Mahdi Raza
Managing Partner at Pathlight Ventures
New York, New York
Overview
Work Experience
Co-Founder, Managing Partner
2021 - Current
Pathlight Ventures is a $123M fund focused on backing early founders with strong opinions. We’ve scaled multiple companies from $0 to $100M+ in revenue at companies such as Plaid, Robinhood, Ramp, Alloy, and more. For our founders, we are laser focused on supporting them from the earliest stages of that journey. pathlight.vc
Pathlight Ventures is an investment firm.
Builder and Investor
2020 - 2022
Stytch improves security and user experience with passwordless authentication.
Raised $126,250,000.00 from Angel Collective Opportunity Fund, Index Ventures, Thrive Capital, Coatue, Benchmark and Contrary.
Oversaw Growth, Payments, Scalability
2018 - 2021
Robinhood is a stock brokerage that allows customers to buy and sell stocks, options, ETFs, and cryptocurrencies with zero commission.
Raised $6,234,466,886.00 from Emergent Fidelity Technologies.
Investor
2016 - 2018
Analyst
2014 - 2016
Mergers and Acquisitions
Education
Bachelor of Science
2010 - 2014