SkySurf Canada Communications
Founder & CEO
Raed A. Masri
serial founder turned VC and institutional LP, now back to founding Transform VC, a founder focused seed fund.
serial founder turned VC and institutional LP, now back to founding Transform VC, a founder focused seed fund.
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Experience
Jaguar Wireless Holding
Co-Founder & Corporate Developer
Eday
Founder
Mobileit
Advisor
Alcatel-Lucent
Professional Services Engineer
Mubadala Ventures
Founder, Venture Partner
launched a $600m VC platform, institutional LP in 11 funds (out 300+ VCs evaluated) and startup invested in 10 companies (out of 600+ deals evaluated)
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Achievements
Raed was partially responsible for wireless telecom deregulation in Canada, bringing new competition and giving Canadians more wireless options when Raed founded Jaguar Wireless, a qualified bidder in Canada’s national wireless auction with a last bid of $213m.
Also, Raed was entirely responsible for bringing inflight internet across all of Canadian airspace when he founded SkySurf Canada, the exclusive telecom operator for inflight communications (WiFi and GSM), exiting to GoGo Inflight, the world’s largest inflight wi-fi provider.
Most recently, Raed helped found Mubadala Ventures (MV), a VC fund based inSF.
MV is a $600m fund with the unique backing of and unique access to Mubadala and SoftBank. MV invests in both tech start-ups as well as other VC funds. Raed’s investments focus revolves around high impact, deep technologies such as AI, big data, robotics, material physics, FinTech, satellite & earth observations, energy delivery, among other enterprise-related opportunities.
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