Farouk Kadous Email & Phone Number

Boston, MA, US

Cairo, -, EG

Founded in 2019 and shut down during COVID. We opened back in 2022 with plans to reach 1000+ locations in the next 20 years.

Investments across 50+ companies in multiple sectors. 5 continents.

Building technological infrastructure for boring industries.

San Francisco, California, US

By way of acquisition of portfolio company, Clover.

Cairo, New Capital, EG

Los Angeles, California, US

Investor in Fund 1 & Fund 2.In Chapter One’s case, the limited partners that are providing some of capital include Sequoia Capital, Bessemer Venture Partners, Kleiner Perkins, and Bain Capital. Acting in a personal capacity, Marc Andreessen and Chris Dixon of a16z are also investors in Chapter One’s new fund.

San Francisco, CA, US

With Chapter One etc. $250M on $2B valuation. Investing with Marc Benioff, Chamath Palihapitiya, etc. Fastest fintech startup to reach a $2 billion valuation.

Joined the seed round through Chapter One with Stripe Founders, John & Patrick Collison, Worklife Ventures, Balaji Srinivasan, Village Global Ventures. $200 million valuation.Joined pre-seed through Chapter One VC, Jeff Morris Jr. at a $28 million.

New York, US

São Paulo, SP, BR

Invested at seed stage.Series A was at 5X my entry valuation was led by Lachy Groom (Stripe) and joined by amazing founders such as Arash Ferdowsi (DropBox), Dylan Field (Figma), Ryan Petersen (Flexport), Brian Requarth (Viva Real), Jonathan Lewy (Grow), Ale Dubrugas (Alude), and few others.Series B was at 25X entry valuation led by Jeff Bezos' Bezos.

Cairo, Cairo, EG

My very first investment and their very first round. I was very lucky to meet such amazing founders and had/have the privilege to work with them very closely (delivered a few orders at 5 am with them) that they've considered me a team member at one point. Over 100X so far!

Lahore, Punjab, PK

Pakistani B2B marketplace for mom and pop stores Tajir, cofounded by brothers Babar and Ismal Khan, announced today that it has raised $17 million in a Series A round led by Kleiner Perkins.Invested at seed.

New York, New York, US

Amman, Amman, JO

Jordan-based online learning platform Abwaab has raised $20 million in a Series A funding round (following a $5 million seed round in March of this year), making it one of the most funded edtech startups in the Middle East, North Africa and Pakistan...

San Francisco, California, US

A startup called Matter, which aims to build a better reading app for today’s internet, is launching out of private beta testing and announcing the close of its $7 million Series A, led by GV (formerly Google Ventures.) The app enters a space where...Invested at seed stage. GV later led Series A @ 5X entry valuation.

Not an angel investment. Through the family office vehicle..

San Francisco, CA, US

Lagos, Lagos State, NG

The startup, which took part in the Y Combinator W20 batch earlier this year, now plans to expand that user base and add new features after raising US$2.4 million in funding from a host of investors. Those backing Healthlane in this round include Sequoia Capital, Digital Horizon, Silicon Valley Bank, TSVC, Supernode Ventures, CRE, Capitoria, and several.

Singapore, SG

Tablevibe, a Singapore-based startup focused on gathering customer data and driving direct sales for restaurants, raised US$1.5 million in a seed round led by VC firm Global Founders Capital. Travel and hospitality VC firm Velocity Ventures also participated in the seed round alongside angel investors, including Farouk Kadous, founder of African fast-food.

Palo Alto, California, US

The world's first and only product helping consumer apps manage their paywalls. I was a seed stage investor in FitnessAi before Jake decided to start Superwall.

New York, NY, US

Acquired by Figma

New York, NY, US

Cairo, EG

Oakland, California, US

Cairo, EG

San Francisco, US

Daedalus, a technology company that claims to be building the world’s first autonomous and instantly reconfigurable factories, today announced its $11.5 million Series Seed financing round, led by Addition. Existing investor Khosla Ventures also participated in the round.

Cairo, EG

Houston, Texas, US

Invested at $15 million exited at $400 million conditioned on milestones.

Malmö, Skåne, SE

Nairobi, Nairobi, KE

Cairo, EG

Dover, Delaware, US

New York, New York, US

Bangalore, KA, IN

Mountain View, CA, US

Cairo, EG

NY, US

Individually led all of the pre-seed round. Rainfall Ventures - Rainfall.com led Seed at 2X entry valuation. SpeedInvest - speed invest.com led Series A at 6X entry valuation.Softbank invested at 10X valuation.

NYC, US

Riyadh, Riyadh, SA

Invested in their seed stage as part of my role in Averroes Ventures. We’ve exited with cash liquidity over 15X the invested capital.

Cairo, New Cairo, EG

Bachelor Of Business Administration (Bba-Finance) Double Minor: International Affairs & Sociology

High School Degree (Private Military Boarding Academic School)

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