Abrar Ahmed

Experience

Kraken Digital Asset Exchange

Advisor

DigitalOcean

Advisor

AfterShip

Advisor

Orderful

Board Member

Airbnb

Employee

Uber

Employee

Uber, Airbnb

Advisor

AfterShip, DigitalOcean, Kraken Digital Asset Exchange

Board Member

Orderful

About

Achievements

Founded and managed seed-stage investment syndicate comprising 1500+ accredited investors and $20M in capital deployed.

Led over 50 syndicated investments in high-growth early-stage ventures - and also personally invested in 100+ additional startups.

Bootstrapped a real estate investment fund from literally zero capital. Successfully grew fund's holdings to over a dozen investment properties.

Describe the most impressive thing you've done.

Skills

Advertising Artificial Intelligence Business Development Marketing Management UX Design Financial Modelling & Valuation Digital Marketing Product Marketing Product Management Angel Investing Cryptocurrencies Blockchain Ecommerce Investment Management UI/UX Design Product Design Venture Capital Business Strategy Marketing Strategy Product Strategy Business Operations Fundraising

Locations

Dubai

Q&A

What's the most useful business-related book you've ever read?

Ray Dalio - Principles

What's your favorite non-business book?

Leonardo Da Vinci by Walter Isaacson

What words of wisdom do you live by?

How terrible is wisdom when it brings no profit to the man that is wise

Abrar Ahmed

I work with entrepreneurs to build market-dominating companies by especially helping them raise early and late-stage rounds from top-tier VCs