Basil Darwish Email & Phone Number

San Francisco, California, Us

Wells Fargo Strategic Capital is the dedicated venture and growth equity investments unit within Wells Fargo. We seek to partner with visionary founders and CEOs to build successful and category-defining companies. I joined in March 2016 to develop and scale a venture and growth investing practice in Fintech and Enterprise IT. Currently, I lead the team focused on Fintech, Regtech, and B2B Enterprise Software, and can either lead/syndicate financing rounds or partner with peer VCs/CVCs. Top quartile investment returns. Investment focus areas in Enterprise Tech include machine learning/AI (both applied and platforms), data management/analytics, cyber security and Cloud technologies. In the domain of Fintech/Regtech, focus areas include: payments and treasury management tech, Capital Markets tech, compliance tech/AML, and banking infrastructure software. Led the investments in:- Socure Inc (Series C & D/ Board Observer)- Yugabyte Inc (Series C)- Volante Technologies (Series A/Board Member)- Trovata Inc (Series A Lead/ Board Member)- Greenlight Financial Technologies (Series B & D)- Arkose Labs (Series C/ Board Observer)- Vestwell Inc (Series C co-lead Investor)- AtScale, Inc (Series C/ Board Observer)- BigPanda, Inc (Series E)- Elliptic Ltd (Series B/ Board Observer)- Droit Financial Technologies (Series A co-lead, Board Member)- OpenFin Inc (Series C Lead/Board Member)- H2O.ai (Series C Lead/ Board Member)- Axoni Inc (Series A co-lead)Worked closely with:- Kensho Technologies (Series B, 2016, acquired by S&P)- Pico Quantitative Trading (Series C, 2016)2018-present: Based in the San Francisco Bay Area2016-2018: Based in NY with focus on the NY/London venturing ecosystem

Incline Village, Nevada, Us

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New York, New York, Us

Citi Ventures is the venture capital arm of Citigroup, investing in startups in the fields of Fintech and Enterprise IT. I was based out of Palo Alto (2014-2015) and focused on Cyber Security/InfoSec, machine learning/AI and Big Data analytics. Prior to that, (2011-2014), I was based in Singapore and managed the team's Southeast Asia venture and innovation initiatives in Fintech. Some of my investments include: Tanium (end-point system management), Illusive Networks (deceptive cyber defense),PinDrop Security (fraud prevention/biometrics), DB CyberTech (database security), MDaq (Fintech, exited to Alibaba), Pepperdata (Big Data cluster Management)

New York, New York, Us

- Led Citi's strategic venturing and incubation activities in Singapore/Southeast Asia. - Commercialization of venture-backed technologies within Citi's franchise across Asia, in domains such as payments, CRM/loyalty management and treasury management- Member of an internal FinTech incubation team chartered to collaborate with internal and external partners to conceive, launch, and scale new models of customer service, next-gen data analytics, and B2B digital payments.- Co-led Series B funding round in Singapore-based M-Daq (https://www.techinasia.com/mdaq-raises-117-million-gsr-citi-transform-financial-services-industry)

New York, New York, Us

Investment banking while part of a 10-member global leadership development program (GEMA) focused on developing future leadership in priority emerging markets. Work entailed M&A advisory and TMT coverage in emerging markets, Transaction and Treasuries services (B2B virtual cards solutions, enterprise payments, etc), in addition to episodic work with country business unit heads on key initiatives such as:- First Sukuk debt issuance in the history of Turkey. - Advising the government on the positioning of Istanbul as a regional financial center between East Europe and the MENA region.

Singapore , Singapore, Sg

Co-led Series B funding round.

Wilmington, Ma, Us

Embedded software development on digital signal processing (DSP) platforms for voice-over-IP, and consumer electronics multimedia applications.

Wilmington, Ma, Us

- Worked with product team on launching the low-power Blackfin line of digital signal processors (BF532/33/34, BF538/539/539F) targeting the automotive and consumer electronics market segments-- e.g Audi A5:

A Boston-based startup-- spectrum enhancement technologies- A team of entrepreneurs developing bandwidth enhancement technology built around IP developed at MIT to enable cable operators to create additional digital bandwidth and extend the life of existing infrastructure.

Meudon, Île-De-France, Fr

Pilkington Satellite Technologies Division- Satellite Optronics/ Space Optical Filters:https://www.thalesgroup.com/en/markets/space/space-explore

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Double Major In Finance And Entrepreneurial Management

M.Sc, Electrical Engineering, Vlsi Design/Semiconductors

Bachelor Of Science, Ee