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Zafer Younis

Founder of Silicon Valley Venture & Innovation

San Francisco, California

Overview

Work Experience

  • Founder - CEO

    2020 - Current

    Silicon Valley Venture & Innovation (SVVI) facilitates investment relationships between the worlds leading capital allocators and high-performing venture capital funds. SVVI has connected multiple institutional, sovereign, and private investors to sought-after venture capital funds and direct investment opportunities.

  • VC Advisor to CTO

    2019 - 2021

  • CEO - CaaS Technologies INC

    2019 - 2020

    CEO of CaaS, a Social Capital owned subsidiary/spinout. CAAS is a collection of quantitative diligence tools developed to help VCs evaluate investment opportunities and make better data-driven decisions. CAAS reduces diligence time and offers investors insights that are otherwise a burden to the founder and investment team to process and prepare. Founders are using CAAS to improve their pitches and drive investor conviction using transparent and defendable data.

  • Capital Formation

    2018 - 2019

    Lead capital formation efforts in MENA and select international markets. Social Capital is a partnership of philanthropists, technologists and capitalists utilizing venture capital as a force to create value and change on a global scale.

  • Partner

    2016 - 2018

    Founded 500 Global BD, Corporate Startup Innovation, and Ecosystem Development Services.

  • Venture Partner

    2015 - 2016

    Worked in the San Francisco accelerator as part of teh accelerator team investing in and accelerating seed-stage startups. 500 Startups is a venture capital fund and startup accelerator based in Silicon Valley. 500 Startups has invested in 1600+ companies all over the world. We focus on internet marketing and customer acquisition, design and user experience, and lean startup practices and metrics. Our investment team and mentor network has operational experience at companies such as PayPal, Google, Facebook, YouTube, Yahoo, LinkedIn, Twitter, Apple.

  • CEO

    2010 - 2014

    Middle East and North Africa’s premier digital strategy agency, developing and executing strategies for Fortune 500 companies and high-profile organizations operating in the region.

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