Naeem Lakhani

Founder and Managing Partner

2022 - Current

The world’s most undervalued asset, THE FIRST THIRTY cm of the soil. As an impact VC, TFT is focused on regenerating nature through soil by supporting early-stage data-driven technology companies that enable us to understand nature's value and its impact on economic productivity. We support companies that accelerate the regeneration of nature and the decarbonisation of the fossil food system. TFT fosters a collaborative ecosystem of solutions that we describe as "Nature's digital infrastructure" to redirect capital flows from being extractive to regenerative. Our impact goal is to influence regeneration on more than 30M hectares of land by 2030. We measure ourselves on both economic and planetary yield.

Founding Partner

2019

Future Foodways (prev KF, now The First Thirty) was founded in 2018 as the UKs first early stage regen tech investor to support companies focused on leveraging technology to bring systemic change to the world's food and agriculture systems. We deploy capital globally to innovative companies across the value chain that understand the urgency of our planet's challenges and have the will and expertise to solve them.

Non Executive Director

2022

Non Executive Board Member

2021

Founding Partner

2019 - 2020

Creating the future of food for everyone Food is at the centre of what makes us human. Consumers are increasingly demanding access and knowledge about what they eat, how it was produced and what effect it has both in their bodies and their planet. The arrival of new technologies is also dramatically changing how we relate to nutrition. These trends will have an outsized impact on the food industry. Katapult Food finds, invests in and supports the startups that will define the future of food.

Chief Data Officer

2018 - 2020

Responsible for the data vision and long term data strategy across the business with the goal of using data organization wide as a fundamental asset to drive product and business strategy. Heading up the Data Science, Data Engineering, Measurement and Insights groups at the largest regional and national publisher in the UK, including some of the fastest growing news sites in the UK.

Director of Data

2018 - 2018

Heading up the Data Science, Data Engineering, Measurement and Insights groups at the largest regional and national publisher, including some of the fastest growing news sites in the UK. Responsible for the data vision and using data organization wide as an asset to drive product and business strategy.

Head of Data and Intelligence

2015 - 2017

Big Viking Games is a social and mobile HTML5 games company focusing on great content driven by great technology. Big Viking Games has reached millions of players around the world and has been awarded and profiled as a Top 100 Employer and a Top 50 Employer for Young People in the Globe and Mail, the fastest company to have receive this recognition in just its second year of operations. Most recently the company was ranked as a Top 10 Great Places to Work by the Great Place to Work Institute. My role includes a diversity of responsibilities from establishing and/or extending the organization's competencies in BI, Behavioural Analytics, Predictive Modelling, Platforms, Tools and R&D to spearheading strategic long term technology opportunities in the organization.

Co-Founder and Head of Data Science

2014 - 2015

Gallop Labs was acquired by Big Viking Games in December 2015 Gallop Labs is venture-backed prescriptive mobile marketing platform that leverages data science and in-app behavioral analytics to help organizations deeply understand their customers to optimize marketing and products satisfaction for every user regardless of their place in the lifecycle. Spun out of BNOTIONS, the data science team is responsible for the creation of the machine learning infrastructure and algorithms that allow our clients to fully maximize harness the power of their customer data. Learn more here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwplWCjAJrk Gallop Labs is the recipient of the Facebook Innovation Award for Mobile as well as The winner of the People's Choice Award of the CIX Top 20.

Partner, Data Science and Health Initiatives

2011 - 2014

BNOTIONS was acquired by Symbility Solutions BNOTIONS is a innovation partner with a focus on mobile product design and development as well as innovative opportunities with Big Data within Fortune 500's and venture-backed start-ups. Our team of cross-disciplined user experience experts, software engineers and Data Scientists across our Toronto, ON and New York, NY offices enable us to provide compelling data driven strategies, recommend flexible technologies, execution on deployment and ongoing analytics to drive long term performance. Services include: strategic consulting, big data analysis, mobile product strategy, product development, social media strategy and analysis, database management and business process efficiency Programming expertise include: Python, R, Hadoop, Pig, Hive, Scala, Objective C, Java Android, Windows Phone 8, Blackberry, PHP, Ruby, Flex, Air, Flash, ASP.NET, Java, C, C++ BNOTIONS is a Facebook Preferred Marketing Developer.

Chief Operating Officer and Head of Mobile

2011 - 2012

BNOTIONS is a Toronto based Technology company consisting of 40+ employees. We focus on developing flawless technology based products including Facebook applications, mobile applications (Android, Blackberry, iPhone), and web application development in all code languages. Clients range from Fortune 500 companies to start-up entrepreneurs and development is focused on solving complex problems and providing innovative solutions to clients.

Executive Vice President

2010 - 2011

BNOTIONS is a technology agency with a focus on start-up platform development and on alleviating production pain points within interactive and advertising agencies globally. Our team of 20+ cross-disciplined programmers across our Toronto, ON and Kelowna, BC offices enable us to recommend the right technologies for every project and execute right through to deployment. Services include: strategic consulting, social media integration, CRM development, database management, online/mobile applications, community based websites Programming expertise include: iPhone, iPad, Blackberry, PHP, Ruby, Flex, Air, Flash, ASP.NET, Python, Java, C, C++

Analyst

2009 - 2011

Investment proposal analysis on incoming deal flow from various industry verticals including real estate, telecom, energy and others as well as internal investment initiatives in the private wealth investment space.