Siraj Khaliq
Investment Partner at Atomico
Switzerland
Overview
Work Experience
Investment Partner
2016 - Current
Finding, evaluating and funding new startups that have global ambitions, particularly those deeply-rooted in technology. We invest broadly across sectors, but look for companies that have reached some kind of business model inflection point. Typical investments >= $5m, series A and beyond.
Chief Technical Officer
2007 - 2013
As technical co-founder, built and scaled the company from two founders to 160 people (> half of which engineering). Broad responsibilities, including creating and maintaining a top-tier engineering culture, hiring, training & managing senior staff, large scale software architecture/design, board and executive level planning on core business questions.
Staff Software Engineer
2002 - 2007
Started as rookie software engineer out of university & progressed to lead engineering roles on several high-profile projects, including Google Book Search (one of the founding engineers), Patent Search and several other search products focused on previously offline content.
Google is a multinational corporation that specializes in Internet-related services and organizes the world’s information.
Raised $26,100,000.00 from Angel Investors LP, Kleiner Perkins, Signatures Capital, Sequoia Capital, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Shaquille O'Neal, Henry Kissinger, Google and Tiger Woods.
Education
MS
2000 - 2002
BA, MA Hons
1997 - 2000