Elijah Podavalkin's Linkedin Analytics

Wine enthusiast 🍷 former athlete 🥊 with a passion for entrepreneurship, startups, and new technologies 👨🏻‍💻 My background is rooted in developing IT products, Big Data processing, and scaling engineering teams. I’ve built and grown businesses from scratch, most notably founding Scalamandra, a company focused on high-load systems and web platforms using Scala and Rust, which a public tech company later acquired. I lead Bearskin Group — a boutique technical partner for capital-backed companies and investors operating in the mid-market ($20M–$400M range). We work at the intersection of capital and technology — turning codebases, infra, and teams into real enterprise value. 🔧 What we do: • Technical due diligence & vendor risk for M&A and family offices • Capital raise support & investor readiness • Infra + org cleanup for post-raise growth & turnarounds • Strategic tech resourcing: engineers, interim CTOs, squads • Capital matchmaking via partner bankers & private equity funds 🧠 Follow if you believe tech is more than code. 📩 DM if you're raising, acquiring, or scaling, and IT is part of the deal.