•
Books I’ve read this year (H1 2019)
Talks about Books, Audiobooks and Book summaries
AM
Aadil Mamujee
Investor at Musha Ventures
New York, New York
Overview
Aadil Mamujee is an accomplished product leader and angel investor with a diverse background in product management, venture capital, and entrepreneurship. Currently, he serves as Head of New Products at OpenSea and has made successful investments in early-stage companies like LocoNav and Ilara Health, focusing on sectors such as AgTech and FinTech.
Highlights of Aadil's career include his role as Chief Product Officer at Automattic and his experience as a Vice President leading product teams at Segovia Technology and Pocket Gems, demonstrating his expertise in driving product innovation and growth across various industries.
Work Experience
Product + Growth
2024 - Current
Bridge is developer of an application programming interface for money movement within the financial technology sector.
Raised $58,000,000.00 from Sequoia, Haun Ventures, Index Ventures, Ribbit Capital and Diogo Mónica.
Angel Investor
2011
- Seed Investor in 200+ startups in 18 countries (40% in Africa) over 15 years - Scout @ Sequoia Capital and Network Leader @ Village Global
Head of New Products
2021 - 2023
OpenSea is a marketplace for NFTs. I was responsible for the core marketplace (buying and selling), protocol development, dev tooling, and data science.
OpenSea is an NFT marketplace that enables users to discover, collect, and sell blockchain-based digital assets.
Raised $427,220,000.00 from Kathryn Haun, Coatue, Bossa Invest, Seth Weinstein and Paradigm.
CPO, Head of Product
2019 - 2021
Automattic is a fully distributed company (no offices) making software to power the open web. - Led 150+ person remote WordPress.com product & engineering team (including mobile and international) - Ran Internal "startup" products and distributed work initiatives (P2)
Automattic is a global tech company that offers WordPress, WooCommerce, and other web solutions.
Raised $985,900,000.00 from Avant Global, BlackRock, Schonfeld Strategic Advisors, Aglaé Ventures, ICONIQ Growth, ICONIQ Capital, Wellington Partners and Alta Park Capital.
Entrepreneurship and Travel
2017 - 2019
- Created 'Playback,' a live-action mobile VR series fully funded by Oculus Studios. - Hiked Mt. Kilimanjaro, Annapurna Circuit and cycle toured in New Zealand.
VP, Head of Product
2015 - 2017
Led product development for payment gateway focused on mobile money in Africa. Segovia was acquired by Crown Agents Bank (IPO: CAPB) and spun out Tap Tap Send (https://www.taptapsend.com/) as a separate company.
Segovia is a financial technology company making it easy for organizations to pay anyone, anytime, anywhere in the emerging markets.
Raised $14,537,114.00 from Global Innovation Fund and Musha Ventures.
VP, Head of Product
2010 - 2015
First product manager (4th employee) at Pocket Gems creating mobile entertainment products. - Built and led a team of 25+ product managers - Led all live products (including P&L) with ~100 cross-functional staff and $X00M revenue - Led studios responsible for building new products from concept until post-launch including Pet Hotel (#3 top-grossing app worldwide in 2011)
Pocket Gems' mission is to be one of the world’s great creators of innovative interactive entertainment on mobile.
Raised $155,000,000.00 from Tencent, Tencent and Sequoia Capital.
Associate
2009 - 2009
Summer Associate on the venture team focused on gaming and eCommerce.
Index Ventures is a venture capital firm that helps the entrepreneurs turn bold ideas into global businesses.
Data + Product
2006 - 2008
Used search data to build internal tools for sales teams and external tools for advertisers.
Google is a multinational corporation that specializes in Internet-related services and organizes the world’s information.
Raised $26,100,000.00 from Angel Investors LP, Kleiner Perkins, Signatures Capital, Sequoia Capital, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Shaquille O'Neal, Henry Kissinger, Google and Tiger Woods.
Consultant
2004 - 2006
Management consultant for financial services practice in London with experience across financial sectors and time spent evenly between Europe, USA and UK.
CAVOK is a technical consulting firm that supports the development of manual systems and processes.
Education
Investments
Latest Articles
•
Getting into Product Management
Talks about Product Management, career advice and interview preparation
•
Gut -> Data -> Gut
Talks about Decision Making, Choices and gut instinct
•
Investing in niche ideas
Talks about Esports, Investing and niche investment strategies