Farooq is a Principal at Costanoa Ventures, where he invests out of a third $175m fund and is thematically focus on AI / enterprise data, digital health and financial technology. Farooq began his investment career in 2011 has since been a venture and growth investor on the West Coast and most recently investing in Europe at Mosaic Ventures over the past 3 years.Some of Farooq’s investments include Auto1 (Softbank), Remitly (Naspers), Zingbox, Redlock.io, and SimpleHealth.In addition to helping entrepreneurs, he is also passionate about improving the gender ratio as well as cognitive / experiential diversity within technology and advises several non-profits focused on addressing these shortcomings.
Organization Name | Title At Company | Start Date | End Date | |
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Creative Destruction Lab (CDL) | Associate /Fellow | May 1, 2018 | — | Detail |