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Ramzi Rizk
Founder of Aware
Berlin Metropolitan Area
Overview
Ramzi Rizk is an accomplished entrepreneur and angel investor based in the Berlin Metropolitan Area, with a strong background in software development and project management. Notable highlights of his career include co-founding EyeEm and serving as its President & MD, as well as founding Rizky Ventures and investing in various successful startups in sectors like FinTech and Angel investing.
Work Experience
Managing Director
2018 - Current
Investing in entrepreneurs I admire who are building innovative and disruptive companies. Investments include: Gorillas, Mobius Labs, Softr, Pitch, Grover, Kraken, Klarna, Lakera, Novos Labs, Honu, Together, Positive Food Co, Informed, Travizory, Rebel Foods, Gavel, Beat81, Junto, Cannabiosan and Microacquire.
Co-Founder
2021
Building technology for a planet without chronic diseases.
Founding Angel Investor
2020
We are an angel syndicate, backed by Europe's finest tech and product experts to support tech founders hands-on with our expertise and learnings. Our investments include Superlist, Saleor, Vaayu, Kittl, Beat81, Supernova, Acreom, Serverpod and widgetbook
Founder
2023 - 2024
Angel Investor / Starter Program
2021 - 2022
Angel investing through Accel's starter program. Investments include Travizory, Spokebase, Sqin, Gaiali, brdg, sotera, Junto, Datia and Colonia.
Accel is an seed and growth-stage venture capital firm that helps a global community of entrepreneurs.
Co-Founder, President & MD
2020 - 2021
Co-Founder & CTO
2010 - 2020
EyeEm is the all-in-one platform for your photo and video needs, connecting +22m creators in 150 countries with iconic brands. The platform is powered by its best in class, patented computer vision software that automatically understands the content of an image and curates hundreds of millions of visuals in realtime surfacing the best results for their global customer base.
CoFounder and Advisor
2018 - 2020
Berlin Photo Week is Berlin's premier photo event.
Researcher / Doctoral candidate
2006 - 2011
Lecturer: E-business case studies, head of IT at Institute of Information Systems
Technical Project Manager / Team Lead
2008 - 2010
Leading the boutique software consultancy's efforts to grow into mobile and web development.
CTO
2007 - 2009
Student SN was an online social network focused on students in Turkey and Russia
Education
PhD candidate
2006 - 2010
MS
2003 - 2005
BS
2000 - 2003