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Samir Chaibi

Senior Principal at Lunate

Abu Dhabi Emirate

Overview 

Samir Chaibi is an Investment Professional at Lunate in Abu Dhabi, with a strong background in investments, growth capital, and start-up ventures. With an MBA from The Wharton School and an MPA from Harvard Kennedy School, he has held key roles at prominent firms like Insignia Ventures Partners and has invested in successful companies such as Intellect and Brankas at various funding stages. Highlights of Samir's career include serving as a Senior Principal at Lunate and making impactful investments in companies like bluesheets and WeLab Bank, while also holding board director positions at Honest and Brankas.

Work Experience 

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Lunate

  • Senior Principal

    2023 - Current

    Lunate is an Abu Dhabi-based, partner-led, independent global alternative investment manager with more than 150 employees and $105 billion of assets under management. Lunate primarily invests across the entire private markets spectrum including buyouts, growth equity, early and late-stage venture capital, private credit, real assets, and public equities and public credit. Lunate aims to be one of the world’s leading private markets solutions providers through SMAs and multi-asset class funds, seeking to generate best-in-class risk-adjusted returns for its clients.

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Antler

  • Venture Partner

    2020

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Insignia Ventures Partners

  • Principal

    2021 - 2023

  • Vice President

    2020 - 2020

    Investing and working closely with these amazing startups: Ajaib - Series A (2020) Aspire - Series A (2020) AwanTunai - Series A (2020) - Board Observer Bluesheets - Series A (2021) - Board Director Brankas - Series B (2021) - Board Director Finhay - Series A (2020) - Board Director First Circle - Series A (2019) Flip - Series A (2020) - Board Director Headquarters - Seed (2022) - Investor Intellect - Seed (2020) Lifepal - Series A (2020) - Board Director Nektar - Series A (2019) Nimbly - Series A (2021) - Board Director PayFazz - Series B (2020) PinHome - Seed (2019) - Board Observer Propzy - Series A (2020) Symbo - Series A (2021) - Board Observer tonik - Seed (2019) - Board Director Welab - Series A (2021) XLD Finance - Seed (2022)

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InfinID Indonesia

  • Seed Investor

    2022 - 2023

    The First of Its Kind Digital Home Equity-Backed Line of Credit in Indonesia

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XLD Finance

  • Investor

    2022 - 2023

    Crypto Payroll and Disbursement Management

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Headquarters (HQ.xyz)

  • Investor

    2022 - 2023

    On-Chain Payment Orchestration, Treasury Management, & Business Accounts

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bluesheets

  • Series A Investor & Board Director

    2022 - 2023

    Entreprise data automation at scale to supercharge business productivity

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WeLab Bank

  • Series A Investor

    2021 - 2023

    Building the consumer neobank of the future in Indonesia

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Honest

  • Series A Investor & Board Director

    2021 - 2023

    The only digital-first credit card in Indonesia building for access to fair financial products

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Brankas

  • Series B Investor & Board Director

    2021 - 2023

    The fintech infrastructure for Southeast Asia

Education 

Investments 

Intellect

Seed

Total funding: $33M

bluesheets

Seed

Total funding: $6M

Brankas

Series B

Total funding: $36M

Flip

Series B

Total funding: $380M

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