Connors, who has invested in companies such as searchengine Blekko and cloud security startup CloudPassage, is particularly interested in helping companies move from an early product or idea to a solid business model and strategy.
Relying on oil and gas wealth, the country has yielded only a handful of entrepreneurial successes: searchengine Yandex, e-mail service Mail.ru, cyber security giant Kaspersky Labs, and cloud computing company Parallels.