Zain Jaffer
Advisory Partner at Fortified Ventures
Zain Jaffer
Advisory Partner at Fortified Ventures
San Francisco, California
Overview
Work Experience
Partner
2020 - Current
Blue Field Capital has a $1B+ real estate portfolio with investments including land, apartments, warehouses, hotels, office and senior care facilities. - Founded the venture capital fund which invests in early-stage PropTech startups. - Founding GP in the Blue Field Strategic Fund which is actively pursuing the acquisition of distressed real estate across the US. Currently invested in 20+ startups across pre-seed and seed stage companies.
Advisory Partner
2022
VC fund focused on PropTech
Board Observer
2022
Board Member
2021
Board Member
2020
Family Office
2019
My family office is invested with 100+ fund managers across public equities, fixed income, and alternatives. You can see some of the portfolio at https://zain-ventures.com/
Guest Lecturer
2019 - 2021
Lectures on Entrepreneurship for postgraduate students at UCL School of Management. Previously guest lectured at Berkeley (US), IIT Mumbai (India) and King’s College London (UK).
Co-Founder & CEO
2011 - 2017
Vungle was acquired by Blackstone for $780M in 2019 Category leader for the In-App Video Ads space: - Over $400M+ revenues with 100,000+ customers - 8 offices around the world with 250+ employees - Product reaches 1B+ consumers per month
CEO
2009 - 2011
Online video learning platform - Closed distribution deal with Adobe - Created support videos for Google & Spotify
Founder & CEO
2004 - 2007
Started a celebrity fansite with 50,000 members with a range of functionality including: - Discussion forum - Live chat room - Photo gallery - Video player - Custom web browser - Gaming portal - Blog
Education
Master of Science - MSc
2009 - 2011
Bachelor of Science - BSc
2006 - 2009