🚀👨🏾‍💻Faraz Khan Email & Phone Number

Chicago, Il, Us

Giant Step Capital is an early stage deep tech venture fund focused on Aerospace/Space startups led by world class founders. Invested in Varda Space Industries, Albedo Space, Turion Space, MadeINSpace (Acquired by RedWire), Gravitics, Regent Electric Seaglider, Spyce Kitchen Robotics (Acquired by Sweetgreen), Bear Flag Robotics (Acquired by John Deere) and many more outstanding companies.

San Francisco, California, Us

Sourcing the highest quality investment opportunities globally across Consumer, Enterprise, Fintech, Frontier, Healthcare, Prop-tech, ag-tech, etc using a balanced approach, I capture unique deal-flow performance quality and proprietary deal-flow channels.Developed investment theses around multiple industry verticals, pitch deck review, 1-1 meetings with startups, accelerators, and investors, present top investment opportunities at weekly Partners Meetings. top companies are diligence and presented to GP Investment Committee.Conduct quantitative and qualitative deep due diligence including: Market sizing, team's ability to execute, go-to-market strategy, key risks, business modeling, key metrics, capital efficiency, financial modeling, competitive landscape, customer and investor interviews, cap table and waterfall analysis, review and term sheets and investment documents.Continuously build a deep and intelligent network within the VC/PE ecosystem, utilize top performer network across accelerators and startup founders, with access to VU's powerful investor and strategic network.Marketing of fund i & ii to Key Investor networks and mangement of Investor relations. Additionally support, market, and gather excitement around portfolio companies. Continue to support founders, even if they are not part of the portfolio. I always place importance on helping founders succeed. Manage and develop LP relationships largely from institutional investors, family offices, hedge funds. Work Alongside GP's who are top performing investors with over 35+ yrs of VC experience who have invested $1.8B+ in 250+ companies & achieved over a 4x+ net cash return as early investors in Beyond Meat, Facebook, Uber, Twitter, Venmo, Pinterest, Grailed, Massive, Concur, etc.Personal investments: Varda Space industries , Finless Foods, OrbitFab, Regent Electric Plane, Fintor, Turion Space .... portfolio list on website.

• developed rapport with angel groups, tech investing community in major cities, attend hack-a-thon events, conferences, interest groups, accelerators, incubators, and syndicate networks. Utilize social media to build an active community of deal-flow sharing and follow founder and investor journeys as they progress.• Meet with founders, gain insights into financials, product roadmaps, insights from peers in venture capital. Perform due diligence. • Mentor founders, assist in resources they may need outside of capital investment.

Providing a roadmap for success and continued growth by ensuring that busineses consistently meets sales goals, quality control, and exemplary services for our clientele 24/7/365Intuitive provides technology management services globally and currently has a growing portfolio of clients in the Chicago-land area as well as northern Indiana and southwest Michigan, and California. Our proven business model for technology management provides us with astonishing 100% client satisfaction rate and is the cornerstone for our continued success. Having a track record of activating projects on a global scale, and delivering IT services with leadership across a dynamic range of verticals (healthcare/real estate, trading systems, banking, and academia, social media, manufacturing, accounting); by utilizing business and technical expertise, we provide the CIO and technology services that can drive successful transformation, while communicating and collaborating with business units ensuring stakeholders are represented throughout the process of engagement.

Startup co-founer freebieAppJuly 4th, 2013 Freebie launches - remarkable products, services and experiences using social currency.

Chicago, Il, Us

Successfully scaled enterprise data centers for the University of Chicago, BSDIS - uChicago Medical Center

New York, Ny, Us

Founding team at MusicNOW.com a startup, we were the worlds first web based music streaming platform with a full catalog, and downloadable playlists, before the time of the mobile. My role was a technology generalist however my sole purpose was to make sure everything was always running, from dev, to tech, and that music remained online for our paid subscribers. MusicNow was a symbol of innovation too soon, rapid adoption of 3G bandwidth and Mobile changed the way music was delivered, however as an application was the exact same version of Apple Music, Spotify, Pandora. Musicnow was only developed for non-mobile predating mobile itself. Post AOL Acquisition: To make AOL MusicNow the finest online music service on the planet by continually enhancing offerings based on innovative technologies in back-end systems in its nascent stages. Improved overall user experience and customer satisfaction ratings thus driving up sales, revenues, and profit margins when AOL was a paid service. - Advised officers of needs and respective long term cost vs. benefit-Worked within the music delivery team, ensuring the application and systems were online and that team flows were properly managed. -Interview Candidates - Reduced Music delivery times exponentially - Customer facing.-Created, deployed, and expanded XM radio technology architecture within AOL MusicNow network to work with Music service-Provided Due diligence to AOL merger / acquisition team in with focus on technology systems and their robust architecture.-Created system integration plan with AOL Operations and Engineers at time of acquisition -Created/Implemented successful internal support model with notable "zero %" downtime for end users.-Created new optimizations and efficiencies to speed up end user communication. In turn this created a corporate-wide communication efficiency very effectively reducing overall costs.