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Sal Ismail
General Partner
Hong Kong SAR
Overview
Sal Ismail is a General Partner at Mount Parker Ventures in Hong Kong SAR, with a background in investing in various sectors including Enterprise Infrastructure, AI, Robotics, and Web3/Crypto. Notable career highlights include investing in companies like Peeba and Shopline during their seed rounds, with Shopline eventually being acquired and GOGOX going public after receiving investments from Sal Ismail.
Work Experience
General Partner
2014 - Current
Venture Capital firm investing in seed-stage tech companies
Investor (seed)
2020
Investor (seed)
2019
Investor (seed)
2019
Investor (seed) - IPO
2013
IPO June 2022
Investor (seed) - Acquired
2014 - 2020
Acquired by JOYY (Nasdaq: YY)
Connecting People to Groups in Real-Time
Managing Director
2012 - 2014
Senior Trader
2009 - 2012
Systematic trading - futures, options, warrants, CBBCs
Co-founder
2002 - 2008
Co-founder and lead developer of Petfoo.com Classified ads and dog breeder tools for multi-billion dollar pedigree dog breeder industry
Founder
1998 - 2001
Started options market making firm on the Hong Kong Futures Exchange and developed its trading and risk management software. Competed daily with BNP, Timberhill, Morgan Stanley, Nationsbank (BofA), Hull (GS) et al.