Raaid Hossain

General Partner

2019 - Current

Investing in, and building alongside incredible entrepreneurs solving some of the most important problems in the world.

Venture Partner

2022

Managing Director

2020 - 2021

$1.5B+ AUM firm focused on using product and data science to engineer N-of-1 companies and investments. https://tribecap.co/

Board Observer

2020

Republic started as a crowdfunding platform with a mission to democratize fundraising and a vision to become a true marketplace for private investing. Republic’s family of companies now provides end-to-end fundraising, distribution, and advisory solutions targeting token and equity sales to retail and institutional investors. Republic is an industry leader in this effort through Equity Crowdfunding, syndicated investments, and direct VC introductions. Whether from Republic’s angel and family office network through Republic Labs or our proprietary VC networking tool Radar, Republic has helped hundreds of founders with capital raises to date. www.republic.co

Board Observer

2023

Chipper Cash is a financial technology company serving more than five million customers across the African continent. In 2018, Chipper Cash revolutionized moving money in Africa with the introduction of fee-free transfers for personal payments—providing a frictionless way to send and receive money cross-border and enabling financial inclusivity across the continent. Since then, Chipper has increased its product suite by offering personal investment products and business solutions, and expanded its reach into the US. Led by co-founders Ham Serunjogi and Maijid Moujaled, Chipper Cash is focused on its mission to provide the most trusted and accessible financial services for people living in Africa and beyond.

Board Observer

2023

Resugar is a FoodTech company that uses innovative technology to reimagine the future of sweet. Our sugar replacement solutions perfectly replicate the taste and properties of sugar while eliminating its harmful effects.

Board Observer

2021

Building connectivity infrastructure to serve the global ever-growing demand for machine data. Doing this with satellites that are roughly the size of a loaf of bread that is 1/100th the cost of traditional telecommunication satellites. Fast company most innovative space company in the world.

Co-Founder

2018 - 2024

At Edvo, we care deeply about helping people think well. We believe the next revolution in computing will be Personal Intelligence and Intelligence Augmentation — the same way everyone has a personal computer (now multiple personal computers), we have a thesis that everyone will have a personal database that augments them wherever they are, on whichever device they use.

Board Observer

2020 - 2023

Upward Farms grows leafy greens and fish with the highest ecological and quality standards so that everyone can nourish their body, family, and the planet. With 95% of leafy greens grown on the West Coast and 90% of seafood imported, our mission is to heal the broken food system and reconnect eaters with flavorful and nutritious local food. Upward Farms designs and operates complete ecosystems of plants and fish in vertical farms, supplying these organic and local products to grocers.

Board Observer

2019 - 2021

Officially founded May of 2016, Starcity became one of the largest global developers and operators of coliving. The company was featured in the WSJ, NY Times, and Citylab, and raised over $50M of venture capital from a great stable of existing investors including Bullpen Capital, NEA, Social Capital, Urban Us, Y Combinator and notable angel investors Immad Akhund, Paul Buchheit, Othman Laraki, Trip Adler and David Rusenko. Acquired by Common in 2021.

Advisor

2019 - 2021

Testing newly released code is essential for building successful products and new features. A major pain point when testing new code is the struggle to understand what sections of code were tested, and what sections were missed. Codecov's software will become part of your development workflow by introducing a programmatic approach to code coverage and by providing insightful reports and metrics that help you better understand your product and its features. Acquired by Sentry - November 2023.