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Venture with Grace

Farooq Abbasi: Building Global Enterprise Giants at Preface VC

Nov 28, 2024
56:22

Farooq Abbasi is the founder and sole general partner of Preface Ventures. Prior to founding Preface, Farooq was with Costanoa Ventures where he led investments in companies such as Alpha Health, Lively, Auterion, and Leap. Prior to Costanoa, he spent time with DN Capital and Mosaic Ventures on both sides of the Atlantic investing in enduring businesses such as Remitly (RELY) and Auto1 (A1G). He began investing as a sole VC in companies including but not limited to Redlock (PANW), Truebill (RKT), Armory.io, and Ambient.ai. In aggregate - he’s invested over $72m across 75+ companies whose cumulative enterprise value is now over $10bn. More importantly, these companies solve important market problems that improve the lives of all stakeholders leveraging scalable, cutting edge (computational science and engineering) methodologies. Topics:

  • AI, infrastructure, dev tools; challenges and opportunities
  • What separates great operators who become successful founders
  • Unique challenges and strengths of immigrant entrepreneurs

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