Galina has been a venture capital investor since 2018, specializing in AI, Applied AI (Industrial, Robotics, and Energy), and Cybersecurity. As a Partner at Hitachi Ventures, she leads investments across AI-driven productivity, enterprise SaaS, digital infrastructure, and applied AI solutions, overseeing deal sourcing, due diligence, and portfolio strategy. She joined Hitachi Ventures as Senior Associate in 2019 as one of its founding team members.
Galina serves as an active board member for companies including Makersite, RegScale, BeZero Carbon, I Peace, Grow Inc., and StrikeReady and supporting many more.
Prior to Hitachi Ventures, she was a Senior Associate at Speedinvest, focusing on early-stage investments in climate tech and industrial AI. Earlier in her career, she was at IBM’s Watson IoT Consulting Practice, leading digital transformation initiatives for enterprise clients, and at Porsche, where she worked across several R&D/ innovation units.
Galina holds a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Engineering from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and an Executive MBA from IESE Business School.
I have enjoyed working with Galina, Tobias and Jan from HV. They are a highly analytical group with a diverse skillset and genuinely want to help their founders. They are a great team to have access to when dealing with more complex non-operational issues and are well connected in the European VC ecosystem.
Neil D'Souza, CEO
Makersite
Areas of Interest
- AI
- ClimateTech
- Cybersecurity
- Decarbonization
- Enterprise Software
- Infrastructure Software
- Robotics and Automation
Active Investments
Physical AI: Developer of a Multi-modal Foundation Model that aims to bridge the 'sensory' gap
Developer of Newton, a physical AI foundation model designed to provide an unprecedented understanding of the real world. The company offers a multimodal AI foundation model that fuses real-time sensor data with natural language, enabling individuals and organizations to ask open-ended questions about their surroundings and take informed action for improvement.
CEO
Ivan Poupyrev
Sectors
Digital
Industrial
Stage
Seed
HQ
California
Deal Team
Gayathri (G) Radhakrishnan
Galina Sagan
Vamsi Patti
Hardware agnostic network OS for datacenter, edge, telco and multi/hybrid cloud environments
From the edge to the core to multi-cloud environments, Arrcus offers a software defined network OS with programmable control and data plane to seamlessly integrate networking solutions for unparalleled access to distributed workloads. Enabling network-aaS with low latency, high performance, lossless connectivity, power efficiency and robust security.
CEO
Shekar Ayyar
Sectors
Digital
Stage
Series D
HQ
California
Deal Team
Gayathri (G) Radhakrishnan
Galina Sagan
Vamsi Patti
Sustainable closed-loop Battery Recycling returning active battery materials back into the supply chain
Developer of a battery resources technology designed to provide sustainable, closed-loop battery materials systems. The company’s EV battery recycling to commercial-scale production of lithium carbonate, NMC precursor (pCAM), and cathode active materials (CAM), Ascend Elements is revolutionizing the production of sustainable lithium-ion battery materials, enabling clients to have a good return on assets to drive recycling and low-cost battery materials economically.
CEO
Mike O’Kronley
Sectors
Environment
Industrial
Stage
Series D
HQ
Massachusettes
Deal Team
Tobias Jahn
Galina Sagan
Jan Marchewski
Global ratings agency and risk analytics for the global voluntary carbon market (VCM)
BeZero is the carbon ratings agency. Its ratings and risk products equip world-leading organisations with the knowledge, tools and confidence to make better climate decisions. Its aim is to scale investment in environmental markets that deliver a sustainable future.
CEO
Tommy Ricketts
Sectors
Environment
Stage
Series B
HQ
London
Deal Team
Tobias Jahn
Galina Sagan
Jan Marchewski
GROW Inc’s technology and services solutions enable super funds and fund managers to optimise operations and step into the future of financial services.
Grow Inc provides wealth administration platform technology and services to the wealth management industry in Australia. Grow’s wealth administration platform helps superannuation funds maintain member records, process fund allocation changes, create workflows and perform calculations based on business rules. Grow also provides administration services including the mailing out and receiving of physical forms, contact centre management and member communication.
CEO
Mathew Keeley
Sectors
Digital
Stage
Series D
HQ
Syndey
Deal Team
Wolfgang Seibold
Galina Sagan
Unified software supply chain security management platform
Lineaje Inc. provides Continuous Software Supply Chain Security Management to companies that build or use software. Destructive supply chain attacks, undetectable by existing cybersecurity tools, are growing dramatically impacting thousands of companies with one compromise. From SolarWinds to Kaseya to OSS compromises, these attacks put software & digital brands and their customers at risk. Lineaje secures your Company from these attacks.
SBOM360 is the first product on this journey enabling you manage your entire supply chain consisting of applications you build, or buy in one place with common policies shared by your entire company.
CEO
Javed Hasan
Sectors
Digital
Stage
Series A
HQ
California
Deal Team
Gayathri (G) Radhakrishnan
Galina Sagan
Tobias Graf
AI & Data Platform powering sustainable product and supply chain decisions.
Makersite is a pioneering Product Lifecycle Intelligence platform that helps product teams to manage product sustainability, supply chain risk, cost, and compliance in real-time, all in one place. Makersite combines manufacturers’ product and supply chain data, held within multiple systems, with our own data foundation made up of 140 material, process and supplier databases to create a digital twin of their products and their supply chain, allowing teams to collaborate more effectively so that they can design, source and manufacture better products up to 50x faster than traditional methods. With a global workforce and a customer base including Microsoft, Schaeffler, Cummins and Vestas, Makersite’s goal is simple: Make better products, faster.
CEO
Neil D’Souza
Sectors
Environment
Stage
Series A
HQ
Stuttgart, Germany
Deal Team
Tobias Jahn
Galina Sagan
Jan Marchewski
The AI-powered DevOps platform for all apps and teams.
Opsera is your one-stop, single pane of glass look into your entire DevOps lifecycle for any use case; SDLC, SaaS Apps, Data & Analytics and Security.
CEO
Kumar Chivukula
Sectors
Digital
Stage
Series B
HQ
California
Deal Team
Gayathri (G) Radhakrishnan
Galina Sagan
RegScale provides an AI-powered "compliance-as-code" platform that automates real-time regulatory tracking and control monitoring to replace manual, static GRC audits.
RegScale replaces traditional, manual GRC processes with an API-first “compliance-as-code” platform that automates evidence collection and control monitoring in real-time. By embedding compliance directly into DevOps and enterprise workflows, it ensures organizations remain “audit-ready” rather than relying on static, point-in-time assessments. Its modular architecture allows for the seamless mapping of controls across multiple complex frameworks like NIST, ISO, and GDPR, reducing fragmented data silos. Leveraging AI agent capabilities, the platform significantly accelerates certification timelines, specifically helping users achieve authorizations like FedRAMP High up to four times faster. Ultimately, RegScale transforms compliance from a reactive, costly burden into a streamlined business enabler that supports faster product innovation and reduced operational risk.
CEO
Travis Howerton
Sectors
Digital
Industrial
Stage
Series B
HQ
Virginia
Deal Team
Tobias Graf
Galina Sagan
Fully automated and ultra-scalable hybrid cloud platform enabling big compute for breakthroughs in science and engineering.
Developer of cloud-based infrastructure platform designed to facilitate scientific and engineering simulations. The company’s platform provides an infinite scale, customization tools, and the ability to make adjustments optimized for specific workloads in order to decrease turnaround times, enabling businesses to transform information technology into unified, agile environments while improving the total outcome.
CEO
Joris Poort
Sectors
Digital
Stage
Series C
HQ
California
Deal Team
Wolfgang Seibold
Galina Sagan
Revolutionizing Cyber Security with an AI-powered Command Center.
StrikeReady’s functionality scope goes far beyond SoC automation co-pilots, while combining elements of SIEM (proactive), SOAR (reactive/defensive) and workflow automation solutions with AI-led agent-based assistance.
StrikeReady augments security professionals’ work by providing a common workspace that empowers faster, better decision-making.
CEO
Yasir Khalid
Sectors
Digital
Stage
Series A
HQ
Texas
Deal Team
Wolfgang Seibold
Galina Sagan
Tobias Graf
Agriculture intelligence company offering high precision aerial surveillance imagery to prevent crop yield loss.
Developer of an AI-powered crop analytics platform designed to unlock demand intelligence for agribusiness. The company’s platform uses computer vision, data science, and deep learning algorithms to make informed decisions by detecting early symptoms of weeds, uneven emergence, nutrient deficiencies, disease or insect infestations, water damage, and machinery problems, enabling farmers to acquire accurate insights to address issues while increasing yields.
CEO
Opher Flohr
Sectors
Digital
Environment
Stage
Series D
HQ
California
Deal Team
Wolfgang Seibold
Galina Sagan
Trustwise Optimize:ai accelerates the development of trustworthy GenAI systems.
Trustwise Optimize:ai accelerates the development of trustworthy GenAI systems while enabling enterprises to run applications and workloads efficiently across cloud, data center, and edge infrastructures. Optimize:ai, delivered through a single API, provides developers with four NIM microservices to reduce operational costs and carbon emissions.
CEO
Manoj Saxena
Sectors
Digital
Stage
Seed
HQ
Texas
Deal Team
Gayathri (G) Radhakrishnan
Galina Sagan
Vamsi Patti
Data Platform for enterprise AI workloads and HPC applications.
Offers a software-defined, hybrid cloud data platform designed for high-performance computing (HPC), artificial intelligence (AI), and machine learning (ML) workloads. The WEKA Data Platform transforms data silos into dynamic data pipelines, providing exceptional speed, scalability, and simplicity for managing and processing data across cloud and on-premises environments.
CEO
Liran Zvibel
Sectors
Digital
Stage
Series E
HQ
California
Deal Team
Pete Bastien
Galina Sagan