Associate Director
Shorooq PartnersCheck size: Not applicable to Selim's documented Shorooq role. He structures vehicles, manages institutional relationships, facilitates co-investments and advises portfolio companies. He separately founded Ghodwa Ventures, an early-stage Tunisian deep-tech angel syndicate, but no ticket range is public and that activity must not be conflated with Shorooq capital.
Selim works on the connective tissue between investment vehicles, institutional capital and portfolio execution. His Shorooq role emphasizes structuring and launching funds, co-investment, investor relations and helping companies reach strategic, operational and fundraising milestones. His separate Ghodwa Ventures activity adds an early-stage Tunisian deep-tech lens, but it is not Shorooq's mandate.
For Shorooq portfolio work: clear strategic priorities, reliable metrics, management ownership, credible growth initiatives, institutional-quality materials and teams that execute after advice. For capital formation: differentiated strategy, governance, track-record clarity and allocator fit. No personal Shorooq investment criteria are published.
Role-specific mismatches include treating strategy support as investment approval, unclear portfolio asks, weak reporting, fund concepts without differentiation or governance, co-investments with incomplete diligence and mixing a personal angel-syndicate conversation with Shorooq's vehicles or authority.
Route by objective. For portfolio support, provide company context, metrics, exact strategic or fundraising bottleneck, owners and timeline. For a fund or co-investment, provide strategy, team, track record, governance, economics, pipeline, diligence package and allocator fit. Explicitly distinguish Shorooq from any Ghodwa Ventures conversation.
Classify the request as portfolio strategy, fundraising, fund formation, LP relations or co-investment and identify the actual decision owner.
Define the outcome, baseline metrics, initiatives, owners, dependencies, cadence and evidence required to close a portfolio-company gap.
Check strategy clarity, governance, reporting, data room, track record, economics, compliance and decision process before allocator outreach.
Keep Shorooq responsibilities and Ghodwa Ventures angel activity separate in authority, thesis, vehicle and economics.
New-vehicle evaluation and launch work can be paired with practical strategic and operational support that helps portfolio companies prepare for growth and fundraising.
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Selim Tira is Associate Director on Shorooq's Value Creation & Strategy team, which he helped establish after joining in 2023. He supports capital formation, investor relations, corporate strategy, co-investments, portfolio value creation and new vehicles, including du Ventures Fund I, Presight-Shorooq Fund I and Qatalyst Fund I. He previously advised governments at Whiteshield, worked in investment banking at Natixis CIB and advised technology transactions at Cambon Partners. He holds master's degrees from Sciences Po Paris and Bocconi and founded the separate Tunisian deep-tech angel syndicate Ghodwa Ventures.