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    Ahmad Takatkah

    Ahmad Takatkah

    At the intersection of VC & Data. Passion for FinTech, ML, AI, & Web3.
    Managing Director at KingsCrowd Capital. Ex: Carta, ArzanVC, LeapVC
    ::: A Kauffman Fellow

    Operations San Francisco Bay Area University Of Califor...
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    Experience
    Kingscrowd
    Kingscrowd
    Managing Director - Corporate VC Fund 2022 - Present (about 4 years)
    ● Started KingsCrowd Capital Fund I, a $10m quant index fund
    ● Managed fundraising process, and LP investor relations
    ● Created product to automate deal sourcing and... more evaluation utilizing the abundance of data on equity crowdfunding platforms, SEC, & other sources
    ● Created proprietary data-driven algorithms that collect more than 300 data points on every company, and score companies based on valuation, market, team, differentiation, and performance
    SVP Data Science & Product - Investment Research 2020 - 2022 (over 2 years)
    ● Managed a team of 10 investment research analysts, associates, and data scientists conducting quantitative and qualitative investment research
    ● Created a proprietary... more ranking and rating algorithm for equity crowdfunding startups, based on 300 data points we collect and structure.
    ● Started with descriptive models, then moved to predictive ML/AI models.
    ● Managed the product lifecycle of Ratings, analytics, and Portfolio Management products including: customer understanding, strategy, product development, metrics tracking, in coordination with cross functional teams.
    VC3 Labs
    VC3 Labs
    Member - Startup Evaluation Committee 2023 - Present (over 3 years)
    A DAO for 170 VC to co-invest in Web3, DeFi, and Crypto startups:
    ● Evaluate co-investment deals offered by members
    ● Help in writing deal memos after talking to the... more founders
    ● Collect performance data and create periodic update reports for members
    ● Provide support to portfolio companies
    Carta
    Exit
    Carta
    Senior Data Scientist - Product Analytics 2016 - 2019 (about 3 years)
    ● Running advanced data research on startups and investors data using R and Python.
    ● Creating benchmarking reports for equity comp, portfolio companies metrics, fund performance... more and others.
    ● Building the company’s product analytics dashboards on Looker.com (in SQL) in collaboration with product managers in various business units.
    ● Formerly: Managing Venture Capital firms accounts including portfolio and SOI management, fund reporting, capital accounts and LP communications.
    Arzan VC
    Arzan VC
    Senior Associate 2014 - 2016 (almost 2 years)
    ● Sourced, researched and analyzed more than 500 startups, conducted due diligence on 16, invested in 12 ● Led the firm’s inbound marketing, achieved 60% read rates on Medium,... more 11% click rate in email newsletters ● Influenced the fund’s investment strategy towards a more global approach ● Supported portfolio companies in business development, recruitment, product, analytics, and fundraising
    Leap Ventures
    Leap Ventures
    Venture Partner 2013 - 2014 (over 1 year)
    ● Sourced, researched and analyzed more than 100 startups, and invested in 10.
    ● Helped some portfolio companies join YC, 500 Startups, The Alchemist, Plug&Play and... more raise more funding ● launched VenturePicks (a subscription based crowd-VC platform)
    N2V.com
    N2V.com
    Investment Manager 2009 - 2012 (almost 3 years)
    ● Sourced, researched and analyzed more than 400 product startups, conducted due diligence and invested in 10
    ● Helped consumer-web portfolio companies achieve 10X growth... more and reduce bounce rate to 20%
    ● Managed a team of 35 developers, engineers and analysts
    ● Initiated and led internal platform products, managed their full lifecycles and achieved 100% internal adoption rate: (1) Startups Dashboard (an automated aggregator for startup product and financial data and key metrics) and (2) Startopedia (an entrepreneurial educational resource center)
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    Carta, Arzan VC, Leap Ventures, N2V.com, VC3 Labs, Kingscrowd
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    About
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    I am a founder turned VC, then took a detour to data science and blockchain to be more data-driven & to satisfy my passion for being at the intersection of VC, Data, & Web3. I am a Kauffman Fellow (network of 800 US VCs), a VC blogger (VCpreneur.com), an Engineer with an MBA, and I come with technical & entrepreneurial experience, and more than 8 years of active VC investing with a passion for FinTech, AI, Crypto, & DeFi.

    I am a math lover, and my passion for product and analytics led me to enroll in Udacity's Data Analyst and then Data Scientist Nano Degrees. Lately, I've enrolled in UC Berkeley FinTech Programming Bootcamp 2023, which includes courses on Data Science, AI, & ML Applications in both: Traditional Financial technology programming (Web2 & CeFi), and Decentralized Financial technology programming (DeFi, Blockchain, Web3, & Smart Contracts).

    Describe the most impressive thing you've done.
    Skills
    SQL Python R Machine Learning PyTorch TensorFlow Keras Solidity Smart Contracts Truffle Ganache Venture Capital Private Equity Crowdfunding Investment Management Investment Research Investor Relations Operation Management Cryptocurrencies Web3 Blockchain
    Locations
    United States Switzerland United Arab Emirates Netherlands San Francisco
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