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.
Blue Field Capital is a private equity real estate firm.
Advisory Partner
2022
VC fund focused on PropTech
Board Observer
2022
Visual Feeder lights up the city streets with full-motion advertising on high-traffic commercial retail locations.
Raised $1,920,000.00 from Halperin Emerging Company Fund.
Board Member
2021
Board Member
2020
Canopy Analytics is a real estate tech startup, partnering with full-service investment and asset management firms.
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
Vungle transforms how people discover and experience apps that delivers the highest value users through engaging video ads.
Raised $25,500,000.00 from Seven Peaks Ventures, AngelPad, Crosslink Capital, Google Ventures, Aol Ventures, Webb Investment Network, Thomvest Ventures and Uncork Capital.
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