ZJ

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

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