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Galina Sagan

Investment Partner

Striving to be the strongest ally and investor for every portfolio company’s success.

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

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October 16, 2025
Why We Invested

Unlocking innovation at scale with Regscale’s AI-driven compliance

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Opsera Why We Invest
April 2, 2025
Why We Invested

Unifying AI-Driven DevOps for All Teams: Why We Invested in Opsera

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Opsera Raises $20M to Drive AI-Powered DevOps Platform Innovation
April 2, 2025
Portfolio News

Opsera Raises $20M to Drive AI-Powered DevOps Platform Innovation

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December 11, 2024
Insights

How AI is Shaping the Future of Design, Simulation and Optimization

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October 29, 2024
Insights

AI is Powering the Future of Material Science: From Lab to Real-World Breakthroughs

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August 14, 2024
Insights

The Dawn of Agentic AI: Transforming Enterprise Automation and the Future of Work

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August 6, 2024
Why We Invested

Lineaje, or do you know what’s in your software?

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StrikeReady Raises $12 Million for Industry-First AI Security Command Platform Purpose-Built for Modern SOC Teams
April 9, 2024
Portfolio News

StrikeReady Raises $12 Million for Industry-First AI Security Command Platform Purpose-Built for Modern SOC Teams

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April 5, 2024
Portfolio News

Archetype AI Introduces Foundation Model to Pioneer Physical AI

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The Inevitable Shift: The Evolution of Multimodal Foundation Models to Bridge the Sensory Gap
April 5, 2024
Why We Invested

The Inevitable Shift: The Evolution of Multimodal Foundation Models to Bridge the Sensory Gap

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Makersite Featured
February 1, 2024
Portfolio News

Makersite announces strategic partnership with Hitachi Solutions

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Xaba Why We Invest
January 9, 2024
Why We Invested

Empowering Robotics with AI to drive Sustainable Manufacturing: Why we Invested in Xaba

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Xaba Featured
January 9, 2024
Why We Invested

Xaba Closes $2 Million Seed Extension to Deliver Intelligent, Self-programming Robotic Systems for Manufacturing

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Ascend Featured
September 6, 2023
Portfolio News

Ascend Elements Raises $542 Million to Accelerate Production of U.S.-engineered Lithium-Ion Battery Materials

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Riding the Wave - Arrcus
July 10, 2023
Why We Invested

Riding the Wave of Network Transformation: Investing in Arrcus

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Arrcus Featured
July 10, 2023
Portfolio News

Investor interest in Arrcus grows as Hitachi Ventures is latest to join Series D

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Hitachi Ventures invests in BeZero’s 50m Series B led by Quantum Energy Partners to secure leading ratings and risk analytics position in VCM
November 14, 2022
Why We Invested

Hitachi Ventures invests in BeZero’s 50m Series B led by Quantum Energy Partners to secure leading ratings and risk analytics position in VCM

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Ascend Follow-on Featured
October 26, 2022
Portfolio News

Hitachi Ventures is proud to announce its follow-on investment into Ascend Elements

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October 18, 2022
Portfolio News

Hitachi Ventures co-leads Makersite’s 18M Series A to decarbonize global manufacturing sector

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GCV 2022 Rising Stars
February 10, 2022
Firm News

GCV profiles the industry’s top 50 CVC Rising Stars 2022

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Ascend Featured
September 21, 2021
Portfolio News

Hitachi Ventures investing in Ascend Elements (formerly Battery Resourcers)

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Rescale Series C
February 2, 2021
Portfolio News

Hitachi Ventures investing in Rescale

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Taranis Featured Image
July 21, 2020
Portfolio News

Hitachi Ventures investing in Taranis

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Weka IO and Hitachi
July 14, 2020
Portfolio News

WekaIO and Hitachi Vantara Partner to Solve the CHallenges of HPC Storage, Data Analytics, and AI/ML Workloads

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Archetype AI Logo

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

Arrcus Logo

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

Ascend Elements Logo

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

BeZero Logo

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. Logo

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

Lineage Logo

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

Makersite Logo

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

Opsera Logo

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

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