Almaz Capital, a Russia-based venture capital firm which recently launched Almaz II, a $102m fund with technology company Cisco and the EBRD as anchor investors, has hired Ross Hangebrauck and Daniil Stolyarov to join its US office in Menlo Park, California.

Ross Hangebrauck joins Almaz as managing director.  Most recently, Hangebrauck was co-founder of computer vision software company, Hover, and remains its chairman. He has worked previously as a financial advisor at Merrill Lynch, and is a former Navy Seal.

Daniil…