Contact Sergey Khusnetdinov at
We work with distribution partners and scouts across North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific who introduce qualified LPs and co-investors to our deal flow.
Sergey is the founder and Managing Partner of Ga^3in VC, a New York-based venture capital firm investing across early-stage and late-stage pre-IPO positions in frontier technology companies.
Sergey spent the first decade of his career inside enterprise technology. From 2007 to 2013 — concurrently with completing his MBA at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business through the cross-continent program — he held senior roles at SAP, where he managed growth investments, established a 130-person R&D laboratory in Russia's technology corridor, and repositioned the firm's commercial operations during the 2008 financial crisis, restructuring client and partner agreements to defend revenue under acute economic stress. He then joined Microsoft, where from 2013 to 2016 he defined cloud strategy for the Russian market and managed technology investments — giving him an operator-level view of how large-scale capital allocation decisions are made inside Tier-1 technology companies.
From there he moved into building. He served in C-level roles at an ML platform company, then founded and raised venture capital for a healthcare machine learning company backed by Microsoft and a leading technology fund. He went on to serve as COO at a manufacturing intelligence vendor selling into metals, defense, discrete manufacturing, and utilities. He then structured a digital asset index fund, before taking on the role of COO at an IoT platform for oil & gas, railroads, energy, and metals & mining — the world's second-largest platform of its kind behind GE Transportation. In that role, he sold ChelPipe, one of Russia's largest pipe manufacturers, on a multimillion-dollar smart pipe program: a concept that would transform a traditional industrial producer into a high-tech operator of connected infrastructure. Across these roles he developed a ground-level understanding of where frontier technology creates durable value in industrial contexts — the kind of knowledge that comes from operating inside these systems, not from observing them.
Sergey transitioned into investment management directly. In 2020–2021 he served as Entrepreneur in Residence at a major technology accelerator, mentoring over 100 early-stage companies. He then spent three years as CEO of US operations at a digital finance company, where he built and managed both institutional and retail investment products and established a hedge fund vehicle and a venture fund. He has organized over 100 DukeGen events across the globe. He is a Professor of Entrepreneurship at SKEMA Business School, and served as Advisor and Venture Partner at Taisu Ventures in 2024–2025. He founded Ga^3in VC in 2023, and is the founder of TGE Summit, an annual conference at the intersection of private markets and frontier technology.
Ga^3in VC is the venture capital firm of Ga^3in Ventures LLC — investing in early-stage companies and late-stage pre-IPO positions in venture-backed technology companies.
The firm invests through dedicated single-deal co-investment vehicles (SPVs), giving LPs direct exposure to individual portfolio companies with full transparency on economics, structure, and terms. No blind pool. Each investment is a discrete decision.
Ga^3in Ventures LLC operates as an Exempt Reporting Adviser (ERA) under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940, relying on the exemptions available under Section 203(l) and/or Section 203(m). As an ERA, the firm files a truncated Form ADV (Part 1A) with the SEC or the Washington State Department of Financial Institutions, as applicable. Each SPV offering is made pursuant to Rule 506(c) of Regulation D under the Securities Act of 1933. A Form D is filed with the SEC within 15 days of the first sale in each SPV, and applicable state blue sky notice filings are made in each investor's state of residence. General solicitation is permitted under 506(c) but all investors must be independently verified as accredited prior to investment — self-certification alone is not sufficient.
We respond to qualified inquiries within 24 hours. Deal terms, pricing, and minimums are shared exclusively via one-pager with accredited investors.
