Hi. I'm Dima Volovik, managing partner at Valena Technology Partners.
My partners and I have led engineering teams at scale for Fortune 500 companies, built platforms used by millions, and operated technology portfolios worth tens of millions of dollars. We've made plenty of these mistakes ourselves - now we help you avoid the most costly ones.
We started Valena because we repeatedly saw the same patterns destroying margins:
SaaS sprawl mirrors what happens in our personal lives. Just like home where we accumulate Netflix, Hulu, HBO Max without canceling the old ones, every department gets their favorite tools. Found 187 active subscriptions at one company. IT knew about half. Many don't even remember who has admin rights. Oh, and legal never saw those agreements.
AI initiatives have little cost constraints. Engineers apply the best tools to compete. Frontier models, premium GPUs, storing everything because maybe the AI might need it someday. I get it. We all wanted to build something amazing. But without economic discipline, those good intentions turned into margin killers very quickly.
The real problem isn't the tools - it's that technology often misses the economic rigor every other function takes for granted. This is especially pronounced at companies between 50-1000 employees - you're growing fast enough to accumulate serious software sprawl but not big enough to have the mechanisms to manage it.
Technology leaders see the waste but they're drowning in delivery deadlines. Finance is repeatedly surprised by climbing costs and demands controls. Neither has bandwidth to fix it.
We jumpstart the solution in 6 weeks. No SaaS platform to learn. No 200-page strategy deck. We're operators who actually fix the problem - audit everything, kill redundancies, implement right-sized pricing, and establish simple governance. We leave you with the economic discipline and board-ready metrics to maintain it.
We've been there. We know exactly how to untangle it.
— Dima Volovik
Managing Partner, Valena Technology Partners
