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Pegah Ebrahimi

Managing Partner at FPV Ventures

Mountain View, California

Overview

Work Experience

  • Co-Founder & Managing Partner

    2022 - Current

    FPV Ventures is a new $450M Fund that backs and serves mission-driven founders. FPV is an investor in Canva, Flexport, Guild Education, Xilis, and Manifold Bio. Most of our investors/LPs are mission-driven endowments for charities, foundations, and universities doing great things for the world. I co-founded the fund with Wesley Chan in February 2022.

  • Advisor

    2021

    Advisory to CEO and CFO for this category defining developer first company.

  • Advisor & Investor

    2020

    GTM advisor for this category defining company

  • Board Of Directors, Independent Director

    2021

    Enovix (ENVX) is publicly traded company on Nasdaq exchange. It is a leader in advanced silicon-anode lithium-ion battery development and production. Our proprietary 3D cell architecture increases energy density and maintains high cycle life. Our initial goal is to provide designers of category-leading mobile devices with a high-energy battery so they can continue creating innovative products, and subsequently developing our 3D cell technology and production process for the electric vehicle and energy storage markets to help enable widespread utilization of renewable energy.

  • Board Of Directors, Lead Independent Director

    2021

    Applyboard is an artificial intelligence recruitment platform that helps international students apply for post-secondary studies abroad. Applyboard empowers students from around to get access to the best education in US, Canada, UK and Australia. Applyboard was named Canada's fastest-growing tech company in 2019 and is currently valued at more than $3 billion.

  • Advisor

    2020

    Advisor to some amazing SaaS, Security, Communication and AI/ML companies, including Snyk, Guild Education, Canva, ApplyBoard, PsiQuantum. Work with some exceptional companies on GTM and company strategy.

  • Board and Advisor

    2019 - 2021

    Gainsight is the #1 Customer Success platform. In December 2020, Gainsight announced a majority acquisition from Vista Equity Partners for $1.1 Billion

  • COO of Cisco Collaboration

    2019 - 2020

  • COO of Global Technology Banking

    2013 - 2019

  • CIO of Global Investment Bank

    2009 - 2013

    Chief Information Officer managing the global technology strategy for the Investment Banking Division and leading Digital Transformation for the Global Banking. Responsible for creating new proprietary products for Morgan Stanley's Global Bank and working with enterprise software companies on integrating their products to redesign a mobile-first technology strategy. Oversaw 4 successful critical technology deployments for the global bank with minimal disruption.

  • Vice President Investment Banking

    2008 - 2009

    Corporate finance, IPO and M&A

  • Venture Capital

    2006 - 2008

    Focused on Information Technology and Healthcare Technology

  • Corporate Finance and M&A Analyst

    2003 - 2006

    Corporate Finance and M&A Advisory (Healthcare and technology)

  • Advisory Board Member (Acquired by Cisco)

    2015 - 2018

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