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Kareem Aly

Founder of Kabata

Los Angeles, California

Overview 

Kareem Aly is the Co-Founder and CEO of Kabata, creator of the world's first AI-Powered Dumbbells. Prior to this, he held Principal roles at Felicis Ventures and Thomvest, along with experience as an Investment Banking Analyst at Deutsche Bank. Aly's career highlights include leading the innovative development of Kabata and his prior experience in venture capital and finance.

Work Experience 

  • Co-Founder & CEO

    2021 - Current

    The world's first AI-powered dumbbells. Backed by Shawn Carolan (Menlo Ventures), Naval Ravikant (AngelList), Dan Gilbert (Cleveland Cavs owner), Zaza Pachulia (Warriors), Nakisa Bidarian (Jake Paul), and more.

The world's first AI-powered dumbbells.

Raised $7,000,000.00 from Menlo Ventures, Detroit Venture Partners, Wildcard Ventures, Courtside Ventures, Air Ventures, MVP Ventures, Zaza Pachulia, Alumni Ventures and Bradley Chubb.

  • Principal

    2020 - 2020

    Felicis companies include: Shopify (IPO), Fitbit (IPO), Adyen (IPO), Credit Karma (Intuit), Dollar Shave Club (Unilever), Ring (Amazon), Twitch (Amazon), Warby Parker, Canva, Plaid, Flexport, and more.

Felicis invests in seed through Series C stage companies across multiple sectors, industries, and frontier tech.

  • Principal

    2018 - 2020

    Investor in: ThousandEyes (Cisco), Cylance (Blackberry), Skyhigh (McAfee), Lastline (VMware), ShieldX (Fortinet), Clari, Pipefy, Qwiet AI, and Bolster.

  • Associate

    2016 - 2018

Thomvest Ventures provides companies with cross-stage venture capital fund.

  • Investment Banking Analyst

    2014 - 2016

    Advised tech clients on a variety of transactions across equity raises, debt financings, and M&A, including Dell's $67B merger with EMC.

DB Capital Ventures invests in early-stage and emerging growth businesses and is a venture capital firm based in New York.

Education 

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