Saeed Amidi
Partner at Amidzad
Saeed Amidi
Partner at Amidzad
Sunnyvale, California
Overview
Work Experience
Founder and CEO
2006 - Current
Saeed co-founded the Amidi Group in 1980, a conglomerate of privately-held business enterprises consisting of several domestic and international entities with significant manufacturing, distribution, trading, retail, and real estate holdings. Saeed has been a technology investor since 1998 and co-founded Amidzad with Pejman and Rahim in 1999. He has been closely involved with many new emerging growth companies, including 3 investments with over $1B valuation: Paypal (acquired by eBay), Lending Club (IPO, Dec 2014) and DropBox. Saeed founded Plug and Play, the ultimate startup ecosystem, in 2006. Since then, the Plug and Play portfolio has raised over $9B and created thousands of job opportunities in the tech sector. His Plug and Play vision conceived a multi-national corporate platform for Fortune 1000 Companies which gives corporations and investors access to the most innovative startup ideas, ranging from pre-seed all the way to public companies. Currently he co-invests with more than 400 corporations from various industries including Finance, Brand & Retail, IoT, Health, Travel & Hospitality, and Insurance. Saeed is an active member of the tech community and a frequent contributor to numerous charitable foundations. He is also an active member of the Young Presidents Organization (YPO), a world-class network of Fortune 500 CEOs, accomplished serial entrepreneurs, and veteran financial executives.
Partner
1996
Amidzad is a seed and early-stage investment firm focused on investing in emerging growth companies on the West Coast. We have over 50 years of combined entrepreneurial experience in building profitable, global enterprises from the ground up and over 25 years of combined investing experience in successful information technology and life science companies.