Founder and Managing Partner of boutique Venture Capital Firm – Flush with success after rates.com, Gennady Barsky founded B Cubed Ventures, a boutique venture capital firm. It co-invested with Robertson Stephens as a client of its private wealth group. Ten companies were funded. Several were either acquired, went public, or disappeared during the Dot Com crash, and a few, such as iRise and Aravo, are still in existence.