16 VCs and 1 funds investing in Platforms
Venture Partner
Shorooq Partners
Check: Shorooq invests across the equity journey from pre-seed through late-stage growth, but neither the firm nor Kunal publishes his personal check range or decision authority. Portfolio round totals are not treated as check-size evidence.
Kunal supports Shorooq's fintech and web3 practice with an operator's perspective across the UK, UAE, and Africa. His remit fits the firm's founder-first strategy: backing regional companies from idea through scale and global frontier companies where technology modernizes financial access, payments, wealth, business operations, or digital ownership. Shorooq's blockchain thesis favors crypto augmenting existing consumer behavior and solving real-world problems rather than replacing useful behavior with complexity.
Entrepreneur in Residence
Tech Square Ventures
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Steve George is part of Tech Square Ventures's current team. No narrower person-specific mandate is published, so this profile uses the firm's official strategy: Back early-stage enterprise, marketplace, platform, and technology-enabled services companies, with a focus on the Southeast and university-driven innovation.
Venture Partner
Tech Square Ventures
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Bill Nussey is part of Tech Square Ventures's current team. No narrower person-specific mandate is published, so this profile uses the firm's official strategy: Back early-stage enterprise, marketplace, platform, and technology-enabled services companies, with a focus on the Southeast and university-driven innovation.
Entrepreneur in Residence
Tech Square Ventures
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Matt Stevens is part of Tech Square Ventures's current team. No narrower person-specific mandate is published, so this profile uses the firm's official strategy: Back early-stage enterprise, marketplace, platform, and technology-enabled services companies, with a focus on the Southeast and university-driven innovation.
Founder & Managing Partner
Tech Square Ventures
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Blake Patton is part of Tech Square Ventures's current team. No narrower person-specific mandate is published, so this profile uses the firm's official strategy: Back early-stage enterprise, marketplace, platform, and technology-enabled services companies, with a focus on the Southeast and university-driven innovation.
Partner
Tech Square Ventures
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Scott Lopano is part of Tech Square Ventures's current team. No narrower person-specific mandate is published, so this profile uses the firm's official strategy: Back early-stage enterprise, marketplace, platform, and technology-enabled services companies, with a focus on the Southeast and university-driven innovation.
CFO & Operating Partner
Tech Square Ventures
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Joelle Fox is part of Tech Square Ventures's current team. No narrower person-specific mandate is published, so this profile uses the firm's official strategy: Back early-stage enterprise, marketplace, platform, and technology-enabled services companies, with a focus on the Southeast and university-driven innovation.
Principal
Tech Square Ventures
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Jason Kuo is part of Tech Square Ventures's current team. No narrower person-specific mandate is published, so this profile uses the firm's official strategy: Back early-stage enterprise, marketplace, platform, and technology-enabled services companies, with a focus on the Southeast and university-driven innovation.
Senior Associate
Tech Square Ventures
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David Malloy is part of Tech Square Ventures's current team. No narrower person-specific mandate is published, so this profile uses the firm's official strategy: Back early-stage enterprise, marketplace, platform, and technology-enabled services companies, with a focus on the Southeast and university-driven innovation.
Associate
Tech Square Ventures
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Kayla Chernof is part of Tech Square Ventures's current team. No narrower person-specific mandate is published, so this profile uses the firm's official strategy: Back early-stage enterprise, marketplace, platform, and technology-enabled services companies, with a focus on the Southeast and university-driven innovation.
Analyst
Tech Square Ventures
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Ian Balser is part of Tech Square Ventures's current team. No narrower person-specific mandate is published, so this profile uses the firm's official strategy: Back early-stage enterprise, marketplace, platform, and technology-enabled services companies, with a focus on the Southeast and university-driven innovation.
Director of Finance
Tech Square Ventures
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Andrew Bernhardt is part of Tech Square Ventures's current team. No narrower person-specific mandate is published, so this profile uses the firm's official strategy: Back early-stage enterprise, marketplace, platform, and technology-enabled services companies, with a focus on the Southeast and university-driven innovation.
Director of Corporate Insights
Tech Square Ventures
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Hari Gopal is part of Tech Square Ventures's current team. No narrower person-specific mandate is published, so this profile uses the firm's official strategy: Back early-stage enterprise, marketplace, platform, and technology-enabled services companies, with a focus on the Southeast and university-driven innovation.
Corporate Insights Lead
Tech Square Ventures
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Akshita Iyer is part of Tech Square Ventures's current team. No narrower person-specific mandate is published, so this profile uses the firm's official strategy: Back early-stage enterprise, marketplace, platform, and technology-enabled services companies, with a focus on the Southeast and university-driven innovation.
Senior Manager of Programs
Tech Square Ventures
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Maddie Harper is part of Tech Square Ventures's current team. No narrower person-specific mandate is published, so this profile uses the firm's official strategy: Back early-stage enterprise, marketplace, platform, and technology-enabled services companies, with a focus on the Southeast and university-driven innovation.
Partner
Shorooq Partners
Check: No personal check range is disclosed. Shorooq's Bedaya strategy invests from pre-seed through early rounds, while the broader equity platform reaches late-stage growth. Founders should identify the relevant Shorooq vehicle instead of assuming Omer can deploy across every strategy or size.
Omer brings a hands-on operator lens from scaling Careem's commercial businesses and building mobile-money products. His investing focus is on ambitious technology founders in the UAE, Qatar and frontier markets who can prove customer pull, build high-performance teams, and turn a large regional problem into a scalable category. His public comments emphasize founder mindset, operating quality and measurable execution over polished storytelling alone.