Raed is a serial tech founder, and founder/managing partner at Transform VC, a silicon valley firm investing in overlooked and disenfranchised tech founders building deep tech and solving social or climate challenges. Four of his investments reached the unicorn status. Some of the recent additions to the portfolio are Rembrand, iSono Health, Vectara and Ample.

In the past, Raed has been a serial technology entrepreneur with three failures and then two great successes that had 20x outcomes.

He started his career in Canada, where he was partially responsible for introducing new wireless policy, when he founded Jaguar Wireless, a qualified bidder in Canada’s national wireless auction with a last bid of $213m. Later, he became responsible for bringing inflight internet across Canada when he founded SkySurf , the exclusive carrier for inflight communications, exiting to GoGo Inflight, the world’s largest inflight wi-fi provider at the time.

Raed later moved to San Francisco where he became a VC and institutional LP when he became a founding team member of Mubadala Ventures in 2015 and then the founder of Transform VC in 2019. He is a hands-on investor and prides himself on his ability to guide his portfolio companies to their ultimate goal using the lessons he’s learned the hard way to build several highly successful businesses.

Raed holds an Engineering degree from Carleton University in Ottawa, and an MBA from Cornell University in Ithaca, NY.