Raja Ghawi
Partner at Era Ventures
Raja Ghawi
Partner at Era Ventures
Brooklyn, New York
Overview
Work Experience
Partner
2022 - Current
We invest in founders outcompeting industry incumbents or building new categories. The Era family includes: Passive Logic, Welcome Homes, Sheperd, Latii, Truehold, ViaBot, Honey Homes, Ostrich, Indigo, and Homeward.
Investment Director
2019 - 2022
Select fund investments include: OpenSpace (Series A), Kojo (Series A), EquipmentShare (Series C), Brunt (Seed), nPlan (Series A) Launched Boost: ConTech's premier accelerator. Select participants include: PassiveLogic (Series A), Flex (Seed), Canvas (Series B), Felux (Series A)
Analytics Project Manager, Early Stage VC
2018 - 2019
We built the industry's very first data lake! We started to run reports off it and also built a safety incident prediction model.
Senior Business Analyst
2017 - 2018
My teams built AI/ML models to predict machine failures and human injuries before they happen. On rotation from McKinsey.
Senior Business Analyst
2015 - 2018
Got to sample a bunch of stuff, including biotech (M&A), finance (blockchain, payments, risk, lending, insurance), and old industries (cars, trucks, alcohol) to name a few
Undergraduate Student Researcher
2013 - 2014
My research projects explored pulmonary engineering and regeneration, especially vascular regeneration. Published in Nature Biotechnology: https://www.nature.com/articles/nbt.3354
Summer Business Analyst
2014 - 2014
Advised a local bank on growth strategy, in as much as a 21-year-old could advise anyone on anything
Education
Syrian Baccalaureate
1999 - 2011