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Farhan Abrol invests or supports investments through ex/ante's published strategy: Back agentic technologies that preserve human agency and rights in a digital world, spanning privacy, security, identity, civil society and resilient infrastructure.
Technical founders building privacy-preserving, secure and agency-enhancing products at the intersection of technology, policy and civil society.
No formal pass list is public. Products that weaken user agency, privacy or resilience appear contrary to the firm's stated mission.
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Farhan Abrol spent a decade building and scaling technically complex products. At Meta he led public-health initiatives that helped 50 million people access COVID-19 vaccines and reworked recommendation systems to prioritize information quality. As an early engineer and later product leader at Pure Storage from startup through IPO, he built secure distributed systems and scaled machine-learning products, earning more than 20 patents.