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.
We make big bets on transformational ideas, technology, and people.
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.
500 Global is a multi-stage venture capital firm that invests in founders building fast-growing technology companies.
Raised $2,271,999.00 from Abu Dhabi Financial Group.
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.