Houman Haghighi Email & Phone Number

San Diego, Ca, Us

San Diego Metropolitan Area

Menlo Park, California, Us

San Diego, Ca, Us

Personal Seed, Series A Investor and founding Board Member. Drata is a security and compliance automation platform that continuously monitors and collects evidence of a company's security controls, while streamlining end-to-end workflows to ensure audit-readiness.

San Francisco, California, Us

Personal Seed Investor - Upwind is the Enterprise Runtime Detection & Response platform.Leveraging workload-based and context-aware cloud telemetry, Upwind autonomously learns your workload’s dynamic nature through the collection of eBPF, Kubernetes, Cloud APIs, and CI/CD metadata.Upwind uses this data to build contextual baselines that inform dynamic detection of known malicious activities and zero-day attacks, and easing the investigation of environmental anomalies & security incidents. Upwind’s runtime contextualized baselines enable security teams to accurately lock down excessive network, identity, and infrastructure permissions.

Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

Arlington, Va, Us

ERI Advisory Board Member - Investor Working Group

San Diego, Ca, Us

[Acquired by Instructure]Portfolium is a full-stack student success platform serving 4.6M+ students and 40K+ educators from 3,600+ colleges, universities, and high schools. 200+ partner institutions use Portfolium to deploy robust ePortfolio networks as they manage and align learning outcomes assessment, digital badging, guided pathways, and career readiness programs. Learn more: https://portfolium.com/

Wilmington, Delaware, Us

Sourced investment for Qualcomm Ventures at Seed roundClarifai is an artificial intelligence company that excels in visual recognition, solving real-world problems for businesses and developers alike. Founded in 2013 by Matthew Zeiler, a foremost expert in machine learning, Clarifai has been a market leader since winning the top five places in image classification at the ImageNet 2013 competition, and predicts more than three billion concepts in photos and videos every month. Clarifai’s powerful image and video recognition technology is built on the most advanced machine learning systems and made easily accessible by a clean API, empowering developers all over the world to build a new generation of intelligent applications. The company has amassed a suite of clients that range from Fortune 500 companies to startups and small development teams, including Buzzfeed, Trivago, West Elm, Vevo, 9Gag, StyleMePretty, and many more. Clarifai is headquartered in New York City with an office in San Francisco.

Los Altos, California, Us

Sourced and invested in Seed RoundAttackIQ is driving the emerging market of continuous security validation and has built the first platform that enables organizations to test and measure the effectiveness of their security posture. The FireDrill™ platform allows organizations to answer a simple and straightforward question: “How well are your current security tools, products and processes working?” Delivering enterprise-class Security as a Service (SaaS) to mid-market and large organizations, FireDrill is a poised to build a new market and change the security game.

San Jose, Ca, Us

Combines video conferencing, online meetings, and mobile collaboration into one platform. Video conferencing that doesn't suck.An early check and Zoom Series A investment out of QCV Early Stage Fund. Largest absolute return in QCOM Ventures history.

San Diego, Ca, Us

Houman Haghighi is responsible for Ventures Business Development and is based in San Diego. He joined Qualcomm over 15 years ago and has held roles in engineering, project management, product development and building / managing software teams. In his current role in Qualcomm Ventures, he is responsible for portfolio company engagement. Additionally, he is involved in the review and sourcing and due diligence of investments. Houman has been granted a number of RF technology patents at Qualcomm.

New York City, New York, Us

The Qualcomm Robotics Accelerator, Powered by Techstars, launched in May of 2015. (10) teams from around the world specializing in innovative robotics technologies were invited to work out of Qualcomm’s corporate headquarters for the (4) month duration of the program. Qualcomm Ventures chose to work with Techstars, the industry’s premier accelerator, in order to lend credibility to the undertaking as well as provide overall program guidance and day-to-day support.

Sold shares / ownership in a secondary transaction. Team and platform integrated in Spinezone.com

San Diego, Ca, Us

Building Business Critical Applications and Software for Qualcomm and Qualcomm Partners

San Diego, Ca, Us

Product manager and led the team that built Whispernet which was the magic behind book delivery on the Amazon Kindle. Qualcomm Wireless Business Solutions (QWBS / QES)

San Diego, Ca, Us

Various engineering initiatives including the deployment of the first VMWare system, deployment of IBM Websphere portal and many software development projects

Computers Lead a technology company with customers in various industries:Government: (Designed and implemented wireless networks and ubiquitous computing for Police and Law enforcement (Paperless Office) in the Contra Costa County [Moraga Police Department])Non-Profit: (Designed and Implemented and maintained office Networks and Computers [National Brain Tumor Foundation])Biotech: (Designed and Implemented and maintained office Networks and Computers in conjuction with a wet environment / mas-spectrometry)Law Offices: (Designed and Implemented and maintained office Networks and Computers [Sterns Walker and Lods, Meridian Pacific])CPA: (Designed and Implemented and maintained office Networks and Computers [Ernst Wintter and Associates])Hotel: (Designed and Implemented and maintained office Networks and Computers in the Hospitality industry)

Computational Cognitive Science, Emphasis In Computer Vision

Executive Program, Private Equity And Venture Capital

Professional, Stanford Certified Project Manager

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