Dubai, United Arab Emirates
At Google, my focus is empowering startups to leverage our cutting-edge AI technology and extensive network while facilitating innovative solutions to global challenges. With 20 years of experience in tech, my role involves guiding entrepreneurs through the complexities of product scaling and development.
I empower AI focused startups to build and scale great products with the best of Google's - its people, network, thought leadership, and technology. My mission is to support entrepreneurs to solve world's biggest challenges through advanced technologies such as Google Cloud Platform, DeepMind and Gemini.
Managing a self made portfolio with assets distributed across various classes, including direct investments to startups, venture capital, real estate and public equities. Below are some of the VC funds and startups that I'm an LP or investor of: @e2-vc Fund II is a €70 million fund that champions Pre-Seed and Seed startups in CEE, the Baltics, and Turkey. @212vc Fund II is a €70 million fund that backs bold, early-stage tech companies across Turkey, CEE, and MENA. @startup-wise-guys Fund II is a €20 million European fund with a network and brand recognition in overlooked markets allowing them to find the “diamonds in the rough”. @vela-partners Fund I is a $20 million fund based in San Francisco and an AI-native VC firm investing in mostly US based AI startups. Syndicate investment: @Uveye is a cutting-edge computer vision company specialized in automatic vehicle inspection; recognized by Hertz, GM, Amazon, Volvo, Carmax, and more.
Integrated PayPal/Braintree payment solutions and enabled online payments in e-commerce platforms. This allowed key partners to accept, authorize and capture payments via various NVP/SOAP/Rest APIs and checkout plugins.
Helped startups grow and monetize via Meta developer platform (Graph/Ads APIs, social plugins, mobile SDKs). I've enabled key clients build marketing automation with Meta's advertising platform.
Developed software simulations for large-scale training on business applications.